During a stop-over in a rural town full of unfriendly, hostile people, a quartet of big-haired, leather-clad heavy metal rockers are killed by a bizarre family of rednecks. Determined to take part in the show they were supposed to perform before their untimely deaths, the band members rise from the dead to put on the mother of all metal concerts, giving a whole new meaning to the phrase "the show must go on."