Director Bruce Moore, a former music engineer who has become something of a heavy metal lifestyle chronicler, produced “Metal Health: Out of the Pit” at his home studio. He says that he first started thinking about depression and its effects on musicians after the 2017 suicide deaths of Linkin Park's Chester Bennington and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell. A year later, a friend of Moore's, Jill Janus, singer for the band Huntress, took her life. “I realized that metal artists are suffering, too.”
The film features 17 singers, musicians, journalists and fans talking about their battles with depression and how they've learned to cope with tragedy. Adorned in piercings and leather, affiliated with outfits that have names like While Heaven Wept, Fall and Resist, Exmortus, and Exhumed, they confess their personal — as opposed to theatrical — dark thoughts.
Moore also produces a regular podcast and YouTube show, "Brutally Delicious," which showcases hard rockers in the kitchen, cooking their favorite meals. He's also directed several documentaries on heavy metal, including "Metal Missionaries" -- about the polar opposite worlds of Christian metal and Satanic rock -- and "Women of Metal."
My feature article about Moore and his new documentary can be found at the Richmond Magazine website. Read "Into the Void" by going here.
For more on Metal Health: Out of the Box, and to watch episodes of "Brutally Delicious," take yourself here.
(Photo of Patrick Donovan of Toy Called God courtesy Bruce Moore)
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