Murder Music: A History of Black Metal
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| Murder Music: A History of Black Metal | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Documentary |
| Written by | Malcolm Dome |
| Directed by | David Kenny |
| Starring | Abbath Asbjørn Slettemark Andy Sneap Attila Csihar Clive Jones Dani Filth Didrik Søderlind Hellhammer Jokull Jonathan Selzer Kip Trevor Mantas Martin Walkyier Ozol René Ackermann Satyr Silenoz Vortex |
| Composer(s) | Nigel Champion |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Pete Hadfield Andy Loveday |
| Producer(s) | David Kenny René Ackermann |
| Location(s) | Athens, Greece Derbyshire, England Gjerstad, Norway Oslo, Norway |
| Camera setup | David Kenny Bruno Mathez |
| Running time | 64 min. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Rockworld TV |
| Original airing | April 13th 2007 |
Murder Music: A History of Black Metal is a heavy metal music documentary aired on British pay-per-view channel Rockworld TV. Murder Music centers around the controversial black metal subgenre. It was written by reknowned metal journalist Malcolm Dome and hosted by Rockworld TV's and Contraband Candy's René Ackermann, who also was this documentary's associate producer.
The main themes of Murder Music are: the musical origins of black metal, from Birmingham, UK hard rock group Black Sabbath to Newcastle extreme metal pioneers Venom; the anti-Christian sentiment of it's practitioners; the controversies surrounding the criminal acts (arson and murder) of the early Norwegian scene; and the paradox of a Christian form of black metal, represented by Scandinavian band Frosthardr.
Musicians from some key contemporary bands in the scene are interviewed, such as Satyricon, Immortal, Mayhem, Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth. Some non-musicians are interviewed as well, including Terrorizer magazine editor Jonathan Selzer and Didrik Søderlind, co-author of the Lords of Chaos book.
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[edit] Background
Murder Music host René Ackermann became acquainted with the black metal music scene in the late 1990s. She deepened her knowledge of the subject by reading Gavin Baddeley's Lucifer Rising and the aformentioned Lords of Chaos. In 2006, Ackermann teamed up with director and co-producer David Kenny to start shooting the documentary...[1]
Murder Music debuted on Friday the 13th, April 2007, on Sky Channel 368 (aka Rockworld TV). A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the documentary, entitled Murder Music: Backstage, will also be shown on the same channel. It will feature unused footage as well as extended and unseen interviews that missed the final cut.[2]
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Jeffrey "Mantas" Dunn, guitarrist and founding member of Venom...
| “ | If you look back in the day at the early Venom songs, it never was strictly about the devil and all this kind of stuff. I mean, we had songs about sex, we had songs about drugs, you know. We got songs about serial killers - all that kind of stuff. So basically it was all that sort of dark elements of life, if you like. | ” |
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