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Global Metal (2008)

Global Metal (2008)

Music Documentary
Release Date: 2008, June 20
Directors: Sam Dunn
Countries: Canada
Production: Banger Productions
Cast: Max Cavalera, Lars Ulrich, Tom Araya, Kerry King, Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Kobi Farhi, Rafael Bittencourt, YOSHIKI, Bruce Dickinson, Vincent Pereira, Marty Friedman

Overview:

In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most maligned musical genre - heavy metal - has impacted the world's cultures beyond Europe and North America. The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn on a whirlwind journey through Asia, South America and the Middle East as he explores the underbelly of the world's emerging extreme music scenes; from Indonesian death metal to Chinese black metal to Iranian thrash metal. GLOBAL METAL reveals a worldwide community of metalheads who aren't just absorbing metal from the West - they're transforming it - creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass-consumerism.

Keywords:

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