The minute Big Love record store in Harajuku, Tokyo is plastered with posters of Danish noise-punk bands and hanging from the ceiling is a football scarf emblazoned with the name of the Copenhagen-based label recognized with nurturing primal talent, Posh Isolation. Taped to the grubby white walls is the line-up of the turbulent two-day festival 13 Torches for a Burn, held earlier this year in Los Angeles to celebrate five years of the label, co-founded by Loke Rahbek, then 16 years old.

Indicative of the global reach of the raw, relentless Nordic energy, is Brooklyn filmmaker Jacqueline Castel’s visceral documentation of the festival, which acts as a visual parallel, inspired as much by perception-altering migraine hallucinations to the performances including vitriol-spitting foursome, Iceage and Rahbek’s own band Lust For Youth—signed to fellow experimental bastion, Sacred Bones Records—and Girlseeker.  

“Citing migraines was something I was experiencing from a pretty young age, when your vision would suddenly be cascading in front of you, almost like your brain was a computer chip being reprogrammed,” explains Castel, whose surreal music visuals include collaborations with Pharmakon, Jim Jarmusch & Jozef Van Wissem, and Zola Jesus. “You want to try and do something interesting with live performance. It’s like those moments where I would have a flash of blinding light without any forewarning and it’s something that has influenced my approach.”

Iceage's Plowing Into The Field Of Love is available now on Matador.