A blissfully ear-punishing, soul-lifting, over-amped, hair-swirling, dutifully denim-clad, skull-thrashing documentary!

The winningly quirky, consistently engaging 'Thrash, Altenessen' is a smart, bitter-sweet German documentary about hirsute, boisterous teenage thrashers, social deprivation, emotional environmental concerns, youth unemployment, and the unbreakable brotherhood of metal! This gloriously uplifting German TV special features fun, in-depth interviews with the various band members, their families, and a goodly amount of deliciously damaging live performances from Teutonic metal titans Kreator, with a delightfully naive contribution from noisy teenage metallions 'Anton B' all make Thomas Schadt's compelling 'Thrash, Altenessen' a speaker-shattering must-see for youthfully pristine metal-heads, or seasoned thrashers whose joints are a little more rusted!

'Thrash, Altenessen' is a revealing, uncommonly fascinating, endearingly earnest, Tootsie-warmingly nostalgic, relatively unknown music documentary that deserves a much wider audience, and I'd love to see this remarkable heavy metal time-capsule lovingly remastered with English subtitles, and properly mixed, rivet-rockingly loud sound! As an aside, this is also the most appealingly beer-friendly documentary I can ever recall seeing, an especially edifying sight in an era of terminally bland Tofu tit-hats, seaweed sucking simpletons, and Keto-crippled cretins, it's a profound joy to witness so many stalwart fists happily clenched round a bottle of beer in one fabulously frothy film! Raise your horns!!!! As Thomas Schadt's blissfully ear-punishing, soul-lifting, over-amped, hair-swirling, dutifully denim-clad, skull-thrashing documentary celebrates one of the more exhilarating musical innovations of the 1980s. Prost!!!

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The music genre features stories showcasing musical performances, music-related documentaries and recordings of live concerts and music festivals.

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Thrash, Altenessen - Ein Film aus dem Ruhrgebiet

Thrash, Altenessen - Ein Film aus dem Ruhrgebiet (1989)

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