Of course, when those dads areGame of Thronesco-creatorD.B.
Weissand legendaryRage Against the MachineguitaristTom Morello, it makes things feel a bit more legit.
They can’t find a bass player who’d rather play Black Sabbath than Ed Sheeran.
Adrian Greensmith and Jaeden Martell in ‘Metal Lords’.SCOTT PATRICK GREEN/NETFLIX
“Metal Lordsis this generation’s rock & roll movie, that’s it,” Morello adds.
That’s what it did for me this music changed my life in a deeply real and profound way.
WEISS:I would say prettylooselybased on my experiences.
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TOM MORELLO:[Laughs.]
How did you two meet and decide to work together on this movie?
MORELLO:Dan and I are heavy metal dads at school.
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Our sons are friends and play in a band together actually.
He asked me to be a part of it, and for me, it was pretty low-hanging fruit.
I was very, very excited.
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Heavy metal music is the music that made me love music.
It’s the music that made me want to play music.
Were you guys more like Kevin or Hunter when you were younger?
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It’s finding different sides of yourself.
MORELLO:I was a full-on Hunter.
All Hunter, 100 percent.
WEISS:[Laughs] All Hunter, all the time?
MORELLO:It was a mission.
And with dreams that big, too.
WEISS:It’s maybe why your band worked out better than mine.
Or at least, some people say.
MORELLO:My high school band did win the Battle of the Bands, by the way.
I’m not surprised at all.
When you two first got together to talk about this movie, how did that meeting go?
WEISS:Meetingmight be a big word for it.
It may have been drinking beer at The Rainbow, that may have been the meeting.
I knew that he would be the perfect person to take this on.
To this day, I feel very, very lucky that he said yes.
MORELLO:It was an easy sell.
Was it essentially like making your ultimate heavy metal playlist?
MORELLO:The soundtrack is spectacular.
And my wife, Denise, is the music supervisor, and she’s metal too.
I mean, that’s why I married her, in part.
But it was great to have family heavy metal playlist listening time while driving our kids.
[Laughs] Which is right!
WEISS:I love that metal has become, “What’s wrong with your parents?”
MORELLO:[Laughs] As opposed to, “What’s wrong withyou?”
WEISS:Isn’t that just the best?
Are you two planning to work together on more projects after this movie?
We have a lot of similar interests, and so I’d be happy to.
WEISS:We collaborate on frequent Dungeons & Dragons games together.
MORELLO:Yeah, absolutely.
It doesn’t feel like it’s work at all.
MORELLO:As a matter of fact, I did.
I got to undo a good deal of the excellent professional mentoring that they received.
Only one of the three actors had been a musician prior to the film.
And I told them to throw all of that out when it came time to perform it.
They understood how to play the music.
And that’s an entirely different category.
WEISS:[Laughs] Somebody who looked impaired for undefined reasons.
Notice that there’s notes on this, and there’s nothing precise.
You just have to inhabit that sort of feeling.
WEISS:I remember you also sent Jaeden; there was a drum battle between …
I think it was between somebody and Animal fromThe Muppets?
I said, “Just do what that guy does.”
Let me tell you, Animal understands.
WEISS:That guy gets it.
Tom, have you ever had any major disasters happen while performing onstage?
MORELLO:Nothing but mishaps.
Horrific embarrassments and whatnot.
I mean, I can’t even remember my top 10 list.
It’s just cringe.
I’ve tried to put them all in a dark drawer and lock them away.
I’m just standing there with an unplugged guitar.
WEISS:[Laughs] I’m going to have to hunt for this now.
I’m going to spend all day trying to [find video evidence].
MORELLO:It might be on there.
I told our publicist to delete it from the internet.
Metal Lordsis now streaming on Netflix.
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