Should you watch Metal: A Headbanger's Journey?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
Documentary · 2005
The film discusses the traits and originators of some of metal's many subgenres, including the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, power metal, Nu metal, glam metal, thrash metal, black metal, and death metal. Dunn uses a family-tree-type flowchart to document some of the most popular metal subgenres. The film also explores various aspects of heavy metal culture.
The sides of Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
- An anthropologist who grew up on metal
- A family tree of metal subgenres
- Interviews with metal's founders and fans
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey is good for you if…
- you want to finally tell thrash from death metal from black metal.
- you like a fan who studies his own tribe like an anthropologist.
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey is bad for you if…
- you'd rather follow one life than a map of a whole culture.
- you need something happening on screen, not a string of interviews.
About: belonging · identity · outsiders
Closest to Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
More like this
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan 2005Good for you if you want to hear Dylan's songs as they were first played.
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten 2007Good for you if you love the Clash and punk.
Let It Be 1970Good for you if you want to watch the Beatles build songs from scratch.
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back 1967Good for you if you want young Dylan playing alone with a guitar and a harmonica.
It Might Get Loud 2008Good for you if you love the electric guitar and what it can do.
Imagine: John Lennon 1988Good for you if you love the Beatles and Lennon's solo songs.