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"Until The Light Takes Us tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists and music fans world-wide. The Film goes behind the highly sensationalized...

Documentary on black metal, including interviews and performances. Bands include Absu, Venom, Mayhem, Marduk, Immortal, Enslaved, Gorgoroth, Darkthrone, Bloodthorn, Celtic Frost, Dark Funeral, Mercyful Fate, Dimmu Borgir, Rotting Christ, Cradle of Filth, Behemoth, Belphegor, Satyricon, Primordial, Finntroll, Naglfar, Kreator, Voivod, Ulver, and Tyr.

Featuring more than 250 interviews with members of Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Pantera, Korn and many others over the past 25 years, this examination of the cultural phenomenon provides an expert analysis of the heavy metal scene from the '60s to the present.

"Through the decades, the metal scene has been populated by colorful individuals who have thwarted convention and lived by their own rules. For many, vice has been virtue, and the opportunity to record albums and tour has been an invitation to push boundaries and blow the lid off a Pandora's box of riotous experiences: thievery, vandalism, hedonism, the occult, stage mishaps, mosh pit atrocities, and general insanity. To the figures in this book,...

"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...