Aural Amphetamine: Metallica and the Dawn of Thrash

2008 · Movie · 91 min

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Made first for older men 1

Aural Amphetamine: Metallica and the Dawn of Thrash's audience scores lean most toward older men at 69 of 100, with comparable appeal to young men 1. Its overall reach is rated mainstream — mainstream, general-audience reach 2. Relative to the expected cast make-up for its production origin, on-screen representation registers above the baseline for White and mixed-heritage and below it for Black and Hispanic 3. On content balance it reads entertainment-first at 0 of 100, weighting storytelling over explicit messaging 4.

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    Audience scoreolder men 69 of 100 is the top quadrant, with young men 64 close behind.WhatSphere audience model, score_version 1
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    ReachAudience breadth rated mainstream.WhatSphere audience model, score_version 1
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    RepresentationRepresentation vs production-origin baseline: White 81, mixed-heritage 81, Black 26, Hispanic 28.WhatSphere representation model, score_version 1
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    Content balanceContent balance entertainment-first at 0 of 100.WhatSphere content-balance model, score_version 1

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Primary audienceOlder MenOlder Men69
Young MaleYoung FemaleMature MaleMature Female
Primary audienceOlder Men
Mainstream

Quadrant Scores

Young Men
64
Young Women
31
Older Men
69
Older Women
36
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Audience Representation

White
81
Black
26
Hispanic
28
Asian
38
South Asian
46
Middle Eastern
48
Indigenous
48
Mixed
81
Other
48
LGBTQ+
0

Faithfulness

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Synopsis

While Heavy Metal is often accused of being static and conservative, in truth it is a radical form that regularly re-invents itself, and one which attracts generation after generation of musicians willing to learn from the past, but hungry to evolve the future. And so it was that, in the early 1980s, a young man named Lars Ulrich was so taken by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, then creating music paper headlines in the UK, that he came to England to track down obscure records, take them home to LA and, with his buddies, listen to them - until they came up with a genre of their own, soon be termed Thrash Metal.

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