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• Red Hot Chili Peppers - In Performance | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (-27.70%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The biggest success of the new millennium this fantastic DVD and book set investigates the phenomenal success of a band that has at times circled self-destruction like a shark around a swimmer. Through critical study and frank admiration experience the Red Hot Chili Peppers In Performance. This includes classic live performance footage of the band in action an interview with Joel McIver - as well as being a prolific rock journalist McIver published one of the best books on the

• Metallica - Aural Amphetamine | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  While Heavy Metal is often accused of being static and conservative in truth it is a radical form that regularly re-invents itself and one which attracts generation after generation of musicians willing to learn from the past but hungry to evolve the future. And so it was that in the early 1980s a young man called Lars Ulrich was so taken by the New Wave of British 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 and with his buddies listen to them - until they came up with a genre of their own soon be termed Thrash Metal. This film is a study and review of this new dawn in rock music and with the aid of those who were there at the time presents both the story of this fascinating musical journey and reassess the sounds the bands the impact and the legacy of Thrash. Contains interviews with members of Metallica Megadeth Machine Head Diamond Head Elixir Neurosis Laaz Rockit Sacrilege BC and others. Performance footage of all the pivotal Thrash bands review and re-assessment from journalists Malcolm Dome Lonn Friend and Joel McIver.