Jaune comme tes dents était au DECIBEL MAGAZINE TOUR (Behemoth, Watain, Devil’s Blood & In Solitude) le 9 mai MMXII au Club Soda, Montréal p.Q. et c’est en ligne sur le blog du BangBang ‘Chanceux comme un quêteux‘.
Simon King of Witches
Bruce Kessler, USA, 1971, 91 min
‘Simon Sinestrari (Andrew Prine), a cynical Ceremonial magician, is on a quest to become a god. Simon lives in a sewer, selling his charms and potions for money, when he is befriended by a young male prostitute named Turk (George Paulsin). Turk introduces Simon to his world of drugs, wild parties, and hysterical Wiccan rituals featuring a goat and Andy Warhol star Ultra Violet. Death and mayhem ensue, along with romance for Simon with the district attorney’s daughter (Brenda Scott)’ – WIKI
Jaune comme tes dents est allé voir Converge et Burning Love le 5 avril MMXII à La Tulipe, Montréal p.Q. C’est sur le blog du BangBang ‘Chanceux comme un quêteux‘.
6-6-06: The Satanic High Mass
‘On June 6, 2006 C.E. we celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the Church of Satan at the Center for Inquiry West’s Steve Allen Theatre in Los Angeles. The first Satanic High Mass was performed, inspired by the rituals of our founder, Anton Szandor LaVey. The rite included workings for compassion, the prime celebrant and bestower of campassion being Reverend Bryan Moore, lust evoked by Priestess Heather Saenz – assisted by the Reverends Entity, and destruction summoned by Magister Diabolus Rex – with a special condemnation of fanatical theism proclaimed by Magister Robert Lang. Each celebrant accepted formal requests by three congregants, nine in total. The ritual was capped by a benediction upon the congregation by Magus Peter H. Gilmore, High Priest. Heightening the emotions was the live score by Lustmord, available as an album titled Lustmord Rising (06.06.06).
Over 100 members of the Church of Satan coming from around the globe filled the theatre to capacity. These passionate people were part of the proceedings which were inspired by the 1934 film The Black Cat (on en parlait ici) starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff who played a brilliant modern architect and High Priest of Satan. The film depicted the Satanists as being wealthy and powerful and they arrived to celebrate the Rites of Lucifer dressed in formal evening attire. Their chamber was expressionistic, wrought with angled crystals. And so we conjured a similar decor, though the lighting was inspired by the works of Mario Bava. To complete this total environment, attendees were enjoined to dress formally, just as was done in the film, and our members rose to the occasion by donning colorful personalized attire, their sartorial splendor proper for the aristocracy of the outstanding that comprises our membership. An inside joke from the film was that the Latin words sonorously intoned by Karloff were in fact taken from an ancient botany text. Reverend Moore, in superb mimicry, speaks this text as a further nod to that most effective movie’ - Church of Satan
Bonne fête Black Sabbath
The Devil’s Rain
Robert Fuest, USA, 1975, 86 min
‘Anton LaVey is credited as the movie’s technical advisor’
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The Black Cat (1934) by EDGAR G. ULMER (ici)
The Devil Rides Out (1968) by Terence Fisher (ici)
*** PALMARES MMXI ***
Disma ‘Chasm Of Oceanus’ de leur premier album Towards The Megalith (2011)
Autres incomparables en leur genre, du plus foncé au plus pâle:
Autopsy ‘Macabre Eternal’
Bastard Priest ‘Ghouls Of The Endless Night’
Vastum ‘Carnal Law’
Aosoth ‘III’
Blut Aus Nord ’777 – The Desanctification’ & ’777 Sect(s)’
Honorables mentions aux Leviathan ‘True Traitor, True Whore’ et Craft ‘Void’ pour la sortie de nouveau matériel
Dark Castle ‘Surrender To All Life Beyond Form’
Herder ‘Herder’
Yob ‘Atma’
Skull Defekts ‘Peer Amid’
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats ‘Blood Lust’
Wo Fat ‘Noche del Chupacabra’
Alexander Tucker ‘Dorwytch’
Earth ‘Angels of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1′
Six Organs of Admittance ‘Asleep on the Floodplain’
Au début on se disait que le vidéo ‘Lucifer’ du groupe Behemoth augurerait de façon remarquable le weekend de l’Halloween. Les jeunes allaient adorer (peut-être même intégrer l’idée du blanc vomis à leurs costumes?). Ça c’était avant la mise en ligne de ce vidéo sur sunn o))), plus tôt cette semaine. Le son dans l’eau c’est beau. Nous évoquons la pièce ‘Hell-O)))-Ween’ de leur l’album White 2 (2004) comme nouvelle accointance contextuelle.
Court extrait pour une mise en appétit convenable :
The Sorcerers
Michael Reeves, UK, 1967, 87 min
Une copie 16mm sera présentée au Cinéma Blue Sunshine (Montréal) ce vendredi 14 octobre à 20:00
‘Le deuxième des 3 films réalisé par Michael Reeves, le regretté enfant prodige du cinéma britannique décédé d’une overdose à l’âge de 24 ans, The Sorcerers n’a peut-être pas l’impact viscéral du chef-d’œuvre Witchfinder General (1968), mais est quand même féroce et original. Boris Karloff y joue un vieux scientifique de Londres vivant dans la pauvreté avec sa femme et rêvant d’une percée pour sa technique d’hypnose. Cherchant un cobaye, il met les mains sur Mike, un jeune homme malheureux, (Ian Ogilvy, ayant apparu dans les 3 films de Reeves) et bien sûr, les choses dégénèrent. Londres à son meilleur, pleines de mini-jupes et de boites de nuits, que la réalisation maîtrisée de Reeves transforme en un rêve éveillé et labyrinthique de violence, ouvrant la porte à vague d’horreur post-Hammer des années 70.’ (Cinéma Blue Sunshine)
Repost du Terrorizer Newshound :
Bob Larson, a well known American radio and tv evangelist and apparently one of the leading practitioners of modern Christian exorcisms, will conduct an exorcism next week on Jørn Stubberud, best known as the bassist in black metal band Mayhem (where he performs under the stage name ‘Necrobutcher’). The entire event will be filmed by NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation), the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company and the largest media organization in Norway, for a special program which will be aired in Norway in October.
By the late 1980s, Larson was often heard performing exorcisms of callers on the air, including Glen Benton of the death metal band Deicide, who became a regular caller.
Xasthur for Self-Titled Magazine no8
by Bryan Sheffield
May 2010, Los Angeles, CA
Part 2 had to be removed and can be seen here.
Begotten
E. Elias Merhige, USA, 1990, 78 min
‘The film heavily deals with religion and the biblical story of earth creation. But as Merhige revealed during Q&A sessions, its primary inspiration was a near death experience he had when he was 19, after a car crash. The film features no dialogue, but rather uses harsh and uncompromising images of human pain and suffering to tell its tale.
What ever this movie is very hard to understand, the film opens with a robed, profusely bleeding “God” (The Thanatos) disemboweling himself, with the act ultimately ending in his death. A woman, Mother Earth (The eros), emerges from his remains, arouses the body, and impregnates herself with his semen. Becoming pregnant, she wanders off into a vast and barren landscape. The pregnancy manifests in a fully grown man whom she leaves to his own devices.
The “Son of Earth” meets a group of faceless nomads who seize him with what is either a very long umbilical cord or a rope. The Son of Earth vomits organic pieces, and the nomads excitedly accept these as gifts. The nomads finally bring the man to a fire and burn him’ …
Black Metal Satanica
Mats Lundberg, Sweden, 2008, 80 min
‘Black Metal Satanica is an in-depth documentary capturing the dark, mystical and evil history of the Black Metal genre. Based on Scandinavian Viking lore, Black Metal borrows from ancient Viking melodies, lyrics and mythology dating back to the 11th century. The new wave of Black Metal heroes give their take on the current state of the genre as well as on the founding fathers of Black Metal like Mayhem, Bathory and Immortal and the extreme, almost inhuman acts that surround this controversial subculture. Self-mutilation, murder, suicide, church-burning, the desecration of graves and corpses are all covered here in shocking and graphic detail! Features music by Watain, Vreid, Shining, Svartahrid, Rimsfrost, Mordichrist, Ondskapt and more.’
The Norwegian foreign ministry has begun training aspiring diplomats in “TNBM – True Norwegian Black Metal” – after foreign service missions reported a rise in enquiries about the musical genre from around the world. Indeed, the popularity and scale of the black metal phenomenon were demonstrated recently as one of the style’s foremost proponents, Dimmu Borgir, took the stage in Oslo with an orchestra and choir in a collaboration that has gained widespread media attention.
The head of the foreign ministry’s centre of excellence, Kjersti Sommerset, told newspaper Dagens Næringsliv that “we now have 106 foreign service missions and they get many enquiries from people who want information about Norwegian black metal as a phenomenon. In the training program, we have a large cultural program in order to give the trainees a good understanding of Norwegian culture and the cultural industry.”
Black metal “is clearly a part of this,” Sommerset added.
‘Global awakening’
Author Håvard Rem, the author of a leading book on TNBM called Innfødte skrik (“Native calls”), described the phenomenon to Dagens Næringsliv as “a global awakening that gets the children of the ‘68ers to search for their roots from pre-colonial and pre-Christian times.”
Rem suggests that “young people all over the world identify with this search,” and explained that where young Norwegian boys might find “Norse religion and Odin” in their cultural roots, “in Asia, Vedic metal has arisen with TNBM as its inspiration.” Rem supports efforts to train budding diplomats in the subtleties of black metal, stating that “for people under 40, it is this that they connect to Norway” and that “even if one does not like the music, it quickly becomes a topic for discussion.”
Rem’s own lectures to the foreign ministry trainees also include information about a dark period in black metal history during the 1990s, when a number of murders, acts of violence and incidents of church-burning occurred that put the movement under the spotlight. “You have to realize that this is the history, but it was 20 years ago and, today, Norwegian bands are acceptable,” Rem told Dagens Næringsliv. He stressed that the past problems of Norwegian black metal were not necessarily relevant to selling the genre today, stating that “one can talk about Norwegian salmon without talking about salmon lice, and Ibsen was seen as destructive in his day.”
Aspiring foreign policy professionals themselves are reportedly keen on the move. Silje Bryne, who will work in the Norwegian mission in Paris next year, told Dagens Næringsliv that she feels she “will have a very big use for this” in the future. “I see the value in not just talking about Ibsen and fjords when one talks about Norway, but also about the export product that is black metal.” Bryne added that having “such a strong brand that means that we stand out among the Nordic countries is worth its weight in gold, it’s black gold.”
‘Goosebumps all over’
Meanwhile, in Oslo, leading black metal band Dimmu Borgir has received much attention for its most recent concert in Oslo, for which the band took the stage with Norwegian Broadcasting’s Kringkastingsorkestret (the Norwegian Radio Orchestra) and Schola Cantorum, a chamber choir associated with the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo. In total, 96 musicians graced the stage at Oslo Spektrum and gave the 3,500 audience members an enhanced experience of the symphonic black metal sound, with Dimmu Borgir playing a number of songs from classic albums such as Death Cult Armageddon and Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia.
Many commentators were impressed by the spectacle but noted that the different sounds often cancelled one another out. Nonetheless, newspaper Aftenposten commented that “when it works, you get goosebumps all over.”
Aled-Dilwyn Fisher
Views and News from Norway
Merci Carolyne Weldon
‘In the early nineties several Norwegian bands laid emphasis on the primitive sounds of the historic metal bands, Bathory, Venom, and Celtic Frost. When these bands began recording albums their proximity and timing resulted in the specific sound of Black Metal’ …
‘The lyrical concept of these bands focuses on Norse Mythology, the Viking warrior, Nature, and the brutality of the medieval era. These bands gained immediate notoriety for involvement in a brutal murder, a suicide and the burning down of 12th century stave churches’ …
‘A decade later these bands still hold to the same values and are influenced by the same themes. Some bands have gone on to embrace a larger mainstream audience. While others have stayed true to the underground. Black metal bands can now be found all over the world. The subgenre’s, Vicking metal, Fantasy metal, Melodic Black metal, Tolkien metal, Doom metal, War metal, Vampiric metal, Medieval metal, and Troll metal, have expanded the sound and philosophy of Black metal into new realms of musical aggression.’
Black Metal (2005) by Stacy Kranitz. Details here.
First published with short interviews in Arthur Magazine Issue #16 (copies available here).