Move over Freddie Mercury, there is a different kind of Bohemian Rhapsody coming! Based on truth and lies, Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords of Chaos is a bubbling cauldron of blackened biopic malevolence that’s as puckishly anarchistic as it is deranged and pure evil. Told with a voiceover straight out of Sunset Boulevard, it chronicles the rise and fall of the notorious band Mayhem and the evolution of True Norwegian Black Metal in the early 90’s. An increasingly bitter rivalry between two major players on the scene – Øystein Aarseth and Varg Vikernes – results in a wave of church burnings and brutal murder. These Scandinavian boys were more than ready to take their determination on not being poseurs to a whole different level. Death to false metal, all hail Lords of Chaos!
