A look at how heavy metal has impacted world culture, featuring bands Metallica, Iron Maiden and Kiss.
Actors:
Sam Dunn,Ken Ayugai,Rafael Bittencourt,Max Cavalera,Bruce Dickinson,Tom Araya
Description:
Directors Scot McFayden 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 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 triumphantly transforming it, creating a new form of cultural expression.