There are several things about this documentary that are less than stellar, but the editing is the absolute worst.
While the overall story is mostly told in chronological order, there's a lot of unnecessary jumping back and forth in time. The clips of artist interviews often have nothing to do with the scenes before or after them. Album covers are shown while another artist's song plays. A few concert clips go on a little too long for the overall format of the movie. The same can be said of several interview clips.
An excessive amount of time is spent talking about punk, while many metal genres are never even mentioned. Thrash metal icons James Hetfield and Scott Ian are both interviewed but the movie doesn't delve into thrash. The movie cites Alice Cooper's (very valid) influence on glam but also give him credit for Ghost with absolutely no mention of Mercyful Fate. Sixx A. M. is included but Motley Crüe is barely mentioned. The movie is named after a Slade tune popularized by Quiet Riot but the connection is never made when Slade is shown and, as far as I recall, Quiet Riot was never even mentioned.
It's pretty much a mess and there are far better metal documentaries that put this one to shame.
While the overall story is mostly told in chronological order, there's a lot of unnecessary jumping back and forth in time. The clips of artist interviews often have nothing to do with the scenes before or after them. Album covers are shown while another artist's song plays. A few concert clips go on a little too long for the overall format of the movie. The same can be said of several interview clips.
An excessive amount of time is spent talking about punk, while many metal genres are never even mentioned. Thrash metal icons James Hetfield and Scott Ian are both interviewed but the movie doesn't delve into thrash. The movie cites Alice Cooper's (very valid) influence on glam but also give him credit for Ghost with absolutely no mention of Mercyful Fate. Sixx A. M. is included but Motley Crüe is barely mentioned. The movie is named after a Slade tune popularized by Quiet Riot but the connection is never made when Slade is shown and, as far as I recall, Quiet Riot was never even mentioned.
It's pretty much a mess and there are far better metal documentaries that put this one to shame.