Lords of Chaos (2018)

Emory Cohen: Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes

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• Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : I'm going to release my music on my own label.

  Euronymous : What does that mean?

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : I don't need you anymore.

  Euronymous : Okay. If that's what you want, okay.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : You'll have to find another idiot to steal everything from.

  Euronymous : I haven't stolen anything from you.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : You're recording Mayhem's album with money made from Burzum's sales, money that belongs to me!

  Euronymous : That money went straight back to you. You're the bass player of Mayhem now, remember?

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : I quit. You only put me in the band to get attention.

  Euronymous : The album's almost finished. It's gonna be big; world tour, everything.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : Tour? I thought you were true Norwegian black metal.

  Euronymous : I fucking invented it.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : And now you betray it! You're a hypocrite. We should be making true Black Metal music for a select few. Tours are for posers. "Never sell out." That's what you said.

  Euronymous : Saying things like "never sell out" fucking sells. Come on. I made all that shit up. Nobody gave a shit about us. I attracted people by saying, "You can't have this. You're not worthy." It's just promotion.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : No, no. Not for me. I believed in it, and I still do.

  Euronymous : So do I, but it has to make sense. It has to sell. Otherwise, what the fuck are we doing here?

  [Varg gives Euronymous the skull fragment necklace back] 

  Euronymous : You can keep that. That's a piece of chicken bone.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : Chicken bone? Fake as everything else with you.

• Partygoer : Hail Satan, my lord!

  [Varg punches him out] 

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : Laugh now you fake fucking nazi!

• Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : [Varg and Euronymous are about to record Burzum's first album]  I want one microphone in the center of the room, nothing else.

  Euronymous : That's gonna sound horrible.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : That's the whole point.

  Euronymous : Alright.

  [Narrating] 

  Euronymous : He had some really bad ideas, but with a little help from me, the end result was True Metal; metal enough for him to become part of the Black Circle.

• Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : The fact that Norway is ruled by a dictatorship and our people are brainwashed with empathy and solidarity by the church and their stupid Christianity doesn't bother you anymore?

  Euronymous : Of course it does. I hate that shit.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : Either you do it for the cause and you take action, or you do it because you want attention and you want to be a stupid-ass celebrity rock star. You can't have it both ways.

• Euronymous : [watching a news report of a jogger who was murdered after Faust admitted to killing him]  That, that was you?

  Bård Guldvik 'Faust' Eithun : Yeah.

  Euronymous : What... when?

  Bård Guldvik 'Faust' Eithun : Last night.

  Euronymous : That was... that was a really smart fucking move, man!

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : Congratulations.

  Euronymous : You'll be the new hero of the Black Circle.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : We should celebrate. Let's burn down a fucking church, huh?

• Jon 'Metalion' Kristiansen : So, are you planning any gigs?

  Euronymous : Of course, not. Concerts are for those Swedish Life Metal bands.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : Exactly. Posers claiming to be Satanists when all they want to do is drink beer and have a good time. I hate that, all those death metal kids with their stupid Morbid Angel t-shirts. They're making a trend out of something that was meant to instill fear. We should put them in the showers and gas them to death.

  [smirks] 

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : [Almost everyone around the table gives Varg a disturbed and uncomfortable look. Eventually, Euronymous begins snickering and everyone, except Varg, starts laughing] 

  Metalhead : Gas them to death?

• Euronymous : Each of these red dots is a pen pal who sends me demo tapes, and I sent a few in return... South America, Central America, Poland, Romania. Countries all over the world make dark, evil music. You know why?

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : No.

  Euronymous : Things are miserable. People are ruled by dictatorship. Just like us here in Norway.

  Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : Like us? In Norway?

  Euronymous : Yes. The fucking church, they're oppressing us with their kindness and their goodness, brainwashing an entire population with fake empathy and fucked-up solidarity. Hate them and their churches. We should burn them down.

• Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes : [in Helvete, holding up a Scorpions album]  Why do you sell this shit?