Inside Metal: The Rise Of L.A. Thrash Metal

I was about 14-15 when all this stuff happened. I met some of the people in this documentary when I was that age at shows and I remember how great it was. I remember trading demos with people all over the country/world back then.. Tape trading by mail was a way to hear all these great bands, no internet. I am very glad they had Juan Garcia quite a bit as to me, he was an unsung hero of the LA thrash scene as far as guitar, Abbattoir's first album and Agent Steels first 3 are thrash classics and a guitar hero of sorts to me. I loved seeing a lot of the old show flyers as well as I attended a number of them shown in this documentary. Overall, very nostalgic, and a decent explanation of why good bands from LA didn't really ever see it as 'home', but no less, took pride from being from there and grew musically in a what was once a very good heavy metal nest.

It was really great. Other then NWOBHM the California thrash scene was the best in the world. Why not 5 stars? Because I was there at the time and punk had virtually no influence whatsoever. Marty Friedman's statments are quite frankly ridiculous he knew virtually nothing about metal prior to joining Megadeth. Truth be told he almost didn't get the gig because he showed up for the audition with streaks of color in his hair thinking that would make him look more metal. He was clueless about how we looked and what we were about. Luckily for him he was a great guitar player. We were all 90% influenced by Maiden, Priest, Saxon, Moterhead, with Van Halen, Zeppelin and a few others.P.S. long live METAL CHURCH!

So, overall this is an excellent and very well structured documentary on Thrash. Thrash in L.A that is, and it also gives a good insight into the Thrash scene in the San Francisco Bay Area Scene. Very very interesting and engaging and I would personally recommend it to the hardcore, casual or poser (if there is such a thing) Thrash fan. My only problem was the way in which I think it was delivered by either An Post or or I Parcel. Those idiots damaged the case while making their delivery to my home. Either that or it was defaced in the delivery process from America to my country!!!!😡 So that's why I gave it a four star ⭐️ rating instead of a five! Tough luck amazon, although it was a brilliant DVD!!🤗 Thanks very much!!!!!

This was a great doc, with great interviews but it looks and sounds cheap. Some shots are really out of focus and sometimes they play music over the interviews so you can't understand what is being said. Still worth a watch but those things are annoying.

This is a phenomenal documentary. The interviews are edited perfectly and arranged by topic. This documentary never gets boring. There are lots of surprises here. It's funny, how wise and articulate all of these metal greats are now. Back in the day, any interviews tended to be pretty chaotic, with a lot of yelling, as far as I remember. So, watch this, and get ready to dive off your couch!

Fantastic documentary. This is the first documentary that really goes inside the Thrash Metal movement in Los Angeles in the early to mid 1980s and tells a very thorough story of the thrash metal movement in SoCal and covers bands that were a big part of that movement but sadly forgotten about. Very well done!

Love music documentary's, but this one used metal music that didn't fit with the bands, like there own music? Some what repetitous too. Over all, great for the old school metal lover.

Worth a watch but not much on there that the average metal head didn't already know about the Thrash scene in LA.

Bob Nalbandian delivers once again. A great insiders view from the key players that were there.