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Green Day release trailer for new American Idiot documentary

Heart Like A Hand Grenade follows the band as they record their seminal album

 

Green Day Heart Like A Hand Grenade American Idiot film released Photo: WENN

Green Day have released the trailer for their new feature length documentary, Heart Like A Hand Grenade. Watch it below.

Over 10 years after the release of American Idiot, the Berkeley band will be releasing a new documentary in which they were followed for nine months during the recording of American Idiot, their Grammy Award-winning full-length. It'll feature never before seen footage during a time that defined the band for the next decade and beyond.

Heart Like A Hand Grenade will play at selected theatres from 15 October.

In a statement, director John Roecker commented on the film before its release.

“This film does not contain high drama or fighting," he said. "It shows a band on top of their game creating incredible music. It is a film that inspires. It is also a very small film. All it took was a box of tapes and one camera. Going back to the D.I.Y. Ethic that I was raised with. It was also a risk for the band because this album was either going to take them to a higher level or sink them. Either way I was going to document it.”

At the beginning of this month, Green Day's frontman Billie Joe Armstrong expressed his anger about the lack of rock bands at this year's MTV VMA's. 

Below: Green Day play Dookie in full at Leeds Festival

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