Taking Sides: Mayhem v. Burzum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjfyfNAIAcA

holy shit this rules, i wish i had caught this tour

^it was pretty killer. I will say I never was in a more dangerous pit, though, the first time I saw Mayhem and they played "Deathcrush". it outright scared me the viciousness, it wasn't like, malevolent, but people were just jerkin' an berzerkin'

For a movie about metal, Lords of Chaos has zero energy. The Motley Crue biopic was more exciting.

I liked it, mainly for the aesthetics but for a movie that is clearly made by people who love metal it’s surprisingly uncommitted to the story. I watched it last year back to back with Straight Outta Compton which does completely buy into their whole mythos and is a much more entertaining movie for it. Also, that’s a movie about music with crazy/violent personal feuds as background, Lords Of Chaos is the exact opposite.

I mean, kids do stupid/violent things to each other, blow up stuff and try to give the establishment a kick in the balls, all over the world, all the time - that’s not very interesting in itself. In the end, the only thing that made any of these guys worthy of making a movie about is that their music got famous all over the world.

those live boots Peaceville put out last year for Mayhem are fuckin' terrible. idk why I am surprised though. one of them is just Dawn of the Black Hearts show without the brains cover