Until The Light Takes Us [Full Movie]

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. Until The Light Takes Us goes behind the highly sensationalized media
reports of "Satanists running amok in Europe" to examine the complex and largely
misunderstood principles and beliefs that led to this rebellion against both Christianity
and modern culture.

To capture this on film, directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell 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. The result is a poignant, moving story thats as much about
the idea that reality is composed of whatever the most people believe, regardless of
whats actually true, as it is about a music scene that blazed a path of murder and arson
across the northern sky

One Man Metal Part 1 - Black Metal's Unexplored Fringes

For this new, three-part documentary, Noisey interviewed
Leviathan, Striborg, and Xasthur, three solo artists who produce
Black Metal on the margins of society.
Here's part one of One Man Metal.

True Norwegian Black Metal [5 Parts]

We went to Norway to interview Gaahl, lead singer of the band Gorgoroth. Gaahl really believes in this whole ideology behind what he's doing - he's not just some rockstar fronting a band.

The thing with Black Metal is, in Norway, everybody is exactly the same. There's nothing to rebel against, because everybody's really well off. It's one of the richest countries in Europe. There is no lower class, it's like middle-class white kids everywhere - no one has anything to complain about. And he's this sort of eccentric figure amidst this sea of contentment and sameness.

The way I see it is, in America you have guys like 50 Cent who are supposed to be the "villain." Kids like him cause they're parents hate him, and that's basically what Gaahl is. He's their musical villain so to speak. But there's a lot of different sides to the scene.

Until The Light Takes Us (Official Trailer)

In theaters this winter. 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. Until The Light Takes Us goes behind the highly sensationalized media reports of "Satanists running amok in Europe" to examine the complex and largely misunderstood principles and beliefs that led to this rebellion against both Christianity and modern culture.

To capture this on film, directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell 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. The result is a poignant, moving story thats as much about the idea that reality is composed of whatever the most people believe, regardless of whats actually true, as it is about a music scene that blazed a path of murder and arson across the northern sky