Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

Sam Dunn is a 30-year old anthropologist who wrote his graduate thesis on the plight of Guatemalan refugees. Recenly he has decided to study the plight of a different culture, one he has been a part of since he was a 12-year old: the culture of heavy metal. Sam sets out on a global journey to find out why this music has been consistently stereotyped, dismissed and condemned and yet is loved so passionately by its millions of fans. Along the way, Sam explores metals' obsession with some of life's most provacative subjects - sexuality, religion, violence and death - and discovers some things about the culture that even he can't defend. Shot on location in the UK, Germany, Norway, Canada and the US, this documentary is the first of its kind. It is both a defense of a long-misunderstood art form and a window for the outsider into the spectacle that is heavy metal.

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[Javier Eguren]

Balls To The Wall...> ACCEPT

[mydogneo]

love it! Sam Dunn opened the truth to metal. Thanks for your sincerity and determination so others who do not understand metal, can appreciate it.

[Ken2468WILD1]

Heavy Metal music got POWER & PASSION!!!!

[MrKrustenkeks]

i got this on DVD :P

[ZachValkyrie]

1:11 And he's not sorry for one minute!!!

[hellcide777]

HEADBANGER GOT BALSS! LoL

[GoldberryVideos]

balls to the wall: accept!

am i evil?: diamond head!

i realy want to have this film!

f*cking awesome! DIO-LEMMY hell yeah!!!

[TheJetman968]

Normally people call it satanist :) Honestly I take pride when religious zealots call me a satanist. I don't even believe in god or any of that bs, I just think its funny.

[gjtuypioasdcgj]

how its called when someone's religion is heavy metal?