Query: Heavy metal films about musical groups
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
This Is Spinal Tap
We Are Twisted Fucking Sister!
Metalhead (film)
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Lords of Chaos (film)
The Dirt (film)
Deathgasm
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
American Satan
Rock Star (2001 film)
Evidence from documents: This Is Spinal Tap: '''''This Is Spinal Tap''''' (also known as '''''This Is Spın̈al Tap: A Rockumentary by Martin Di Bergi''''') is a 1984 American mockumentary film co-written and directed by Rob Reiner in his directorial debut. The film stars Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer as members of the fictional British heavy metal band Spinal Tap, one of England's "loudest bands", with Reiner as Martin "Marty" Di Bergi, a documentary filmmaker who follows them on their American tour. The film satirizes the behavior and musical pretensions of rock bands and the hagiographic tendencies of rock documentaries such as ''The Song Remains the Same'' (1976) and ''The Last Waltz'' (1978), and follows the similar ''All You Need Is Cash'' (1978) by the Rutles. Most of its dialogue was improvised and dozens of hours were filmed.
We Are Twisted Fucking Sister!: '''''We Are Twisted Fucking Sister!''''' is a 2014 German-US documentary about the early years of heavy metal band Twisted Sister directed by Andrew Horn.
Through interviews, filmmaker Andrew Horn traces the history of Twisted Sister from their origins in the bar scene of early 1970s Long Island to their pre-MTV rise as a popular regional, New York-based band in the mid 1970s and early 1980s.
Metalhead (film): Hera, clad again in heavy metal attire, forms a band with the Norwegians and performs for the entire town. They try playing her black metal song, but the audience can't tolerate it and they stop playing it. They start covering Lynyrd Skynyrd, which the audience is enthusiastic to listen to,
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny: '''''Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny''''' is a 2006 American musical fantasy comedy film about comedy rock duo Tenacious D.
Lords of Chaos (film): '''''Lords of Chaos''''' is a 2018 horror-thriller film directed by Jonas Åkerlund and written by Lillie Rammal, Dennis Magnusson, and Åkerlund. Adapted from the 1998 book of the same name, the film is a historical fiction account of the early 1990s Norwegian black metal scene told from the perspective of Mayhem co-founder Euronymous. It stars Rory Culkin as Euronymous, Emory Cohen as Varg Vikernes, Jack Kilmer as Dead, and Sky Ferreira as Ann-Marit.
The Dirt (film): '''''The Dirt''''' is a 2019 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jeff Tremaine from a screenplay by Rich Wilkes and Amanda Adelson, about heavy metal/glam metal band Mötley Crüe.
Deathgasm: Heavy metal films: Brodie is a metalhead, which conflicts with Uncle Albert's fundamentalist Christian beliefs.
about musical groups: The four decide to form a metal band, Deathgasm.
Anvil! The Story of Anvil: '''''Anvil! The Story of Anvil''''' is a 2008 Canadian rockumentary film about the Canadian heavy metal band Anvil.
American Satan: The Relentless are an aspiring rock band, half from England and half from the US, who all move to Los Angeles to become famous.
Rock Star (2001 film): In the mid-1980s, Pittsburgh resident Chris Cole is a fanatical admirer of a heavy metal band called Steel Dragon.