Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

[Ars Magna]

Has anyone seen this and, if so, is it good?

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

 

[lurch70]

its pretty cool ... the guy tha made it is really knowledgable and really traveled around to get it made.

it has been all over cable the last few months ... I think VH1 Classic has been showing it.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

I enjoyed it, muchly

 

[Ars Magna]

it has been all over cable the last few months ... I think VH1 Classic has been showing it.

Shit...really? I must have missed it because our TV is stuck on Noggin or the Disney channel when it is on. Except, of course, when The Office is on.

Is it worth buying?

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

It was on friday night. we turned it on right when the black metal part started. heh

 

[lurch70]

Is it worth buying?

hmm ... maybe ... Netflix it and copy it

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

Depends on the special features. Was definitely worth going out to see a screening a couple years ago, but that was partly cause of the audience. But the interviews with Gorgoroth, Mayhem & Dio are all absolute must-sees.

 

[Demilich]

The Mayhem guys were so fucking drunk and full of themselves it was totally tastic

 

[General Zod]

I loved it and bought a copy.

Zod

 

[Ars Magna]

I like the Netflicks idea but I'm a packaging whore. I have to have the real thing...same with cds. I also have a tendency to misplace copies (even though they have their own holders) so I'm sure I will just buy one. I need to look for it on cable in the meantime.

 

[JayKeeley]

I'm keen to see the sequel, if it's ever made. If he truly applies his anthopology background, he would focus more on the community and the social structures of bands, fans, and events. And how the perception of metal differs between nations, etc. or rather, what the common threads are that keep this sub-genre ticking in the underground and entirely ignored as a relevant music genre by the overground.

It's worth viewing but Heavy Metal 101 has been done to death. I don't need to see or read another interview about Dio's "horns" or how Tony Iommi worked in a factory in the English midlands. The black metal stuff was ok -- even though Mayhem were drunk and useless, but again, you can youtube the recent Norwegian documentary on BM and get much more insight.

Also, he put together a 'family tree' of metal genres and while he included Glam Rock, he forgot to include Doom Metal. That really bugged me.

 

[Demilich]

^ good point on the family tree

also some of his selections for interviews were extemely iffy
too many Slipknot interviews. isn't one too many?

 

[Reign in Acai]

From the reviews I've read this is the documentary equivalent of attending a Job for a Cowboy gig. I'll pass.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

It really is worth watching. poo face

 

[Matt]

It's pretty good. Obviously there are some places where he could have improved, but overall a quality documentary.

 

[AsModEe]

I found it a bit dumb. He said at first he wanted to eliminate stereotypes in metal, and in my opinion he just enforced them.

 

[Reign in Acai]

Checking out some interviews on youtube.


Alice Cooper - The first time the term heavy metal was ever used to describe a sound, it was for Alice Cooper.

 

[AsModEe]

oh yeah that made me laugh too. I thought it was for Def Leppard?

 

[Reign in Acai]

Heh? It was first used to describe Jimi Hendrix sir. "Like Heavy Metal Falling from the Sky."


Any who, I watched twenty minutes of this thus far, complete tripe.

 

[Ars Magna]

I just figured it might be a little fun. I already know everything he'll cover...I've been listening to this music since the mid-70's for fucks-sake. :Smug:

I just really enjoy watching shit that deals with the music I love. So, since I'm not really looking for something that will teach me anything, I think this sounds like a decent investment. Oh...and Slipknot doesn't really need to be there.