Global Metal
A FILM BY SCOT MCFADYEN & SAM DUNN
THE FOLLOW UP TO METAL: A HEADBANGER’S JOURNEY
Shot on location in Brazil, Japan, China, Indonesia, Poland, Israel, and Iran.
In METAL: A HEADBANGER’S JOURNEY, metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn traveled across North America and Europe to understand the impact of metal music on society over the past 35 years. Sam provided an overview of the origins of metal, what it means to its fans and why it has been consistently stereotyped, dismissed and condemned. Sam found that although metal has been appropriated by mainstream culture at various points in its history, it is fundamentally an underground form of music.
Metal challenges commercialism, morality and mainstream religion and promotes ideas of individualism
and autonomy. “And that’s why,” as Sam concludes at the end of the film, “metal will always be a culture of outsiders.”GLOBAL METAL picks up the theme of the outsider, and poses a new question: What happens when a culture of outsiders meets the global village? Does metal have anything to teach us about globalization? And how are people in diverse cultural environments experiencing metal differently than Sam did as a youth growing up in quaint Victoria, BC?
To answer these questions, Sam has decided to return to university to get his PhD. The subject?
The Globalization of Heavy Metal. GLOBAL METAL will follow Sam’s field study across three continents as he explores the impact of metal music in Brazil, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, China, Poland and Iran. In each country, Sam will meet-up with bands, fans and experts who will act as his window into these unique
metal scenes. Along the way, Sam will also reunite with many of his metal heroes as he witnesses Iron Maiden perform for 40,000 fans in a soccer stadium in Rio de Janeiro; KISS play to a sold-out hall in Jakarta; and Metallica rock an open-air festival in Tel Aviv.
Sam observes that although these countries share a passion for many of metal’s most popular
icons, each has also created its own unique form of underground metal. Whether it’s Indonesian
black metal, Brazilian death metal, or Iranian power metal, this music provides young people with an opportunity to articulate their own form of rebellion by combining the genre’s core themes with indigenous sounds and stories of cultural and spiritual struggle.
In GLOBAL METAL Sam discovers that despite the vast differences in geography and religion that
separate these metal fans, they are unified by a need to create authentic cultural expression in
a world rife with fads and mass-consumerism.In a sense they have become one tribe. CONTACT: SEVILLE PICTURES / 147 ST-PAUL W, SUITE 200 / MONTREAL, QC H2Y 1Z5 CANADA TEL: 514-841-1910 / FAX: 514-841-8030 internationalsales@sevillepictures.com
SCOT MCFADYEN & SAM DUNN / BANGER PRODUCTIONS / 219 DUFFERIN STREET, SUITE 205B / TORONTO, ON M6K 3J1
TEL: 416 850 6580 CELL: 416 704 7268 / scot@metalhistory.com / sam@metalhistory.com
IN PRODUCTION
SEVEN COUNTRIES. THREE RELIGIONS. ONE TRIBE.
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