Heavy Fucking Metal



Sam Dunn (my new christ figure in anthropology) has followed up his amazing 2005 film, Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, with Global Metal. If you didn't see the first one, you should. Even if you don't like metal, they're such engaging, well produced and powerful documentaries that it doesn't matter. Megan doesn't like metal, and she loved them both. Global Metal looks at the emerging metal scene outside the West. Brazil, Japan, China, India and Iran all have burgeoning metal scenes, now documented by Sam.



Besides watching this doc, I've been listening to Liquid Metal on the XM, and still just don't like cookie monster death metal or screaming eagle black metal vocals. I'm down with classic, thrash, speed and power metal, and that's about it. I was however, reminded that I rather enjoy Anthrax. Check this pretty decent track from their 2003 album, "We've Come for You All". They've certainly aged better than those assholes in Metallica, even having switched vocalists a couple of times.


- posted by Mason @ 6:28 PM