Global Metal (2008)1h33
Documentary · Music
Director Sam Dunn
Also directed Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, Iron Maiden: Flight 666, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, and 8 more
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.
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Cast
Sam Dunn
Rafael Bittencourt
Bruce Dickinson
Adrian Smith
Dave Murray
Max Cavalera
Tom Araya
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