For a movie about a heavy metal drummer, Sound of Metal revels in the silence. Blackgammon’s music is a punishing hiss that pummels fans with distorted guitars, growling vocals and double-kick drums.

Discover What’s Streaming On: Darius Marder’s sensational drama Sound of Metal didn’t win Best Picture (Nomadland) at the 2021 Academy Awards, but the critically-acclaimed film did capture Oscar gold, ...

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But pediatric audiologist Michelle Hu had mixed feelings about the film's message. "It was a good production but they [dropped] the ball on a lot of things, hearing and audiology-wise," she tells ...

Praised for its immersive approach to mapping out a drummer’s confrontation with hearing loss, writer-director Darius Marder’s “Sound of Metal,” now contending for six Academy Awards, features a ...

“Sound of Metal” director Darius Marder says he and his Oscar-nominated sound team — Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortes Navarrete — wanted heightened naturalism to depict ...

Changing up your sound as a band can be really hit or miss with how the results turn out. Some acts have seen huge success from doing so, while others have been completely trashed by not only their ...

Sound of Metal may have earned just one Golden Globe nomination, but the film came back with the vengeance at the 2021 Oscar nominations this morning. The music drama earned six Oscar nominations, ...

Inspired by horror movies and dark themes, legendary bands created a theatrically dark genre, Metal. Linda Diaz and Joey Hays chat with members of the legendary bands Gwar and Impaler to uncover how ...

It can be difficult to maintain a first-person narrative, according to director Darius Marder. Audiences might tire of the protagonist, eager for the story to cut away to another character’s point of ...