A few weeks before the pioneering Norwegian black metal band Mayhem set off for a North American tour celebrating its 40th anniversary, the frontman Attila Csihar sounded contemplative. “The ...

The true Mayhem needs no introduction. No, we're not talking about Lady Gaga’s new album. The notorious Norwegian black-metal band has become so synonymous with extreme music and controversy ...

And now, after roughly 20 years of percolation, he finally brings to screen the story of notorious Norwegian black-metal band Mayhem. Drawing from personal experience ...

Mayhem's death-ridden history and the Norwegian black-metal scene of the early 1990s is well documented. Lead singer Per "Dead" Ohlion committed suicide in 1991, at the house the band shared in ...

Rory Culkin is typically charismatic as the leader of the True Norwegian Black Metal scene. He formed the groundbreaking band Mayhem, positioning himself as a ghoulish Satanist in a cloak and a ...

Filmmaker Jonas Åkerlund’s latest tells the real-life story of Mayhem, a Norwegian black metal band whose demonic members unleashed mayhem and bloody murder. Skip to Main Content.

Filmmaker Jonas Akerlund will direct 'Lords of Chaos,' a movie chronicling the band Mayhem and the early Norwegian black-metal scene. Euronymous' murderer, Varg Vikernes, is pictured.

It’s hard to hear any of it without wishing it was a movie. At some point in the early ’90s, there was a Norwegian black metal band called “Mayhem. ...

There are few bands more important to a heavy metal subgenre than Mayhem is to True Norwegian black metal. So when they set to release a live album documenting the band’s chaotic and destructive ...

In a profile of Norwegian black metal pioneers Mayhem I wrote for this week's issue, I relayed the tale of 42-year-old local radio producer and metalhead Anthony "Spanky" Pranke.

Since its church burning scandals rocked Norway in the early 1990s, Norwegian black metal has provided many artists a conceptual angle into interrogating contemporary notions of postmodernity ...

Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth was pen-pals with Norwegian black metal ringleader Euronymous. ... Mayhem vocalist Per “Dead” Ohlin committed suicide at the band’s cabin in 1991, ...