Rock In Solo 2012 - The Return

Global Metal

June 2008 •English

In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most maligned musical genre - heavy metal - has impacted the world's cultures beyond Europe and North America. The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn on a whirlwind journey through Asia, South America and the Middle East as he explores the underbelly of the world's emerging extreme music scenes; from Indonesian death metal to Chinese black metal to Iranian thrash metal. GLOBAL METAL reveals a worldwide community of metalheads who aren't just absorbing metal from the West - they're transforming it - creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass-consumerism.

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

September 2005 •English

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.

Even Hell Has Its Heroes

March 2023 •English

Seattle’s swampy rivers and wild forests set an atmospheric scene for the tale of Earth – the slowest metal band on earth – which created the drone metal genre, was an inspiration to the grunge rock scene and had an unfortunate hand in Kurt Cobain’s death.

Play with the Devil – Becoming Zeal & Ardor

March 2023 •German

Zeal & Ardor catapults Swiss musician Manuel Gagneux from the underground to the world stage. Religion, racism, segregation and appropriation: Gagneux makes music against taboos. But being a leader against his will scares the introverted artist. Can he remix the game?

Desert Metal Dreaming

May 2021 •English

The most isolated metal band in the world, Southeast Desert Metal, and their Aunty Kathleen, share ancient Arrernte culture with the world through song and painting.

Metaal

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A look into the glory days of the Dutch (extreme) Metal scene.

Hellfest et Burning Man : L’incroyable succès des festivals les plus fous du monde

June 2024 •French

MASSIVE: The amazing rise and fall

March 2016 •English

Between 2000 - 2010 there was an underground music scene in South Wales that was unique and meant the world to those involved, but to the outside world, it didn't exist. Later the bands and artists who emerged from that scene would find acclaim and success, but before all that, they were young, passionate and a close community of friends who just dreamed about being MASSIVE Massive: The Amazing Rise and Fall is their story.... FRIENDSHIP. HYPE. LEGEND.

Rock In Solo 2011 - Heritage Metal Fest

October 2012 •Indonesian

Orphaned Land: A Heaven You May Create

December 2023 •English

Spotlighting 30 years of the Israeli metal band's career, A Heaven You May Create explores not only their immense discography but also the impact they left on the music industry.

the GazettE - LIVE TOUR 2022-2023 MASS "THE FINAL" LIVE AT 07.15 NIPPON BUDOKAN

April 2024 •Japanese

Following the release of the album Mass, the GazettE toured from 2022 to 2023. This release records the band's final performance of the MASS tour at Nippon Budokan on July 15, 2023.

Hide Your Metal

July 2017 •English

Hide Your Metal is a short documentary following four Heavy Metal bands leading up to the DeathRash Night II concert in Amman, Jordan. The story depicts the obstacles metal musicians face in expressing themselves publicly and how heavy metal's 'satanic' reputation in Jordan impacts their evolution as musicians.

Escuros, Roncos e Compasados

June 2012 •Galician

Absorbed, Unnatural, Dismal, Deface, SOK, Wisdom, Detestor ... Names linked to a very specific movement such as Death Metal and to a time and place as the Galicia from the 1990s. In this documentary, through interviews with members of that movement, from band members to producers or fanzine writers, we try to pay homage to an underground movement as Galician Death Metal along the 90s, deepening its history and its stories.

Metal y Cuenca

May 2019 •Spanish

In the city of Cuenca, metal music has been a prevailing force since the early 1980s. Through interviews with artists, managers, and promoters within the Cuenca metal scene, this documentary weaves a narrative detailing the circumstances and inquiries of those who shape this vibrant community.

Periphery - P4: The Documentary (The Making of HAIL STAN)

April 2019 •English

Periphery's documentary, P4: The Documentary - The Making of HAIL STAN

Grind Over Europe

January 1996 •English

Documentary with tour footage and live performances of all 3 bands from the 1996 Grind Over Europe Tour: Dead Infection (Poland), Haemorrhage (Spain), C.S.S.O. (Japan).

Hoy Como Ayer

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Alien Weaponry - Thrash Metal and Te Reo Māori

July 2018 •English

Alien Weaponry are a thrash metal band which often sings in te reo Māori. This Vice documentary meets them as they prepare to tour Europe, and take the metal world by storm. The quiet lives of the members — Lewis de Jong and Ethan Trembath attend different high schools, while Henry de Jong is an apprentice mechanic — are contrasted with a high intensity performance (at the Auckland release show for the band's debut album Tū). The de Jong parents share stories about their two sons, and the band travel to Lake Rotoiti, to reconnect with their whakapapa.

Holiday

May 2014 •Spanish

A drama set in turbulent, turn-of-the-millennium Ecuador and centered on a young man who begins to develop complicated feelings for Juano after he saves him from a beating.

Slipknot: Welcome to our Neighborhood

November 1999 •English

Welcome to Our Neighborhood is the first video album by American heavy metal band Slipknot. It was released on November 9, 1999 by Roadrunner Records and later reissued in DVD format on November 18, 2003. Characterized as a band's home video, it features a mixture of live performances footage of the songs "Surfacing", "Wait and Bleed", and "Scissors", interviews, and music video of "Spit It Out". Additional concept imagery and interview footage is included on the film, while the DVD version features more bonus material.