Now a stark new feature film, РІР‚СљLords of Chaos,РІР‚Сњ has taken on this real-life cautionary tale of youthful excitement and genuine horror. It remains one the most notorious and disturbing stories from the rock РІР‚ВnРІР‚в„ў roll underground, the subject of multiple books and documentaries. Others were sent to prison for murder and dozens of churches across the country had been burned to the ground by band members and black metallers inspired by their example. Within a decade, bandleader Euronymous was murdered by another band member, and a Mayhem singer was dead from suicide.

They found it in their creation of a frantic metal subgenre that was uniquely grim and threatening, just as Mayhem and others in the Norwegian black metal scene began to stumble from a frightening made-up image and into tragic reality. РІР‚СљWe were looking for perversity and craziness.РІР‚Сњ We were singing about Satan and sadism, and everything that was wrong like torture and stuff like that - the opposite of hanging around at the beach,РІР‚Сњ Necrobutcher, now 50, recalled of those days. РІР‚СљThatРІР‚в„ўs why we started to wear our hair all black. To signify their break from mainstream Christian society - and in opposition to the glam-metal dudes in hairspray and spandex - the Mayhem founders took on ominous new identities: Aarseth would be known as РІР‚СљEuronymous,РІР‚Сњ Stubberud as РІР‚СљNecrobutcher.РІР‚Сњ Guitarist Oystein Aarseth and bassist Jorn Stubberud, both 16, formed a band called Mayhem, fueled on their love for the bleakest forms of heavy metal, slasher films and an attraction to rebellion and evil. The terrible dawn of Norwegian black metal came during the summer of 1984, during an adolescent season of inspiration in a small village outside Oslo.

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