'Global Metal' Documentary Maker: 'I Think Metal Is Being Redefined By Virtue Of Its Spread'

June 18, 2008

Guy Dixon of TheGlobeAndMail.com recently conducted an interview with director Sam Dunn of Banger Films Inc. one of the creators of the critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" and its soon-to-be-released follow-up "Global Metal".

"Global Metal" is said to be a feature documentary that takes audiences to unexpected corners of the world from Indonesia, Japan and China to India, Israel, Dubai and Brazil to check out the international flavors of what turns out to be a most universal music heavy metal.

"I think metal is being redefined by virtue of its spread. For the longest time, it was very much defined by the rules that you and I associate with metal, that it has to have certain hallmarks to be real metal," Dunn said.

"What's interesting is that the fringes of that core are starting to change. Introducing Israeli folk melody into metal may not be metal to some kids in the West; in fact, it may be something they feel quite opposed to. But in Israel and maybe in the [whole] region, there is something which to them still is metal," Dunn added.

Read the entire interview at TheGlobeAndMail.com.

Sam Dunn and partner Scot McFadyen were interviewed by George Stroumboulopoulos on "The Hour" on May 21, 2008. The 11-minute segment, which originally aired on CBC in Canada, can be viewed below.

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