There are plenty of coming-of-age teen comedy dramas in which the principal protagonist makes a casual remark about a band they enjoy or hangs rock band posters on their bedroom walls. If a movie is about a musician, the soundtrack is usually popular indie, with the protagonist wielding a guitar and singing the flowery song they penned for their crush as if they're the next Ed Sheeran or Shawn Mendes. Metal Lords, written by D.B Weiss, the showrunner of Game of Thrones, tries to defy preconceptions and be a sincere homage to metal. Metal Lords is a touching love letter to youthful metal fans and the genre as a whole.

Hunter (Adrian Greensmith) is a die-hard metal fan who values the art for what it is musically and for what the genre stands for as a whole. To win the high school's Battle of the Bands, he gets his lifelong best buddy, the quiet and nerdy Kevin (Jaeden Martell), to join his band, SkullFucker. Kevin next introduces Emily (Isis Hainsworth), a transfer student with a fiery personality and a fondness for the cello. Hunter and Kevin have always been buddies, but Hunter went through a transformation when his home situation changed, and he turned to metal for solace.

Hunter, like most individuals who take a casual interest in metal, picked up on the aesthetic and "bad boy" image espoused by the members of many of his favourite bands. In the end, this trip to win the Battle of the Bands will be a re-education in how to be a band and embrace imperfection for him, Kevin, and Emily.

In almost every adolescent film, there is a scene that reintroduces the spectator to the various cliques that make up high school. There is always a table of kids covered in heavy make-up, wearing damaged t-shirts and trousers, and sporting jagged pieces of metal or tattoos on their bodies. Metal Lords changes the narrative, bringing individuals from the periphery to the centre of attention – but with a twist. These youngsters are truly quite ordinary. The plot follows a conventional pattern: outcasts band together to defy societal expectations, and the group gets to peep into each other's lives, grow to love an unique item that connects them, challenge themselves, and fall in love along the way.
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SIBY JEYYA

18/04/2022 08:00 AM