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.
Directed bySam Dunn
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- June 20, 2008
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Sam Dunn
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Rafael Bittencourt
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Bruce Dickinson
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Adrian Smith
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Dave Murray
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Max Cavalera
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Tom Araya
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Kerry King
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Lars Ulrich
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Mark "Barney" Greenway
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- Directed by
- Sam Dunn
- Written by
- Sam Dunn
- Produced by
- Sam DunnScot McFadyen
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