80s Heavy Metal

Watch Heavy Metal Parking Lot To Re-Live The 80s Pre-Concert Experience

Published

October 29, 2023

Watch Heavy Metal Parking Lot To Re-Live The 80s Pre-Concert Experience

Filmed in 1986 and directed by Jeff Krulik, this documentary footage of fans getting ready for a Judas Priest concert is a snapshot in time of what was happening all around the United States during the heavy metal mainstream boom of the 1980s.

The above clip was posted on YouTube by the user vacantmoon and has over 1.8 Million views in the last 11 years.

XS ROCK claims no ownership of the video or it’s contents and the link is freely available to the public on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whZuz5Dwtw8&t=381s&pp=ygUXaGVhdnkgbWV0YWwgcGFya2luZyBsb3Q%3D

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