Death by Metal (2016)

Death by Metal: Directed by Felipe Belalcazar. With Steve DiGiorgio, Gene Hoglan, Bobby Koelble, Terry Butler. The story of the influential American death metal band ‘Death’ from Orlando, Florida, founded in 1983 by the late guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner.

“Interviews with a handful of revolving band members and metal magazine writers and their only mentioned (and shown) manager.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePersonally, went from Guns u0026#39;N Roses to Metallica to Megadeth then straight to a given audio cassette dub of whatever album Zombie Ritual was on. Probably an early one. Started me on death metal just fine and started me phasing out Peter Gabrielu0026#39;s Sledgehammer.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThat manager was fired by Chuck Schuldiner, the founder and owner of Death. Chuck blames him for mishandling their financial funding and the manager (who is honest and telling and sits in front of his piano for some reason (possibly to differentiate himself from the leather jackets or black shirts that everyone else wears)) for having to get an advance in payment for their European tour. They blame each other.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe interviews go into: the struggles with the band and Chucku0026#39;s problem with fulfilling European tour dates and winning back their fans and failing. The acceptance of his musical career from his mother while they shook the house roof from the garage. Chucku0026#39;s ability to sing like he could fill in for King Diamond when King had a heart attack. Pulling the band into a more progressive death metal. And Chucku0026#39;s mortality.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWould have liked if it had gone into who designed the album covers, but that credit might be in the always cigarette smelling cassette tape sleeves.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eGood work and excellent documentary on very special death metal! Especially with the footage, interviews and still shots, thatu0026#39;s a 9!”