Anthropologist Sam Dunn 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 millions. Sam explores metal's 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. This documentary, the first of it's kind, is both a defense of a long-misunderstood art form and a window for the outsider into the spectacle that is heavy metal.
Director: Jessica Joy Wise
Director: Sam Dunn
Director: Scot McFadyen
Producer: Sam Dunn
Producer: Scot McFadyen
Actor: Lemmy Kilmister
Actor: Lemmy
Actor: Alice Cooper
Actor: Sam Dunn
Actor: Chuck Klosterman
Actor: Donna Gaines
Actor: Johnny Kay
Actor: Pamela Des Barres
Actor: Vince Neil
Actor: Ronnie James Dio
Actor: Geddy Lee
Actor: Dee Snider
Actor: Rob Zombie
Actor: Bruce Dickinson
Actor: Tony Iommi
Actor: Tom Araya