Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005)
Genre: Documentary / Music
Duration: 96 minuten
Country:
Canada
Directed by: Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen and Jessica Joy Wise
Stars: Tom Araya, Alice Cooper and Bruce Dickinson
IMDb score:
8,0 (12.948)
Releasedate: 14 September 2005
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey plot
Sam Dunn is an anthropologist with a penchant for heavy metal. He investigates why this music has always been condemned while millions of fans embrace the music. Gradually, Sam exposes more and more about how the metal culture views sexuality, religion, violence and death. Some discoveries he can't even defend.
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Reviews & comments
Theunissen
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- 12334 messages
- 5538 votes
Nice documentary and especially the first hour is quite good, the last part with all those Norwegian Black Metal bands was not really interesting to me. The interview with Mayhem was the most hilarious, they weren't really interested in the interviewer at all (they kind of pissed him off) and just spouted nonsense 
Also nice to see the late Ronnie James Dio (great person) again to see. Frankly, he didn't look good then.
It's a shame that this documentary only lasts about 90 minutes because that's just way too short to explain the metal scene. I thought the classification of bands in this documentary was very good, but the disadvantage was that only one band from a certain genre was mentioned. It would have been better to spend 20 minutes on each genre. Then it would not have become a 90-minute documentary, but 900 minutes. But all in all I thought it was a good documentary that took me back in time and also made me feel 15-25 years younger 
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scorsese
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- 13562 messages
- 11354 votes
Nice documentary in which a lifelong metal fan (Sam Dunn) goes in search of the world around and behind metal music. A clear structure and enough fun material consisting of concert recordings and many interview pieces with many different people. But it all remains a bit on the surface, in my opinion. For the real die-hard-metal fan probably even more fun and interesting.
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RuudC
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- 4636 messages
- 2529 votes
For and by metalheads! Although outsiders get a nice picture of this world through this documentary. I just don't understand the comment that there is too much or too little focus on certain subgenres. The genres are not what it's all about. Sam Dunn likes to indicate the 'metal feeling'. It's not for nothing that Metal: A Headbangers Journey opens with the heavy metal parking lot. That a girl would like to jump on Rob Halford is a comment that only insiders can laugh at (Rob is gay, as it turned out later).
The only real piece of band history we get to see is that of Black Sabbath. You also see a lot of big names, but they also only talk about the metal feeling. Of course they are also enthusiasts and have been through a lot. Beautiful right? Geddy Lee who informs us about Blue Cheer or Gaahl who is dead serious about being a satanist. Not a word about their own music, although metal in itself plays a very important role. Dunn neatly explains the origins and all topics that are important for metal. The regular fans are all (reasonably) recognizable (I've been in it for fifteen years), but the interviews with Dio (the one and only) and Alice Cooper are fantastic. I can't say I missed people.
No, without really going into genres, but telling exactly what this genre is all about (or not), Sam Dunn delivers a very nice documentary here. It's a nice smooth story. Self-critical here and there, but the fuck you attitude also fits exactly. And if you don't understand, you never will.
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