One of the all-time greats when it comes to animation that's not made for little kids. There's nekkidness, decapitations, general sleaze, comedy, drug abuse and lots of assorted violence. Sadly there's not much in the way of any actual heavy metal tunes aside from a Black Sabbath but that doesn't really detract much from the sheer joy I get from watching this 80's midnight movie favorite. Other music that stands out includes Cheap Trick, Sammy Hagar and Devo(who even get an animated band, that doesn't really look like Devo very much, to portray them). The anthology genre, held together by the presence of a killer glowing green orb in all the stories, works great for this and works in reminding me of reading an issue oh HEAVY METAL magazine(which this was based on).
There was a sequel to this in the cinematically dreadful year 2000, appropriately titled HEAVY METAL 2000, which I did view once and then quickly erased it from my mind as not to tarnish the original volume.
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