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Global Metal

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.

2008 |1h 33m |  Documentary, Music

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Rafael Bittencourt

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Bruce Dickinson

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Adrian Smith

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Dave Murray

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Max Cavalera

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Tom Araya

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Kerry King

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Lars Ulrich

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Mark "Barney" Greenway

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Marty Friedman

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YOSHIKI

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Mirai Kawashima

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Status

Released

Language

Mandarin, Portuguese, Japanese, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, English

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