Before Afro-Punk integrated the alternative music-sphere -- winning critical respect and hipster cache’ -- there was a little known Black rock band that struggled against cultural stereotyping and the narrow confines of commercial radio. They are THE VELDT… a rock band like no other.

Depending on, who, you ask, they were either the greatest band to never make it or they were a naively ambitious musical outfit who never had a chance in the first place. A cynic might speculate about their provenance. Were they a “punk-funk experiment” or a “Novelty act”? Hell, maybe just a “record label brain fart.” Actually, none apply.

So, what happened…? How did twin brothers from a broken home defy all conventional wisdom and start a influential rock band, get a major record deal, become indie-rock darlings, but then by some happenstance they’re written off, forgotten; only to be re-discovered then forgotten all over again? Why did commercial success elude them? Is the indie-rock scene more racist than it knows or willing to admit? Or could it have been their own dysfunctions holding them back? Or maybe, just maybe, they were too far ahead of their time?

Peabody award-winning filmmaker Todd L. Williams attempts to answer these questions and more in a feature-length documentary, UNTIL FOREVER. The film chronicles the Chavis bros. formative years in a broken, dysfunctional household through their meteoric rise, eventual demise and now their potential resurrection.

UNTIL FORVER features interviews with the Chavis bros., family members, former band-mates, managers, publicists, producers, as well other influential musicians: Lenny Kravitz, Vernon Reid (Living Color), Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), Nile Rodgers, Chuck D, Billy Cox (Hendrix Bass Player), Tunde Adebimpe (TV on the Radio), Chuck Berry, Ron Isley (The Isley Brothers), and many others