Lords of Chaos (book)
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| Author | Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Music, history |
| Publisher | Feral House |
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Publication date
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1998 (orig.) 2003 (rev.) |
| ISBN | (orig.) (rev.) |
| OCLC | 39151590 |
| 133.4/22/09481 21 | |
| LC Class | ML3534 .M73 1998 |
Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground is a book by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind. The book presents itself as a non-fiction account of the early Norwegian black metal scene, with a focus on the string of church burnings and murders that occurred in the country around 1993. A film adaptation of the book is planned, to be directed by Swedish director Jonas Akerlund. The book has been the subject of controversy over the alleged political leanings of author Michael Moynihan, though Moynihan denies these allegations.
Lords of Chaos was originally published by Feral House in 1998 (). A second, revised edition was released in 2003 and expands the original book by fifty pages (). A German edition was published in 2002 with a respective revised edition following in 2005 ().
The book focuses on the scene surrounding the extreme heavy metal subgenre black metal in Norway between 1990 and 1993. The first few chapters give an outline of the progression of heavy metal from bands such as Black Sabbath, Coven and Black Widow to proto-black metal bands such as Bathory, Mercyful Fate, Celtic Frost, Sarcófago, Hellhammer and Venom, and finally to the early Norwegian black metal band Mayhem.
The book then details the April 1991 suicide of Mayhem front man Per Yngve "Dead" Ohlin and the formation of a radicalized "inner circle" around Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth, based out of his small black metal retail shop Helvete (Norwegian for "hell") in Oslo, Norway.
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