![]() ![]() Point taken, mission accomplished, as the film eventually makes clear in sometimes gory detail. Early in the film, he invokes his vision of himself as an evil disrupter in the role of the band’s lead guitarist: “I was brought into this world to create chaos, suffering and death,” he dramatically intones. Played by a thin, pale Rory Culkin sporting long, stringy hair, Euronymous appears to have had a fairly conventional childhood, only getting into metal as a teen with the formation of Mayhem. ![]() The intentionally extreme Oslo band, co-founded by Oystein Aarseth (aka “Euronymous”), took the medievalist trappings of the early black metal groups and refined them into a toxic mixture of rage and violence. Akerlund ( Horsemen) approaches the Norwegian black metal scene in part via an account of the movement provided by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind’s nonfiction Lords of Chaos, concerning the emergence of Mayhem. ![]()
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