You look, make the sound louder. First of all, this film should not be confused with the four-part history of metal "Heavy: The Story of Metal", once shown on MTV. Heavy Metal: Louder Than Life, despite the strange translation of its title, does not tell the story of Heavy Metal Rock, but rather talks about HMR as a musical phenomenon. The film is intended for HMR fans; others watch with caution, preferably in the presence of their parents.
The list of “actors playing themselves” is enough to tell you that it’s worth watching. It doesn’t matter what percentage of information is new to you: this film is not a reference book or an encyclopedia. Therefore, claims about the absence of certain groups or entire directions that can be presented to the ambitious “Heavy: The Story of Metal” are meaningless here. The authors of Heavy Metal: Louder Than Life featured the music of HMR, HMR musicians and HMR percipients, and their point of view is well within the limits of what is acceptable. Of course, every HMR fan (particularly long-time fans, and there are few others now) has an opinion on all the issues raised in the film – from the relative importance of the riff and the chorus to the role of sex and drugs – and we would have made a better movie than Dick Carruthers, but we haven’t yet. And it happened to him, and it turned out a very integral picture: music, interviews with legends and the reasoning of mere mortals (producers, journalists, psychologists, etc.) successfully complement the friend, and the film does not turn into a haphazard bunch, which could well happen. In addition, the actual material is very interesting: well, how else would we know that Ronnie James Dio considered the best song in the history of rock music Motorhead’s “Louie, Louie?”
9 out of 10