{"id":483639,"date":"2019-03-20T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=809593"},"modified":"2019-03-20T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:00:47","slug":"see-metallica-exodus-reminisce-on-san-franciscos-eighties-metal-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-metallica-exodus-reminisce-on-san-franciscos-eighties-metal-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"See Metallica, Exodus Reminisce on San Francisco\u2019s Eighties Metal Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Members of Metallica<\/a>, Exodus, Testament and other San Francisco\u2013area thrash-metal groups reflect on how wild the scene was when it exploded in the early Eighties in the trailer for the upcoming documentary Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was scary, and it was dark,\u201d Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick says. \u201cIt was this outlet for angst.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPoseurs must die!\u201d Kirk Hammett exclaims with his hands in the air.<\/p>\n

The film, which was directed by Adam Dubin (Beastie Boys\u2019 \u201cFight for Your Right to Party\u201d video, A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica<\/em>), will premiere in San Francisco at the AMC Kabuki 8 at 1 p.m.on April 20th. After the screening, the supergroup Metal Allegiance, featuring members of Megadeth<\/a> and Testament, will perform across the street at the Fillmore with special guest Gary Holt, of Exodus and Slayer<\/a> fame, and more yet-unannounced guests.<\/p>\n

The film also features interviews with members of Slayer, Anthrax<\/a>, Megadeth, Possessed, Death Angel and Vio-lence, among others, and its soundtrack features music by most of those groups. Comedian Brian Posehn serves as the film\u2019s narrator.<\/p>\n

The documentary is based on photographers Brian Lew and Harald Oimoen\u2019s book about the scene, Murder in the Front Row<\/em>, which came out in 2012. \u201cWhat I loved about the book is that it wasn\u2019t just about Metallica,\u201d Dubin said in a statement. \u201cIt was documenting a vibrant scene, where all the bands were equal and there was real camaraderie. The photos captured the sweat of the clubs, the ringing in your ears and the power of young people. Harald and Brian captured the humanity of it, and they understood that I was somebody who could bring that out in a film.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film builds on the book\u2019s narrative by explaining how fans in California drew inspiration from U.K. groups like UFO, Iron Maiden and Mot\u00f6rhead and swirled those sounds into something new. \u201cAll these bands were mainly from England, and they never really toured the West Coast,\u201d Dubin said. \u201cSo these young people started creating their own music, starting their own fanzines, booking clubs and trading tapes. These were people who were adamant about music and the bands, but also each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two-minute trailer features James Hetfield, Dave Mustaine, Chuck Billy and many of the speakers introducing themselves \u2014 Slayer\u2019s Kerry King says, \u201cI don\u2019t need to say my name, everybody watching this knows who I am\u201d \u2014 as well as anecdotes about the scene. \u201cWe were doing this for chicks and beer, and I didn\u2019t drink,\u201d King says straight-faced. Mustaine quips, \u201cThis isn\u2019t as exciting as you thought it would be, was it?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Members of Metallica, Exodus, Testament and other San Francisco\u2013area thrash-metal groups reflect on how wild the scene was when it exploded in the early Eighties in the trailer for the upcoming documentary Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story. \u201cIt was scary, and it was dark,\u201d Testament guitarist Alex […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 17:27:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}