Global Metal

I love this film. I don't love heavy metal but the director's first film: "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" was so terrific, that I had to buy this when my local DVD shop didn't stock it. If you have not seen the first film I recommend it, seeing it first, added to the pleasure I got out of watching this one. But one of my friends who watched this with me and had not seen the other, thought this a stand-alone enjoyable piece of music documentary.It is made by a guy who is both a headbanger and has a Masters in Anthropology. He focuses on several countries with massive metal scenes: Japan, India, Indonesia, Iran, Dubai, China, Brazil etc and he shows how, in each country, the Heavy Metal music scene has evolved according to the needs of the culture. It is completely fascinating to see the mutations of the music according the needs of place. As a filmmaker, Sam Dunn has a fantastic sense of the particularity of each culture. The taste of each country is so specific - for this alone it is worth watching. Added to this, is the music itself and how each culture has adopted it or adapted it. And then there are the fascinating personalities: the metal musicians, local and global and the wonderful fans, some of whom moved me to tears. (Yes - really!!)I have learned so much about the scene through watching Global Metal, (and Metal A Headbangers Journey). Through them I have acquired a great respect for the Metal scene. I am still not a big Metal music fan, (although of course, I downloaded several albums after watching these films, I don't actually play them much) but I love these films and rate them highly. I have loads of Music doco's and I think these are among the best music doco's ever made.(Yes - really!)

After seeing Metal - A Headbangers Journey back in 2005, I didn't think that another movie could compare to it, but I was wrong! Global Metal is an excellent continuation of the themes explored in the original film, and it really showcases Sam Dunn's anthropology background.Global Metal has a lot less of the history of heavy metal, and instead focuses on the history and culture of the respective country Sam is visiting, and how that has impacted the metal scene in that country. During the course of this documentary Sam visits 7 different countries: Brazil, Japan, India, China, Indonesia, Israel and Dubai. In each location Sam interviews some of the big and up and coming bands from that country, and also explores how metal has flourished there. Some of the big names are Max Cavelera of Sepultura from Brazil, Yoshiki Hayashi of X Japan from Japan, Sahil Makhija of Demonic Ressurection from India, and Kaiser Kuo of Tang Dynasty from China. There are several up and coming bands from Indonesia and Israel that are featured, and when the film comes to an end in Dubai, it is at the Desert Rock festival, the only heavy metal festival in the middle- east.Global Metal is another excellent film from Sam Dunn and Scot McFayden, it explores metal in a new and fresh way, which makes for a very informative and entertaining movie - Definitely a must have for metal fans!!

Great documentary. Very happy with purchase.

Another great doc from Banger Films and Sam Dunn. We get to explore the world wide metal underground, and see how metal is changing cultures. It moves a little slower than the first movie, Metal: A Headbangers Journey, but it's still full of great stuff and will turn you on to some new groups that you probably haven't heard of. All I can say is, I hope Banger keeps making more of these. I haven't been disappointed yet.

This documentary is entertaining and informative. It speaks to the metal fan. The two disc dvd is great.

I liked everything on the DVD's

For anyone who wants to see the big picture on metal, this is an absolute must. I wanted it to give me a perspective on how what has been associated with the British and the American working classes may have evolved around the world. And it serves that purpose very, very well. Can't imagine understanding metal from a broader perspective without this video.

Definitely a fantastic documentary! As a die hard metal fan, I thought it was pretty cool seeing how different countries interpret heavy metal music!

Love this documentary and the previous documentary this is recommended viewing for any metalhead who is interested in the culture and wants to know more about metal and how awesome it really is. The dvd itself arrived in great condition but having had no UK release and being an import is kind of annoying, the documentary itself is in English but there is Spanish subtitles that cannot be turned off or replaced with English another problem with this is that there is some people in the documentary that don't speak English and the only subtitles are Spanish even for this bit other than that I highly recommend this documentary it is amazing and really captures the magic of metal all over the world

Essential documetary for any metal fan by the makers of Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage and Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. Sam Dunn takes us to many different countries and ultimately shows that there is a world of metal out there to be discovered, from Israeli heavy/folk metal (Orphaned Land) to Chinese black metal (Ritual Day).This DVD is not available in the UK so you have to buy either the Spanish one or the German one, as far as I am aware. Both are PAL and are available on Amazon.co.uk. This is the German one, it has English and German subtitles as well as English and German 5.1 Surround audio tracks. The Spanish one does not have English subtitles, only Spanish subtitles which means that when people speak in e.g. Mandarin, you would have to know Spanish (or Mandarin of course) to understand what they are saying. The audio is in English when English is spoken though, it's not a Spanish audio track. Also note that the Spanish one is not steelbook.Note that this is DVD video format, not DVD Audio as the Amazon description suggests.

Really enlightening film

great

He visto varios documentales sobre el Heavy Metal, y este es uno de los mejores este sería la segunda parte del documental dirijido por la misma persona Sam Dunn. La primera parte es este Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, contiene entrevistas como extras y por supuesto está subtitulado en español.