WAKING THE DAEMON
Mhen I saw Lords Of Chaos for the first time,” says Jørn ‘Necrobutcher’ Stubberud, “I felt numb. I felt empty. I didn’t feel like talking to anybody. I didn’t feel joyous coming out of the movie theatre. I just felt down because of all the events it reminded me about. I just wanted to go home and be alone.”
As the founding member of black metal’s most notorious, revered and consistently unpredictable band, the Mayhem bassist has a more personal stake in Jonas Åkerlund’s hotly debated movie than most. He’s lived through the suicide of his close friend and vocalist Per ‘Pelle’ Yngve Ohlin, AKA Dead, in 1991, the murder of his guitarist and scene mastermind Øystein ‘Euronymous’ Aarseth at the hands of Varg Vikernes two years later, and the numerous church burnings initiated by his bandmembers, all of which, perhaps inevitably,
