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Some Kind of Monster is a 2004 American documentary film featuring the heavy metal band Metallica....

Some Kind of Monster is a 2004 American documentary film featuring the heavy metal band Metallica. It shares its name with a song from Metallica's 2003 album St. Anger. What began as a simple documentary of the making of St. Anger turned into a much more personal exploration of the band's relationships with each other, and their struggles with the creative process. The documentary shows many studio rehearsals and fragments of concert footage. It won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature. The DVD release was handled by Paramount Pictures, whose 2000 film Mission: Impossible II features a song by Metallica. Metallica is forced to examine their nature and their very existence as bassist Jason Newsted quits the band and frontman James Hetfield abruptly leaves the group to enter a rehabilitation facility. Metallica's management Q-Prime hires "performance-enhancing coach" Phil Towle to help the group better understand one another as friends, bandmates and human beings. Towle is frequently yet erroneously referred to as a "therapist", since he voluntarily revoked his own license from the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board in the early 1990s for "trying to