The Next Cool Doc: Global Metal

Last year I finally caught up with Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey. That little documentary, from local heavy metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn was a wicked trip down heavy metal history and I only wished he’d gone into more detail about the various genres of heavy metal not to mention that his heavy metal “family tree” is genius.

I didn’t realize that Dunn and co-writer/director Scot McFadyen were working on a new project but thanks to a post from regular reader Shannon the Movie Moxie, I bring you the greatness that will be Global Metal.

According to the official website:

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.

I was in before I even saw the trailer but now I’m chopping at the bit. The film will be playing a number of festivals over the next few months and then it will open in Vancouver and Toronto on June 20th and in Montreal on June 27th!

Check out the trailer under the seat!