While Heavy Metal is often accused of being static & conservative, in truth it is a radical from that regularly re-invents itself, & onfe which attracts generation after generation of musicians willing to learn from the past, but hungry to evolve with the future. & so it was that, in the early 1980s, a young man called Lars Ulrich was so taken by the New Wave of Britisch 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 &, with his buddies, listen to them
- until they came up with a genre of their own, soon be termed Trash Metal. This film is a study & review of this new dawn in rock music, & with the aid of thos who were there at the time, presents both the story of this fascinating musical journey & reassess the sounds, the bands, the impact & the legacy of Trash.