Global Metal
2008 • Documentary | Music
Sam Dunn
Writer
Sam Dunn
Director
Status
Released
Release date
June 20, 2008
Duration
93 Min
Language
en
Popularity
4.913
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
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.
Cast
Sam Dunn
Rafael Bittencourt
Bruce Dickinson
Adrian Smith
Dave Murray
Max Cavalera
Tom Araya
Kerry King
Lars Ulrich
Mark "Barney" Greenway
Marty Friedman
YOSHIKI
Mirai Kawashima