[UPDATE: The Gates of Slumber have canceled this appearance due to family illness.]

Vocalist CT from Arkansas post-sludge outfit Rwake‘s chronicling of the Southern US heavy underground, Slow Southern Steel, will be making its yankee premiere in Brooklyn next weekend at the Knitting Factory on Aug. 13. This, I admit, is old news, so consider this post a reminder or just a note for anyone who might not have seen it the first time. The vigilant souls over at BrooklynVegan are hosting the event, and will be responsible for the carnage that ensues once the free Jager is gone and the kickass doom begins.

Here’s some info copped from the aforementioned:

BrooklynVegan is proud to announce that we will host the exclusive Northeastern screening of Slow Southern Steel at Knitting Factory on Aug. 13! The screening, which will take place at 10PM, will feature FREE Jagermeister (for a limited time) as well as an appearance from the director CT. Then following the film, Knitting Factory will host performances from some of our favorite doom-y bands The Gates of Slumber, Cough, and Earthling. Tickets are on sale (admission includes the movie and the show).

More details here, and here’s a trailer for the film in case you’re not stoked enough for it:

Looks like the upcoming Slow Southern Steel documentary is going to see a DVD release via the till-now vinyl-only I’m Better than Everyone Records. The PR wire has the story:

Coming in 2010: One of the most comprehensive southern metal documentaries in history! Appropriately dubbed Slow Southern Steel, the 80+ minute film is executive produced by Karim Khan (I’m Better than Everyone Records) and directed by Rwake vocalist guitarist CT and David Lipke with the additional and integral assistance of George Hancock, Alix Petrovich and Beer WolfChristian Sweeney (who will be releasing a paperback version of the production) among many others.

Slow Southern Steel peers into the world of true southern metal/doom through live footage and personal interviews; CT‘s devout commitment/knowledge/love of the topic at hand bringing the movie to life in a way few first-time directors can. Said CT about the laborious undertaking: “I knew there were things I could get out of these bands that other film makers could not.” Added Khan, “There’s just something very appealing to me about taking unyielding heavy songs and adding a strong southern element to them.”

At press time, the film was still being shot and thus far, featured bands will include (in alphabetical order): A Hanging, ASG, Baron Grod, Beaten Back to Pure, Beer Wolf, Black Skies, Black Tusk, Blackblood Division, Blood of the Sun, Collapsar, Colossus, Cough, Dark Castle, Deadbird, Dead-I-On, Dixie Witch, Doomsayer, Eyehategod, Flesh Parade, Haarp, Hawg Jaw, HOD, Hope and Suicide, Hostile Apostle, House of Lightning, In the Lurch, Jucifer, Ketea, Khann, Kylesa, Mala Suerte, Music Hates You, Parasytic, Queen Beast, Royal Thunder, Rwake, Seahag, SeaWitch, Sourvein, Speedealer, Spickle, Suplecs, Subrig Destroyer, The Devil and the Sea, The Dumps, The Roller, The Unbeheld, Vessel of the Divine, Weedeater, Withered and Zoroaster.

Slow Southern Steel will make its debut at the renowned Little Rock Film Festival in May of 2010 where many of the bands featured will be in attendance (stay tuned for further details). Additional festival previews will follow.

The DVD edition is slated to be released in 2011 via fast-growing, vinyl-only (and now DVD) Chicago imprint, I’m Better than Everyone Records.