Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story

Having lived through and loved the thrash scene in the 80s I was looking forward to watching this. It did have some rough old footage and certainly nailed it with the cast, but I was hoping for a little more in terms of insight, or maybe there isn't any to be had!! It's all very familiar in the formulaic documentary style of talking heads all talking about the same incident or event. I suppose I shouldn't expect better footage from an 80s underground scene so maybe I was asking too much. Cliff Burton parts were well done and quite moving. I just think it didn't needed to have so much focus on the drinking and stupidity, with so little emphasis on the musicianship which seems to be sidelined here. In fact those musicians from that thrash era were ground breaking and technically brilliant. That was the appeal I guess. Passionate about the music and not taking yourself too seriously. It was riot!