Murder Music: Black Metal

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• Genre(s): Documentary
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): David Kenny
• Cast(s): Jeffrey Mantas Dunn, Charles „Ghul” Hedger, Attila Csihar

• Duration: 1h 4min
• Similar To: A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough, The Perfect Neighbor
• Story:
  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.
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