Global Metal

Global Metal Director Sam Dunn Talks To Fans In Israel About The Controversy Around SLAYER's Classic 'Angel Of Death'



BW&BK spoke with Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn - the metalheads who brought you Heavy Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey - about their latest Seville Pictures film Global Metal which stars METALLICA, IRON MAIDEN, SLAYER, ORPHANED LAW, X JAPAN, TANG DYNASTY, MAX CAVALERA among many others. Global Metal touches upon the controversy around Slayer's legendary Reign In Blood opener, 'Angel Of Death' and how the song is viewed by metalheads around the world, particularly Israel.

"For me growing up, 'Angel Of Death' was always such a controversially song, but such a great song," says Dunn. "A really iconic song - it blew the doors off anything that had been done before in terms of the intensity of the song and the lyrical content. Just the overall ferocity of that song and that album - we went into the stratosphere with that record. The question about the Holocaust and that song is a burning question for a lot of metalheads. It was a great thing for us to have the opportunity to ask kids who had grown up in Israel, who had parents or grandparents who were killed or affected by the Holocaust and what they thought about this song. We felt that that was an overdue question. Nobody had ever taken the time to do that. We were fascinated to discover that in large part they realized that it was a song, a commentary. They interpreted it as a testament to the atrocity and not as some kind of endorsement by any means. We just felt it was a proper time to tackle that. It was something we needed to address. It was like with Headbanger's Journey, going to Norway and not talking about the church burnings. It would've been the same if we had gone to Israel and not talked about 'Angel Of Death'.

Global Metal opens in Toronto, ON and Vancouver, BC on Friday, June 20.

Universal Music Canada will be releasing the official soundtrack for the film on June 17th. The complete tracklisting is as follows:

SEPULTURA – 'Inner Self'
LAMB OF GOD – 'Walk With Me In Hell'
MELECHESH – 'Ladder to Sumert'
X-JAPAN – 'X'
ORPHANED LAND - 'Ornaments Of Gold'
MASTODON – 'Colony Of Birchmen'
ENSLAVED – 'Havenless'
SIGH – 'Me Devil'
IN FLAMES – 'Take This Life'
CHTHONIC - 'Indigenous Laceration'
ANGRA – 'Salvation Suicide'
FINNTROLL – 'Jaktins Tid'
GOJIRA - 'From The Sky'
TANG DYNASTY – 'Epic'
TENGKORAK – 'Jihad’s Soldiers'
ARTHMOTH – 'Baptize'
TÝR – 'Wings Of Time'
DEMONIC RESURRECTION – Apocalyptic Dawn

Watch for a major BW&BK magazine feature on Global Metal in our upcoming issue (#111) - out in mid-June.

View a Global Metal trailer below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiOqGIWlFx8&eurl=http://www.bravewords.com/news/90671

BW&BK - Global Metal Give-Away!

Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn - the metalheads who brought you Heavy Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey - have unleashed their latest Seville Pictures film Global Metal which stars METALLICA, IRON MAIDEN, SLAYER, ORPHANED LAW, X JAPAN, TANG DYNASTY, MAX CAVALERA among many others.

BW&BK and Universal Music Canada is offering up five autographed Global Metal plaque-mounts (signed by Sam and Scot) and five Global Metal t-shirts in celebration of this landmark film!

Winners will be chosen at random - please enter by sending an email to: contests@bravewords.com
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Please put "Global Metal Rules" in subject line.

Global Metal is playing in select theaters now! Universal Music Canada has released the official soundtrack for the film which features the following tracklisting:

SEPULTURA – 'Inner Self'
LAMB OF GOD – 'Walk With Me In Hell'
MELECHESH – 'Ladder to Sumert'
X-JAPAN – 'X'
ORPHANED LAND - 'Ornaments Of Gold'
MASTODON – 'Colony Of Birchmen'
ENSLAVED – 'Havenless'
SIGH – 'Me Devil'
IN FLAMES – 'Take This Life'
CHTHONIC - 'Indigenous Laceration'
ANGRA – 'Salvation Suicide'
FINNTROLL – 'Jaktins Tid'
GOJIRA - 'From The Sky'
TANG DYNASTY – 'Epic'
TENGKORAK – 'Jihad’s Soldiers'
ARTHMOTH – 'Baptize'
TÝR – 'Wings Of Time'
DEMONIC RESURRECTION – Apocalyptic Dawn


A major feature on Global Metal can be found in the BW&BK magazine (
#111) - in stores now or online here.

View a Global Metal trailer below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiOqGIWlFx8&eurl=http://www.bravewords.com/news/93015

Global Metal DVD Release Confirmed For November 4th

Directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn's Global Metal film will be released on DVD on Tuesday, November 4th.

In Global Metal, McFadyen and Dunn set out to discover how the West’s most maligned musical genre - heavy metal - has impacted the world’s cultures beyond Europe and North America.

The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn on a whirlwind journey through Asia, South America and the Middle East as he explores the underbelly of the world’s emerging extreme music scenes - from Indonesian death metal to Chinese black metal to Iranian thrash metal.

Global Metal reveals a worldwide community of metalheads creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass-consumerism.

Further DVD details to follow.

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