British Black Metal: The Extreme Underground | Full Documentary
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- Tourmaline Films dive into the depths of #UKBlackMetal, covering topics such as WW2, English heritage, spirituality, the Victorian era and natural surroundings among various other topics.
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0:00 Introduction
1:04 The History & Personality of UK Black Metal
3:52 About Eastern Front
6:02 What is Black Metal?
8:53 About Winterfylleth
11:23 Environmental Influence
15:02 About Old Corpse Road
18:19 Live Shows
21:32 Corpse Paint & Visual Appearance
23:30 About Fen
26:35 Progression & Experimentation
29:52 About A Forest of Stars
33:41 British Music & Culture
35:01 Politics & Heritage
The bands covered include Winterfylleth, A Forest of Stars, Old Corpse Road, Fen, Eastern Front, Ethereal and many more.
©2016 Tourmaline Films. All rights reserved. A film by Andy Horry.
If you enjoyed the film you might also want to check out this video about Andy (The creator of the doc) and his journey into spirituality after speaking with these bands.
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I understand if some of these bands are not your cup of tea (British pun intented) but saying they aren't trve black metal is kinda stupid. For me black metal and metal music in general is about freedom of expression. If there are some predetermined rules on how your music should sound then you're not as trve as you think you are.
Well said mate, well said indeed!!!🤘🎸🤘
Well Said Mate , Some People Want to put Boundaries to the Word Extremity what is kind of a Contradiction to me. Love The Documentary and the Bands!!
The main thing about black metal is passion and using your environment in your music. If a band does that they are a black metal band to me
@Arya Calm down edgelord. Black metal is about rebellion, that's it.
@Arya From whatever shit the majority is spouting. It doesn't need to sound like it was recorded in a cave. The only reason the old bands sound that way is because they couldn't afford better because they were teenagers. They were brought up in Christian families, so they rebelled against that and against American death metal.
Was a pleasure to be a part of this production, good to so many friends from the British scene involved too.
I honestly think Bal-Sagoth don't get the credit they truly deserve. Their epic mix of Black, Death and Power Metal was a massive influence on later bands who became really popular with that style such as Children of Bodom.
WTF are you saying? Children of Bodom is a perfect example of the Finish sound that bands like them and Norther have and that was influenced by a pioneer finnish band called Impaled Nazarene (also Finnish). It's crazy how you british people historically take credit for things that you've only robbed like the pirates you have always been.
They were ahead of their times, for sure!
This was a very well done! And actually had a few bands I'd never heard of...which is always good. Keep up the good work!
Myke C-Town I totally agree!
Apologies for the sound being disabled for some of you. UA-cam have mistaken copyright for Gatherer of the Pure by A forest of stars. We have given credit for it and got confirmation to use it from Prophecy Productions so looks like we might just have to wait and see. A copyright dispute is in process.
+Tourmaline Films Woo! The fooking sound is back!!
Thanks for fixing it, UA-cam is ridiculous when it comes to copyright.
What if the viewer can't stand strobe lights because they have photo sensitive eyes?
Tourmaline Films fuck you losers crap metal
I'm impressed by your band. what are they called again?...
Absolutely amazing documentary.
+Grave Bodybag best comment ever
Of course this loser likes the Documentary.
CountBlagorath losers
The quality and variety of facial hair on display here is deeply impressive, as is the entire documentary itself. Some great bands I love such as Winterfylleth and some new ones to explore. Thank you 🤘🏿
Good point well made drumgold! Glad you enjoyed.
This is great! Good job, everyone involved.
Finally! Proper footage of Fen! They're my favourite band in metal today. Thank You so much for this :D
Do you know the song name at 23:30?
I actually got into Fen after watching this documentary (I'm the lad from Old Corpse Road in it) and finally got to do sound for them at the Blackwood Gathering festival. They're proper sound lads and incredible live.
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Many thanks, I'm a few albums deep now though :)@@nivolettaz125
Amazing documentary, the British scene is quite often overlooked due to other countries having much bigger scenes, nice to see UK bands get some spotlight, great work.
Fantastic documentary! Great bands chosen! Brilliant!
Superb film well done to those involved in the making.
I really enjoyed this. I absolutely love hearing about underground metal scenes and hearing from the bands. The underground is the heart & soul of metal.
Really good documentary! Hardly sit and watch a documentary in whole usually, but this thankfully broke that tradition of mine! Some great bands from this country of mine! :D
+Kieran Buckner Glad to hear the film kept you engaged.
This is an exceptional film. Thank you!
This was brilliant, thank you!
Thanks for the upload! I don't believe I've ever heard of Winterfylleth before this documentary. I'm really enjoying listening to their back catalog. Thanks again!
Well done, by the way!
Prime mover!
One of the best documentary films I've seen in awhile. An interview with Andy Marshall would have been nice (because British black metal isn't just English) but overall great job!
Beautifully shot, well structured and great to see so many of my friends and fellow musicians. Excellent job guys.
+Demitri Levantis Thanks for the kind words Demitri!
Great work, really enjoyed this. Hope to see more like this from you.
This is absolutely bloody brilliant!
Glad you enjoyed Adam.
Loved seeing the guy wearing a Primordial shirt
Very well done. Hail British Black Metal!! Much praise from Houston,Texas.
you got me interested in some of these bands. a job well done. thank you!
This was really good and informative. i always love to see the artist´s perspective on such a boundary-less subject such as black metal. very good and congrats on this material. worth to share and to comment with me lads and some guiness hehe.
Discovered Old Corpse Road through this documentary. Amazing band!
if I can't afford to go to Norway I'm going to Britain
@@serenechaosuk4682 aye just wait the tories are now the only ones in power with no opposition
Would love to see a similar documentary about German Black Metal scene, and Canadian too
Great documentary, always come back to watching this every so often. Definitely a look at more of the UK would've been beneficial, but a lot of solid stuff already. Shame a number of these bands haven't released any new material for quite a long time
Great document, being completely new to the British Black Metal scene, that is a lot more bands to check out
Excellent film, really enjoyed that.
I love these documentaries on black metal. It’s fascinating learning about the artists and history behind the music. I really didn’t know there were so many black metal bands in the UK.
Yes, I was inspired by many black metal docs. One man metal and the one by Vice about Gorgoroth were two of my favourites - Andy
Metalheads who like heritage and historical sites? Thought I was the only one. Nothing is more kvlt than a museum.
Kill Everyone you're obviously not much of a 'metal head' if you thought that
Black Waves i think you're daft..or are you to stupid to get it?
Kill Everyone Are you new to metal?
History and Culture were interests of mine well before I was a Metal fan.
cringe
Excellent work - this is a really good insight into the English scene (although as another user noted, there is precious little mention of bands from other countries in the UK!).
It all felt very BBC Four and I appreciated that style.
I also have to say it is a pleasure to hear an interview with Fen. The Watcher is a lot more eloquent than I anticipated for some reason.
I'll be sure to share this around my friends tomorrow.
Great Documentary! Kick Ass work! Thanks for this.
This documentary has inspired me, thank you
Glad to hear it Joseph! show us what you're made of ;)
So far this is the best Black Metal documentary I have ever seen.
Smart and dark, there is something special about this genre. Never thought I'd get into it..
Superb documentation. Well in
UKBM is definitely on the rise. Lots of interesting bands popping up in recent years. You love to see it 🔥
Thank you this awesome documentary @Tourmaline Films now I know a lot more about he Brittish black metal scene
You're welcome!
Black metal is across the world..not by country!! But by history of where you came from , heritage, religion, what ever you view ..its raw and heart felt..and if it's good....its good! Period!! No matter what country your from!!
It was good to see Voices getting some recognition. What a band.
Beautiful documentary!
Glad you enjoyed it. Were any of the featuring bands new to you?
Very underrated metal scene! Fen, Winterfylleth, Wodensthrone, Saor (Alba Gu Brath!), Anaal Nathrakh, Mountains Crave and so much more. All excellent bands! Icelandic or Ukranian BM scene would be amazing. Love these doxes!
Superb documentary.
Just watched an Old Corpse Road video ❤😂
They are now in my top ten bands.
Totally love the dynamic and performance.
I will now go look for a vinyl copy of their record ❤😂
Thank you
Greetings from Western Australia
UK born and bred but living overseas - nice to see whats going on back home. Nicely done.
Excellent film, I love it.
Looks like there are a couple of new bands I will have to be checking out! Great bands coming from Britain!
Black metal has evolved a lot and that's good. I like how many nuances there are.
Amazing documentary!! And amazing bands!! ImI
go on lads. great doc
Awesome job
These musicians music seriously help my anxiety and being a loner which can be super painful at times but sometimes liberating..
Excellent!
about time an in depth look into the british scene
a documentary for ukrainian black metal would be pretty great
Drudkh!!!!!
Nokturnal Mortum!
Moloch
Great doc, great bands. Greets from Finland
What an awesome Black Metal scene in Britain!!!!🤘🎸🎛🤘
Awesomely done discovered new Banda as well🤘🏻😝🤘🏻
Great to hear!
Where are the Scottish bands? Cnoc An Tursa, Saor... Where is Wodensthrone? Where are the Welsh bands? Ghast for example. Might as well call it English black metal with a lot of missing pieces.
Nice to see so many familiar faces in this but would have liked to have seen more about the music and less about cultural hegemony.
To an outsider trying to figure this out it would look silly seeing all this. Eg. "I love nature, therefore I scream my lungs inside out."
There's not much going into why this is the case. For me, it’s way deeper than loving hills and landscapes. That’s purely an aesthetic aide. I was around these bands for some time, it just strikes me a little odd that so much is evidently missing and it’s coming from mostly English bands.
+Marc Hoyland the title is British Black Metal. Way to condemn yourself with such an answer.
+Marc Hoyland have you deleted your comments because you just realised Britain is more than just England?
yea, would like to have seen some of ghast. wodensthrone was *mentioned* :p
+RJSS Sounds It'd have been worth interviewing them. In a lot of ways I feel that Wodensthrone were the precursor to a lot of what is now regarded as English black metal. They're certainly more interesting as people compared to a lot of these...
+Dogma Earthwork well maybe they were busy ... shame whatever the reason :p
Great documentary! Since I'm back in the UK, I'm looking forward to rediscovering the scene here too \M/
Welcome back Paul! Glad you enjoyed the documentary.
That was a good watch to be honest, whilst not being OVERLY informative to those who already know of the scene, but it certainly highlights how the UK BM scene does strive to not be categorized as "2nd wave worship" for example, or how elements as simple as the setting for these lyrical tales like landscape really do add to the essence of the atmosphere that the bands attempt to portray.....in short, I enjoyed this, just a shame it wasn't a longer cut
Do you know if you can get the sound back on?
whats the name of the winterfylleth song at 32:44?
btw, so much great music i had no idea existed, as a swede im entrenched in the "classic" BM scene like so many others, but this was a delight to watch with new experiences, thanks for the new music experiences :D
the song is called: the swart raven
Yas, dude has my Agalloch shirt.
I loved Cradle of Filth and Bal Sagoth in my younger years.
I am 66 , I grew up in the 60s , 70s .
You Really Got Me by the Kinks was considered a " hard rock " song at the time , and it was . Heiter Skelter by the Beatles was considered a precursor to heavy metal at the time and it was pretty heavy .
I guess I'm saying that I grew up seeing the development of this genre of music .
I totally love this style of music.
The thrash of Metallica , the heavy melody of Iron Maiden through to Cradle of Filth and the almost meditative yet deep heaviness of SunOOO .
This style of music covers the globe .
Like rap one can find metal communities in Japan , India , Malaysia , even underground communities in Middle Eastern countries . Some countries make it dangerous to the point of imprisonment to be associated with metal music .
If you search UA-cam or the internet it can be such an eye opener to see how far metal music has spread around the world , and into places where you would not believe it would take root and grow.
I love all genres of metal from punk to black metal and all points in between so good on you for bringing this documentary to me .❤😂
Greetings from Western Australia
Glad the documentary found you!
6:03 Nice BattleVest! 😌🤘
Black metal is not about fashion.. is about passion..🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥☠️☠️☠️
Interesting documentary
Great documentary, if a bit short.
Great documentary that only really scratches the surface of the underground UKBM scene. But I guess how much can you cram into 40 minutes?
Excellent stuff.
Love when UA-cam translates english titles to german...
It turned "underground" into "subway" xD
A heady mix of severe infantalism and hilarious pretention...makes this stuff a joy.
For me Self-Inflicted Violence and Fen are definitely the best bsnds from UK. I 'm their fan since 2007.
"Heritage Sites" So many shots of Kirkstall Abbey :P
That's what you get with low budget documentaries haha
I'd like to remind everyone where venom came from ! without venom that word "black metal" might not exist
Venom is borderline blackmetal at its coldest but its really still just a hair band.
@@quorthonsinferno5119 yea I’m just referring to giving birth to the genre name “black metal “ but they were definitely more thrash / punk sounding
@@Wufei22 Indeed. For me its also the imagery of the material. Venom era hadn't developed that texture or ambiance and its always been hard for me to appreciate them under the context of black metal
@@quorthonsinferno5119 that’s fine and I respect your opinion but it’s just fact they created that word “ black metal “
@@Wufei22 But they didn't _define_ it.
Job well done.
Is there a link where there's a compiled list of British bands with the same themes based on heritage and history? If the scene has really gotten as big as they say it has then there shouldn't be a problem finding the good ones and perhaps some of the more obscure and upcoming bands. I've only found a handful but more would be nice. Cheers!
Here's a good list
www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=524
And Kerrang also did a decent article about British Black Metal
www.kerrang.com/15874/british-black-metal-rules-right-now/
@@NonsensicalReality the links have expired now, do you have any more?
I really like old corpse road especially the most recent album of campfires and evening mists.
Voices are so Good.....
I was a "stage prop" for Thus Defiled ( Not on this vid ?? ! ) twice ! Camden Underworld ( with Bal Sagoth ) and Braindead club theres a vid on youtobe somewhere ! . Lost all arm hair when Nick , the drummer did his flame spitting ...... Good times (?) LMAO Been a British Black Metal fan for over 20 years !
Great uk b.m documentary.
what's the last acoustic song which plays at the end? Regards
+Michelle Yucel That would be Heathen Deity - Cornu (The Sign of the Horns)
+Michelle Yucel Thanks for noticing those acoustic tracks. That EP is long out of print but you can grab the download for free right here: mirkwoodproductions.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-glory-of-satan-walpergisnacht
Back then I only knew Bal Sagoth(band), Misanthropy rec and blackend double cd compilations 1and 2.
that song on the end credits which band is it?
First song by Infernal Sea, second by Slaughter Throne.
What is the band/song playing during the ending credits?
The first song is Tannis Root by The Infernal Sea and the other song after that is Wrath of an Ancient Darkness by Slaughter Throne.
+PS3GuitarMan Thank you!
"Atmosphere is the key element of black metal in general"
Excellent documentary, would definetly like to see more!
I've been really surprised as someone who doesn't traditionally listens to much Black metal I'm really digging 95% of all the bands in the Documentary, anyone know any track names at all?
+Justin Laidlaw There are a bunch of them listed in the credits that were featured in the film you could start with.
good shit
any good BM or just extreme music in general in the Sheffield area? I may be visiting & would love to check out a show or just bullshit with people about "our" music if and when I'm there
+cavewormetalparty Forneus are Sheffield based.
My favourite documentary to date, introduced me to some new bands too, very well shot and produced; quick question for anyone...what was the acoustic piece around 34-35mins?
Thank you, great to hear you enjoyed the film that much. There are two acoustic tracks mixed together in the film. One is called Cornu (The sign of the Horns) and the other Esoteric Eventide both by Heathen Deity. The EP featuring these tracks can be downloaded for free via this link. mirkwoodproductions.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-glory-of-satan-walpergisnacht
Found this again 7years later, might I say Andy, it still holds up and would love a re-visit or a quick mini film on the genre today! - Jay Mason
''Britannia Infernus - A History Of British Occult and Black Metal'' (VA compilation) - Godreah Records. The actual bands that made British Black Metal stand up for decades.
good doc
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un gran aporte para la escena mundial del metal en este caso black metal, seria muy ideal incorporar subtitulos para los que no entendemos ni hablamos ingles y estamos en el lado metalero sudamericano ImI felicidades ImI
really good documentary; thank you. back in the day . . . peaking on psilocybin, listening to Grand Funk Railroad . . . guess that dates me; but it's the same . . . pity you can't score good psilocybin and pure acid anymore.