Metal - A Headbangers Journey documentary

[corky13]

i stumbled across this movie = http://www.metalhistory.com/ (trailer included)
and as a metalhead i couldn`t resist to ask if someone has seen it and if it is worth the money

[jfwalls]

Sabbath = Slayer = Pantera = everything today. Would probably be pretty cool, but I see specials on MTV and VH1 that probably show pretty much the same thing.

[oracrest]

Sabbath = Slayer = Pantera = everything today.


I was into metal more in early high school, and got out of it mainly cause I found it very formulaic and redundant after a while. I have recently gotten into more metal again, and have found some decent bands that seem to be taking a more artistic approach to their songs. Mainly instrumental (cause I really cant stand pig grunting metal vocals) I highly recomend checking these guys out...

ISIS (http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&productID=697)

Pelican (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=8066086)

on a badass side note.... Tool and Isis are playing together this summer/fall tour. :)

[jcaffoe]

In response to the topic, I think it looks like a sweet documentary, but I agree that it could fall under the MTV/VH1 category pretty easily.

In response to the idea that metal today all sounds the same, more and more bands these days are experimenting with complex drumming, powerful instrumental work, and time changes in their songs, adding complexity yet building from the basic foundations that have been laid by bands like Pantera, At the Gates, and Metallica.

Bands like Dillinger Escape Plan, Between the Buried and Me, Norma Jean, Darkest Hour, and August Burns Red really stand out as pushing the genre forward by experimenting (successfully, I might add) with more complex structure than their predecessors. Many other bands have tried to build from the foundations of their predecessors to create something unique and new, like Every Time I Die.

Also, ISIS and Pelican are badass.

[Burtzum]

ISIS, Pelican, Tool

Are these bands really considered metal?

As for the video, doesn't seem too interesting to me. Looks like part of it is about trying to defend metal from naysayers. Thats wasted energy. Then theres the whole trying to make metal seem deep bit. Right. You can only go so far with that till you get to the "sex drugs and rocknroll" bit and watch people flail around and upchuck a gallon of booze. Then theres the whole, metal4life lets band together bit. bah. thats for hippies and punks.

I actually came across a really funny review of this documentary but I can't seem to relocate it. It was a positive review though.

[jfwalls]

cause I really cant stand pig grunting metal vocals

You gotta have the pig grunting! There's plenty of bands I like today. I agree with Between the Buried and Me being a geat band. Yet they've just kind of mixed up every style of metal into one sound. I just picked up a Devil Driver CD and like them alot. I like that the singer Dez (formerly of Coal Chamber) has moved over to pure metal. One my favorites for a long time has been Crowbar. I just love the bottom heavy crunch of their guitars with Windstein's sandpaper singing.

[Burtzum]

Well, I just netflixed it. It was entertaining. Particularly the "interview" with Mayhem haha. (was just the bassist plastered telling everyone to fuck off.) Also always fun to hear people try to define metal and what it means. But a lot of what I predicted in my previous post was correct. Its downright silly especially at the end. All "metal is life OMG!" and whatnot. I guess I'm just not a true metalhead. It also wasn't particularly insightful. I was wanting to ask more questions when the interviewer was moving on to something else. Particularly with the blackmetal interviewees. I wouldn't really wanna watch it again. More of a rental.

[corky13]

meh...okey then i wont waste my money on this...I hoped it could be something more original than the average Rock/Metal documentaries and movies but heck...
thanks for your replies ;)
@Burtzum...why does your nick sound so familiar ? *lol*

[brokk]

@Burtzum...why does your nick sound so familiar ? *lol*
Yeah, I thought that as well, minus the "t"...

EDIT: The trailer has a bit of an MTV/VH1-ish feel... which makes me rather skeptical about it. But I still want to want to watch it before passing judgement.

Apparently it addresses the different cultures within metal culture itself... I wonder if they included stuff like Rhapsody, Vision Divine, etc, epic metal stuff, like they did on the black metal bit.
Epic metal or symphony metal or whatever seems to have more following in countries like Spain for some reason... dunno why. Wonder if they addressed it. I noticed a few swords in the trailer though.

[Burtzum]

yeah my handle is a play on Burzum but also my name (Burton). A combination.

Hmm swords... well they interview Dio some and just mention ManOwar and the powermetal sub genre. But nothing in depth. No mention of Rhapsody or Dragonforce kinda cheese. That would have been fun though. :teeth:

Actually the movie doesnt really go in depth with any sub genre. Mostly very generalized. Brief overview of metal's history, its beginnings, conditions that create it, contiversy that has always surrounded it, fan behavior, "metal culture" & how metal is a statement or whatever... ideas I don't really subscribe to.

Blackmetal was the only sub genre that really got separated out a little bit with its own mini-documentary on the second disk.