For the last day, Metallica was on a run of releasing a new music video every two hours. One of the videos, for the track "ManUNKind," was directed by renowned video director and former Bathory drummer Jonas Aukerland. We noticed a lot of similarities to Mayhem. It almost seemed like a sign of things to come with Aukerland's upcoming Lord of Chaos film, which tells the story of Mayhem.

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Turns out, that's exactly what the video was. The performers are all the actors who will be playing Mayhem in the upcoming film. According to a press release we recieved late last night:

“ManUNkind” is the exclusive first-look at the characters of Lords of Chaos, which is currently in production. Åkerlund’s Lords of Chaos is the story of MAYHEM, a young Norwegian band that popularized a form of heavy metal music known as “True Norwegian Black Metal” with a flair for publicity, church-burning, and even murder. The film stars Rory Culkin as ‘Euronymous,’ Emory Cohen as ‘Varg,’ Jack Kilmer as ‘Dead,’ Valter Skarsgård as ‘Faust,’ and Sky Ferreira as ‘Ann-Marit.’

If this is a preview, I have to say, it looks really good. Even though Fenriz has his reservations about the film, I'm still willing to give it the benefit of the doubt for now.