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Podcast: What the Riff Next Gen
Episode: 1981 - August: (various artists) ”Heavy Metal” Soundtrack
Description: In 1977 Leonard Mogel began publishing a dark, illustrated, steampunk, and somewhat erotic science fiction and fantasy magazine called Heavy Metal, and in 1981 an adult animated sci-fi fantasy film by the same name was produced by Mogel and Ivan Reitman. The film would become a mainstay of the midnight movie circuit (along with “the Rocky Horror Picture Show”) throughout the 1980's, and would also lead to a hit album which would peak at number 12 on the Billboard 200 chart.
The movie mirrors a comic book, in that it strings together a number of shorter vignettes into an entire animated movie...