Murder Music Black Metal

The main themes of Murder Music are the musical origins of black metal from Birmingham UK hard rock group Black Sabbath to Newcastle extreme metal pioneers Venom the antiChristian sentiment of its practitioners the controversies surrounding the criminal acts arson and murder of the early Norwegian scene and the paradox of a Christian form of black metal represented by Scandinavian band Frosthardr The 64minute documentary eschews much of the tabloid sensationalism that shrouded the genre in the early to mid90s focusing instead on the music itself an element thus far overlooked by the mainstream media