Tag Archives: Documentary

(movie) Shudder´s This Is Gwar offers great insight into this special band!

Good people at Shudder continue to bombard us with great movies, this time a feature length documentary about one of the greatest little bands out there. Gwar never made it to front lines of the scene, but they managed to be a legendary band. This movie offers insight about how they came to be, how they did their art and costumes, creating a gang of misfit monster barbarians from outer space. In fact, they are real life outcast bunch of musicians and artists led by great and unfortunately gone too soon Dave Brockie, aka Oderus Urungus who was a main creative and driving force behind this band. Their shows are legendary, with fountains of fake blood and cum and similar body fluids, theatre, sci fi storytelling and above all, great music. This is a nice chronologically done movie, which through archive footage and interviews delivers insight into all ups and downs, fights, disappointments, deaths and reincarnations of these legends. This one if contender for one of the best music documentaries that came out this year. Go see this one.

8,5/10

(movie) Soaring Highs and Brutal Lows – The Voices of Women in Metal (2015)

I recently found this documentary and since I am a sucker for music documentaries, I said, let´s watch this one and see what this is about. Like in hardcore punk scene, metal scene is, I dare say even more sexist and misoginistic towards women and girls really had a hard time through couple of decades to succeed and be respected and recognized as artists equal and even better than their male counterparts.

This documentary talks about women, to be more precise women metal singers who talk bout their experiences and their accomplishments in the scene with their stories which are in many ways similar, yet different and inspiring, also beautiful. This one features Floor Jansen(After Forever,Nightwish,ReVamp), Alissa White-Gluz(Arch Enemy, Kamelot), Simone Simons(Epica), Doro Pesch(Doro, Warlock), Kobra Paige(Kobra and the Lotus)…What I love about this movie that it is told thematically telling basically same story from different angles or points of view at the same time creating similar story but told through the eyes of women who became such undivided part of the scene. I especially love the emotional part of Floor Jansen having suffered from burnout because I experienced something similar a while ago. Also, Alissa White-Gluz is one of my favorite singers, so hearing her story made me happy. What I always hated in the scene were flyers and adds or gigs which advertized ‘female fronted metal band’ or ‘female fronted hardcore band’-I mean, what the fuck is that? I always, always hated that syntagm which I find diminishing and sexist and I hope no one will ever use that again. Anyway, this movie was inspiring and fun to watch. So, if you have a chance, see it!

(news-trailer) THE PIT presents… ‘A Punk Daydream’ : Punk is not dead in Indonesia!

After already persenting some amazing movies and documentaries on the platforms with ‘RocKabul’ or ‘Soaring Highs And Brutal Lows’, THE PIT (aka the first ever SVOD platform dedicated to the ROCK & METAL universe), unveiled a new astonishing content with A Punk Daydream’, available right now on the platform.

 This documentary is a portrait of the largest Muslim Punk community in the world, as seen through the eyes of Punk teenagers, in relation to the extreme social, environmental and political environment they live in.

Punk is not dead in Indonesia. There is more at stake than ever. The young street punks in this film are shunned by society and risk incarceration for their appearance. With the Dayak people as their example, they fight for their homeland and against corruption and hypocrisy