2022: The year of rock and metal in the film and entertainment industry

So far this year, several films and television series have been released, which have stood out for having iconic themes from Hard stone Y thrash-metalamong others.

the batman

At the beginning of the year, on March 4, it hit theaters the batman Film that narrates the first years of the vigilante detective and explores the latent corruption that exists within Gotham City. The film directed by Matt Reeves and starring Robert Pattinson was acclaimed by critics and audiences, and not only for the film’s great fidelity to its comic book counterpart, but also for the inclusion of Something on the road of Nirvana. This song, in the words of the director himself, served as inspiration for the construction of the leading character, Bruce Wayne.

Something on the road belongs to Nirvana’s second studio album, No matterpublished in September 1991. Due to its appearance in the batmanthe song peaked at number two on Billboard’s US Rock Digital Song Sales chart and number five on their US Alternative Digital Song Sales charts. In addition to this, Something in the way registered a 1200% increase in reproductions on the streaming platform, Spotify.

metal lords

Having overcome the fever by Nirvana Y the batmanon the streaming platform, Netflix, premiered metal lords on April 8. Directed by Peter Sollet and starring Jaeden Martell, this film tells the story of three metal-loving students who yearn to make history in a school battle of the bands. However, what stands out most about the film is its soundtrack and the funny cameos of Scott Ian, tom morello, Kirk Hammett Y Rob Halford.

Perhaps this film is not the best so far this year, but, as we mentioned, it has a great soundtrack that will make more than one sing and play guitar solos in the air, as it includes pieces like War Pigs either For whom the Bell Tolls. Here is a list of some of the songs heard in the film:

• metal gods – jude priest
• The soldier – Iron Maiden
• Long live the king – seven times avenged
• Analgesic – jude priest
• For whom the Bell Tolls – metallic
• War Pigs – black sabbath
• blood and thunder – Mastodon
• Ace of spades – motorhead

stranger things 4

continuing with the great surprises that this 2022 has left us in terms of rock and metal, we have Weird Stuff. After more than two years of having premiered the third season, May 27 finally arrived Weird Stuff 4. the acclaimed series It was divided into two volumes, the first of them premiered on May 27 and the second premiered on May 1 July, and throughout the 9 chapters that it has, we were able to accompany this group of friends in their attempts to save Hawkins from the feared villain neighbor.

This series does many good things and one of tthey was the introduction of eddiemunson, which gives us one of the most memorable scenes of the entire series. In said scene, we have the beloved Eddie playing Teacher of puppets by distract bats from upside down DownAs part of the elaborate plan madeor by your friends.

This anthem of Thrash Metal belongs to the third studio album of metallic and was published on March 3, 1986. Appearing in this series has earned him an increase ofl 215% in reproductions in Colombia on the Spotify platform, in Mexico it entered the 112th place of the top 200 songs Y globally is found ranked 26th in the top 50within the same platform. In response, Metallica has given expressions of gratitude to the series and to the character of Eddie within all his social networks.

Thor: love and thunder

This is the fourth God of Thunder movie set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Premiered on July 7 and directed again by Taika Waititithis feature film shows what has become of Thor after the events of avengers End of the game. We see here how the son of Odin will have to face a new villain, known as hatthe butcher of gods. And if that was not enough, his ex-girlfriend, Jane Foster makes her appearance as Powerful Thor.

very true to style of Taika Waititi, this tape is full of colors, action, fun and a great soundtrack. So thatThis film has three songs from the APpetite by Destruction of weapons and roseswhich are: WWelcome a the Jungle, Pairbye city Y My sweet child. This album is the band’s first and was released on July 21, 1987. It ranks 20th on the top 500 list. albums of all times and the position number 4 on the list of the 100 best debut albums of all timeboth produced by Rolling Stone magazine.

Elvis

Finally, we have this biopic about the iconic Rock & Roll star, elvis presley. This movie just premiered in theaters on July 14is directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring by Austin butler and tom skeins. In this movie we can see how the successful career began and ended singer from Mississippi, in addition to delving into the complex relationship he has with his mysterious agent, tom parker.

Elvis was born on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi and died on August 16 in Memphis, Tennessee. He is considered one of the cultural icons largest in the world, being dubbed as the king of Rock and Roll and leaving a great legacy in pop culture. Among his most listened to songs around the world are:

• I can not help Falling in Love
• jail rock
• suspicious minds
• burning love

dinosaursHave you seen any of these works? If so, what did you think? Do you know any other that is not in this list? ¡tell us inthe comments!