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"Get Thrashed: The Story Of Thrash Metal" DVD Release Date Announced

posted May 26, 2008 at 8:58 AM by Diamond Oz.  (13 Comments)

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Band Photo: Metallica (?)

"Get Thrashed: The Story Of Thrash Metal" will be released on DVD in August. The DVD features footage and interviews with thrash legends ranging from Metallica to Kreator to Hirax. You can read an interview with director Rick Ernst at this location.

The complete list of bands interviewed is as follows:

Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Exodus, Godsmack, Hatebreed, Megadeth, Testament, Overkill, Death Angel, Shadows Fall, Meshuggah, In Flames, Strapping Young Lad, Stone Sour, Superjoint Ritual, Lamb of God, Vio-lence, Kreator, Sodom, Destruction , Nuclear Assault, Voivod, Chimaira, Biohazard, Fozzy/WWE Superstar Chris Jericho, Sepultura, Kittie, The Haunted, DRI, Soilwork, Killswitch Engage, Heathen, Hirax

Clip from Get Thrashed- Scott Ian talks about Anthrax playing with Stryper

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13 Comments on "'Get Thrashed' DVD Release Date Announced"

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1. MetallicPunk writes:

I am psyched to see this film,I am huge into thrash so I hope this film gets more into it.

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2. O-Matron writes:

August? On which one of the 31 days in august can we expect to find the DVD in stores?

# May 27, 2008 @ 4:33 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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3. Mr. Pots writes:

looks good, i'll have to pick it up

# May 28, 2008 @ 11:13 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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4. Terminator writes:

from the looks of the bands that were interviewed for this, about half aren't thrash. hopefully they will just be dicussing thrash and arent actually being considered as thrash. because if they are then i'll pass on this. pretty good clip of scott ian though.

# May 29, 2008 @ 3:27 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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5. dethmonkee writes:

they will probably be talking about how thrash influenced them and made them want to be a rock star blah blah.... etc.

# May 29, 2008 @ 3:38 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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6. Cynic writes:

Metal documentaries are notoriously bad, feeble attempts to both cover metal and yet pull in people to view their docco's by including big names. The series on Gorgoroth and Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (which featured some of the Gorgoroth material I think) have been about the only one's that live up to their title. I mean, they're always an interesting watch, and you know you can never have too many interviews with Lars or Kerry King - but some are pretty shameless.

Two in particular come to mind - can't remember the names but one was something like a four part on a history of heavy metal. Of course, 2 parts had to pretty much focus on Glam metal, 1 part for the early days and another tacked on hodge podge of Metallica and Iron Maiden interviews. The others were the same.

In the end, the reason they include interviews with Killswitch Engage and Kittie and not thrash bands below the top tier is to pull in the kids (aka selling the f*** out). It'll probably be a good watch but far from what it could or SHOULD be.

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# May 29, 2008 @ 7:19 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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7. neel_tennis93 writes:

i love kse, but they are not thrash metal.

# Jun 1, 2008 @ 10:12 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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8. Diamond Oz writes:

Alot of the bands like Kittie, Fozzy, KSE etc. aren't on there because they're considered thrash (because they're not) but to discuss how thrash metal affected them, how it inspired them as musicians and people and so forth, so I don't think they'll be on it too much. As far as I know it's more interviews with Exodus, Testament, Anthrax and such so don't worry.

# Jun 1, 2008 @ 11:32 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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9. Thrashman111 writes:

This is great. I am DEFINATELY picking this up.

# Jun 8, 2008 @ 10:00 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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10. Terminator writes:

cynic - i think that four part series was called heavey: the story of metal. it was a joke...but so is vh1's metal month, so no surprise.

# Jun 8, 2008 @ 11:48 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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11. take back metal writes:

as liike a special feature thing....they should toss up 2 videos 1 music video and 1 live video of each band on there.....thats thrash


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# Jun 17, 2008 @ 12:34 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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12. Dee writes:

Can't wait to pick this up.

# Jun 23, 2008 @ 12:40 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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13. cate writes:

interesting.

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