Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- interview
- heavy metal
- music festival
- anthropology
- cult music band
- music documentary
- music culture
- observational documentary
- origins
- metal band
The bill
- Dave Murray — Himself
- Max Cavalera — Himself
- Tom Araya — Himself
- Kerry King — Himself
- Lars Ulrich — Himself
- Mark "Barney" Greenway — Himself
- Marty Friedman — Himself
- YOSHIKI — Himself
- Mirai Kawashima — Himself
- Prashant Shaw — Himself
- Nolan Lewis — Himself
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 78 ratings
- Studio
- Banger Productions
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