The documentary premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 11, but a wider release date hasn’t been announced
“Why are you listening to this white people music?!”
I missed the news of this when it was first revealed back in April that the documentary was coming, but, weirdly, the band has said nothing about when it’ll get a wider release.
It looks good, though. I confess I haven’t been a fan for a long time, although I do still throw the older albums on (up to and including Load and Reload, both pretty underrated).
And, to be honest, Some Kind of Monster really spoiled the myth of the band for me. “Never meet your heroes”, as the saying goes, and that film revealed way too much. (I’m all for getting feelings out into the open, but I saw a lot of petty, childish shit in that film.)
This one, on the other hand, is about the fans. I’m into that idea. You’ll spot a few celebrity faces in the teaser, too.
Frontman James Hetfield says: “It all started with a friend of ours, Jim Breuer, who is a comedian that was opening up for us in the arena tour, and he was traveling around with a lot of these fans and just kind of got to know them staying in the Airbnbs with them. And he says, “James, you have got to hear these fricking stories.”
“They’re unbelievable – where these people came from, how they got into music and why.” … Such deep emotional human stories. So he’s the one that inspired this in a way. We didn’t know what to do with it at first. What? Do you just do a podcast or blah, blah, blah? It’s, like, no. Let’s get together. And everyone knows our bio; we wanna get the fans’ bios out there.”
There are some more quotes from Hetfield, and Lars Ulrich, in the video above, or you can read them here at sonicperspectives.com.
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