For their first major non-album project, KTL -- an extreme electronic/black metal band that features Sunn O))) member Stephen O'Malley (guitar,effects) and Pita's Peter Rehberg (computer noise) -- have created a new soundtrack for the 1920 silent film "The Phantom Carriage." A DVD of the movie and new music will be released on Tartan Video throughout Europe on November 12. There are currently no plans to release the movie in North America. The DVD will be released in PAL format, though it may be encoded for Region 2 as well. Art work for the DVD was created by O'Malley and the package features liner notes by eccentric animators The Brothers Quay.
KTL formed in February 2006 after O'Malley and Rehberg worked together on the soundtrack of a bizarre theatrical production of Gisele Vienne and Dennis Cooper's "Kindertotenlieder." Later that year, they released their self titled debut. 2 Followed earlier this year.The duo are currently in Germany in the middle of a world tour that lasts through November 18 in Aalst, Belgium.
"The Phantom Carriage" was shot and directed by Swedish filmmaker victor Sjöström (who inspired Ingmar Bergman’s to become a director) and revolves around a legend about the last person to die each year. If he was a sinner, the story goes, he would have to spend the next year driving the Phantom Chariot and picks up the souls of the dead (which, to us, seems like an easier gig than driving Slipknot's tour bus). The original movie was based on a novel by Selma Lagerlö.
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