Lords of Chaos = Hammer of the Gods

As most of you know by now, Hollywood has decided to do a movie on the book Lords of Chaos starring one of those teen age androgynous fellows from the Twilight movie, to play Varg Vikernes. Lords of Chaos is supposedly about the rise of the black metal underground in Norway. However, Vikernes made a statement in 2004 condemning the book:

…the vast majority of all the statements made in this book are either misinterpretations; taken out of context; misunderstandings; malicious lies made by enemies; a result of ignorance; extreme exaggerations; and/or third-hand information at best. This includes the statements attributed to me!…This book serves only one single purpose and that is to create a myth around my name and to mystify me. If that was their objective they have indeed succeeded with their work. Well, the book seems to have served one other purpose too. The authors have managed to fill the heads of a generation of metal fans with lies. What could have been a righteous revolt has been made into some pathetic, embarrassing, brain-dead, impotent and traditional poser-culture best exemplified by bands like DIMMU BORGIR — and indeed VENOM!”

After seeing the movie Until the Light Takes Us, I am inclined to think the same thing. Not so much that Varg is innocent, but that the black metal movement was something more than satanism if it was to begin with (was it? only they know). I am leaning towards the view that the book Lords of Chaos is more about hyping things up and making money than actual facts.

Look at the unauthorized Led Zeppelin biography, Hammer of the Gods, which was clearly a book that was made to make money and to idolize a group and make them more mysterious so the author can to sell more books. It is about making fucking money.

I think the movie “Until the Light Takes Us” is a little better representation.