'Global Metal' Filmmaker: Metal Offered Us A Different Lens To View Various Countries With

Liz Braun of the Toronto Sun recently conducted an interview with directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn of Banger Films Inc. creators of the critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" and its follow-up, "Global Metal".

The new film offers an insider's look at such global variations on a musical theme as Indonesian death metal, Chinese black metal, or Iranian thrash metal. The movie reveals how metal evolves and flourishes in different cultures.

"Metal offered us a different lens to view (various countries) with," Dunn said. "In the West, when people think of somewhere like Indonesia, they think of disaster. Or if they think of Israel, they think of fighting or attacks by suicide bombers. We have this assumption that somehow there aren't valid youth cultures in these countries. But in India, for example, there's this new youth culture that's middle class, kids with some money in their pocket, who are eager to explore things that aren't Bollywood. They want something from the outside. They're interested in other cultures. We could never have imagined that metal could be on the cusp of that kind of change."

Dunn asked IRON MAIDEN's Bruce Dickinson if he'd ever imagined the band being on the forefront of what seems like cultural change in a lot of these countries.

"He said, 'No I feel like we're on the end of a spear going into a lot of these countries.'" Laughing, Dunn added, "It surprises us, and it's exciting. It was an exciting way to view these places."

Read the entire article from the Toronto Sun.

Sam Dunn and 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.