PhilaMOCA hosts the Philly Premiere of the new documentary on Gilead Media, A WANDERING PATH! Filmmaker in attendance plus post-screening live performances from Morgul Blade and Cowardice!

Adam Bartlett started Gilead Media in 2005. His first releases were small runs of LPs and CDs, that he did for his own band and his friends’ bands, but fast forward to the present, he now runs a celebrated underground label that is renowned internationally for putting out black metal, doom, and noise rock releases of well-known bands. He and his business partner, Dave Adelson, from the record label, 20 Buck Spin, put on Migration Fest every two years where heavy music fans from around the world come together to perform, hang out, and create strong personal bonds.

Through live performances, interviews, and behind the scenes hangouts, we meet the artists behind the music, learn how they write and perform music as a means to cope with issues such as sexual abuse, depression, childhood indoctrination of Christianity, and grief from loss of loved ones. A Wandering Path, features appearances from members of Panopticon, Couch Slut, A Scanner Darkly, Mizmor, Thou, Emma Ruth Rundle, Krallice, Inter Arma, Neurosis, Enslaved, His Hero is Gone, Yellow Eyes, Mania, Leech, Blood Incantation, Fell Voices, Mutilation Rites, Wiegedood, Fórn, and Pyrolatrous.

Excerpt from the director -“The family of bands and friends that Adam Bartlett put together through his label is very special to me, and the decade that I spent touring around the world with Mutilation Rites, that allowed me to make all these personal connections to people in this scene was a very important part of my life. I knew this era of my life was coming to a close as the inevitable split of the band was imminent, so I seized this opportunity to capture this moment in time before it passed us all by. Other documentaries I have worked on primarily were comprised of interviews of people talking about the old days. I wanted to instead capture the moment fresh as it was happening. I knew I had access to this world through Adam and the bands and I felt an overwhelming desire to direct this film. Through this process, I connected with a whole new group of people that I did not know so well initially, and that was the most rewarding part of this whole experience.”

Morgul Blade:

https://morgulblade.bandcamp.com/album/fell-sorcery-abounds

https://www.instagram.com/morgul_blade_hm

Cowardice:

https://cowardicedoom.bandcamp.com/album/fealty

https://www.instagram.com/cowardice.official

All ages

    

No Covid-19 entry requirements

A WANDERING PATH (Gilead Media doc) w/ Morgul Blade + Cowardice

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