With director Peter Sollet’s Metal Lords now streaming on Netflix, I recently spoke to Jaeden Martell, Isis Hainsworth, and Adrian Greensmith) about making the heavy metal high school movie. If you haven’t seen the trailer, Metal Lords is about two friends (Greensmith and Martell) that decide to form a heavy metal band to compete in the Battle of the Bands. Unfortunately, finding a bassist is a struggle, and it’s not until they recruit Hainsworth that they have a chance to win. Like all high school set movies, the film also deals with hormones, parents, fellow students, and teen angst. Metal Lords also stars Noah Urrea, Analesa Fisher, Michelle Fang, Phelan Davis, Brett Gelman, Sufe Bradshaw, and Joe Manganiello. Game of Thrones’ D.B. Weiss wrote and produced the movie while Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello was the executive music producer. During the interview, Martell, Isis Hainsworth, and Greensmith talked about what scenes made they nervous before filming began, what band they’d love to see if they
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