Jesus Crisis - "Murder in the Front Row" (OFFICIAL VIDEO February 2022) by Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story features extensive interviews with not just key players from Exodus, Slayer and Metallica, but testimonials from the rabid fans and scene figures who served as the initial disciples of a style of metal music that would one day have a global reach and influence. Using the remarkable 2012 photo book Murder in the Front Row: Shots From the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter that featured kinetic pictures taken by early devotees Brian Lew and Oimoen as a jumping-off point, documentary director Adam Dubin has delved into the primordial soup of SF's thrash metal history for the film.
ALSO READ: CBS SF Talks To 'Murder In The Front Row' Doc Director Adam Dubin.Metallica is commonly thought of as the Bay Area's biggest proponent of the newly emerging sound, but many don't realize that the band got it's start in Los Angeles before moving north at the behest of new bassist Cliff Burton in 1982 to the welcoming embrace of what was already a well established and thriving underground movement anchored by early groups including Exodus and Blind Illusion. Still from Murder in the Front Row book.Īdding the speed and aggression of hardcore punk to the metal and hard rock styles being perfected by British bands like Motörhead, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and UFO during the mid-to-late 1970s, a group of young musicians spurred an exponential leap forward for heavy music in the early '80s with the rise of thrash metal. Released in 2019, the film directed by longtime Metallica collaborator Adam Dubin (who got his start in film making videos for the Beastie Boys in the 1980s) presented a deep dive into the music and culture of the burgeoning scene that produced some of the most influential bands to emerge from the Bay Area since the since the rise of the Grateful Dead Santana and Journey. BERKELEY - The Cornerstone in Berkeley presents a multi-media night of metal Sunday with a screening of the acclaimed documentary Murder in the Front Row before performances by two bands featuring photographer/bassist Harald Oimoen.
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