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For a picture virtually loftier school outcasts who find their escape through heavy metal music, it's appropriate that the idea for Metal Lords started in the hallways of a school. But Netflix'southward new coming-of-historic period comedy didn't come from the minds of teens who play together in a band — information technology actually came from their dads.
Written and produced past Weiss with Morello as the executive music producer, Metal Lords stars Jaeden Martell and Adrian Greensmith every bit BFFs Kevin and Hunter who want to form a heavy metal band to shred at their high school's Battle of the Bands. The merely problem? They can't observe a bass player who'd rather play Black Sabbath than Ed Sheeran. "It's a moving picture about kids who feel like they don't fit in, learning to navigate their ain lives and each other and how to not fit in together," Weiss tells EW.
"Metal Lords is this generation'due south rock & roll picture, that'south it," Morello adds. "At a time where stone and heavy metal is not at the top of the charts, it'south a reminder of the nascent power of this music to alter people's lives. That's what it did for me — this music changed my life in a deeply real and profound way. And it's a reminder that the potential of people who are outsiders, who are on the periphery of the social castes in high school, accept a latent potential inside them that can exist tapped, and that music is a conduit to borer into that."
Below, EW got Weiss and Morello to reveal the wild story of how they came together to make Metallic Lords, the surprising connection between The Muppets and heavy metallic music, and and so much more.
Adrian Greensmith and Jaeden Martell in 'Metal Lords'.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This is the kind of movie that I wish existed when I was growing up. Where did yous get the thought for Metal Lords?
D.B. WEISS: I think it'due south the kind of pic that maybe did exist when y'all were younger, just with less metal in it. [Laughs] The idea came very loosely from experiences that I had when I was the age of the characters in the movie, trying to play music, failing to play music, and the situations that came out of that in the suburb that I grew upwards in. Information technology started to seem like possibly in that location was a fun, contained, heartwarming, grounded story in but a couple of kids trying to figure out how they might fit in with each other when they don't seem to fit in anywhere else.
Since this was based on your own experiences, does that mean you lot competed in a Battle of the Bands when you were younger?
WEISS: I would say pretty loosely based on my experiences. We did. There were numerous battles of the bands that we competed in and, I'thou going to gauge, not won.
TOM MORELLO: [Laughs.]
WEISS: I'1000 just thinking about the level of play and the level of showmanship involved, and if I'yard going to exist completely honest, we probably got one of those participation trophies, the kind they give out to you lot in some suburbs.
How did you two meet and decide to piece of work together on this flick?
MORELLO: Dan and I are heavy metal dads at school. Our sons are friends and play in a band together really. Dan was the guy with a heavy metal T-shirt on in the hallway, and I was the guy with the Judas Priest or Iron Maiden t-shirt, and we bonded over that. We're from the Northern suburbs of Chicago besides so there'south ever Cubs and Blackhawks talk and whatnot. So nosotros've been friends for quite some time, and when Dan called me up i day and said, "I'm making a moving-picture show called Metal Lords, a coming-of-age motion picture with suburban teens," I was like, "That'due south my life story." He asked me to exist a part of information technology, and for me, it was pretty depression-hanging fruit. I was very, very excited. Heavy metal music is the music that made me honey music. It's the music that made me desire to play music. I see myself in some of the protagonists in this film, kids who practice not have power and do not have purpose and exercise not have meaning or connection, finding all of those things with music, heavy metallic music in particular, as the conduit.
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Were you guys more similar Kevin or Hunter when you were younger?
WEISS: It's funny; I feel like I've probably alternately been various dissimilar Hunters and Kevins in my life, depending on circumstances. It's finding different sides of yourself. And I was definitely friends with a number of Hunters over the years and friends with a number of Kevins over the years and so it's almost drawing on the diverse different strategies you used at any given time to deal with any arduousness's in front of yous. And those guys are two different coping strategies, I gauge you could phone call them, neither of which is necessarily ideal on its own, at to the lowest degree where they're at the first of the picture. But hopefully, they find their mode through, through the intercession of Emily [Isis Hainsworth] specially, to a better fashion of facing what they're facing in their lives.
MORELLO: I was a total-on Hunter. All Hunter, 100 percentage.
WEISS: [Laughs] All Hunter, all the fourth dimension?
MORELLO: Information technology was a mission. And I simply had to find people that were equally committed to rock & roll every bit I was, which was hard to do. And with dreams that big, too. I recall my band had never played a bear witness and I was sketching stages at Soldier Field, similar where the Bears play. [Laughs] "This is what the stage setup is going to await like when we're playing in front of 80,000 people."
WEISS: It'due south mayhap why your band worked out better than mine. Or at to the lowest degree, some people say.
MORELLO: My high school band did win the Boxing of the Bands, by the way.
I'm not surprised at all.
MORELLO: Despite the fact we were the least musically skillful, just we had the holy spirit of rock & roll.
When you 2 first got together to talk about this movie, how did that meeting go?
WEISS: Meeting might exist a big word for information technology. Information technology may have been drinking beer at The Rainbow, that may have been the meeting. [Laughs] I just knew that there were things that I could not bring to this on my own. And I knew that I happened to be drinking beer at The Rainbow with somebody who lived this music and who had this music in his basic in a way that I never could in a one thousand thousand years. And then I sort of asked, begged, and pleaded Tom to exist a function of it and to give his metal wisdom to the project as a whole and his musical understanding of what it ways to be a kid playing music on the outside of the high school culture that he lives in, and all that stuff. I knew that he would be the perfect person to accept this on. To this twenty-four hour period, I feel very, very lucky that he said yes.
MORELLO: It was an easy sell. I've made 22 records, but this is the first time where I was asked to make a tape that was — I've fabricated records that are heavy metallic and rap, and heavy metallic and culling, and heavy metal and EDM, and the theme song "Machinery of Torment," the idea was this is going to be a song that's heavy metal with more than heavy metal.
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Tom, what was it like for you not just getting to write "Machinery of Torment" only also getting to curate the soundtrack for the movie? Was it essentially similar making your ultimate heavy metallic playlist?
MORELLO: The soundtrack is spectacular. And my wife, Denise, is the music supervisor, and she's metal too. I hateful, that's why I married her, in part. [Laughs] She has a depth and latitude and was suggesting songs that were even sometimes outside of my experience. But it was great to accept family heavy metallic playlist listening time while driving our kids. My oldest son is a big fan of BTS, so when we're trying to choose betwixt which deep cut Judas Priest track and which Celtic Frost runway to put in there, he'south simply like, "What's wrong with my parents?" [Laughs] Which is correct! Metallic should always be out for the outsider, whether it's generational, in one direction, or the other.
WEISS: I honey that metal has become, "What'southward wrong with your parents?"
MORELLO: [Laughs] As opposed to, "What'southward incorrect with you?"
WEISS: Isn't that only the all-time?
MORELLO: I remember that's the sequel. Metal Lords ii is when they have kids who are fans of K-pop groups...
You lot joke, merely I would absolutely watch that. Are you two planning to work together on more projects after this movie?
WEISS: There'southward some things nosotros've spoken about in more abstract terms and less abstruse terms, but I would love to.
MORELLO: Yeah, Dan and I are expert friends, and at that place'due south something about a Chicago person who loves metal — that'southward kind of my tribe. We take a lot of similar interests, and so I'd be happy to.
WEISS: We collaborate on frequent Dungeons & Dragons games together.
MORELLO: Yeah, admittedly. It doesn't feel like information technology'due south piece of work at all. I mean, Dan works actually, really difficult at making his movies but having a collaborative process that has to practise with metal or under that umbrella is nothing but a pleasure.
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Tom, did yous go to mentor the younger actors when it came to performing and playing music in the movie?
MORELLO: Equally a matter of fact, I did. I got to undo a good deal of the excellent professional mentoring that they received. [Laughs] They all learned to play the song "Machinery of Torment" on their instruments really precisely. Only one of the 3 actors had been a musician prior to the film. And all three of them, very credibly, pull off playing their instruments in a non just camera-gear up way, but in a really in-person convincing mode. And I told them to throw all of that out when it came time to perform information technology. They understood how to play the music.
But the key matter in the alive functioning was to understand what you've got to experience similar when you love that music, and you're playing it. And that'southward an entirely different category. At that place was this kind of mood board I sent, a lot of outrageous all-caps messages during the days when they were filming it, similar, "If you think you're rocking wildly enough, yous're at x percentage. If you lot're embarrassed at the grimacing on your confront and believe information technology'southward also barbaric, you lot haven't begun to grimace nonetheless." I sent a pic of the singer of Metallica making some outrageous bellowing, a motion-picture show of a snarling jaguar, and a picture of someone, a gentleman, who had but burst a beer canteen over his head and was in a barbarian rage.
WEISS: [Laughs] Somebody who looked impaired for undefined reasons.
MORELLO: And I said, "Permit that be your only guide for how yous are to behave during this scene." Notice that there's notes on this, and there's nothing precise. You simply have to inhabit that sort of feeling.
WEISS: I remember yous also sent Jaeden; there was a drum battle between … I retrieve it was betwixt somebody and Fauna from The Muppets?
MORELLO: Yes! I said, "Just do what that guy does." Permit me tell you, Animal understands.
WEISS: That guy gets it.
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Tom, have you ever had any major disasters happen while performing onstage?
MORELLO: Nothing but mishaps. Oh, sure. Sure. Horrific embarrassments and whatnot. I mean, I tin't even call back my top 10 list. It'southward just blench. I've tried to put them all in a night drawer and lock them abroad. At that place was ane time where I was playing Reading Festival in England, which is a large festival, similar 60,000 people, and the show was being filmed for Europe, so information technology's a large deal. I had this special, fancy guitar move to redefine the instrument that was similar pulling out the jack and doing this thing that everyone in the The states had gone crazy over and now the entire continent of Europe is going to marvel at my inspirational genius that I'm nigh to drib on them. [Laughs] The one thing that I didn't cistron in was the plugs are unlike at that place, and then something that works with the electricity here — and there's no soundcheck at Reading, you just curlicue out and play — then I unplug the guitar, and I'k going to tap information technology to the metal, and information technology's going to make this crazy estimator noise, and everyone's going to realize how crawly it is. And information technology just goes [makes quiet pop sound] equally the camera zooms in. I'm only standing there with an unplugged guitar. And and so I sheepishly plug it back in, play a few Chuck Berry licks, and went back to the hotel and cried myself to sleep.
WEISS: [Laughs] I'm going to take to hunt for this now. I'm going to spend all day trying to [discover video evidence].
MORELLO: It might be on there. I told our publicist to delete it from the internet.
Metal Lords is now streaming on Netflix.
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