Set in Oslo in 1987, seventeen-year-old Euronymous mounts shocking publicity stunts to make his black metal band famous. "The story of True Norwegian Black Metal and its most notorious practitioners: a group of young men with a flair for publicity, church-burning, and murder: MAYHEM. Oslo, 1987. Seventeen-year-old Øystein Aarseth--a.k.a. Euronymous--is determined to escape his idyllic Scandinavian hometown and create true Norwegian black metal with his band, MAYHEM. He's joined by equally fanatical youths: Pelle "Dead" Ohlin and Kristian "Varg" Vikernes. Believing that they're on the cusp of a musical revolution, the group gets even darker, driven by the black metal dogma to spread evil. They begin burning down churches throughout the countryside and stealing tombstones for their record store. But when the press catches up with them and Euronymous takes more credit than he's earned for the group's violent acts, Varg, fresh out of jail, arranges a dark encounter to settle the score and ultimately determine who the darkest black metal musician is."--Container.