Audrey Ewell's black metal documentary 'Until The Light Takes Us' out in US theaters December 4th!

New black metal documentary written and directed by Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites Until The Light Takes Us is out in US theaters December 4, 2009 (NYC), December 11, 2009 (Los Angeles).

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. Watch the trailer...

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 that’s as much about the idea that reality is composed of whatever the most people believe, regardless of what’s actually true, as it is about a music scene that blazed a path of murder and arson across the northern sky.


Filmmakers Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites

Featuring Gylve “Fenriz” Nagell, Varg “Count Grishnackh” Vikernes, Jan Axel “Hellhammer” Blomberg, Kjetil “Frost” Haraldstad, Olve “Abbath” Eikemo, Harald “Demonaz” Nævdal, Bjarne Melgaard, Harmony Korine, and music from Darkthrone, Mayhem, Burzum, Ulver, Thorns, Gorgoroth, Enslaved, Boards of Canada, Black Dice, Sunn 0))), Múm, and Lesser.

www.blackmetalmovie.com

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I never understood black

I never understood black metal, but one my best friends who passed away a few years ago loved it - it was his favorite music. So now I like black metal kind of by default, you know? Like, I force myself to enjoy it because I know my friend loved it so much. Also, a woman I know uses it to put herself to sleep each night and thinks it's the most honest and soothing music ever, so there's got to be something to it. It should be cool to see a documentary on the music. I love how the band members names are so hard to pronounce in English.