"Until the Light Takes Us" black metal documentary

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Until the Light Takes Us is a documentary of the early 1990s black metal scene in Norway. Featuring interviews with Varg Vikernes, Fenriz of Darkthrone and other foundational members of the early black metal community, it is a documentary meant to appreciate black metal the way it should always have been: as an artistic movement against the modern world, gravitating toward mythic imagination through intense music, murder and fire.

Until the Light Takes Us homepage

I'm collecting metal documentaries lately and can't wait for this one to be out. It's going to be better than the "Lords of Chaos movie" with the metrosexual from "Twilight," that's a no-brainer

I want to see both documentaries!

The "Lords of Twilight Chaos" movie is not actually a documentary, but a dramatization.

More info on "Until the Light Takes Us":

From the website:

"In 1991, Norwegian churches started to burn, just after an underground circle of metal musicians had formed. While reporters and police scrambled for answers, more and more churches went up in flames. They had no leads until Varg Vikernes, one of the architects of an underground music-art-political scene known as BLACK MEAL took credit and was quickly arrested. While he was in police custody, the media ran a largely fabricated story of satanic rituals, abductions and sacrifices. This film reveals the true story behind the music, murders and church burnings, and shows what happened when these young men, who tried to change the world using music, art and violence, found that they could not control what they had created."

Also worth seeing:

Until the Light Takes Us trailer (1:33)

Now an interview:

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"Until the Light Takes Us," a black metal documentary



Interview with filmmakers Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites

"The film is about black metal, but we also deal with wider issues and it is relevant to the larger culture, not just fans of the genre. I am a filmmaker before I'm a fan, and a person before I'm a filmmaker, so there are a few masters that I serve when I make something. This is a communication between us and the world."

Interview with Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites (Until the Light Takes Us)

Until the Light Takes Us is a documentary of the early 1990s black metal scene in Norway. Featuring interviews with Varg Vikernes, Fenriz of Darkthrone and other foundational members of the early black metal community, it is a documentary meant to appreciate black metal the way it should always have been: as an artistic movement against the modern world, gravitating toward mythic imagination through intense music, murder and fire.

Until the Light Takes Us homepage

There's even more bad news -- the new "Lords of Chaos" movie is going to use hip-hop instead of black metal. Poke around the website and you'll see.

I want to see Until The Light Takes Us. I hope it's good.

There's a documentary you may want to check out called Such Hawks,Such Hounds. This documentary is about doom and stoner rock.

Interesting review:

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Something draws all of us to metal, and no one has asked yet what it is -- until now. Two brave indie filmmakers set out to learn about the phenomenon of Norwegian black metal from the early 1990s, and explain to us why it happened. In doing so, they hope to show us our world in a new light: how modernity has made culture, history and even truth dubious and lost in a flow in chaotic information.

"Until the Light Takes Us" review

About time someone put metal on the big screen and tried to explain it.

Until the Light Takes Us will be the more authentic of the two, i suspect. i probably won't see either though, as the story of the scene is pretty well known to those of us who have followed it from the beginning anyway.

In case anybody's interested in seeing it, this movie is playing on the Sundance Channel tonight (at 8 PM I believe) and repeats again early in the morning (3 or 4 AM). I'm gonna record it to check out later. I'm not a black metal fan at all but I have a somewhat morbid interest in the scene's more notorious participants and their insane goings-on...so it promises to be interesting viewing.