Until The Light Takes Us

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

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  1. Welcome to the Brain Examination of Nidhish. Question A. Do you like this variety of the music? Outcome time! If ‘NO’ responding you are normal. If ‘YES’ responding you are the mental problems having person. Thank you for your attention. Goodbye.

  2. Also I would have 10,000 of Fenriz’ babies. 

  3. I fall asleep to this almost every night. 

  4. This improved my saturday night! Thanks for posting.

  5. This improved my saturday night! Thanks for posting.

  6. good interviews with vikernes and fenriz are the only redeemable parts of this, but it makes up a decent part of the docu.

  7. good interviews with vikernes and fenriz are the only redeemable parts of this, but it makes up a decent part of the docu.

  8. …been wanting to see this one for a long time…horns up for posting! DECHRISTIANIZE!!!