'Global Metal' set to shoot around the world!!!

In Metal: A Headbanger"s Journey, metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn traveled across North America and Europe to understand the impact of metal music on society over the past 35 years. Sam discovered that metal is fundamentally an underground, sub-cultural form of music: Metal challenges commercialism, morality and mainstream religion and promotes ideas of individualism and autonomy. And that's why, as Sam concludes at the end of the film, metal will always be a culture of outsiders.

GLOBAL METAL picks up the theme of the outsider, and poses new questions: What happens when a culture of outsiders meets the global village? Is metal (just like Hollywood movies and McDonald's) contributing to the homogenization of the world's cultures? How are people in diverse cultural environments experiencing metal differently than Sam did as a youth growing up in quaint Victoria, Canada?

To answer these questions, Scot and Sam visit seven countries spread across the globe: China, Brazil, Poland, Japan, Israel, Indonesia and Iran. They discover that although these countries share a passion for metal's popular Western icons, each has created its own unique form of metal. From Indonesian black metal to Brazilian death metal to Iranian power metal this music enables young people to rebel by combining the genre's core themes with stories of cultural and spiritual struggle.

In the end, GLOBAL METAL teaches us that despite vast differences in geography and religion, metallers around the world are united by the need to create authentic artistic expression in a world rife with fads and mass-consumerism.

In a sense, they have become one tribe.