The movie is based on true events from the Norwegian black metal music scene in the early 1990s, and has already been gaining praise after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018.
Lords of Chaos centers on a teenager’s quest to launch Norwegian black metal in Oslo in the 1980s, which results in some of the most notorious incidents in music history.
Lords of Chaos director Jonas Åkerlund is best-known for his music videos that he has directed over the years, but he was involved in the Norwegian black metal scene back in the day.
Lords of Chaos is based on the 1998 book of the same name by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind.