• 2011
Metal Evolution

Summary Metal Evolution is broken down into episodes about a different piece of metal history. The series includes interviews with and about Alice Cooper, Slash, Lemmy, Rob Zombie, members of Megadeth, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Slayer, Judas Priest, Van Halen, Whitesnake, Def Leppard, The Stooges, ZZ Top, Soundgarden, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Rage Against the Machine, Alice in Chains, Korn, Slipknot, Lamb of God and more. View more details

  • 2011

Metal Evolution

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Bruce Dickinson Scott Ian Sam Dunn Deena Weinstein

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8.5

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Genres : Music Documentary

Release date : Nov 10, 2011

Countries of origin : Canada

Language : English

Production companies : Banger Films

Summary Metal Evolution is broken down into episodes about a different piece of metal history. The series includes interviews with and about Alice Cooper, Slash, Lemmy, Rob Zombie, members of Megadeth, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Slayer, Judas Priest, Van Halen, Whitesnake, Def Leppard, The Stooges, ZZ Top, Soundgarden, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Rage Against the Machine, Alice in Chains, Korn, Slipknot, Lamb of God and more. View more details

Details

Genres : Music Documentary

Release date : Nov 10, 2011

Countries of origin : Canada

Language : English

Production companies : Banger Films

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Nov 10, 2011
Pre-Metal
Tracing the origins of metal is a phantasmagoric odyssey that traverses cities and countries, oceans and continents. From Memphis' Sun Studio to The Kinks in England.
Episode 2 • Nov 18, 2011
Early Metal US
Darker, heavier music in the sounds of Steppenwolf and Blue Cheer. Followed by the inspired and inspiring sound of Kiss and Aerosmith. Van Halen begins a decade's worth of dominance for the uniquely party hardy metal of America.
Episode 3 • Dec 02, 2011
Early Metal UK
Pouncing on the power of heavy metal, bands such as Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Trapeze and Slade were crafting their own loud sounds in response to the bleak industrial environment of Britain's Midlands.
Episode 4 • Dec 09, 2011
New Wave of British Heavy Metal
Heavy metal was now boldly out of the closet, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Saxon, Raven and Def Leppard seethed out of the gates with fast, technical, uncompromising metal music, building a fanatical, energized movement.
Episode 5 • Dec 16, 2011
Glam Metal
Purveyors of glam such as Bon Jovi, Cinderella and Quiet Riot will divulge their side of the story, revealing the attitudes, influences and decisions which guided them during those days of rampant excess on L.A.'s sunset strip.
Episode 6 • Dec 30, 2011
Thrash
Next in the evolution of Metal comes a virulent strain called thrash, with the likes of Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax wreaking vengeance on hook and melody through a rhythmic discipline executed at breakneck tempos topped by harshly barked vocals.
Episode 7 • Jan 06, 2012
Grunge
While grunge was enjoying its meteoric rise, replacing the MTV face of Metal that was glam with its own brand of telegenic, easy to digest "rebellion," diehards within the Metal community struggled to adjust.
Episode 8 • Jan 13, 2012
Nu Metal
Sam Dunn chronicles the rise and fall of nu metal; starting with pivotal acts Rage Against The Machine, Faith No More and Tool and continuing to pioneering nu metal artists like Korn and Deftones.
Episode 9 • Jan 20, 2012
Shock Rock
Starting with the ringmaster of mayhem himself, Alice Cooper, we visit a world of guillotines and gallows, electrocutions and sorcery. We'll then learn how NYC's Kiss dethroned Cooper by taking spectacle one giant leap forward.
Episode 10 • Jan 27, 2012
Power Metal
Sam runs into his old friend Ronnie James Dio, who guides him into the fantastical world of power metal, where masculine tales of heroism and epic battles, dragon-slaying and sorcery, burn into the the imaginations of young men.
Episode 11 • Feb 03, 2012
Progressive Metal
A genre that takes root with the likes of Rush in the '70s, Queensryche and Fates Warning in the '80s, and Dream Theater in the '90s. Since then, the genre has exploded with creativity, spawning mind-bending, genre-defying acts.
Episode 12 • Mar 06, 2014
Extreme Metal
The episode is about the most radical subgenres of metal: death metal, black metal, doom metal). The episode take a chance to discover the roots of the extreme metal and the connections to other metal genres.

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