Jonas Akerlund (director of Madonna videos
and the original drummer of Bathory !) on his movie
Lords of Chaos:
Decades later, I realized that this story had stayed with me and as many others, I thought that this story was more important to me than anybody else. I thought that I own it. Nobody should touch it. It's mine. You know, and I realized that a lot of other people think that too. You know, it's one of those stories that just stays with you in a weird way. Once I got over that, I started thinking that this could actually potentially be a movie. I saw the documentaries, I read all the other books and there was a lot of darkness, a lot of fires and corpse makeup and demon voices that described a story. And I thought that maybe there's a way to tell this story where we remind the audience that these were very young children, and that this story is kind of sad. You know, so I thought that there was another perspective that have not been told yet.
The story he's talking about is the story of Euronymous and the black metal church burnings and associated suicides and murders. I think I'll see this at some point, maybe on Netflix.