Norway. Black metal curdled into something a wee bit death-y over in Scandinavia. Practitioners seemed to have lost sight of the whole ‘fun’ thing, giving in to Nordic despair and good old-fashioned Viking mayhem. Learn more tonight at AS220 at a showing of Until The Light Takes Us, a chronicle of the evolution of the genre and its grim association with a series of murders and church arson. This feature was directed by Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites, who spent two years in Norway compiling footage, and interviewing people with names like
Gylve “Fenriz” Nagell, Varg Vikernes, Jan Axel “Hellhammer” Blomberg, Kjetil “Frost” Haraldstad, Ivar Bjornson, Abbath and Demonaz Doom Occulta, Kris “Garm” Rygg, Bjarne Melgaard, Harmony Korine, and more.
Stay for the live show which follows at 9:30 — it’s a Noel Coward singalong with The Debonairs. I keeeed, I keeeed. It’s wicked-black and doomy with Witch Kill, Tovarish, and Paranthropus. ($6 for show)
$10 for movie, starts 6:30pm, doors 6pm, AS220, 115 Empire Street