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... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
Leave your thoughts about Metal: A Headbanger's Journey.
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Jeff ViceA film that manages to be intelligent without being boring, making it one of the better music documentaries in recent memory. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertFull of splendid social and psychological insights. |
| Chicago TribuneAllison BenediktSam Dunn's unabashed wet kiss to his favorite genre of music, heavy metal, a.k.a. devil's music. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesBrings on a variety of eloquent voices from both the fanbase and the gods of metal themselves. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovThere's so much information and so many finely honed arguments in this ultimately joyous film that it's liable to send audiences scurrying home to their computers to download the bands they've just heard. |
| Seattle TimesTed FryIt's all jolly good fun captured with proficiency, professionalism and the keen sense of someone who truly wants outsiders to understand what makes a dyed-in-the-wool headbanger so passionate about his music of choice. |
| Toronto StarGeoff PevereIt's a fascinating and anecdotally rich journey. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin CrustDunn says he's been defending his choice in music since he was 12, and the film is a carefully organized and thoughtful argument for the merits of metal. |
| Film ThreatKJ DoughtonDunn effortlessly smashes the cliché of metal-bands-as-Neanderthal-lunkheads. |
| L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasAt once playful and thorough, the documentary is also stacked teased-hair high with wicked performance footage. |
