Presented by IU Arts and Humanities Council Black Metal Fest 2024

Black metal is extreme music: fast tempos, heavy guitar, screeching vocals - it's not usually thought of as everyday, easy listening., that’s for sure. Black metal got its start in 1990s Scandinavia and was associated with church burnings, Satanism, and acts of extreme violence. But those days are now largely (though not completely) over, and black metal musicians are increasingly singing in favor of environmental causes, social justice, and anti-racism, especially here in the United States. Black metal is still noisy and aggressive and sometimes it is also pretty bleak. But black metal might just be for you. So come see what all the noise is about. Everyone (except the fascists) is welcome.

Fell Ruin is based in Detroit, MI. Since its conception in 2014, the band has created an ever evolving metal soundscape of dark, cathartic storytelling. A grand, shadow vessel navigating through obscurity and provocatively into the sonic fray. Transmuting elements of black and death metal, progressive metal and avant-garde doom. Their latest album is Cast In Oil The Dressed Wrought.

Eudaemon plays psyche-freakout ethereal black metal. Sounds of the slow collapse of abandoned buildings in darkness and light. Formed in isolation in 2020, first sounds in 2021. They’re from Minneapolis, MN, and their latest recording is Inhuman Flourishing.