How did the whole idea for the documentary come out?
Basically it was about 5 and a half years ago, at that time I was actually finishing my degree on Anthropology, it was a Masters degree, and I started to become interested in looking at the history of Heavy Metal music, Ive been a metal fan since I was like really young, Ive played in a metal band since I was like 11 or 12 years old, so it has always been a part of me but I wanted to, I was interested in writing a book about metal, because no one actually at that time had done like a comprehensive history of Heavy Metal, I shared the idea with my friend Scott who is my fellow director, producer and writer on the documentary, and he said may be it would make a good documentary and we did some research and discovered that no one had ever done a real in depth documentary on Heavy Metal music, anything that had been done on film about metal was basically Spinal Tap, The Decline of Western Civilization part 2, Waynes World, like a few behind the music episodes but no real documentary about
