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I Got In With A Heavy Metal Band In 1988. Revealing Footage

2025-03-09 News & Politics
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To see him 35 years later go here: https://youtu.be/u2roFZSr90g Back in 1986, my team filmed a local heavy-metal hard-core band in Belfast Maine called Hatred (later they became the band Weapons). The band members were wonderfully articulate teenagers heavily influenced by Metallica, Motley Crue, Black Flag, Slayer, Exodus and others. They had dropped out of school and were competing in a battle of the bands competition. I didn't understand Heavy Metal at the time but I found these young men expressive – good folk. Some time ago I posted an interview with lead singer head banger Eddie and his mom debating whether or not this music was the music of Satan. The interview is very popular with my YouTube audience and so I have posted this video to further tell their story and give a sense of their experience with the music and the local people in Maine who had come to hear their band and others. At the end of this video, Eddie remembers back on that time from December 2020. Please continue to support David at Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/allinaday12 Patreon: patreon.com/allinaday Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davidhoffmanfilms

Top Comments (10)

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker 2025-03-12

To see him 35 years later go here: https://youtu.be/u2roFZSr90g

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@JohnnyTudesco 2025-03-10

I’m 52 and I still wear my BLACK FLAG T-shirt.

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@SusannahPerri 2025-03-09

I love hearing those teenagers and their desire to keep going, never give up. I agree with him at the end, they are rarely seeking trouble or actual violence, only to express themselves.

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@ronaldgarrison8478 2025-03-10

For a second, I thought that guy said his band was called Van Hatred. That would actually be pretty cool.

121 12 replies
@stevenqbosell 2025-03-09

David your diversity of subjects is always awesome.

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@Gregponder-bp2ix 2025-03-11

Life-long Metal head at 57 now. Very cool and interesting video 🤘🏻

32 1 replies
@infinitezebra 2025-03-09

This was you?! Nice! I’ve seen clips of this before.

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@littlemark01 2025-03-10

So many bands had this same attitude in the eighties, do or or die! A few of us are still making music today

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@shannonjones3714 2025-03-10

Awesome video! I’m 57 and still at it. Thanks for sharing this with us!

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@MOTODAZE 2025-03-11

Metalhead of 45 years. Attend gigs regularly with my Son. He now sees all the bands I watched from back in the 80's and 90's. Its a life long and generational thing for us.

15 2 replies

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