'Metallica: Through The Never' Movie Trailer [VIDEO]: Heavy Metal Band Makes Concert Documentary Mixed With Action Film

Though many musical acts have made or are making concert documentaries, legendary heavy metal band Metallica has approached the live performance film medium in a new way. We are all used to seeing concert documentaries, but with Metallica: Through the Never, audiences will be treated to the music they love plus a thrilling movie with a real story line. You will still get to hear your favorite Metallica tunes and see them perform, but you will also be watching a movie about a riot in the streets outside of the concert starring young actor Dane DeHaan!

"We wanted to challenge ourselves a little bit and try and do something different and try and bring a little bit more of a film element in to it, a cinematic element to it and I think we have done that," explained drummer Lars Ulrich while in Cannes promoting the IMAX film. "Whether anybody loves the film as much as we do we'll have to wait and see in a few months, but the one thing I can guarantee you, which there is no question about, is that it is a very unique film. Nobody has ever seen a film quite like this."

Here is a synopsis for this film:

Trip, a young roadie sent on an urgent mission during Metallica's roaring live set in front of a sold-out arena. As the band performs its most iconic songs for thousands of their fans in a never-before-seen performance created exclusively for the film, Trip is dispatched outside the arena to meet a disabled delivery truck and recover a mysterious item being transported to the show. But the seemingly simple assignment turns into a surreal adventure when his car is hit by an out-of-control driver. Trip, dazed and bruised, climbs out of his van only to find himself pitched in the middle of a tense standoff between angry protesters and charging riot police. In the ensuing mayhem, a vicious masked horseman sets his murderous eye on Trip while delivering indiscriminate deathblows to rioters and cops alike. Fleeing through the desolate, post-apocalyptic urban streetscape, Trip has only his wits to protect him as he attempts to deliver the band's precious cargo and avoid becoming the horseman's next victim.

Check out the trailer for Metallica: Through the Never right here: