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.
Sam Dunn
Rafael Bittencourt
Bruce Dickinson
Adrian Smith
Dave Murray
Max Cavalera
Tom Araya
Kerry King
Lars Ulrich
Mark "Barney" Greenway
Marty Friedman
YOSHIKI
Mirai Kawashima
Prashant Shaw
Nolan Lewis
Amant Dwivedi
Vincent Pereira
Sai Prabhakarah
Kaiser Kuo
Nong Yong
Wendi Putranto
Andre Tiranda
Ombat Nasution
Kobi Farhi
Eran Segal
Evil Haim
Nir Nakav
Maor Appelbaum
Yotam "Defiler" Avni
Barney Bibeiro