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7.3·2008·93 min·English·Directed by Sam Dunn
DocumentaryMusic
Synopsis
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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JordyepVIP★4/10Feb 4, 2025
A really cool idea, but with the way it’s presented here it starts to feel so repetitive after a while. This could’ve been more interesting with a bird’s eye/academic perspective, because the end result here reads too much like a travel log. There are a lot of overlapping themes that come up during every country he visited for this documentary, so surely an anthropologist like Sam Dunn should be able to add depth and context to those findings. Also, like his previous work, the filmmaking isn’t anything to write home about. 4/10
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