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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Earnest, contemporary, classical in form and grave.
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- Sam DunnHimself
- Rafael BittencourtHimself
- Bruce DickinsonHimself
- Adrian SmithHimself
- Dave MurrayHimself
- Max CavaleraHimself
- Tom ArayaHimself
- Kerry KingHimself
- Lars UlrichHimself
- Mark "Barney" GreenwayHimself
Crew
- Sam DunnDirector
- Sam DunnWriter
- Christopher DonaldsonEditor
- Lisa GrootenboerEditor
- Scot McFadyenProducer
- Sam DunnProducer
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