Canadian Documetary Makers Aim To Expose Heavy Metal To Broader Audience

September 13, 2005

Sam Dunn and Scot McFayden, the filmmakers behind the brand-new documentary offering a guided tour through heavy metal's storied but largely ignored history, "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey", recently spoke to Canada's ChartAttack.com about their movie, which will make its world premiere in Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 14 at the Ryerson Theatre.

"When we tell people what we're doing the film at a festival party and they're like 'What's your movie about?' there's this little smirk that comes across people's faces, like 'Oh yeah, metal,'" McFayden told ChartAttack.com. "And our goal is to wipe that fucking smirk off of people's faces."

"And that's the fun part for me," Dunn said. "Because I think when you're a fan of this music, when you grow up with it, you kind of always know that stuff, like it's no huge surprise. But on the outside of it, there are these stereotypes that exist and people have all these presumptions around what the music is and what it represents and the people who listen to it. Yeah, metal is extreme, it can be aggressive, it's a lot about the spectacle and there's shock and there's controversy, but at the same time, it's just regular people. Exposing metal to a broader audience in a way that was thoughtful and hopefully credible was our goal."

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