Aural Amphetamine: METALLICA And The Dawn Of Thrash DVD Due In April
February 19, 2008, 16 years ago
On April 15th, the MVD Entertainment Group is releasing Aural Amphetamine: METALLICA And The Dawn Of Thrash - an in-depth study and review of thrash music featuring performance footage of all the pivotal bands plus interviews with Metallica, MEGADETH and many others. An excerpt from a press release reads as follows:
"While Heavy Metal is often accused of being static and conservative, in truth it is a radical form that regularly re-invents itself, and one which attracts generation after generation of musicians willing to learn from the past, but hungry to evolve the future. And so it was that, in the early 1980s, a young man named Lars Ulrich was so taken by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, then creating music paper headlines in the UK, that he came to England to track down obscure records, take them home to LA and, with his buddies, listen to them - until they came up with a genre of their own, soon be termed Thrash Metal. This film is a study and review of this new dawn in rock music, and with the aid of those who were there at the time, presents both the story of this fascinating musical journey and reassess the sounds, the bands, the impact and the legacy of thrash. It features interviews with members of Metallica, Megadeth, MACHINE HEAD, DIAMOND HEAD, ELIXIR, NEUROSIS, LAAZ ROCKIT, SACRILEGE BC and many others. Also performance footage of all the pivotal Thrash bands, review and re-assessment from journalists Malcolm Dome, Lonn Friend, and Joel McIver, archive material, location shoots, and much, much more."DVD time is 95 minutes. Bonus materials:
Biographies
The Thrash Metal Interactive Challenge
Extended Interviews
Beyond DVD
