What Is This That Stands Before Me? Heavy Metal And Modernism

A live documentary performance at Monochrome Festival, The Cube Microplex, Bristol, 5 April

Tickets: https://cubecinema.com/programme/even...

Writer and broadcaster John Doran claims that heavy metal is the last true form of mass modernism and traces some of its many revolutionary stages in half a century of cultural invention and reinvention, starting with Black Sabbath in Aston, Birmingham in 1970 and spreading to every corner of the globe, taking in Mayhem, Napalm Death and SunnO))) along the way. Artist-filmmaker Sapphire Goss creates a live visual accompaniment collaged from archive, 8mm and VHS footage to form enigmatic, haunted imagery, and manipulates a spatial sonic soundtrack created from a blend of found sounds, guitar and electronic drones and music referenced, drifting in and out of static, everything coming together to make a unique live cinema experience.