Ok, so last week we re-watched Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, the documentary about the production of the band's Nu-Metal impersonation album.
Oh my god, it's worse than we remember.
Lars and James bicker like a couple of tweens:
James and Lars defend their turf:
Poor Kirk is stuck in the middle.
Throughout the doc is therapist Phil Towle who starts off as a concerned professional helping the band (four $40,000 a month) but by the end is goddamn Yoko Ono on SF Bay.
One scene is remarkable though. Behold:
Mustaine is a metal god in his own right. He wrote Rust in Peace, one of the ten greatest albums ever. Yet here we see him, his heart broken over being thrown out of the band in 1983. It's clear he remembers every second of the day they tossed him out and he still feels it. He talks about getting into a fight with Phil Sandoval of Armored Saint, 'He pushed you down and he hurt you. And I made sure he didn't hurt you again.'
The most profound moment in this documentary, and them most profound moment we have seen in any documentary.
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