Synapse Knowledge | What Is This That Stands Before Me? Heavy Metal And Modernism: John Doran & Sapphire Goss

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Documentary audio-visual performance tracing the evolution of heavy metal

Writer, editor and broadcaster John Doran (The Quietus, The Guardian, BBC) 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.

The project debuted in April at the Cube in Bristol as part of the Monochrome Festival, in May it was presented at Berlin's Desertfest and at the end 

Artist-filmmaker Sapphire Goss creates a live visual accompaniment collaged from archive, 8mm and VHS footage to form enigmatic and haunted imagery. The soundtrack is a unique live mix of music specially created for the evening by Norwegian art rock group Årabrot, Mark Pilkington of Strange Attractor Press & electronic artist Ghost Writer.

The lecture is part of Synapse Knowledge 2024 and will take place at MeetFactory on Sunday, June 23 before the show of Chelsea Wolfe.

Entry:
free for the holders of tickets for Chelsea Wolfe's concert
separately for 150 CZK in pre-sale via MeetFactory & GoOut