UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US
Fri, Feb 12 @ midnite! BOSTON THEATRICAL RUN PREMIERE!!
COOLIDGE SELECTS for the Screening Room: Digital Projection

Black Valentine midnite shows Fri & Sat, Feb 12 & 13 on the big screen!

Late-nite screenings in our Video Screening Room Saturday - Thursday, Feb 13 - 18.

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.

Also! Special $1 off discount at the midnite screenings for any people who go to Rich Horror's Party Machine #11 featuring New England's blackest of the black Witch Tomb, Darkwor, Nachzehrer, Black Pyramid at O'Brien's Pub on Feb 12 at 9PM! Just show your stamped hand! This discount works both nights!!!

Link to the Coolidge Page!

yes I realize that most people who would go to the show and the movie will probably go to the show one night and the movie the next!

excellent

check it!

Feb 12th, 11:40pm: black metal march down Harvard Ave!

If Witch Tomb is playing at that time you prove yourself false and a faggot.

isnt the show at o'briens still going to be going on at midnight?

ITT: conflicting interests

It depends. They've been ending earlier to allow people to hang out and drink while still allowing the bar to close at the proper time.

Again, anyone who leaves early to see a movie is obviously a weak poser that wishes Jarrod's in Attleboro was still open.

Hence why the deal works both nights hehe

There's no conflict. You're either a warrior champion or a weak faggot.

I'll try to see if the movie can be delayed for Friday night, but if not there's still Saturday

Saturday there's a killer show at Mos Eisley

the movie is at midnight!

This Thread, starring Rich Horror as Jay Leno, boblovesmusic as Conan, and myself as Tom Green

The battle for late night!

wait so I'm taking over Rich's job and then Rich is then taking back his job?

Not really. I understand that people got into black metal last week and would rather sit and watch a movie than drink beer and be something that doesn't engage in humiliating sex acts with members of their own gender.

for the record, it's totally fine if most people come the next day! I don't want to take away from Rich Horror's thing!

(the Mos Eisley show is starting earlier so it's possible to do both!)

I just want this to do well!

I'm not worried, I expect nothing but good to come from the cross-promotion. I've been spreading the word.

my contact at the Coolidge has posted the show as well, and will post it on the FB

(contact being the awesome dude who manages the website and such!)

Fenriz is funny in this and Vargs interview is interesting but overall this doc is gay: made by hipster posers made for hipster posers...

i've avoided this like the plague, how much more can possibly be said about these bands?

thats what i expected

Just a reminder!

Bumping this!

I don't agree. Whether or not the filmmakers are posers, the documentary is straight up: why do people make black metal?

I think it's quite well done.

I plan on being at this Darkwor show.

http://www.anus.com/metal/about/interviews/until_the_light_takes_us/

read this interview with the filmmakers, and then try to call them "posers"

I still haven't seen this poser flick.

me2

It's making it to a radical metric shit-ton of theaters, and with luck, will make it out on DVD.

I think highly of it. As you probably have guessed, most of my friends are post-collegiate/graduate and love documentaries.

As a documentary, this film is solid in that the filmmakers know what to show and when to just let the story run with itself; they also very successful give context, visually, to what we're hearing.

As a film about black metal, it totally rules. If you ever wondered about the how and why, here it is -- in clear language, from the leading voices who made this all happen.

Updates from the filmmakers

Notice how many new cities they've added each week. It's gaining momentum. That's good, because it takes the ideas of black metal to an audience that is never gonna listen to or like the music, AND shows metalheads how much more there is to what they're listening to.

Bump! this up!

also the same nights as this, there's a Moulin Rouge sing along (Friday) and an 80s love song sing along (Saturday). Already the presales for this film out number the sing alongs!

Article about the film in the Boston Globe

Actually a pretty good write up!

psoted

http://www.reddit.com/r/UntilTheLightTakesUs/

I was joking about the poser part. I actually want to see this bad.

worth it to see how much of a tool frost is, even though the art performance he does in it scares the hell out of quite a few people.

still really need to see this, will probably wait for it to come out on dvd cause i feel like the crowd will be mostly non-showering types

I hope they interviewed Beelze in this movie...

Tomorrow night!!

WHY THE FUCK IS THERE NO TORRENT FOR THIS NIGGER MOVIE???????????

There's a dual torrent of it and Burzum "Belus" on TPB

oooooh, phat!

Last night we had 163 people in attendance. I want that number to be double tonight! (or at least more!)

All those fucks who came to Rich Horror's thing better show tonight! :-D

I'm MCing it a bit haha (which will be both embarrassing and hilarious)

Wish I could. It's a bit of a drive.

saw it last night. what a waste of resources. the documentary could've just been a set of youtube clips. it really didn't enlighten us with any new info. of all things, they fucking used downtempo electronic IDM for a lot of the soundtrack, almost no actual black metal. what the fuck?

really shallow and unsatisfying. the only thing i got from the movie was that fenriz would be a chill fucker to hang out with. he's just a total down-to-earth music head and that's all.

I think it's designed for NON-METALHEADS as well as preaching to the faithful.

Wish I could have handed a copy of this to friends, family and professors back in the day.

i saw this last night, it wasnt bad, but much like pooooop said (really thats your log in? haha) it wasnt anything new, they didnt "uncover" any ground breaking discoveries like varg being gay and having a mistress named Gaahl. but what i did like about the movie was watching some of the interviews, gives a little different perspective on something we've all already heard about

most interesting and entertaining tho was watching Frost cut open his neck and arms in front of a shit load of people after spitting fire all over the walls surrounding him and stabbing the shit out of someone's couch. as he is in the middle of splitting open his arm, you can see a bunch of people in the background start running out of the room in disgust/fear, that was fucking awesome haha, definitely good for a laugh

I thought there was another midnight showing on Sunday cause I'm dumb. Wasted a trip. OH well it doesn't sound that great anyways.

I dunno man. I'm of the opinion that black metal ISN'T for everybody nor should it be and I kind of object to the whole justification/explanation of it to people who haven't come to it on their own terms.

Beyond the music (first three records I got were "In the Nightside Eclipse", "Aspera Hiems Symfonia" and "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss"), the sheer wrongness of it is what attracted me, having read that article in Spin. It was more extreme, more dangeous and more threatening than the death metal I was listening to. The Norwegians didn't just talk about shit - they did shit and it made Glen Benton's hick faggot minstrel show pale by comparison. Any "decent" person with a functioning moral compass would have been repulsed by black metal as it was at that time.

... And now it's being pandered and justified to art fags and people who have no business having black metal demystified (yes, I know it's been demystified, homogenized, spayed and neutered over the years - but at least you'd have to get your hands dirty to a degree to find out more) and handed to them on a silver plate - or screen, as it were.

Black metal needs a pogrom and it scares the shit out of me / bums me out to think that someone like Beelze could be one of the participants.

RE: This film is trying to explain something to people outside the culture that couldn't possibly understand it.

RE: This film didn't tell me anything new.

Now you know what it's like for me every time a cool nu straightedge doc comes out, and some dipshit filmmaker re-animates Ian McKaye's corpse to talk about the same shit.

At least Until the Light Take Us was actually good.

Your pain is real, Mike. Perpetual douche chillz.

Well, here's my experience:

You can hit insincere people across the face with the truth, and they'll ignore it. Hell, WE DID in the past. They're going to use it to their own ends. This is why hipsters infest EVERY genre eventually. They simply don't care about truth at all.

But, one thing that does keep them at bay is having an idea that the genre has a consensus -- which they all do, if you think about it, or they never would have formed genres in the first place. VALUES and DECISIONS drive back the hipster. They like to live in that spacy place where every genre is about nothing, so THEY can inject their neurotic bullshit into it. They like to have open minds that never make decisions. Their values system is non-values. Their consensus is non-consensus. And so on...

So I think this movie is, if anything, a stab in their hearts. Agreed also with Mike's comment.

I agree with this. The way I see it is that this is an art film about a genre of music - it's something that interested parties should know about. But the film shouldn't act as a primer for somebody that wants to listen to BM. It's something that should be discovered and individually interpreted. It shouldn't be exclusive, but it isn't some country club either. The thing is the originators were on to something with the sound. Now anybody can steal the methods and use them for anything. As homo as this sounds we all remember what flipped the black metal switch in our heads - my grandfather used to say "it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing" and well now if bm doesn't have the mystic, anti-religious, pure individualistic sentiment then we can damn well tell the difference. Black Metal Is Devil Worship, and there will always be people who don't fully understand this, which is why I'm not jumping at showing the film to family and coworkers and so on.

At least this is a film that doesn't foster the superficial motivations for listening to black metal. They barely used any black metal for the soundtrack, because it's not forcing the music down anyone's throat. It's not there to suck metalhead cock. Also, they avoid any scholarly interpretation ("black metal is so euro romantic!") and just let the musicians, the environment, and the events talk.

convervo and mike just nailed it.

Until The Light Takes Us (Massachusetts chapter) Last two days to see the film in Boston. Today. And tomorrow. Don't miss it!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Until-The-Li...husetts-chapter/302403005203?ref=nf