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“In many ways, Euronymous was the one who encouraged all these people,” Jonas considers. Despite positioning himself as an influential and evil godfather, he’s increasingly surprised by how far his associates are prepared to go. Lords Of Chaos portrays Euronymous (born Øystein Aarseth) as something of a shrewd entrepreneur, who runs his own record label and store, and continually has one eye on sales. So there has to be some sort of psychological explanation, mixed up with youth gone bad.” Euronymous’ parents are fantastic, decent people. They came from good upbringings and there were no drugs involved. But in a weird way, these boys didn’t have an excuse. We’ve seen this kind of story before, in the favelas of Rio, or in the suburbs of England or Italy, where young people do crazy stuff. I wish doctors had analysed all these characters at a young age, so we had the answers. So how much of these musicians’ appalling behaviour does he attribute to peer pressure and how much to some form of pre-existing psychosis?
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The director’s realistic approach has certainly also extended to the graphic violence, which includes slit wrists, a shotgun blast to the head and countless stab wounds. But in every other way, I tried to make it as close to the reality as possible.”ĭuring filming in Budapest, it was indeed surreal to walk around sets like the mock-up of Euronymous’ apartment, where Jonas’ obsessive attention to detail was typified by racks of extreme metal demo cassettes. I also made it an English-speaking movie, rather than a Norwegian one.
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I open the movie with the caption ‘Based On Truth And Lies’, to clear myself from saying it’s the truth. “Obviously, a lot of the film is based on research and my own theories. Lords Of Chaos stars Rory Culkin as Euronymous, Emory Cohen as Vikernes and Sky Ferreira as Euronymous’ love interest Ann-Marit – the one character the director admits is fabricated, but based on his knowledge that Euronymous did have a mysterious girlfriend. Emperor’s Bard ‘Faust’ Eithun would also be convicted for the murder of a stranger named Magne Andreassen in the woods outside the town of Lillehammer, Norway. Five months later Euronymous was dead, having been savagely murdered in his Oslo apartment building by Vikernes, who would be sentenced to 21 years in prison.
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As you’ve read in our interview with Necrobutcher, at that time, Mayhem’s troubled singer Pelle ‘Dead’ Ohlin had already died by suicide, Euronymous had taken photos of his corpse, and Norwegian churches had been burned to the ground. That original K! cover feature drew international attention to the so-called ‘Satanic Terrorists’ of Norway, partly thanks to the outrageous statements made by interviewees Euronymous and Burzum’s Varg ‘Count Grishnackh’ Vikernes. This, despite the fact I have zero acting experience and I am finding it surprisingly difficult not to look at the camera while ‘performing’. And now I’m repeating them 23 years later in November 2016, while sitting at a desk in a replica Kerrang! office which has been created on a film set in Budapest.įor reasons best known to himself, director Jonas Åkerlund persuaded me to play myself in his extraordinary film Lords Of Chaos, which chronicles the madness that went down in the black metal scene in the early ’90s. I first spoke those words in London back in March 1993, when I phoned Mayhem leader Euronymous from the Kerrang! office to interview him for what would become a cover feature about the growing excesses of Norwegian black metal. What’s happening here feels weirdly like time travel. "Hello, this is Jason Arnopp from Kerrang! magazine.