Twilight Actor To Star As Infamous Black Metal Killer Varg Vikernes.
A star from the teeny Vampire flick is to star as the former Burzum frontman.
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In the last two decades a bizarre and violent musical subculture called Black Metal has emerged in Norway. It has its roots in a heady blend of splatter movies, heavy metal music, Satanism, Pagan mythology and adolescent angst. In the early-mid 1990’s, members of this extremist underground committed murder, burned down medieval wooden churches, and desecrated graveyards. What started as juvenile frenzy came to symbolize the start of a war against Christianity, a return to the worship of the ancient Norse gods, and the complete rejection of mainstream society.
American documentary photographer Peter Beste has spent the last eight years working in the milieu of this insulated and secretive community. Beste’s access and insight into this community has been without precedent, resulting in an amazing photographic journey. Beste has earned the respect and trust of this impenetrable, suspicious and often elitist society. True Norwegian Black Metal is a visual testimonial to this subculture. Peter Beste and editor Johan Kugelberg have created a unique photographic narrative that explores black metal from a truly visceral perspective.
The book will include 126 Norwegian Black Metal Photographs; an introduction by Metalion of Slayer Magazine; Essays by Editor Johan Kugelberg and Peter Beste; 3 Panel foldout black metal time line by Tara G Warrior; 32 page section of old black metal ephemera including rare and obscure photographs, flyers, letters, and interviews.
Regular hardcover edition can be purchased for $38.40 on Amazon.
Check out more of Peter’s photography on his website or his MySpace.
Time has long history of running cover stories designed to whip up artificial frenzies. The hood on this Satanist has some nice embroidery on it.
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This Sunday, November 16, 2008, at 11.30pm, Swiss national TV station SF1 will premiere the first full-length documentary film shot about celebrated and controversial Swiss extreme metal group Celtic Frost.
“Celtic Frost – A Dying God” was directed by Swiss journalist and documentary filmmaker Adrian Winkler, whose team followed Celtic Frost for two years on the road during the group’s final undertaking, the “Monotheist” Tour, in 2006 and 2007. Winkler captured Celtic Frost across Europe, Japan, and the United States, as well as at the Wacken and Hole In The Sky festivals. In addition, the documentary features dedicated interviews with the group’s members.
Wiinkler: “The film documents Celtic Frost striving to do justice to their own legendary reputation. It is an emotional journey, capturing, among other things, the band members facing their own, dark past.”
SF1 will re-broadcast the documentary on November 23, 2008, at 5.30am.
Website of Swiss national TV station SF1 on the documentary: Celtic Frost – A Dying God
It seems there is plenty of movement in the world of Giger and video because the following DVD H.R. Giger’s Sanctuary is now available for sale.
H.R. Giger’s Sanctuary explores the treasures of the H.R. Giger Museum & Giger Bar at the Chateau St. Germain in beautiful Gruyeres, Switzerland. The documentary features an interview and a museum tour with the master of the airbrush, the inventor of ‘biomechanics’, and the creator of the Academy Award winning ‘Alien’. The artist talks openly about his fascination with the morbid, his fame and cult following, his fears and nightmares, and about his visions of the future.
Specifications:
- Running time of short film: 19 minutes
- Anamorphic widescreen
- Stereo sound
- German language
- English subtitles
Over 20 minutes of Special Features:
- Deleted Scenes
- Analysis of “The Spell”
- Trailers
- Museum Visitors
- Gallery
- An Evening with Giger
DVD is code-free, playable all over the world! To purchase, click here.
Tired of the same old Goth chicks? Wanna take it a little more extreme? Then this wild photo shoot of the Black Metal Barbies starring Betina Kafer & Sophie Rutenberg might be more up your (dark) alley!
The latest Agent Provocateur campaign has arrived and typically it’s as provocative as ever. Past stars of their campaigns have included Kate Moss and former Blackbook cover girl Maggie Gyllenhaal. But the label’s latest just might take the cake for both vampiest and most likely to seduce. The series, entitled ‘Tableaux Vivants’, looks a bit like Caravaggio meets campy B-horror flick at a high-fashion orgy. And not only that. The campaign stars up-and-coming it-girls/rock scions Peaches Geldof and Daisy Lowe. If the lace, latex thigh-highs, and whips don’t get you drooling, you may be already dry.
Named after George A. Romero’s film Season of the Witch. The film, made in 1971, tells of the misadventures of a housewife who breaks the monotony of her life by entering the world of witchcraft. (as you do!) Agent Provocateur have focused on the erotic side of the film.
The media attention it’s attracting, along with the amazing photos, guarantees new success for Agent Provocateur, who remain true to their principles submerging us in an erotic vampire world.
Friggn sensational! Check it all out after the jump…
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My first foray into the world of H.R. Giger happened in 1985. A good friend of mine who went under the affectionate monicker of ‘Mick The Wiz’, (due to his dabbling in all things that go bump in the night and his fondness for Aleister Crowley) – bought for my birthday Giger’s Necronomicon II book.
I remember turning the pages of that book and literally being blown to hell at the sheer majesty and darkness at the artwork before me. It was all so spellbinding and mezmerising. I had never seen anything like that and still to this day, Giger is unparalleled.
Having been a fan all these years, two years ago I approached Giger’s manager with an offer to re-do the official Giger website. I was shocked when I got a response from his manager Les Barany who had looked over some of my work and was to speak to Giger about us working together on a new site.
After some emails back and forth… it didn’t all pan out and the same (horrid) site remained, but I felt I had come close to working with one of my heroes. Heck, I would do the site for free if need be because just to be working for someone so artistically dark and amazing – would have been a dream come true.
But I digress. (I do that alot!)
There is a new documentary titled ‘H.R. Giger Revealed’.
Whether it’s Ridley Scott’s award-winning Alien (based on his work Necronom IV) or the artwork for Debbie Harry’s solo album, Celtic Frost’s albums or the obscenity-lawsuit attracting cover for the Dead Kennedy’s Frankenchrist, we have all at one time or another been exposed to the dark and wonderfully twisted world of Swiss painter, sculptor and set designer Hans Ruedi Giger.
Documentary director David Jahn started work as an assistant at Giger’s studio in Zürich in 2000. After his departure back to the Czech Republic he co-operated with Giger as an initiator and consultee of the Prague exhibition which took place 14th April – 13th September 2005 at the National Technical Museum.
Jahn proposed to Giger to produce a DVD that would map his work and current life. The shoot took place at Giger’s studio in Zürich and in Gruyéres, where the H.R. Giger museum and bar is located.
Footage includes an interview with Austrian artist Ernst Fuchs, Debbie Harry (Blondie) recounting how their collaboration came about, Ridley Scott’s candid description of the moment he saw Necronomicon and realised his search for the perfect ‘Alien’ had ended and numerous interviews with fellow artists at the openings of his Paris and Prague exhibitions.
Initially his monochromatic canvasses depicting surreal, nightmarish dreamscapes (often displaying fetishistic, sexual imagery which have garnered him a large following in the gothic, occult and dark-burlesque scenes) were predominantly created by airbrush whereas later work has been created using markers, ink and pastel colours. His most distinctive stylistic innovation is that of a representation of human bodies and machines in a cold, interconnected relationship described as biomechanical. Often the result of visions he has had through the sleep disorder known as night-terrors, it is no wonder that film makers from the darker end of the spectrum (Alien, Dune, Poltergeist II, Species) have so often sought to collaborate with him when looking to achieve their vision.
The authors do not avoid the particular developmental periods of Giger’s work, however, the main purpose was not to create the artist’s biography. What they have achieved is an authentic perspective on the peculiar world of this ground breaking Swiss artist.
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