Perhaps the biggest praise that immediately springs to mind when considering The Sound Of Scars is that it’s not the film you might expect it to be. That movie would have presented an impassioned – and entirely justified – argument stating that Life Of Agony deserve more recognition as one of the best bands to have emerged in the ’90s. This stunning documentary may well serve that purpose as an essential introduction to the unconverted, but it will likely do much more. The Sound Of Scars is far, far removed from the by-now standard band documentary. You know the kind: a procession of talking heads in sunglasses going, ‘They were a great band – they deserved to be massive!’ Archive footage. Band member says, ‘We were fucking crazy back then, maaan.’ Repeat. This is not tha...
