A review by swinelake
Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground by Didrik Søderlind, Michael Moynihan

5.0

Impeccably researched with excellent writing. Lords of Chaos is a fascinating, detailed dissection of black metallers from Norway who took pageantry and dark theatrical imagery as sanctioned legitimacy of all evils to the point of enacting brutal violence and espousing radical right wing beliefs. Though it seems too exhaustive at times, the end product is an entirely comprehensive journalistic undertaking into a movement that would otherwise be incomprehensible.