Lords of Chaos (2018)

Rory Culkin: Euronymous

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• Euronymous : [standing over Dead with a shotgun]  You know, there's a way out if you're so fucking depressed. One shot to the head and it's all over. No more pain.

• Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : I'm going to release my music on my own label.

  Euronymous : What does that mean?

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : I don't need you anymore.

  Euronymous : Okay. If that's what you want, okay.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : You'll have to find another idiot to steal everything from.

  Euronymous : I haven't stolen anything from you.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : You're recording Mayhem's album with money made from Burzum's sales, money that belongs to me!

  Euronymous : That money went straight back to you. You're the bass player of Mayhem now, remember?

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : I quit. You only put me in the band to get attention.

  Euronymous : The album's almost finished. It's gonna be big; world tour, everything.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : Tour? I thought you were true Norwegian black metal.

  Euronymous : I fucking invented it.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : And now you betray it! You're a hypocrite. We should be making true Black Metal music for a select few. Tours are for posers. "Never sell out." That's what you said.

  Euronymous : Saying things like "never sell out" fucking sells. Come on. I made all that shit up. Nobody gave a shit about us. I attracted people by saying, "You can't have this. You're not worthy." It's just promotion.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : No, no. Not for me. I believed in it, and I still do.

  Euronymous : So do I, but it has to make sense. It has to sell. Otherwise, what the fuck are we doing here?

  [Varg gives Euronymous the skull fragment necklace back] 

  Euronymous : You can keep that. That's a piece of chicken bone.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : Chicken bone? Fake as everything else with you.

• Euronymous : [Last line] 

  [Static shot of a shrine dedicated to Euronymous/Mayhem as somber music is playing; suddenly, Euronymous starts narrating] 

  Euronymous : No! Fuck, stop the sentimental shit! Stop! There's nothing sad about my death or my life. I'm Euronymous, founder of Mayhem, the most infamous Black Metal band in the world. I had my own record store. I had my own record label. I created a whole new musical genre: True Norwegian Black Metal! And I created Mayhem. What the fuck have you done lately? Poser.

• Euronymous : [Narrating over a montage of Varg recording music, burning churches, and having sex]  After the Fantoft Church burning, everything became a fucking competition. Whatever I did, Varg did ten times bigger and better. His creativity was exploding. He fucked anything that moved. He added another stupid name to his list of names... Greifi Grishnackh. The girls lined up for fucking.

  Woman : Is Greifi here?

  Euronymous : No, he's not fucking here! Get out!

  [Narrating] 

  Euronymous : The world I built was about to fall apart. And how many fucking girls can one fuck? There were churches burning all over. My future and success disappeared behind his actions. Fuck! I had to do something about it.

  [Cut to Euronymous giving Varg a necklace of Dead's skull fragment] 

  Euronymous : I hearby appoint you bass player of Mayhem.

• Bård Guldvik 'Faust' Eithun : [Helvete has been closed permanently after Varg's arrest]  Did your father stop paying the rent?

  Euronymous : I'm gonna fucking kill him...

  Bård Guldvik 'Faust' Eithun : You're gonna kill your father? That's fucking sick.

  Euronymous : No, Varg. I'm gonna kill Varg.

  Bård Guldvik 'Faust' Eithun : Oh, okay.

  Euronymous : [holds up a taser]  I'm gonna use this to paralyze that fucking idiot, drag him to the forest, tie him to a tree, torture him to death, and make a fucking snuff film out of the whole thing!

  Bård Guldvik 'Faust' Eithun : For real?

  Euronymous : [storming off]  He fucked it up for ALL OF US!

• Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : [Varg and Euronymous are about to record Burzum's first album]  I want one microphone in the center of the room, nothing else.

  Euronymous : That's gonna sound horrible.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : That's the whole point.

  Euronymous : Alright.

  [Narrating] 

  Euronymous : He had some really bad ideas, but with a little help from me, the end result was True Metal; metal enough for him to become part of the Black Circle.

• Jan Axel 'Hellhammer' Blomberg : [Picks up telephone]  Hello?

  Euronymous : Pelle's gone home.

  Jan Axel 'Hellhammer' Blomberg : Back to Sweden?

  Euronymous : No, he blew his head off.

• Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : The fact that Norway is ruled by a dictatorship and our people are brainwashed with empathy and solidarity by the church and their stupid Christianity doesn't bother you anymore?

  Euronymous : Of course it does. I hate that shit.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : Either you do it for the cause and you take action, or you do it because you want attention and you want to be a stupid-ass celebrity rock star. You can't have it both ways.

• Euronymous : [watching a news report of a jogger who was murdered after Faust admitted to killing him]  That, that was you?

  Bård Guldvik 'Faust' Eithun : Yeah.

  Euronymous : What... when?

  Bård Guldvik 'Faust' Eithun : Last night.

  Euronymous : That was... that was a really smart fucking move, man!

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : Congratulations.

  Euronymous : You'll be the new hero of the Black Circle.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : We should celebrate. Let's burn down a fucking church, huh?

• Euronymous : I'm sick of all those speed and death metal bands, all that Swedish shit. All they do is celebrate life and party. They should just call it "Life Metal." We play Black Metal; True Norwegian Black Metal.

• Euronymous : [Hellhammer and Necrobutcher meet up with Euronymous after Dead's suicide; Hellhammer is carrying an envelope with developed photos of Dead's corpse]  Did you get them?

  Jan Axel 'Hellhammer' Blomberg : I got them.

  Euronymous : [Euronymous looks through the photos and picks one out]  This is the one. This is gonna make us famous. Mayhem will be the band with the singer who blew his head off.

  [smirks] 

  Euronymous : Hey, we should say I ate a piece of his brain, too.

  Jan Axel 'Hellhammer' Blomberg : Yeah!

  [Hellhammer laughs as Necrobutcher is disturbed by the conversation] 

• Jon 'Metalion' Kristiansen : So, are you planning any gigs?

  Euronymous : Of course, not. Concerts are for those Swedish Life Metal bands.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : Exactly. Posers claiming to be Satanists when all they want to do is drink beer and have a good time. I hate that, all those death metal kids with their stupid Morbid Angel t-shirts. They're making a trend out of something that was meant to instill fear. We should put them in the showers and gas them to death.

  [smirks] 

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : [Almost everyone around the table gives Varg a disturbed and uncomfortable look. Eventually, Euronymous begins snickering and everyone, except Varg, starts laughing] 

  Metalhead : Gas them to death?

• Euronymous : Each of these red dots is a pen pal who sends me demo tapes, and I sent a few in return... South America, Central America, Poland, Romania. Countries all over the world make dark, evil music. You know why?

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : No.

  Euronymous : Things are miserable. People are ruled by dictatorship. Just like us here in Norway.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : Like us? In Norway?

  Euronymous : Yes. The fucking church, they're oppressing us with their kindness and their goodness, brainwashing an entire population with fake empathy and fucked-up solidarity. Hate them and their churches. We should burn them down.

• Euronymous : [pointing at one of Varg's patches]  Scorpions?

• Euronymous : [Euronymous, looking out window]  "Hey, there's a cat out there"

  Pelle 'Dead' Ohlin : [Pelle sits up]  "for real?"

  Euronymous : [Euronymous, picking up rifle]  "Swear to god. lets blow the little fuck to pieces."