DVDanger: 'Heavy Metal Movies'

A literary diversion over the long weekend

"...We understand. If you love gruesome movies, the holidays suck...."

July 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Iron Age's Seminal Album Reverberates Through Texas' Metal Scene

The Sleeping Eye turns 10 with a reissue, its creators and other Texas metal icons consider its influence

"...which he vocalizes: thrashcore powerhouse Iron Age and epic metal flag-wavers Eternal Champ­ion. This month, the second album by..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Music Feature by Michael Toland

TikTok Talents, Metal Gods and Comedy Provocateurs Added as SXSW Keynotes and Speakers

With a week to go, the fest expands its speaker and podcast list

"...Row frontman Sebastian Bach about the enduring power of metal...."

March 1, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

How a Local Drummer Inspired Riz Ahmed’s Character in Sound of Metal

Revisiting Fuckemos drummer Sean Powell's Austin dives and Hollywood highs

"...early acclaim rolling in for music drama Sound of Metal – currently holding a 95% fresh rating on Rotten..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Screens Feature by Kevin Curtin

Pop, Metal, Jazz, and Some Unclassifiable Crucial Concerts

Your guide to the week in live sound

"...up – usually to signal impending doom – in movies as varied as Salò, Excalibur, Natural Born Killers, The..."

March 21, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

More Gore From Housecore Horror

New film fest adds more classics plus a locally lensed premiere

"...With NoLa metal master Phil Anselmo and Texas true crime writer Corey..."

Sept. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sound Unseen Drops Full Playlist

Online music film fest adds Bee Gees, Sound of Metal

"...Get ready for a heavy story with pounding rhythms: Sound Unseen Film/Music Festival, the..."

Oct. 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Housecore Horror Preview: Phil Anselmo

Pantera screamer dishes on horror, Danzig, and Superjoint

"...Film Festival. In honor of this monster convergence of movies and heavy metal, the singer reunites Superjoint (sans Ritual)..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...film festival, but the complete list of all the movies at this year's hybrid event. The stellar lineupreally ignites..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Housecore Horror Calls for More 'Saw

'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2' revs, plus VHS and 35mm joy

"...films from his bestselling (and rave reviewed) history of metal/horror cinema, Heavy Metal Movies...."

Aug. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Titane to Open Fantastic Fest 2021

Cannes winner heads up this year's lineup

"...gods, spurting space barbarians and a head full of metal. Yes, Fantastic Fest has announced its first wave of..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Screens Post

Savlov's Top Ten Redux Part One: The Good, the Badass, and the Weirder

Savlov's other Top Ten

"...with which to tally digits, dimes, and dames, but movies? Not so good. Even the worst year has twice..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Hello Cleveland!

Anvil frontman Steve “Lips” Kudlow wears his heart on his bondage gear

"...announced, Anvil! The Story of Anvil will go from heavy metal music legend to full-on cultural touchstone – never..."

Jan. 21, 2010 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Housecore Horror Live Shot: Saturday Part 1

Love and peace, and part two of heavy metal parking lot

"...Day two of heavy metal parking lot dawned hotter than the previous afternoon..."

Oct. 26, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

The unreleased and the oddly evasive titles from 2013

"...is that you get to see so many amazing movies that seemingly disappear without trace...."

Jan. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Adds Midnighters and More

Horror lineup announced, plus shorts and more

"...Fest has announced 10 of the most eagerly awaited movies: the gory, gross, and engrossing list of Midnighters...."

Feb. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Serious Rock & Roll Anthropology

An interview with SXSW honoree Penelope Spheeris

"...in the Decline series (the second deals with mid-Eighties heavy metal bands, the third with destitute street punks, and..."

March 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Peppermint

Jennifer Garner assumes an Alias to get revenge

"...the latest in a long line of problematic action movies. The hope for the studio is that the fight..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Rebel Radio

Four guys, six 'Star Wars' films, and endless possibilities

"...spirited and free-flowing, filled with obscure references, inside jokes, heavy sarcasm, scenes quoted verbatim from the movies, and bits..."

April 28, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s

Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe's superb history Satanic Panic revives the Eighties in all its fearful hysteria Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe's superb history revives the Eighties in all its fearful hysteria

"...of as proto-geek culture: MTV, Dungeons & Dragons, horror movies, heavy metal, punk rock. It got worse, though, with..."

March 11, 2016 Arts Feature by Marc Savlov

Point of Entry

Fun Fun Fun is Judas Priest roaring back to Austin

"...because his 45-year-old band remains so high in the heavy metal stratosphere that you don't ask the singer those..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Music Feature by Adam Ganderson

Murder by Numbers

"...director who surely doesn't need to be reminded that movies are more than just potluck stews of market-tested “elements.”..."

April 19, 2002 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Rock of Ages

Tom Cruise playing a dissolute rock god is the main attraction of this jukebox musical.

"...your particular cup of (P)oison, then the wall-to-wall hair metal and power balladry of Rock of Ages will make..."

June 15, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Housecore Horror Preview: Voivod

Nuclear winter’s never far from the Canadian thrashers

"...Technology (1987), and Dimension Hatröss (1988), wherein Voivod turned heavy metal into something truly disgusting. Mostly that was accomplished..."

Oct. 23, 2014 Music Post by Adam Ganderson

Page Two: Making Their Marks

Austin loses two legends in one week

"...who run the clubs, book the bands, program the movies, show the art, publish the books, help make the..."

July 2, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...the Beatles and Sex Pistols (sorry Oasis), Eighties hair metal bands had beaten back punk and New Wave with..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Why we write: the creative processes of the author as a human being

"...a possibly surprising choice, having cut his teeth on heavy metal docs like Last Days Here and Lamb of..."

Nov. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Everything Must Go

Tower's last hours

"...Encore Movies & Music (8820 Burnet Rd.) faces the dubious distinction..."

June 25, 2004 Music Feature by Matt Dentler

Will Video Kill the Celluloid Star?

Most loves fade over time, and the romance of a hundred-plus years of filmmaking seems to be losing its luster as well. At least, that's what the new High Definition video vanguard, led by George Lucas and Robert Rodriguez, is saying. Is video the future of film?

"...carry with it an abrupt change in the way movies are distributed and viewed) is long overdue. And make..."

June 21, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Fall Movie Round-Up

Sneaking Into Autumn

"...boys from Hell's Kitchen; the ensemble cast of male heavy-hitters is the handiwork of writer-director Barry Levinson. (Oct. 18)..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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