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UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US Directed by Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell who "moved to Norway and lived with the musicians for several years, building relationships that allowed them to create a surprisingly intimate portrait of this violent, but ultimately misunderstood, movement". Focusing on the culture through the eyes of the musicans. If you know anything of Black metal history then you know this is not going to be a fmaily movie. Spoiler alert! Bambi's mom dies! If you love Metal or not I believe this is going to be an amazing documentary on [...]

I know very little about the history of Black Metal, but this new documentary looks super interesting. This winter Until the Light Takes Us will "tell 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 ...

We've been hearing about "Until the Light Takes Us," a documentary about the incarnation of black metal, for a long while now - but there's finally a trailer and a theatrical release schedule. And I gotta say, based on the trailer at least, the movie looks pretty amazing. Even if you don't like black metal, there's [...]

A Norwegian black metal doco made by some San Franciscans.

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The other night I saw a special screening of the film Until The Light Take Us , directed by Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites. Still reeling from love affair with Anvil: The Story of Anvil , I returned to Portland's Hollywood Theatre to see what I hoped would be another inspiring music documentary. After all, how could you go wrong with the fascinating and mysterious subject of Norwegian black metal? There's church burnings, pagan rituals, murder, suicide, and face paint! What more could you ask for? [...]

There's nary a mention of it in this week's paper, due to it not being screened for critics beforehand, but the documentary Until the Light Takes Us , playing one night only this Saturday night at the Hollywood Theater looks awesome. Chronicling the Norwegian black metal scene-burnt churches and self mutilation and all- Variety has this to say about it: Producer-helmers Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell have obvious, admirable goals - to make a film that reflects the self-consciously alienated/eerie black-metal scene in early '90s Oslo, and the [...]

by Black Bubblegum What do Varg Vikernes and the band Iran have to do with each other? Read on.... Varg Vikernes in the slammer no more The single most infamous man in all of metal is set to walk free. It is never reassuring to hear that a man who calls himself Count Grishnackh is to be released from prison. And yet that is what is happening to the Norwegian black-metal icon Varg Vikernes , who [...]