Category: Film Reviews

One of the unique attributes of heavy metal, compared to other musical genres, has always been its ability not to take itself too seriously, to be self-deprecating and poke fun at itself (often in a way in which only genre insiders understand), to play upon some of the extreme aspects of its more ridiculous, and ridiculed, tendencies, especially as perceived by those outside the “metal family”. Over the years, this has been no truer than on the silver screen, with movies such as ‘Spinal Tap’, ‘Wayne’s World’ and ‘School Of Rock’ evoking all of these qualities, alongside an outsider’s perceived sense of the form’s faux seriousness, all the while with their tongues planted in their cheeks and a message of “the joke’s on you” to “mainstream” audiences. We can now add teen comedy-drama ‘Metal Lords’ to that canon of cinematic interpretations.