Metal Evolution: The Series – Canadian anthropologist-cum-filmmaker Sam Dunn’s exhaustive and ridiculously entertaining exploration of metal’s many genres, across the decades and around the world – is really picking up steam.
Indeed, episode four of the 11-part series – which airs 10 pm tonight (December 9) on MuchMore – surveys an especially impactful stretch of hard rock history: the rise of the so-called New Wave of British Heavy Metal… and that’s not just the Def Leppard freak in me talking.
Check out the official blurb here and watch the trailer below.
“The New Wave of British Heavy Metal marks no less than the establishment of hard rock’s very first heavy metal army. Loud ‘n’ proud of it, this jean-jacketed legion of head-banging air guitarists snarled back at punk, expressed impatience with prog, and purposefully declared a banishment of ballads.
“Previously undefined and even a bit shameful, heavy metal was now boldly out of the closet, Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Saxon, Def Leppard, Raven, Tank and the Tygers Of Pan Tang seething out of the gates with fast, technical, uncompromising metal music, building a fanatical, energized movement that would lead to - as we will demonstrate in Episode 5 - the establishment of a hard rock scene in Los Angeles built on similar devotional principles.
“The result would be a fulcrum shift to ten years of metal glory for America, with glam, thrash and everything in-between emerging out of California, thanks to the power and the glory of the NWOBHM and the obsessive fan culture it fostered.”
Cool huh? Note that Metal Evolution also repeats over the weekend lest you miss episode four tonight. Check local listings.
maybe you should do a show where we see new bands to continue the genre and get them to be known to the public cause my best band ever is metallica and they are getting old but who is next behind them ?????kirk cobain death and pantera lead guitar kill on stage and metal world got verry dark
Absolutley the best genre of music ever ! METAL !
Posted by: SATANS D3vIL | 12/09/2011 at 05:08 PM
i've only seen small parts of it but this series absolutely RULES!! i wish i had MuchMore instesd of much to see it all..
Posted by: ace | 12/09/2011 at 05:25 PM
maybe you should do a show where we see new bands to continue the genre and get them to be known to the public cause my best band ever is metallica and they are getting old but who is next behind them ?????kirk cobain death and pantera lead guitar kill on stage and metal world got verry dark
Posted by: jean lachapelle | 12/09/2011 at 05:41 PM
Long live METAL
Posted by: Doug Dog | 12/09/2011 at 05:56 PM
Got Slipknot and five fingerdeathPunch leading the new world order of Metal .Metallica as much i love them they need to stick with the thrash stuff .
Posted by: Canadianunleash | 12/09/2011 at 06:53 PM