Lords of Chaos is a movie directed by Jonas Åkerlund in 2018 and based on the book Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground by Michael Moynihan, first published in 1998. The movie features Sky Ferreira, Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer, Anthony De La Torre, Sam Coleman, and others.
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Storyline
In 1987, a young guitarist called Euronymous forms a black metal band called Mayhem, the first of the genre in their country of Norway, with Necrobutcher on bass, and Manheim on drums. Manheim leaves and is soon replaced by new drummer Hellhammer and they recruit a new vocalist from Sweden called Dead, who exhibits self-destructive behavior, during their live shows cutting himself and bleeding on the audience and throwing pig heads at the posers.
Movie vs Book
Year
2018
Minutes
118
Movie Rate
6.60
Source: IMDb
Movie
Lords of Chaos
Director: Jonas Åkerlund
Country: UK
Year: 2018
Length: 1h58m
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Year
1998
Pages
391
Book Rate
7.42
S: Goodreads
Book
Lords of Chaos
Subtitle: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground
Author: Michael Moynihan
Country: USA
First published in: 1998
Length: 391 pages
Genre: Biography
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“If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.”
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