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 massconsumerism.