
DEATH METAL ANGOLA follows a loving Angolan couple, Sonia and Wilker, whose love for death metal music is bringing hope to the town and children of Huambo, and Angola as a country. The devastating reality of Angola's history of wars, and civil unrest has left the country's people torn, broken, and starving for something to give them peace. Sonia, and Wilker's dream to put on the first national rock festival ignites the emotions of the Angolan people, and helps them heal from ... (Full plot summary below)
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DEATH METAL ANGOLA follows a loving Angolan couple, Sonia and Wilker, whose love for death metal music is bringing hope to the town and children of Huambo, and Angola as a country. The devastating reality of Angola's history of wars, and civil unrest has left the country's people torn, broken, and starving for something to give them peace. Sonia, and Wilker's dream to put on the first national rock festival ignites the emotions of the Angolan people, and helps them heal from the war stricken path Angola has left behind. This engaging reality of Angola touches the heart of the viewer, and sheds new light on a music genre that is not well understood.
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| The PlaylistNicholas LaskinDeath Metal Angola is deeply involving and, in its own way, completely and refreshingly unusual. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenSometimes I tend to forget how much American culture affects the rest of the world. Then I see the healing influence of extreme heavy metal music in a remote war-torn town in Angola, and it brings that home. |
| Paste MagazineAndy CrumpDeath Metal Angola starts as a brooding national crisis doc and ends as a concert film. The transition is remarkably seamless. |
| Village VoiceMichael NordineWhile hardly the first or most accomplished film of its kind, Death Metal Angola's focus on the ability of abrasive music to act as a healing agent builds toward genuine moments of renewal and serenity. |
| The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungAn upbeat chronicle of very hard rock in a very hard place, Death Metal Angola is one of the livelier and more enticingly exotic additions to the ever-burgeoning music-documentary sub-genre. |
| The New York TimesAnita GatesThe concert itself was a bold, life-affirming project, but with a couple of additional extended music sequences, Mr. Xido’s film might have been more powerful and way more hardcore. |
| BET.comClay CaneDeath Metal Angola is not another doc that depicts Africans as unruly or uncivilized. Instead, Xida highlighted their gifts, poetry and honesty. This isn't a film about war in an African country, it is a story of how music saves anyone, anywhere. |
| Lawrence.comEric Melin... more than a treatise on the origins of this bombastic musical style. It's a story of hope. There's no reinvention of the form here, just a solid documentary on a subject you had probably never thought existed. |
| Spectrum CulturePat PaduaConnects a dark music usually associated with misunderstood teenagers with the harrowing trials of a national nightmare. |