The Rocker vertelt het verhaal over een mislukte drummer. Robert "Fish" Fisherman is een gepassioneerde drummer die in de jaren tachtig in de band "Vesuvius" heeft gespeeld en kort daarna eruit is getrapt. Twintig jaar later nadat zijn rock-fantasieën zijn verwoest, komt zijn neef hem vertellen dat zijn schoolband A.D.D. een nieuwe drummer zoekt. Hij stemt in en wordt de nieuwste bandlid, maar probeert zijn beste beentje voor te zetten zodat hij niet weer met zijn neus in de boter valt.
Bob Larson interviews various metal bands and talks about their satanic influence on the youth. Featuring Slayer, Lȧȧz Rockit, and some lame Christian Metal guy.
In different times and spaces, genres like Death Metal are born. The early 90′s were still full of the 80′s vibe of over-consumption & greed, which found it’s way into everyday life, even into the music that was created. Just like hardcore in the early 80′s, not all of the teenagers of this decade wanted to hear the bubblegum pop that had invaded the airwaves. Death Metal did not want to be digested by the masses, and as a sub culture it was totally happy being the outsider. I’m not sure what was in the water in Florida during the late 80′s, because those kids were on some next shit, and they helped push the genre to other heights. When you are living in a certain period of time, you do realize that the life you are living could become historic to others in the future.
The film describes the microcosmos of the small village Wacken and shows the clash of the cultures, before and during the biggest heavy metal festival in Europe.
Recorded live on April 3, 1985 at Studio 54 in New York. Live footage and interviews with Slayer, Venom & Exodus. Venom's live clips are from other videos because Mantas had chickenpox.
In the winter of 1988, in the depths of the Iraq/Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked by chemical weapons with all its people and their different stories.