South of Chile, if not heaven, a trio of twenty-something women have formed a black metal band, Invoking Yell, and taken to the woods to record their first album. They decide that to capture their sound, they need to find psicofonias, quite literally the voices of dead children killed in a schoolbus accident, inside the forest. While they film their recording, things go wrong. Or right.
Directed by Patricio Valladares, who co-wrote this with Barry Keating, this brings back one of the ideas in their movie Embryo and has a music video in the woods that slowly unravels. It starts with a quote from Maximiliano Sánchez Mondaca, which claims that while the rise of black metal around the world led to more bands trying to record their own music, it also brought about more Satanic rites, vandalism and murder.
Andrea (María Jesús Marcone), Tania (Macarena Carrere) and Ruth (Andrea Ozuljevich) are now in the same conundrum that artists like Snorre Westvold Ruch, Varg Vikernes, Euronymous, Samoth, Jorn Inge Tunsberg, Faust, Dead and Andreas "C. H. Surt" Kirchner, Sebastian "Dark Mark Doom" Schauseil and Ronald "Wolf" Möbus of Absurd - named for, yes, the George Eastman movie - found themselves in. How long can you pretend to be amoral and evil before you have to prove it for real?
A movie that claims to be found footage from Ruth's video camera as the women recorded in 1997, this finds Tania and Ruth enjoying their time in the woods - drugs and drinks are had by all - while Angela seems devoted to reaching true kvlt status and following up on her goal of having music bringing suffering.
There's plenty of enjoy here, as you learn how the women want to break out of just being used for their bodies and need to establish their own music. To stand out in a scene where church burning, suicide and seld-mutilation is the norm, however, they're going to have to go too far to make that happen.
Chile is also known for its extreme music with nearly three thousand bands listed on Encyclopaedia Metallum as proof. There's Skullshredder, Desecrator and Negro from Slaughtbbath, as well as Ecologist, Invocation Spells, Sol Sistere, Death Yell and many more. Just check out this Spotify list.
The moments of the girls talking about who is true and who isn't may seem silly, but Euronymous used to be quoted saying stuff like, "I would rather sit at home and cut myself than go to parties." and that he would only sign evil bands to his label, Deathlike Silence.
Beyond the music, I think that any fan of found footage will enjoy this, even if you don't have an opinion on Immortal being better with or without Abbath.
Directed by Patricio Valladares, who co-wrote this with Barry Keating, this brings back one of the ideas in their movie Embryo and has a music video in the woods that slowly unravels. It starts with a quote from Maximiliano Sánchez Mondaca, which claims that while the rise of black metal around the world led to more bands trying to record their own music, it also brought about more Satanic rites, vandalism and murder.
Andrea (María Jesús Marcone), Tania (Macarena Carrere) and Ruth (Andrea Ozuljevich) are now in the same conundrum that artists like Snorre Westvold Ruch, Varg Vikernes, Euronymous, Samoth, Jorn Inge Tunsberg, Faust, Dead and Andreas "C. H. Surt" Kirchner, Sebastian "Dark Mark Doom" Schauseil and Ronald "Wolf" Möbus of Absurd - named for, yes, the George Eastman movie - found themselves in. How long can you pretend to be amoral and evil before you have to prove it for real?
A movie that claims to be found footage from Ruth's video camera as the women recorded in 1997, this finds Tania and Ruth enjoying their time in the woods - drugs and drinks are had by all - while Angela seems devoted to reaching true kvlt status and following up on her goal of having music bringing suffering.
There's plenty of enjoy here, as you learn how the women want to break out of just being used for their bodies and need to establish their own music. To stand out in a scene where church burning, suicide and seld-mutilation is the norm, however, they're going to have to go too far to make that happen.
Chile is also known for its extreme music with nearly three thousand bands listed on Encyclopaedia Metallum as proof. There's Skullshredder, Desecrator and Negro from Slaughtbbath, as well as Ecologist, Invocation Spells, Sol Sistere, Death Yell and many more. Just check out this Spotify list.
The moments of the girls talking about who is true and who isn't may seem silly, but Euronymous used to be quoted saying stuff like, "I would rather sit at home and cut myself than go to parties." and that he would only sign evil bands to his label, Deathlike Silence.
Beyond the music, I think that any fan of found footage will enjoy this, even if you don't have an opinion on Immortal being better with or without Abbath.
