Two teenage boys unwittingly summon an ancient evil entity known as The Blind One by delving into black magic while trying to escape their mundane lives. After moving to a quiet small-town, a metal-loving teen and his new bandmates inadvertently release a series of Satanic demons after taking a passage from a book on devil-worshipping to use in their lyrics and must use their arcane knowledge of the black arts from the music to stop them.<br/><br/>This was nothing short of an absolute blast. Among the many numerous enjoyable qualities with this one is the just utter love and respect given to the metal genre throughout here. Not only does it get a lot of the behavioral qualities and characteristics about the fans down completely, but it manages to get the genres' different quirks and eccentricities pretty consistent as well with the use of arcane lore and different symbolism involved with the genre that gets mentioned not only in the dialog but so many other areas of the film. Since that ties into how the demons are released with the song and their plan to finally reverse the whole process which all comes from the music itself, there's a plenty of heavy metal fun to be had within here. As well, there's also the really enjoyable comedy to be found which is nearly gut-busting not only in their interactions with each other but also the general situation that's being unleashed here. From brief little interludes that feature plenty of laughs to their snarky comments to each other and the truly enjoyable moment where the corpse-paint-bedecked kid and the bright cheerleader-style normal girl are sitting on a park bench in the middle of the day eating ice-cream together discussing the genre creates an utterly memorable image as well as being genuinely hilarious. Still, the fact that as a true horror film this one provides plenty to like here with the fun and enjoyable tale here with the demon infestation slowly taking over the town and providing this with plenty of ferocious action throughout here with the townspeople slowly coming into the realization of what's happening. The brief spurts showing the crazed demons in the town makes for some stellar moments here, and with high-energy sequences here from the battle with the possessed parents using their secret sex-toys to the dismemberments of the townspeople out in the street while fleeing to safety all giving this one great make-up work on the demons, tons of ingenuity with their homemade weapons and a smattering of bloody gore there are plenty of reasons to love this one. The one downfall is that the relationships within the band don't seem realistic, but it's a minor inconsequential quibble.<br/><br/>Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Language, Extreme Graphic Violence, Nudity and minor drug use. While listening to some random metal on YouTube I ran into soundtrack for this movie and bunch of thrilled comments about it. Usually, when I run into some movie I wanna see, I just add it to IMDb watch-list and one day it may be its turn… This time I could not wait. Whatever I had to do could wait for a few hours and few minutes later I was in for a crazy ride.<br/><br/>As much as I could not wait to see it, I did not expect anything from it, cause it is New Zealand low budget horror comedy made by bunch of no-names. Movie exceeds all possible expectations. Although it is directors low-budget debut, this movie is better than almost everything I so in the genre so far. Story is interesting, characters are caricatured but yet realistic and actors carry their roles very well and you'll fall in love with them from the start. Effects and overall production are above every expectation for low- budget movie and directing and camera have some very interesting moments. Movie is extremely gore and explicit, impregnate with very twisted and sick humor and you get to listen to good metal from the beginning to the end. Mandatory for all gore lovers and metal-heads.<br/><br/>9/10<br/><br/>!!! SPOILER ALERT !!!<br/><br/>High-school metal-head moves in little puritan town. Greeted by rejection he falls in love with the best chick in school, meets the only other metal-head, they start a band (you guess - Deathgasm), find ancient notes with Latin text, take them as their new song and by playing them they open portal for demon king to take over the Earth. And fun begins… In between the rampant four-letter words and the occasional partial nudity are likable attempts at humor — some sweet, some saucy.
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