#heavy metal documentary

[anyahita]

Global Metal (2008)

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[adriheavymetal]

It's the greatest love of my life and it means freedom to me 🤘💯💀🔝🎼 #mylife #metalheadforever #heavymetalisthelaw #80smetalforever

#repost @bangersbrasil

Trecho extraído do documentário “Heavy Metal - Louder Than Life” de 2006.

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On September 10, 1988, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years was screened at the Toronto Film Festival.

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The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years was released on June 3, 1988.

#TheDeclineofWesternCivilizationPartIITheMetalYears

#Documentary #Music #HeavyMetal #HardRock

[randomrichards]

THE NINE LIVES OF OZZY OSBOURNE:

Factory worker

Gave the world heavy metal

Ups and downs of fame

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April 21st 2009 Iron Maiden's Flight 666 documentary was released.

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The Decline of Western Civilization Part II - The Metal Years

The title says it all

[sp00ky-p00ky]

I just got done watching this... if you love thrash metal, you'll love this 🤘🖤🎶

Lots of interviews, pictures/video/audio of shows 🥰 and so many cool bands!! 💜

[eye-of-the-purricane]

Why metalheads are happier people

documentary short, DW Culture (2022)

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Dio: Dreamers Never Die’ on Showtime, an Enthusiastic Documentary Celebration of Heavy Metal’s Greatest Singer

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Dio: Dreamers Never Die’ on Showtime, an Enthusiastic Documentary Celebration of Heavy Metal’s Greatest Singer

Dio: Dreamers Never Die (now on Showtime) is the long-awaited documentary concerning the best heavy steel singer who ever was or will likely be. Sorry Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson, Ozzy Osbourne and King Diamond – Ronnie James Dio had lungs like no different, and you recognize it. Directors Don Argott and Demian Fenton – the duo behind one other seminal heavy steel doc, Last Days Here, concerning…

[swampflix]

Podcast #222: Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986) & Metalhead Documentaries

Welcome to Episode #221 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Hanna, James, Britnee and Brandon discuss a grab bag of documentaries about metalheads, starting with the anthropological Judas Priest fan doc Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986). 00:00 Welcome02:45 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)06:00 Baby Cat (2023)11:41 Hearts of Darkness – A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991)17:22 Tokyo Pop…

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[adriheavymetal]

#watchingthis #yesterday #diodreamersneverdie #primevideo ok not gonna lie I got emotional watching this...💯🎤🎼🤘🤘 😭🎤🤘 🎸🎼🎤🤘❤🎼

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On October 15, 2015, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: the Metal Years and Heavy Metal were screened as a double-feature on TCM Underground.

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Documentary Reviews: Nothin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of 80s Hair Metal / BOOM! A Film About The Sonics

This week I got to review 2 different types of documentaries: a doc mini-series and an indie doc that is finally getting released a few years after it's festival premiere:

Nothin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of 80s Hair Metal

I have to say, I've been digging the recent music documentaries on Paramount+. Notably, the recent doc mini-series Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza looked back at the alt-rock music festival. Best of all is that Paramount+ is able to pull footage from MTV News since MTV is a part of Paramount. So now a new 3-part music documentary mini-series has dropped this week, Nothin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of 80s Hair Metal. Based on the 2021 book of the same name written by Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock (he co-wrote the companion book Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, which I'm a fan of), this doc is a deep dive into 1980s hair metal. The main emphasis is on L.A. and the Sunset Strip scene, but there is a few bands from outside L.A. featured as well. The give a segment to each band and then there is intersecting of bands at various points thereafter. Just some of the bands covered include Motley Crue, Poison, Ratt, Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Extreme, Skid Row, Vixen, and Trixter among others. There are a lot of talking head interviewees and some of the anecdotes get animated sequences to emphasize the absurdity of some of the stories.

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When I was a kid I got into metal and as a teen I was a metalhead for a while. Early tapes I owned included Twister Sister and Motley Crue. As I got older, my musical tastes evolved and some of the hair metal I was into earlier seemed ridiculous in contrast with alt rock, which seemed to have something more meaningful to say. Now as a grown up, I can look back at hair metal and realize some of it, even if it was completely over the stop, was fun and some of their songs were melodic and catchy. I've always had a special place for some of these bands. In the case of Boston's Extreme I was a big fan after discovering them on V66 as a kid I was thrilled to interview some of the members for my documentary Life on the V: The Story of V66. This doc features their guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, recounting many tales. Some of these bands didn't look at themselves as hair metal, they actually wanted to be long lasting and alas then metal got wiped out by grunge and many of the bands were dropped, broke up, or imploded. I thought it was cool they had other interviewees like director Penelope Spheeris, Steve-O, and Riki Rachtman too. As a fan who remembered that scene and was fond of the scene, I dug this doc series. But it could be that I'm too close to it to be able to judge this as a documentary and clearly say how good or comprehensive it was. They definitely hit a lot of the bands and touchstone moments of that era, but I do wish they had maybe discussed MTV's Headbanger's Ball, metal press (RIP, Circus, Hit Parader, or Metal Edge) and some of the tragedies of the scene (Steve Clark of Def Leppard comes to mind). They briefly touched upon female artists like Vixen, but I think there was room to dig deeper since there was a lot of misogyny in the music and the industry at the time. Bottom line: this is good as an overview, but with so much ground to cover it only scratched the surface at times.

For info on Nothin' But a Good Time

3.5 out of 5 stars

BOOM: A Film About The Sonics

Documentaries about the "band that time forgot" is a fascinating sub-genre within the music documentary sub-genre (a sub sub genre!?!). The idea that a band never got super famous, but made just enough of a splash to influence others and amass a cult following has become quite a popular theme in the last 10-15 years. Case in point is the Tacoma, WA garage band The Sonics, who began in 1960. I didn't know them too well, but I had been hearing a lot about the documentary BOOM: A Film About The Sonics since it had it's festival premiere in 2018. It is now being distributed by the Forge with a number of indie cinema screenings including The Regent Theatre in Arlington, MA this past week.

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Formed in 1960, the quintet had a raw garage rock sound that influenced the likes of The Stooges, Nirvana, The White Stripes, LCD Soundsystem, The Hives, and more. They released two albums in the 1960s on Etiquette Records. There is a line drawn between this band and the Seattle music scene that everyone knew in the 80s and 90s. Among the featured interviewees in addition to the Sonic members are Nancy Wilson of Heart, Kim Thayil of Soundgarden, Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Mark Arm of Mudhoney, and Chris Ballew of Presidents of the United States of America. Ballew sums it up best when he pointed out that were was fun party music like The Sonics from Seattle and it wasn't all gloomy grunge.

I didn't know too much about The Sonics beforehand, but I was attracted to this mainly because of the interviewees and my love of Seattle music. As someone who didn't know them, I kind of wished they had spent a little more time on the music itself and not just on the band history. It does show some of the band's many reunions since the 60s and how many Seattle luminaries hold them in high regard (I spotted Nirvana's Krist Novoselic in a clip of their reunion show). The director did a move that can go either way, which is injecting himself into the doc with his intro and outro. There's a joke that some documentarians set out to make a film about a subject and then they just end up making a doc about themselves and their interest in the subject. Director Jordan Albertsen managed to do it effectively by not overtaking the doc but just giving a brief anecdote about discovering them through his father. Bottom line: the doc is interesting and more than anything I wanted to go out and listen to this band more after watching the doc.

For info on BOOM

3 out of 5 stars