Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

[tiedye]

My music roots start with metal. I was walking home one day during my first week in kindergarden and stumbled across Iron Maiden's Powerslave on cassette. At that point, I loved all sorts of music. Anything my parents played, anything on TV or the Radio. . but that album really did it for me. I was hooked. This documentary brought back so many memories of air-guitaring to the likes of Maiden, Metallica, Sabbath, Dio, Van Halen, you name it. Moshing around my room wearing shirts that went down to my knees because they didn't make metal shirts my size.

The filmmaker, the die-hard fan, behind this rockumentary studied anthropology and turned his studies of other cultures and societies inward to one closer to home: the Metalhead masses. It's intelligent, well-put together, and covers topics my friends and I would sit and bullshit about.

Interviews with the likes of Tommy Iommi, Ronnie James Dio, Bruce Dickensen, Alice Cooper, Kerry King, and Rob Zombie let you see what the legends behind the mayhem really think and feel about the culture.

If you like metal - any kind of metal - watch....this....film.

[Goat]

It pops up on IFC and the Doc channel every now and then.
Good one.

[tiedye]

yeah, I just read after I posted that it was made in 2005. . it just came out on DVD so I assumed it was new, since we're usually up on shit like that. Still.

[Goat]

I must be thinking of another one.
My bad.

[tiedye]

maybe, maybe not.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478209/

[Goat]

Havn't seen it. Looks good though.
I'll record the one i'm thinkin of next time it's on the tube.

[tiedye]

btw, did you ever sell off those game systems?

[Goat]

xbox went to my little bro for his b-day and I'm keeping the playstation (spent way too much $$ on it and the games).
Sorry man.

[tiedye]

hey, no problem. I'm probably better off without video games. I spend too much time on the computer as it is.