Global Metal DVD

Genre
Documentary
Run Time
93 minutes
Rated
M
Country
Canada
Director
Sam Dunn, Scott McFadyen

Whatever one thinks of its excessive volume, unruly moshing and shameless promotion of flannel, there's no denying the power of heavy metal to unite people in a healthy, celebratory spirit of rebellion, freedom and communal hearing loss. Fresh from playing to packed houses at the Melbourne International Film Festival (where the audience actually looked like they had turned up for a metal gig), Global Metal is the excellent follow-up to the 2005 documentary Metal - A Headbanger's Journey. This time around directors Scott McFadyen and Sam Dunn trek across the world to chronicle how heavy metal functions as an agent of social change and political defiance. The underlying message throughout this highly entertaining film is clear - while the freedoms enjoyed by Western headbangers are taken for granted, those in less enlightened parts of the world turn to metal as an expression of rage against authority and oppressive social structures. In India, we see how metal helps liberate young people from the demands of family tradition, while in the Middle East posing for a photograph next to a "Slayer" wall scrawl is considered the height of protest. Though the filmmakers can't be faulted for getting too deep into their subject (not even with the DVD's bonus featurettes and interview snippets), they do take the sociology of metal seriously enough to get comments from the ubiquitous Lars Ulrich from Metallica. Japan probably offers the most interesting example of how metal meshes into an existing musical culture, with Germany and Indonesia showing the more extreme routes the music can take. Global Metal offers an engaging, often raucous insight into what it strongly argues is a legitimate form of world music.

Misfits ada berjual DVD nya ..

kalau ada.. reserve kan aku sebuting k.. and let me knw

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cool. must watch. highly recommended. watch with friends. hehe

orite! next week aku ke sana check it out ah!! brapa price??

haha,bali bali!

ahahah nda ku jadi bali geng! udah ku download kmarin dvd rip nya... gila siuk eh! kan ke Arab ku nanti eh, join mliat 'rock the desert' konsert sama metalheads islam!! \m/

yang parahnya, scene dari india atu wah! sblh gig black metal, sblhnya urg kawin~ ahahaha

aku blum meliat ah siuk sulnya

I know!!! yetah lau meliat ramai2.. siuk pacah tue meliat yang scene di India aah..

yth kamu ketawa sama big boss ari atu gaban??

awu.. c riri wah majal kan India nya ah. hahaha.

sapa Gaban? saya atau awak? majal pisinnyaaa... haha