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Lords of Chaos

The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground

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Lords of Chaos

By: Michael Moynihan, Didrik Soderlind
Narrated by: Fred Berman
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“The most incredible story in the history of music...a heavyweight book.” (Kerrang!)

“An unusual combination of true crime journalism, rock and roll reporting and underground obsessiveness, Lords of Chaos turns into one of the more fascinating reads in a long time.” (The Denver Post)

Lords of Chaos focuses on the scene surrounding the extreme heavy metal subgenre black metal in Norway in the early 1990s, with a focus on the string of church burnings and murders that occurred in the country around 1993. A narrative feature film based on this award-winning book has just gone into production.

©1998, 2003 Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind (P)2019 Audible, Inc. Europe Murder Music Sociology Spirituality True Crime

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Critic reviews

“The most incredible story in the history of music...a heavyweight book.” (Kerrang!)

“An unusual combination of true crime journalism, rock and roll reporting and underground obsessiveness, Lords of Chaos turns into one of the more fascinating reads in a long time.” (The Denver Post)

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The Narrator does an excellent job of reading and the book itself provides a really good insight to the mindset of black metal artists. Thee film was quite good too

Not for the faint hearted

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A compelling trip through not only black metal and it's rise but nationalism also.

compelling

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Both a fascinating insight into a subculture and a horrifying sociological study of human behaviour.

Fascinating and horrifying.

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Excellent narration. A must listen for anyone who has an interest in Black Metal. Shame the movie based on the book was terrible.

Excellent Audiobook

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I have had an interest in Black metal for some time so this book was of interest to me and its very good however it looses pace after about chapter 8

Starts well

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