Being a black metal fan for years, I watched before most of the documentaries around this subject. It is nice to find same music references of some of my friends through the movie. You can hear Brad remembering the importance of BATHORY or IMPALED NAZARENE while wearing EMPEROR or XASTHUR's t-shirts. Not so nice would be to imagine the future of some of my friends as they are already doing drugs while playing \ listening to this kind of music. Besides that this is a full blown discharge of misanthropy, nihilism and Satanism in your face. Besides the musical thing I think the movie shows a lot of real aspects of addicted persons. It is incredible how accurate those kind of dysfunctional family (child abuse and father's suicide) usually ends in hard drug addiction. Interesting enough is that at some point Raven claims to have a skin parasite. This is actually a very common psychotic symptom among crack cocaine abuse. A delusional dermatozoic parasitosis (AKA Ekbom syndrome), although not as serious as the one seen on the 10\10 documentary "Last Days Here" on PENTAGRAM's singer Bobby Liebling (Don Argott & Demien Fenton 2011). Other interesting psychiatric issues are the sociopathic behavior, the suicide attempts, the lustful sexual drive and of course the whole medications cited in the movie (SEROQUEL, TEGRETOL, TRAZODONE, XANAX, FENTANYL, OXYCODONE). Clinically speaking I found very weird the diagnosis of Legionnaire's disease on Brad's mother. Even without knowing she died shortly after the end of the shooting, and just by the facial muscle wasting she presented, I would guess she was on HAART treatment for HIV instead. Finally I would like to congratulate the director and producer. It was my first Lucifer Valentine's movie but it was a good start! OK, it's not easy to get into the sound editing style, but after a while you get used. Avoiding cliché black metal band OST was an excellent idea, that shows the purposeless side of this kind of bands. Unfortunately I think the movie got a little bit repetitive and sentimental in the end, with Brad's mother crying and stuff. If it wasn't for that I would gave this movie a 10\10.
Review of Black Metal Veins
