Axs TV is ringing in Halloween with a block of heavy metal content, including the premiere of the documentary Metal Massacre: The Story of the Legendary Album.
The doc will anchor Axs TV’s “Heavy Metal Halloween” programming and makes its network debut at 9 p.m. Et on October 28th, immediately followed by an encore airing at 11 p.m.
The film centers around the making of the groundbreaking 1982 Metal Massacre compilation that helped launch the careers of Metallica, Ratt, and more. The LP is a time capsule of the California metal scene in the early 1980s and also birthed the long-running independent label Metal Blade Records (the comp was the first release on the imprint).
In addition to commentary and anecdotes from Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel and his collaborator John Kornarens — the two metalheads who made Metal Massacre a reality — the documentary features interviews with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield,...
The doc will anchor Axs TV’s “Heavy Metal Halloween” programming and makes its network debut at 9 p.m. Et on October 28th, immediately followed by an encore airing at 11 p.m.
The film centers around the making of the groundbreaking 1982 Metal Massacre compilation that helped launch the careers of Metallica, Ratt, and more. The LP is a time capsule of the California metal scene in the early 1980s and also birthed the long-running independent label Metal Blade Records (the comp was the first release on the imprint).
In addition to commentary and anecdotes from Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel and his collaborator John Kornarens — the two metalheads who made Metal Massacre a reality — the documentary features interviews with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield,...
- 10/3/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Metallica’s first-ever recording, “Hit the Lights,” will be available on vinyl for the first time since 1984 this spring. Record label Metal Blade will reissue its seminal Metal Massacre compilation — which contained “Hit the Lights” — to mark its 40th anniversary, April 22.
The reissue will feature the release’s original track list, including Ratt’s “Tell the World” and Steeler’s “Cold Day in Hell,” both of which were omitted from later pressings. The version of Metallica’s “Hit the Lights” on the comp comes from the second pressing of Metal Massacre,...
The reissue will feature the release’s original track list, including Ratt’s “Tell the World” and Steeler’s “Cold Day in Hell,” both of which were omitted from later pressings. The version of Metallica’s “Hit the Lights” on the comp comes from the second pressing of Metal Massacre,...
- 2/23/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
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