Global Metal
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Warm, kinetic, gentle documentary / music, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
Our read · Global Metal (2008) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded documentary · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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