Best metal documentary?

I'm just fishing TBH in the off chance a cat here may have seen a cool metal doc that I missed. Last one I saw was Lemmy The Movie, really good. The new Saxon doc is out but I can't find it online, any links?

my favorite is Dream Deceivers, about the James Vance vs Judas Priest trial.

mc666 wrote:

my favorite is Dream Deceivers, about the James Vance vs Judas Priest trial.

Seen it, bummer. Thanx all the same man. Unreal story, if Priest had lost thatcase it would have been bye bye rock music.

Chrome Locust wrote:

if Priest had lost that case it would have been bye bye rock music.

no way. this was but a small footnote in rock music. however it was important for Priest.

u joking mate? Did u see what IN THE TRANSCRIPTS what was up for grabs??????????

i don't think you realize how big "rock" music is.... it goes far beyond metal.

mc666 wrote:

my favorite is Dream Deceivers, about the James Vance vs Judas Priest trial.

That's a great documentary, and the one that I view as the best.

I loved Anvil - The story of Anvil, the film maker did an amazing job of making me care about Anvil.

Some Kind of Monster is hilarious in a Spinal Tap way, and showed just how utterly lost a band can get.

Not metal, but I vote for the excellent Rush documentary "Beyond The Lighted Stage".

I still havent' seen "Some Kind of Monster" in its entirety. I recorded it off of VH1 Classic more than a year ago and the DVD-R is still sitting in a stack on top of my TV with all the other stuff that's waiting to be viewed. At the rate I'm going, it's likely to be a while before I get to it...

I saw "Dream Deceivers" in an 'art house' theatre in New York City when it was first released. I wore a Judas Priest t-shirt to the screening. The rest of the audience was elderly art film snobs who looked at me like I was a mass murderer for supporting the band. Haha.

My picks (aside from those already mentioned):

"The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years" never gets old, mainly due to the massive amounts of unintentional comedy.


Former Overkill drummer Rat Skates released a cool "Behind the Music" style documentary DVD called "Born in the Basement" about the early days of Overkill, and thrash metal in general, in 2007. That one's a lot of fun.


I would also rank the little-seen "KISS Loves You" (2004) highly ... and I'm not just saying that because I'm in it for about ten seconds, either.

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey is excellent

Heavy: The Story of Metal on VH1 was not bad

I don't know if I'd say it's the best, but I quite liked Until the Light Takes Us.

Just sold my "ultra-rare-hyper-unbelievalble-gotta-have-it-fanclubonly" copy of Heavy Metal Thunder- The Movie for very cheap. Coolhead Productions put my ex-wife's name in the "thank you list".

So, I will still always go with Decline 1 and 2. My generation documented from the west coast perspective from the time I was 14 to 19 [which were my favorite years of life].

I'm not sure if I would call it the best but a really good one is Slow Southern Steel. It's about metal bands from south of the Mason-Dixon line.

A new one called OMM(One Man Metal) is a great little movie about one man black metal acts like Xasthur and Striborg. Catch it on Youtube.

Im not a super big fan of Metallica but Id give Some Kind of Monster high marks I thought it was a rockin Documentry

I also like the Foo Fighters one Back and Forth

Tom Petty's Running down a Dream is a really good one, 3 hours long

Wurthless wrote:

I don't know if I'd say it's the best, but I quite liked Until the Light Takes Us.

Ooh yeah, that was a good'un.

I also recently saw American Hardcore, that was cool as well.

Sam Dunne's "Metal: A Headbangers' Journey" & "Metal Evolution",

"Get Thrashed" by Rat Skates

Sam Dunn's docs (and mini-series) are all awesome, including Rush's Behind The Lighted Stage and Iron Maiden's Flight 666

Sam Dunn annoys me. Mostly because he vocalizes NWOBHM as an actual word!

But I will admit that I enjoyed Global Metal

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Sam Dunn annoys me. Mostly because he vocalizes NWOBHM as an actual word!

Oh man, that annoyed the crap out of me too! All through the "Metal Evolution" series, any time I heard him say "Noo-wob-him" I was like "ARRRRGH! That's not a word dammit!"

He does incredible docs but yeah, there are some twitchy things about Sam.

Dark Horseman wrote:

He does incredible docs but yeah, there are some twitchy things about Sam.

He wore a VoiVod t-shirt while interviewing Rikki Rockett (!) of all people. I wondered if Rikki even knew who that was.

CRIMSONMASK wrote:

Sam Dunne's "Metal: A Headbangers' Journey" & "Metal Evolution",

"Get Thrashed" by Rat Skates

Get Thrashed is great!

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He does incredible docs but yeah, there are some twitchy things about Sam.


He wore a VoiVod t-shirt while interviewing Rikki Rockett (!) of all people. I wondered if Rikki even knew who that was.

Had to prove he's cooler then the poser he's interviewing.