Global Metal (2008)
June 20, 2008
Documentary, Music
1h 33m
![Poster for Global Metal](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/28f1iaERjW8pk39Ye5KpG7Xfqa4.jpg)
![Backdrop for Global Metal](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w1280/vm6Vcgj1m1W9osKnFwX6K7Njztn.jpg)
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.