Sam Dunn?? a 30-year old anthropologist?? decided to study the plight of a different culture?? one he has been a part of since he was a 12-year-old: the culture of heavy metal. Sam sets out on a global journey to find out why this music has been consistently stereotyped?? dismissed and condemned and yet is loved so passionately by its millions of fans. Along the way?? Sam explores metals obsession with some of life's most provocative subjects - sexuality?? religion?? violence and death - and discovers some things about the culture that even he can't defend. Shot on location in the UK?? Germany?? Norway?? Canada and the US?? this documentary " of its kind. It is both a defense of a long-misunderstood art form and a window for the outsider into the spectacle that is heavy metal.
]]>Amazon.comAn anthropological study of Heavy Metal? Is this for real? Believe it man?? it's true?? and it's pretty darn good at that. Metal - A Headbanger's Journey is a labor of love for director/ producer Sam Dunn; anthropologist?? academia?? metalhead. Like a good anthropologist Dunn has often wondered about cultures?? societies?? and the key elements that makes them thrive. Being a life-long headbanger?? Sam Dunn decided to turn his academic skills onto himself to study and attempt to explain the often misunderstood culture that shaped his existence and millions of others around the world. Structured like a traditional anthropological journal?? Metal - A Headbanger's Journey is broken into sections such as "" "Roots??""Environments??""Culture??""Sexuality??""Religion??"and "Death." Many topics are addressed such as identifying the first heavy metal band?? what in the music de