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

Good movie, though i prefer get thrashed as far as metal documentaries!🤘

High production value documentary featuring so many great interviews with the legendary musicians for whom life was the music all the while they are being chronicled behind the scenes q over the course of the last 40 years by those first friends turned fans for whom music was so dear to their cores that they must in turn demand "Death to P"osers. Thank you for your hard work bring this project to life it's much appreciated my phone fan for my iPhone

It is ok, relax... Not everyone into Thrash then or today was in HS or College in the East Bay 82-86... I was....I went to scores of shows - i don't recall any of them every having more than 500 fans... Outise the Day on the Green... Thrash was a scene that became a musical genre'. Mnay of those orginal bands live on and still drop music today. The film depcits that in numerous ways. Thrash was to the East bay what the NOWOBHM was for the entire UK.... THrash h ad fewer bands in number but those that were recorded had an impact.....

As a huge Thrash fan (Bay Area, East Coast...doesn't matter to me), I thought this was great. All of the genre's top folks being interviewed and we got an excellent origin story from those who were there when it happened (both the musicians, as well as friends/associates who were there). The story was great and I know that it was largely Bay Area focused, as that was the center of the movement, but I think they could have brought in Anthrax a bit more than they did (they were sort of just presented as "oh they were here when Metallica did Kill 'em All") or even involve Overkill. There is even a part where they mention how the movement became worldwide and I thought they would talk to people like Sepultura or Kreator (among others), but it just ended there.Additionally it's presented as though it all ended or climaxed in 86/87 when the Big Four released their albums in those years and when Cliff and Baloff passed away. No mention of Clash of the Titans, how the genre essentially bottomed out, how most everyone shifted gears and did their own Black Album, the Thrash of the Titans that brought back a lot of the 2nd/3rd wave bands, or even the revival of the genre in the mid 2000's.Lastly on the extras, those are all great, and some of them could have been brought into the actual story, however there are parts that literally repeat themselves. You watch Kirk talk about something, the next extra plays and they splice in him saying the exact same thing.I know it might sound like I'm picking it apart, but it's just because there was so much untapped stuff in this story, and maybe this speaks to how awesome the music and the story is. It is told really well and looks really well also. Definitely recommend if you're a Thrash or Metal fan.

100 years from now, people will look back on this genre. It's already been a few decades, and...yup, movies being made. I've been a fan of these bands from these days, got all the albums, and know what they're talking about, and a bit of: where they're going with this.All that said and put out there, this is a classic and "required reading". It's not a "bible" on the thrash and is doesn't devle hard into the details unless they're bit more Exodus-band focused, which honestly, this movie is.It highlights Exodus, and the ties to other legendary thrash bands, and the way they affected and also connected with each other. It's almost like there's a 3-4hr or miniseries-worth of material out there as it brings in commentary from legends like Anthrax, Slayer, Testament, Death Angel, and the vastly under-rated Violence, for example. They didn't delve too much into the East-Coast scene, for example. Or the FL scene.Overall, this feels like a pilot for a mini-series. The narrator is too 'employee training video sounding' which is the most con of the thing. Otherwise, it's totally a must-watch for anyone wanting to know the jist of the early 80s west-coast thrash scene. There's just so material. K?This is a great film though, it fills in so many blanks for many, mostly newer gen-ish types, but just awesome.Some of the stories shared are just legendary and hilarious as F.To the dudes that made this. Well done. Absofragginlutely-non-poser like.

Awesome movie

Bought for the mailman....who seems to understand this period in the SF music scene.

Talk about a trip down memory lane. If you're an old metal head.... you absolutely NEED this.

Being a thrash metal fan since the beginning(yes I'm that old)I had to get this dvd having read almost every piece of literature there ever was about the bay area scene,this documentary is a fantastic insight into that scene and brilliantly put together,loved every second of it as it brough me back to a time where extreme music was in its infancy,I have been lucky enough to have seen most of the bands in the film im still a fan of extreme music to this day though more death metal nowadays but without the likes of Metallica,anthrax,testament,death angel,slayer we wouldn't have the likes of obituary,cannibal corpse,morbid angel,etc,please buy this and if your a dad who's kids love the heavier side of music get this and show them where it started plus as an old fart myself it made me feel young again(for 90 minutes) hahaha

Utterly brilliant documentary! And by the way, this is the deluxe dvd set (slipcase, two posters & a sticker).

Awesome Bay Area Thrash documentary

Excellent movie

Fantastic documentary!Probably the best thrash one yet.