Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story (opens in new tab)

Adam Dubin, 2019, ★★★ None of the tunes and few of the faces and stories in this doc will be unfamiliar to thrash aficionados, but as someone who always felt a strong connection to the music and no connection at all to the beer-soaked mayhem that fueled it, I was most interested in the glancing references made to the adults in the room, some of whom were new to me. Metal Blade Records honcho Brian Slagel; Ruthie’s Inn proprietor/promoter Wes Robinson (notably the only prominent Black face in ...