| Ep | Type | Title | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Bonus Clips | Heavy - The Story of Metal: Heavy Q and A | 5/26/06 | |
| 101 | Bonus Clips | Heavy - The Story of Metal: Heavy Rants | 5/22/06 |
Episodes
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Date: 5/25/06
Hour 4: Seek and Destroy takes a walk on the dark side: Guns N' Roses, Metallica, thrash, Nu metal (Korn, Limp Bizkit), and how the music and images of Marilyn Manson became associated with the...Read Full Summary
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Date: 5/24/06
Hour 3: Looks That Kill sees metal thrive in, of all places, sunny California. Quiet Riot, Motley Crue - it's the world of metal on the sunset strip. And, keeping everyone's Jacuzzi-soaked...Read Full Summary
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Date: 5/23/06
Hour 2: British Steel examines metal's growing pains during the 70's when both high-brow rock critics and punk rock threatened its very existence. By decade's end, bands such as Judas...Read Full Summary
Ep. 104: Heavy: The Story of Metal (Part 4)
Ep. 103: Heavy: The Story of Metal (Part 3)
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About Heavy: The Story of Metal
Metal is rock's untamed wild child. Metal is rude, crude, irreverent and irrepressibly loud. Metal is rock and roll just as it's supposed to be, which is why everyone from Black Sabbath to Iron Maiden to Motley Crue to Slayer to Slipknot, have been hated by critics, feared by parents, attacked by politicians, and blamed for most of the world's ills. So how did a combination of the devil and decibels become such an irresistible lure to generations of metal fans around the world?
What Ken Burns did for jazz, VH1 does for heavy metal - only a lot louder. Heavy: The Story of Metal, traces the evolution of heavy metal music and culture, from its dark, grim beginnings in Birmingham, England to the worldwide force that it remains to this day.
In a series of four chronological hours, Heavy: The Story of Metal, explores four decades of music, each hour examining this powerful and often misunderstood genre, from metal's pioneers to its love of glam and excess; from the fight for metal's rebellious soul to its storied flirtation with the devil.
