Jonas approached us about LoC not long after he’d made the video for “Óveður.” He wanted a full new score, but had “temped” the scenes with music from across our catalogue. We watched the movie and I immediately felt like it was the kind of thing I would have loved myself as a teenager. Being from “The North” we were all familiar with the Mayhem story, and to a greater or lesser extent had had a Black Metal moment. We thought our music as it was synched to picture was already pretty much already doing the job, so we just suggested that we go back to the original tapes of what were sometimes very old songs and adapt them into new and original cues.

I think Jonas liked the way the low-fi-ness of Mayhem’s music and brutality of their story juxtaposed with people’s perceptions of Sigur Rós. In the end, he used music from every Sigur Rós album, with a whole bunch drawn from Von and Valtari. The movie definitely won’t be for everybody, but it is an amazing and frankly awful tale... and like Mayhem themselves it has all the hallmarks of becoming some kind of cult.