Canadian Heavy Metal Documentary To Be Shown At Vancouver International Festival
"Metal: A Headbanger's Journey", a brand-new documentary offering a guided tour through heavy metal's storied but largely ignored history, will be shown at the 24th annual Vancouver International Festival, which is running now through October 14. The film will air on October 7 at 9:45 p.m and again on October 11 at 1 p.m. More information can be found at this location.
"Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" is the brainchild of Sam Dunn, an anthropologist and unreformed headbanger from Victoria, BC, who was originally interested in a book project.
"There were books like Robert Walser's 'Running With the Devil' and Deena Weinstein's 'Heavy Metal' but no one had done a comprehensive history," Dunn told Eye.net in a recent interview. "The reason I was particularly interested at that time was because of the nü-metal thing. I wasn't necessarily a fan of that music, though I thought SLIPKNOT was intriguing because it sounded like eight death metal bands having a wrestling match. But it did get me thinking about it within the scope of the history of the music. This music is changing and evolving and always has been."
Source: Blabbermouth
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10 Comments on "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey Playing In Vancouver"
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4. writes:
I can't help but wonder how credible this Dunn guy is if he thinks Slipknot sounds like 8 death metal bands.....
While Slipknot are good at what they do, it's such a far cry from death metal I can't help but wonder WTF he's talking about....Indeed Slipknot are at times heavy, and for a commercially successful band their among the most heavy....but for a guy doing a project on Metal he seems sorely misinformed....
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6. writes:
ya,as far as uncoordinated talentless overated garbage goes,ya,they're good at what they do,"8 death metal bands having a wrestling match",HAHAHA,one half of a death metal band should equal their talent(and if your talkin about a nile or bloodbath though,then more like a quarter)
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10. writes:
u guys sound like the dumb fck metal media, stop classifing sh** when u couldnt play a lick ur self, unless ofcourse u fckers can play a lick, but even then to sound as hard as slipknot does and sell millions of albums is a credit to dumb f*** kids who wear ridiculously baggy pants.
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1. metalhead644 writes:
I love that description : "I thought SLIPKNOT was intriguing because it sounded like eight death metal bands having a wrestling match", cause its so damn true, as much as no one wants to admit it...