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Official update:


More big news. It's getting crazy here. (This is all for the US/Canada, but we are working on several things on other continents, and will announce separately once finalized. As always: do not reply to this message, we won't get it. You CAN reach us with a NEW email sent to untilfilm@gmail.com.)

The film opens this Friday Dec 4th in NY, Providence and Grand Rapids and continues in Detroit. We're very excited. Check theaters for showtimes. Directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell will be present for Q & As at Cinema Village in NY at the opening weekend, Friday/Saturday evening screenings. www.cinemavillage.com

* Tones of Death is throwing a Premier Party on Dec 3rd at Fontanas in NY's Lower East Side.
8 PM – Until the Light Takes Us NYC launch party upstairs
9 PM – Sea of Bones (replacing Goes Cube) - 10 PM – Liturgy - 11 PM – Cable
FREE, 21+...The show is FREE with free beer/beer specials.

20% of poster sales from the show will go to Waggytail Rescue, a NYC
nonprofit dog rescue http://www.waggytailrescue.com

New York:
Bring your ticket stub to Forbidden Planet 840 Broadway between Dec. 4th and Dec. 10th to receive 15% off art books and graphic novels! No other discounts apply, ticket stub must be presented at point of sale to be valid. You can also visit them online at www.fpnyc.com

Providence:
Check out the amazing selection of metal and other music at Armageddon Record Shop at 436 Broadway. You can also order online at www.armageddonshop.com - these guys are helping to get the word out on the film - huge thanks to them.

Michigan:
Vertigo Music- Vertigo music in Grand Rapids, MI, would like to offer $1.00 off any CD in store with a ticket stub from the film. You can also visit them online at www.vertigomusiconline.com.

Green Brain Comics is offering 25% off the cover price of any one graphic novel in stock with ticket stub from the film. You can find Green Brain Comics at http://www.greenbrain.biz/ and their address is - 13210 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn.

Our friends at Record Time in Roseville, MI would like to offer 20% off any one item in stock with a ticket stub from the film! You can also visit Record Time online at http://recordtime.com
Thank you to our wonderful friends at Forbidden Planet, Vertigo Music, Armageddon Record Shop, Green Brain Comics and Record Time. Way cool. I hope you all will take advantage of this and continue to support independent artists and shops.

*LA run begins Dec 11 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5. Directors will be there for evening Q & A on Dec 11 and 12.

*We're having a special LA opening party and everyone's invited.
Thursday, December 10th, from 6pm-8pm
Vacation Vinyl - 4679 Hollywood Blvd

We'll be in store to talk about the film, sign posters, and celebrate the LA opening. Live DJ, no cover, free drinks - so come down and say hi!
For more info check out www.vacationvinyl.com. Thanks to Pete at Vacation Vinyl and Luis at Tones of Death/Red Distribution for setting this up!

LA facebook group is here, please join and invite your friends:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=175110541066&ref=nf


* Invisible Man limited edition run of shirts to support the film. All ordering info is through their website: http://shop.commissarystores.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=IM16

* Posters are available here: www.blackmetalmovie.com

* Confirmed cities are below, with many more being added very soon. If your city isn't yet listed, please consider calling your local indie theaters and asking if the film is coming there and very very nicely letting them know that there is a community of people who hope it comes - it really does help, as long as it's very polite and concise. People have been doing this - and it IS working! Canada - ditto. ALSO! People have started making Facebook group pages to bring the film to their city. Here are some pages that people have made, feel free to make your own, just invite all your friends and send me the link! You can also do it on myspace. Here are sample pages, if you're in these towns please join, if you're not, feel free to start your own:

Detroit/Grand Rapids: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=169254968841&ref=ts
Detroit: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Until-The-Light-Takes-Us-Detroit/170554787443?ref=ts
Grand Rapids: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Until-The-Light-Takes-Us-Grand-Rapids-MI-Chapter/158765569817?ref=ts
Massachusetts: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Until-The-Light-Takes-Us-Massachusetts-chapter/302403005203?ref=search&sid=1260305673.1324498103..1
Seattle: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Until-the-Light-Takes-Us-Seattle-chapter/185881722602?ref=nf
Orlando: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=156956003589&ref=ts
Milwaukee: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000511545287&ref=ts
Milwaukee Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/untilthelightmilwaukee
Toronto: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=352374445155
SF Bay Area: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=208700001423
Los Angeles: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=175110541066
NYC: http://www.facebook.com/pages/UNTIL-THE-LIGHT-TAKES-US/150246122114?ref=ts

STREET TEAM: Join us! We need you help! Please send a NEW EMAIL to untilfilm@gmail.com with your city in the subject line. Thank you very much! Please DO NOT reply to this email.

Distribution efforts continue throughout the world and there is much progress. Stay tuned!

US THEATRICAL: Confirmed Cities (NEW!)

New York, NY - starts Dec 4th @ Cinema Village on 12th St.
Austin, TX - starts Nov 20 @ Alamo Ritz, downtown
New Orleans, LA starts Nov 24 @ Zeitgeist
Detroit, MI starts Nov 27 @ Burton Theater
Grand Rapids, MI starts Dec 4 @ Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA)
Providence, RI starts Dec 4 @ Cable Car Cinema
Los Angeles, CA starts Dec 11 @ Laemmle Sunset 5
Houston, TX starts Dec 10 @ Alamo Drafthouse West Oaks
CHICAGO! starts Jan 8 @ the Gene Siskel Film Center
SEATTLE! starts Jan 15th @ Grand Illusion Cinema
MILWAUKEE! starts Jan 22 @ Times Cinema
Denver, CO starts 1/29 @ Starz Theater

Canadian Premiere: Jan 15th, the film will be projected onto a giant ICE SCREEN in Winnipeg. More details TBA. AND more cities nearly finalized.

This list of cities will grow in the coming days and weeks. Many of you are part of the reason why. Our eternal thanks and appreciation. As always, please come out opening weekend whenever possible.

DVD: We are working on it, no release date yet.

Thank you,
Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites

www.blackmetalmovie.com
mailing list: untilfilm@gmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20217005803
http://www.myspace.com/blackmetalmovie
http://twitter.com/blackmetalmovie

Winner of the Golden Athena in the Music and Film Selection, the top documentary award, at the Athens International Film Festival, Sept. 2009 in Athens, Greece.


Bands featured:

* Burzum
* Satyricon
* Darkthrone
* Mayhem
* Ulver
* Boards of Canada

(* = highly recommended)

Top 10 albums of 2009

1. Monoliths & Dimensions - Sunn O))) 10/10* (stunning, just stunning and breathtaking, best album i will EVER hear in my life, every second was pretty much a orgasm)

2. Liebe ist für alle da -Rammstein 10/10* (4 years away
and this is what they return with, a strong return and a very enjoyable album)

3. When Mine Eyes Blacken - When Mine Eyes Blacken (Depressive Black Metal at its finest, Atmospheric and stunning through every second, a true masterpiece) 10/10*

4. Descending Further Into Nothingness - Exiled From Light 10/10* (refer to When Mine Eyes Blacken)

5. The June Frost - Mournful Congregation 9/10* (strongest release so far from the Adelaide Funeral Doomsters, a truely
depressive journey)

6. Those Whom The Gods Detest - Nile 10/10* (Nile put out there 2nd strongest release to date and by far the best death metal album of the past few years)

7. Iconoclast - Nazxul 9/10* (11 years in the making and i was not let down one single bit)

8. To Lay Like Old Ashes - Austere 8/10 (a suprise to see this here, at first off i was not that impressed, but further listens showed other wise)

9. What We All Come To Need - Pelican 9/10 (It's Pelican, Nuff Said)

10. In the Constellation of the Black Widow - Anaal Nathrakh 9/10* (Hell in music form)


10 albums that surprised me in 2009

1. Runaljod - gap var Ginnunga - Wardruna 10/10* (no words can describe it, you just have to listen and experience)

2. For Lies I Sire - My Dying Bride 7/10

3. Dekadens - Lifelover 7/10

4. Saurian Exorcisms - Karl Sanders 8/10*

5. All Shall Fall - Immortal 7/10

6. The Harvest Floor - Cattle Decapitation 7/10

7. Agorapocalypse - Agoraphobic Nosebleed 7/10

8. Black Cascade - Wolves in the Throne Room 8/10

9. Under the Jaguar Sun - Nadja 10/10* (Ambient Drone at its finest)

10. Wormwood - Marduk 8/10 (not as great as ROM 5:12 or Plague Angel but still better than what they have done before Mortuus joined)


Disappointments of 2009

1. Evisceration Plague - Cannibal Corpse 6/10 (not a solid release from Corpse, unlike Kill, the only tracks i enjoyed was the 1st track, the Title track and the last track)

2. Evangelion - Behemoth 7/10 (First few listens were fantastic, but then grew old, its a shame, i feel Behemoth are starting to turn into a Death Metal instead of a Black/Blackened Death Metal)

3. VI: Klagopsalmer - Shining 6/10 (After the complete Master peace that was V: Halmstad, Shining let themselves down with this one, oh well a new album is due for March so fingers crossed that is an improvement, or though, the last track on VI: was amazing in itself)

4. World Painted Blood - Slayer 6/10 (Too over-hyped by the media and every single Slayer fan as the answer to the "reign in blood" era Slayer, to me it had the potential, but did not show it on the final release)

5. Battle For The Sun - Placebo 5/10 (Very disappointing, i thought that after Meds, they could release another great album, seems not really :/)

6. Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us - Paradise Lost 5/10 (they seem to be losing the Doom Metal feel and it has shown on there latest album)

7. Night Is the New Day - Katatonia 6/10

8. Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt - Gorgoroth 2/10 (VERY unimpressed, it shows that King and Gaahl should of kept the name, at least they wrote better music than Infernus)

9. Revelations of the Black Flame - 1349, 7/10 (Don't get me wrong, i enjoyed this album, even with the change in music style, but it just felt like something was missing, but i can't place my finger on it)

10. Time Waits For No Slave - Napalm Death 6/10 (more Grindcore compared to Smear Campaign, but i feel that right now, Napalm Death are losing some steam)

Concerts of 2009:
1. Sunn O)))/Rammstein (i know at the time of typing this, they have not happened, but they will both be as special as each other)

2. Nine Inch Nails - Soundwave show was one of the best shows i have seen, the Hordern show was ruined by the Power Cut

3 The Amenta - Australia's FINEST live band, each time i saw them they kicked so much ass and the show with the New Vocalist was fantastic too

4. Nazxul - The long awaited return after 5 years lived up to my hopes.

5. Our Last Enemy - hehe <3 these guys, so much fun is had whenever i see them

6. Morbid Angel - HOLY FUCKING FUCK FUCK, the BEST Death Metal band i will EVER see live.

7. Heaven Shall Burn - Despite being the Support act for Trivium *vomits* they made my whole evening, and i met them too :D

8. Satyricon - Blew me away, they had so much energy and put on a fantastic set

9. Deathstars - A rather enjoyable experience, was also my first overseas headline concert that i took photos for :)

10. Psycroptic / Ruins - Psycroptic, were a lot better this time around compared to November of last year and Ruins are Ruins really

So I decided to reset my charts... again (after about 23,000 scrobbles). Here are my top artists and albums from early January up until late November. It seems I can't go more than 25k scrobbles without resetting... I would probably have over 100,000 scrobbles if I never reset my charts (combined with my scrobbles from my old account).


1. Steve Roach- 504
2. Boards of Canada- 490
3. Agalloch- 377
4. maudlin of the Well- 343
5. Autechre- 324

6. Mayhem- 273
7. Bethlehem- 269
8. The Prodigy- 259
9. Organized Konfusion- 256
9. Tiesto- 256
9. Aphex Twin- 256
12. Stars of the Lid- 233
13. OutKast- 227
14. Enslaved- 202
15. Slowdive- 198
16. Global Communication- 183
17. Stendeck- 181
18. Gorguts- 179
18. Drudkh- 179
20. Sun Kil Moon- 177

21. Bjork- 174
22. Burzum- 168
23. Hypocrisy- 167
24. Emperor- 166
25. Biosphere- 163
26. J-Live- 160
27. Cannibal Ox- 157
28. Harold Budd- 156
29. Warning- 155
30. Have a Nice Life- 152
31. Bathory- 147
31. Isis- 147
33. Robert Rich- 145
34. Deepspace- 143
35. Tool- 142
36. Low-140
37. The Cure- 136
38. Darkthrone- 134
39. Venerean- 127
40. Katatonia- 124
40. Air Liquide- 124
42. Cryptopsy- 122
43. The Future Sound of London- 120
43. The Smashing Pumpkins- 120
45. dälek- 119
46. Wolves in the Throne Room- 117
47. Death- 115
47. Squarepusher- 115
49. diSEMBOWELMENT- 114
50. Red House Painters- 112

51. Thomas Köner-107
52. Jesu- 106
52. Atheist- 106
54. Nine Inch Nails- 105
55. Above & Beyond- 104
56. Ulrich Schnauss- 101
57. Devin Townsend- 100
58. Tenhi- 97
58. CunninLynguists- 97
60. Edge of Sanity- 96
61. Eluvium- 94
61. Jóhann Jóhannsson- 94
61. Tiamat- 94
61. Amorphis- 94
61. Lykathea Aflame- 94
61. The Orb- 94
67. Walknut- 93
68. Opeth- 92
68. DJ Shadow- 92
68. Pestilence- 92
68. Negură Bunget- 92
72. Jeru the Damaja- 91
72. Nas- 91
72. Shining- 91
72. Aesop Rock- 91
76. In the Woods...- 90
77. Harold Budd/Brian Eno- 88
78. Smif-N-Wessun- 86
79. Natural Snow Buildings- 81
80. Arcticology- 80
80. Proem- 80
82. Deep Puddle Dynamics- 79
83. Jedi Mind Tricks- 76
83. Ulver- 76
85. Neurosis- 75
86. Dereleech- 74
86. Lifelover- 74
86. Boris- 74
89. Morbid Angel- 73
90. In Flames- 71
90. Radiohead- 71
92. Antonio Vivaldi- 70
93. M83- 69
93. Carbon Based Lifeforms- 69
95. The Flaming Lips- 68
95. Depeche Mode- 68
95. Satyricon- 68
98. Weakling- 66
98. Wu-Tang Clan- 66
100. The Marcia Blaine School for Girls- 65
101. Genelec & Memphis Reigns- 64
102. Fen- 63
102. Blut aus Nord- 63
104. Dolorian 62
104. Elliot Smith- 62
104. Nadja- 62

Albums
1. Boards of Canada- Geogaddi- 283
2. The Prodigy- Music for the Jilted Generation- 251
3. Bethlehem- Sardonischer Untergang Im Zeichen Irrelioser- 249
4. Agalloch- The Mantle- 246
5. Steve Roach- Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces- 243
6. Organized Konfusion- Stress: The Extinction Agenda- 240
7. maudlin of the Well- Leaving Your Body Map- 227
8. Slowdive- Souvlaki- 192
9. Global Communication- 76:14- 166
10. Stendeck- Faces- 162

11. Stars of the Lid- The Tired Sounds of...- 159
12. Sun Kil Moon- April- 157
12. Cannibal Ox- The Cold Vein- 157
14. Warning- Watching From a Distance- 149
15. Bjork- Vespertine- 139
16. Mayhem- De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas- 136
17. OutKast- ATLiens- 120
18. Gorguts- The Erosion of Sanity- 118
19. diSEMBOWELMENT- Transcendence Into the Peripheral- 111
19. Mayhem- Wolf's Lair Abyss- 111
19. Autechre- Amber- 111
22. The Future Sound of London- Lifeforms Disk 1- 109
23. Steve Roach- Dreamtime Return- 107
24. Biosphere- Substrata- 103
25. Harold Budd- The White Arcades- 101

26. Red House Painters- Red House Painters [Rollercoaster]- 100
27. J-Live- The Best Part- 97
27. Tool- Lateralus- 97
29. Air Liquide- The Increased Difficulty of Concentration- 96
30. Ulrich Schnauss- Far Away Trains Passing By- 95
30. Low- I Could Live in Hope- 95
32. Lykathea Aflame- Elvenefris- 94
32. Eluvium- Copia- 94
34. Walknut- Graveforests And Their Shadows- 93
34. dälek- Absence- 93
36. Tiamat- Wildhoney- 92
36. DJ Shadow- Endtroducing...- 92
38. Hypocrisy- The Final Chapter- 91
38. Boards of Canada- Music Has the Right to Children- 91
40. Emperor- Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk- 89
40. Jeru the Damaja- The Sun Rises in the East- 89
42. Enslaved- Below the Lights- 88
42. Nas- Illmatic- 88
44. Tiesto- Magik, Vol. 7: Live in Los Angeles- 87
45. Bathory- Under the Sign of the Black Mark- 84
46. maudlin of the Well- Bath- 83
47. Negură Bunget- Om- 82
48. In the Woods...- HEart of the Ages- 81
49. Deep Puddle Dynamics- The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel- 79
49. Aphex Twin- Drukqs Disk 1- 79

51. Atheist- Unquestionable Presence- 77
51. Deepspace- World Ocean Atlas- 77
51. Smif-N-Wessun- Dah Shinin'- 77
54. Jedi Mind Tricks- Violent By Design- 76
55. Tenhi- Kauan- 75
56. Johann Johannsson- Fordlandia- 74
57. Have a Nice Life- Deathconsciousness- 73
57. Agalloch- Ashes Against the Grain- 73
59. CunninLynguists- Strange Journey Volume One- 70
60. Death- Human- 68
60. Natural Snow Buildings- The Dance of the Moon and the Sun- 68
62. Pestilence- Testimony of the Ancients- 67
63. Wu-Tang Clan- Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)- 66
63. Weakling- Dead as Dreams- 66
65. Amorphis- Tales From the Thousand Lakes- 65
65. Thomas Koner- Nuuk- 65
65. M83- Saturdays=Youth- 65
65. Drudkh- Autumn Aurora- 64
69. Genelec & Memphis Reigns – Scorpion Circles- 64
69. Devin Townsend- Ocean Machine- 64
71. Fen- The Malediction Fields- 63
71. The Orb- The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld Disk 1- 63
73. Have a Nice Life- Voids- 62
74. Burzum- Filosofem- 61
75. Drudkh- Forgotten Legends- 60
75. Arcticology- Eternal Now- 60
75. J-Live- All Of The Above- 60
79. Cryptopsy- Blasphemy Made Flesh- 59
79. The Marcia Blaine School for Girls – Halfway Into The Woods- 59
81. Sodom- Persecution Mania- 58
82. GZA/Genius- Liquid Swords- 57
82. The Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere- Polar Sequences- 57
82. Isis- Wavering Radiant- 57
82. Lifelover- Konkurs- 57
86. Stars of the Lid- Avec Laudenum- 56
87. Proem- Socially Inept- 55
87. Burzum- Det Som Engang Var- 55
87. OutKast- Aquemini- 55
87. Edge of Sanity- Purgatory Afterglow- 55
87. Elliot Smith- Either/Or- 55
93. Isis- Oceanic- 54
93. Jesu- Jesu- 54
95. The Cure- Pornography- 53
95. ColdWorld- Melancholie- 53
95. Terrorizer- World Downfall- 53
98. Enslaved- Blodhemn- 52
98. Massive Attack- Mezzanine- 52
98. Aphex Twin- 52
101. October Tide- Rain Without End- 51
101. Carbon Based Lifeforms- Hydroponic Garden- 51
103. Depeche Mode- Black Celebration- 51
103. Wolves in the Throne Room- 51
103. Robert Rich- Calling Down the Sky- 51
103. Darkthrone- A Blaze in the Northern Sky- 51

jormungand's top albums (overall) 1. Naervaer - Skiftninger (294) 2. Metallica - Death Magnetic (293) 3. Bandista - de te fabula narratur (233) 4. Rammstein - Rosenrot (221) 5. Sentenced - The Funeral Album (214) 6. Mike Oldfield - The Platinum Collection (196) 7. Hande Yener - Nasıl Delirdim (190) 8. Magilum - Kırmızı Kar (183) 9. To/Die/For - All Eternity (178) 10. EverEve - Seasons (176) 11. Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I (172) 12. Orphaned Land - El Norra Alila (171) 13. Ensiferum - Iron (171) 14. Ulver - Kveldssanger (170) 15. System of a Down - Hypnotize (169) 16. Korpiklaani - Tales Along This Road (160) 17. Slagsmålsklubben - Den svenske disco (158) 18. Týr - Eric The Red (151) 19. Kaizers Orchestra - Maestro (150) 20. Infected Mushroom - LEGEND OF THE BLACK SHAWARMA (150) 21. John Broomhall - Transport Tycoon Deluxe MIDI Game Rip (146) 22. Rammstein - Reise Reise (146) 23. Armenian Navy Band - New Apricot (145) 24. Sentenced - The Cold White Light (142) 25. Flight of the Conchords - Issues [2nd Edition] (141) 26. Gåte - Jygri (141) 27. Rammstein - Herzeleid (140) 28. Yasemin Mori - Hayvanlar (138) 29. Rammstein - Sehnsucht (136) 30. Einherjer - Blot (136) 31. Ominous Grief - Nothing in Remembrance (135) 32. Sepultura - Roots (135) 33. Wintersun - Wintersun (133) 34. Laibach - WAT (132) 35. Samael - Reign Of Light (131) 36. Metsatöll - Iivakivi (131) 37. Satyricon - Now, Diabolical (131) 38. Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions (130) 39. Bettie Serveert - Attagirl (129) 40. Laibach - Volk (123) 41. Metallica - Reload (123) 42. Leonard Cohen - Greatest Hits (123) 43. The CNK - L'Hymne A La Joie (122) 44. Novembre - Materia (121) 45. Korpiklaani - Spirit of the Forest (120) 46. Rammstein - Mutter (119) 47. System of a Down - Toxicity (118) 48. Sepultura - Blood Rooted (118) 49. Empyrium - A Retrospective (115) 50. Vreid - Milorg (115)

I WAS THE BEST

fuck all other lists

New cities, new discounts at cool independent stores. Righteous.

*Austin screenings: we've just been held over until 11/30 at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz - 320 E 6th Street - see theater for showtimes. Thanks to all for making this run a success! A special thanks to Charles Salvo and Elisabeth Ruggles, our Austin street team ninjas, and all there who are helping spread the word!
Our friends at Waterloo Records in Austin would like to offer a 20% discount in store on any product by the bands included in the film when the movie goer shows their ticket stub! Offer does not include items already sale priced! See list of bands on their website or in store.
You can also visit Waterloo Records online at WWW.WATERLOORECORDS.COM
Michigan:
Green Brain Comics is offering 25% off the cover price of any one graphic novel in stock with ticket stub from the film. You can find Green Brain Comics at http://www.greenbrain.biz/ and their address is -13210 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn, MI.

Our friends at Record Time in Roseville, MI would like to offer 20% off any one item in stock with a ticket stub from the film! You can also visit Record Time online at http://recordtime.com
Thank you to our wonderful friends at Waterloo Records, Green Brain Comics and Record Time. Way cool. I hope you all will take advantage of this!

* NY release date is Dec 4th at Cinema Village on 12th St. Directors present for Q & A for the opening weekend evening screenings. Tickets for opening night are on sale now: www.cinemavillage.com

*LA run begins Dec 11 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5. Directors will be there for evening Q & A on Dec 11 and 12.
LA facebook group is here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=175110541066&ref=nf

* Tones of Death is throwing a Premier Party on Dec 3rd at Fontanas in NY's Lower East Side.
8 PM – Until the Light Takes Us NYC launch party upstairs
9 PM – Goes Cube - 10 PM – Liturgy - 11 PM – Cable
FREE, 21+...The show is FREE with free beer/beer specials.

20% of poster sales from the show will go to Waggytail Rescue, a
nonprofit rescue taking care of NY's unwanted, abandoned, mistreated and lost small dogs who need new homes.
http://www.waggytailrescue.com/HTML

* Invisible Man limited edition run of shirts to support the film. All ordering info is through their website: http://shop.commissarystores.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=IM16

* Posters are available here: www.blackmetalmovie.com

* Confirmed cities are below, with many more being added very soon. If your city isn't yet listed, please consider calling your local indie theaters and asking if the film is coming there and very very nicely letting them know that there is a community of people who hope it comes - it really does help, as long as it's very polite and concise. People have been doing this - and it IS working! Canada - ditto. ALSO! People have started making Facebook group pages to bring the film to their city. Here are some pages that people have made, feel free to make your own, just invite all your friends and send me the link! You can also do it on myspace. Here are sample pages:

Austin: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=201863395791
Detroit/Grand Rapids: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=169254968841&ref=ts
Massachusetts: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Until-The-Light-Takes-Us-Massachusetts-chapter/302403005203?ref=search&sid=1260305673.1324498103..1
Seattle: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Until-the-Light-Takes-Us-Seattle-chapter/185881722602?ref=nf
Orlando: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=156956003589&ref=ts
Milwaukee: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000511545287&ref=ts
Milwaukee Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/untilthelightmilwaukee

STREET TEAM: Join us!- please send us a NEW EMAIL to untilfilm@gmail.com with your city in the subject line. Thank you very much! Please DO NOT reply to this email.

Distribution efforts continue throughout the world and there is much progress. Stay tuned!

*European Dates, more are currently being confirmed:
Antwerp, Belgium - Nov 25th
Cinema Zuid - www.cinemazuid.be

Cine-City Film Festival - Dec 1st
Brighton, England - www.cine-city.co.uk

US THEATRICAL: Confirmed Cities

New York, NY - starts Dec 4th @ Cinema Village on 12th St.
Austin, TX - starts Nov 20 @ Alamo Ritz, downtown
New Orleans, LA starts Nov 24 @ Zeitgeist
Detroit, MI starts Nov 27 @ Burton Theater
Grand Rapids, MI starts Dec 4 @ Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA)
Providence, RI starts Dec 4 @ Cable Car Cinema
Los Angeles, CA starts Dec 11 @ Laemmle Sunset 5
Houston, TX starts Dec 10 @ Alamo Drafthouse West Oaks
CHICAGO! starts Jan 8 @ the Gene Siskel Film Center - street team, I'm about to send you a separate email - if you're new and want to join - write me!
Denver, CO starts 1/29 @ Starz Theater

Canadian Premiere: Jan 15th, the film will be projected onto a giant ICE SCREEN in Winnipeg. More details TBA.

More cities added all the time.

DVD: We are working on it, no release date yet.

Thank you,
Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites

www.blackmetalmovie.com
mailing list: untilfilm@gmail.com
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Winner of the Golden Athena in the Music and Film Selection, the top documentary award, at the Athens International Film Festival, Sept. 2009 in Athens, Greece.


Update from the UTLTU team.

Until the LIght Takes Us - Houston

Featured bands:

* Burzum
* Darkthrone
* Mayhem
* Ulver
* Satyricon

As a metal listener, I have been trying to get people to pay attention to why I listen to metal -- for most of my adult life. They focus on it being loud, "angry" and possibly antisocial, but never accept that it might have a reason for being that way and I might have a reason for liking it.

Until the Light Takes Us looks into why people make metal, and crosses political and genre lines to show how large corporations, fast food restaurants, religions and socially popular ideas are all the same type of thing, and metalheads have reason to reject it.

By looking into early 1990s black metal, this film explores the thoughts all of us have but are afraid to admit we do. Metal is only the lens, but the topic is a very human one: how do we both get along socially and stay true to ourselves?



See the film at these locations:

AUSTIN, TX
November 21-26 at Alamo Drafthouse Ritz
http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=6922

CHICAGO, IL
Starts January 8 at Siskel Film Center
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/

DENVER, CO
Starts January 29 at Starz Film Center
http://www.denverfilm.org/filmcenter/

DETROIT, MI
November 27 at Burton Theatre
http://www.burtontheatre.com/

GRAND RAPIDS, MI
Starts December 4th at UICA
http://www.uica.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=612

HOUSTON, TX
Starts December 10 at Alamo Drafthouse West Oaks
http://www.drafthouse.com/westoaks/

LOS ANGELES, CA
Starts December 11 at Laemmle's Sunset 5
http://www.laemmle.com/index.php

NEW ORLEANS, LA
November 24-30 at Zeitgest Art Center
http://zeitgeisttheater.wordpress.com/

NEW YORK, NY
Starts December 4th at Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, between University and 5th)
http://www.cinemavillage.com/chc/cv/

PROVIDENCE
Starts December 4th at Cable Car Cinema
http://www.cablecarcinema.com/

Don't see your local theater or city on here?  Call your local alternative theater and request that they show UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US. Be polite, be friendly, and let them know that there's a big audience in the community. You'd be surprised how well it works!

* Until the Light Takes Us
* Last.fm
* MySpace
* YouTube (official trailer)

Featured bands:

* Mayhem
* Emperor
* Burzum
* Darkthrone
* Satyricon
* Ulver
* Boards of Canada

1. What's your favorite song by 15?
Arcturus
Kinetic

2. How did you get into 20?
Amon Amarth
Either from friends or general exploration of viking-ish bands

3. Who is your favorite member in 1?
Carcass
It's gotta be Ken Owen! ever since his appearance at Bloodstock 08

4. What’s your favorite lyric bit by 29?
Devin Townsend
And Music? Well it's JUST ENTERTAINMENT, FOLKS!

5. Have you ever seen 22 live?
DevilDriver
no

6. What's your favorite album from 10?
Immortal
At the Heart of Winter

7. Do you own any merchandise from 3?
Children of Bodom
uh, a flag, a signed limited LP and not much else really.

8. What is a good memory you have of 7?
Septic Flesh
every time I listen to the crushing riff in Sangreal

9. Is there a member of the same age as you in 2?
Moonsorrow
uh, no.

10. When did you first get into 8?
Municipal Waste
At bloodstock, having never heard them before. (I thought they were from the 80s!)

11. Who likes 4 along with you?
Devin Townsend Project
SEAN!

12. Which song did you first hear from 16?
Korpiklaani
Wooden Pints, I think.

13. What song made you fall in love with 5?
Finntroll
Vindfärd / Människopesten. EPIC KEYBOARD

14. Which song do you not like by 18?
In Flames
not so keen on the first 2 albums, but I love every other song they've ever done.

15. Why do you like 14's songs?
Vesania
If Dimmu Borgir weren't dicks, weren't so theatrical, and so much more KVLT and TRVE, then you'd have the makings of a band like Vesania. so much darker and just generally better.

16. Where did you first hear 6?
Behemoth
On my recommended station

17. How long was 19 a band before you liked them?
Strapping Young Lad
They'd already split up, sadly.

18. Does 13 have a song that gives you a bad memory?
Dethklok
Absolutely not.

19. When did you get into 17?
Slayer
Not soon enough! I curse my parents for not playing it to me in the womb.

20. How long have you been into 9?
Kreator
Since Bloodstock, when I got the best black eye of my life in the pit!!

21. If 11 had a concert 300 miles away, would you drive there to see them?
Hypocrisy
no, not only because I don't have a license

22. How many CDs do you own of 12?
Black Label Society
1 - Mafia

23. Does 21 have a song that makes you cry?
Genghis Tron
I'd be too damn confused to cry!

24. Does 27 have a song that makes you happy?
HIM
They all do, in a sort of melancholy tragic gothic romance kinda way.

25. Does 23 have a song that makes you smile?
Bloodbath
that AWESOME riff in Devouring the Feeble!

26. What's the last song you've listened to from 28?
Devin Townsend
I'm listening now, to Deep Peace, from Terria

27. Is there a song by 32 that you've listened to more than 30 times?
Down
Probably Stone the Crow

28. What is a song from 50 that you've only listened to once?
Hawkwind
no

29. Is there a song you are sick of hearing by 24?
Opeth
no! how could I?!

30. What song got you into 40?
Gama Bomb
Bullet Belt

31. What is your favorite single by 25?
Dimmu Borgir
The Serpentine Offering

32. If 49 hated you, what would you do?
Iron Maiden
kill myself for sure

33. What would you say if 42 or one of the members from 42 asked you out?
Exodus
respectfully decline

34. Would you care if 41 had a boyfriend/girlfriend?
Iced Earth
not really

35. Who has the best voice in 46?
Ramones
they all sound the same

36. Do you think 26 is/are good looking?
Dissection
in a strange swedish black metal way

37. How many times have you listened to your favorite song by 36?
Brujeria
Matando Gueros, countless times

38. How many CDs do you own of 30?
Swashbuckle
none

39. Is there a song from 38 that makes you mad?
Entombed
most of them... I'm sure they're doing something right then!

40. Which member from 31 do you want to see go solo? If 31 is only one artist, what would you do if they joined a group?
Graveworm
pah, they should stay as they are

41. What does your favorite song from 48 remind you of?
Eluveitie
they remind me of Burn's Night, when I dressed as Braveheart!

42. Did you hate 43 at first?
Dream Evil
no, i never hated the METOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

43. Does your best friend also listen to 33?
Lamb of God
they all do

44. Do you think your parents would like 37?
Svartsot
actually yes

45. Does 47 have a song that makes you want to dance?
Vomitory
they make me want to crush some skulls!

46. Have you ever seen 34 in person?
Machine Head
sadly not

47. Do you like 44's name?
Satyricon
one of those names that I wish I had thought of

48. Is there someone in 35 that you want to go out with?
Pain
Peter Tagtgren- I would!

49. Do you know anyone that hates 39?
Chimaira
I know alot of people who probably would

50. Have you ever danced to a song from 19?
Strapping Young Lad
All the time, baby