'Lords of Chaos' - true crime black metal documentary
Stereogum has a nice review of Lords of Chaos, a new documentary about highly controversial Norvegian black-metal band Mayhem: "If you were looking for an experienced director who was qualified to bring a black metal biopic to life, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone with a better resumé than 'Lords Of Chaos' director Jonas Åkerlund. Not only is the 53-year-old a Scandinavian with a background in music videos — starting with Swedish doom metallers Candlemass in 1988 and moving onto award-winning, mainstream work with everyone from Metallica to Madonna — but he was also the original (though short-tenured) drummer for Bathory, arguably the proto-black metal band. In his youth, Åkerlund ran in the same circles as Mayhem, and even cast their ill-fated frontman, Dead, in that Candlemass video. He may not have been there firsthand, but his dedication to a factual retelling of events that occurred within his larger social circle is immediately clear to someone familiar with the book".