Murder in the Front Row (2019)

Original title

Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story

Directed by

Adam Dubin

Genre

documentary, music

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of the thrash metal music scene that started in the Bay Area during the 1980s. It uses interviews with many key musicians and artists from that time, plus animation and a narrator, to show how the scene developed.

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What happens

Murder in the Front Row is a documentary film which chronicles the 1980s Bay Area thrash metal scene. The documentary premiered on April 20, 2019. Directed by Adam Dubin and produced by Jack Gulick and Rachèle Benloulou-Dubin, the film contains over fifty interviews with various metal stalwarts (including Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Exodus, Testament and Death Angel), and is told through a mix of first-person interviews, animation and narration by comedian Brian Posehn. The film was released on DVD and digitally on April 24, 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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