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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 6074
Released: May 23, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Closed-captioned Color PAL | |
Editorial Review:
Sam Dunn a 30-year old anthropologist 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 provocative 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.Running Time: 180 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 012569805750 Manufacturer No: 80575
Description of Metal - A Headbanger's Journey:
An anthropological study of Heavy Metal? Is this for real? Believe it man, it's true, and it's pretty darn good at that. Metal - A Headbanger's Journey is a labor of love for director/ producer Sam Dunn; anthropologist, academia, metalhead. Like a good anthropologist Dunn has often wondered about cultures, societies, and the key elements that makes them thrive. Being a life-long headbanger, Sam Dunn decided to turn his academic skills onto himself to study and attempt to explain the often misunderstood culture that shaped his existence and millions of others around the world. Structured like a traditional anthropological journal, Metal - A Headbanger's Journey is broken into sections such as "Origins," "Roots," "Environments," "Culture," "Sexuality," "Religion," and "Death." Many topics are addressed such as identifying the first heavy metal band, what in the music defines the heavy metal sound, why heavy metal unites fans from around the world, why the music has been a target for so many watchdog groups, and who really popularized the heavy metal horn salute. For non-metalheads, the structured approach keeps the documentary on track and prevents it from getting cartoonish and too fan-based and self congratulatory. Metalheads that don't care about film's structure, will thoroughly enjoy the interviews of metal's elite (including originators Tony Iommi, Alice Cooper, Dio, and Bruce Dickinson to modern day heroes Tom Morello, Rob Zombie and Lamb of God) the music, fan commentaries and the concert footage. So raise your horns up high, turn it up loud and check out the best Heavy Metal film ever made. Metal - A Headbanger's Journey will not disappoint. --Rob Bracco
Metal - A Headbanger's Journey Reviews:
Metal 101 
2008-09-09 - This is the definitive metal tutorial document. Let's face it, if you're a long-time metalhead, there is practically nothing in this documentary that you don't already know. But if you have a friend looking to get into the metal scene, this is the perfect way to give them a head-start. One thing that stands out is the extra mini-documentary on Norwegian Black Metal. This is an almost-perfect DVD and I highly recommend it.
Must-Have for every Metal Fan!
2008-08-28 - Excellent Video Documentary!All the Greats from Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Dio, etc. The Complete History of Metal, from it's Deep, Dark conception, to it's Grand Escape to above ground, breeding & branching out into different forms of Metal that still continues today & hopefully until Infinity! As long as artist's continue to keep Metal, Original, Hard, Loud & to the point, it'll out-live, The Roaches!!!!Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
headbanger dvd 
2008-07-22 - the product still has not arrived after a month since order date....I am extremely frustrated. i checked with the post office and they do not have the parcel....how much longer must I wait.
Judy Crosby
Make the journey
2008-06-17 - Metal - A Headbanger's Journey is well documented and accurately, if affectionately, presented. I enjoyed it very much. You will gain an understanding of the history of metal music, as well as a good understanding of the different genres and sub genres. There are interesting interviews with metal musicians from around the world. I found the interviews with the Norwegian black metal musicians especially interesting. I highly recommend this DVD if you love metal music, and wish to understand it better.
the best metal documentay ive ever seen!
2008-05-10 - Basically it covers the evolution(if thats what you want to call it) of metal over the last 40 years. theres loads of great interviews and concert footage, and some testimonies to the impact metal has had on the fans.
This documentary is great, and it actually stays entertaining and relavent after multiple views, unlike a lot of docs. you get insight from all the major subgenres and bands from Black Sabbath to those crazy black metal guys in Norway.
interviews with so many different great musicians, from Dio and Lemmy to the guys from Lamb of God.
the coolest part about this movie is the Metal Chart. it includes every subgenre you could think of, and the most well-known bands from each. now, this is one HUGE chart.. were talkin everything, from black metal, stoner metal, progressive metal, and thrash to.. classic metal, the new wave of british heavy metal, power metal, nu-metal, grindcore, death metal, melodic metal and a whole lot more.
this is the definitive metal documentary. hands down.
