Ruben Kenis ...but what about thrash, death, black, power and doom metal? With the exception of clips of Overkill, Anthrax, Napalm Death, Metallica and interviews with those bands and Alex Skolnick and Dave Mustaine, there was pretty much no mention of any band in any of those genres (seriously, Slayer was mentioned -once- in a two hour documentary about metal), instead it focused on early hard rock/heavy metal, glam and nu metal.I'm actually being pretty generous with the score here, you have heard pretty much all of this before in other (and better) documentaries. Some of the interviews were pretty entertaining (Dio and Phil Taylor in particular), but this is honestly not worth wasting two hours of your life on.If you haven't seen a metal documentary yet, go with A Headbangers Journey, it's not perfect, but a hell of a lot better than this."Pantera kept true metal alive" - I think we're done here.

Superunknovvn Recently Metal fans are getting a hell of a lot of documentaries about their favorite music genre. After the entertaining (but ultimately not very enlightening) "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" and VH1's "Heavy" series comes "Heavy Metal: Louder Than Life". Maybe it's because we have seen all this presented in a similar way not too long ago, maybe it's because the documentary just doesn't cover any new ground, but "Heavy Metal" is the worst of these three Metal-movies.What's most irritating is that the documentary jumps through the decades without any kind of chronological order. There is no logical order of the topics discussed, either and the music videos shown don't really fit the narration most of the time."Heavy Metal: LTL" has some interview partners that the other two documentaries missed, but then there are some important figures missing here, too, which means that none of the three movies are "complete". "Metal: AHJ" suffered from the absence of any Metallica or Judas Priest members. "Heavy Metal: LTL" does include interview snippets with James Hetfield, Rob Halford, K.K. Downing and Glen Tipton but there are no Iron Maiden members at all.Unlike the other two documentaries "Heavy Metal: LTL" isn't a good survey of all the different Metal genres. It virtually ignores Death Metal, for instance. Instead it ponders for the millionth time which band really was the first metal band.For fans there's nothing to learn here, but "Heavy Metal: Louder Than Life" is still kinda entertaining to watch, if neither "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" or VH1's "Heavy" are available.

pante2llica The only extreme bands mentioned in the film are Napalm Death and Arch Enemy.What about Prog Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Doom Metal,...There are very few people and they have to talk a lot from the first to the last second. Why don't they interview more people? I also think bands like Twisted Sister are overrated and the man appear on every Metal documentary I've watched. OK you don't need to list all kinds of Metal but such a short duration of Extreme Metal will do no good to the new generation of Metal fans.You'd better watch Metal - A Headbanger's Journey, that film is what I call the best Heavy Metal documentary ever.

hellpepper I loved this film! It covers a lot of history of Heavy Metal music. From its earliest influences to the latests incarnations today.Contains interviews from artists not heard from often and that was refreshing to see. Some of the stories these guys tell, esp about their own early days are fascinating and funny as hell! Gives a good overview of the history of metal and I would recommend this to those who are long time fans or to those who are newcomers or even to those who are not fans at all but are just interested in Metal as a social phenomena would find this interesting.Hell, I wish this DVD had even more to see on it, and it contains a lot!