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Murder Music: Black Metal

6.0/ 1020071h 4m
Documentary

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 its 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. The 64-minute documentary eschews much of the tabloid sensationalism that shrouded the genre in the early to mid-'90s, focusing instead on the music itself, an element thus far overlooked by the mainstream media.

Directed by David Kenny

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Faces behind the story

Jeffrey 'Mantas' Dunn
Jeffrey 'Mantas' Dunn
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Attila Csihar
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Charles „Ghul” Hedger
Charles „Ghul” Hedger
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