Global Metal (2008)

In GLOBAL METAL directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the Wests most maligned musical genre heavy metal has impacted the worlds 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 worlds 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 arent just absorbing metal from the West theyre transforming it creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict corruption and massconsumerism