Seville Pictures is presenting "From The Great Wall To The Wailing Wall - The World Is Rocking Out With Global Metal" - a new film by Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn and starring METALLICA, IRON MAIDEN, SLAYER, ORPHANED LAW, X JAPAN, TANG DYNASTY, MAX CAVALERA. Global Metal opens in Toronto and Vancouver on Friday, June 20.

A press release reads as follows:

From the metalheads who brought you Heavy Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey comes Global Metal, a feature documentary that will take audiences to unexpected corners of the world – from Indonesia, Japan and China to India, Israel, Dubai and Brazil – to check out the international flavours of what turns out to be a most universal music – heavy metal.

In Global Metal, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn (Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey) 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, South Asia 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.

Along the way Sam reunites with many of his metal heroes, witness Black Sabbath perform for 40,000 fans in a soccer stadium in Rio De Janeiro; Slayer play to a sold-out hall in Jakarta; and Arch Enemy rock an open-air festival in Tel Aviv. More importantly, in each local Sam will explore how metal has taken on traditional musical differences, how it speaks to issues of power, class and economic disadvantage, what it says about religion, and how it fits into, or stands opposed to local tradition and history.

Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn share producer/writer/director credits on Global Metal. Scot said that the impetus for Global Metal came from the overwhelming response to their first film Heavy Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey. “We had high hopes for the documentary but after the premiere at 2005 TIFF things took off beyond our expectations.”

“Metal was picked up by distributors in over 30 countries from Europe to the Middle East, Asia and South America and it was getting great reviews from both press and audiences. As word of the film spread, we got emails from metalheads around the world thanking us for finally telling the story of this community with respect. These metal fans also told us about the emerging metal scenes in their countries: places we never imagined heavy metal existed. It made us realize that metal has spread far beyond its roots in industrial Europe and suburban America to become a global phenomenon.”
“So Sam and I decided to make another documentary about metal! Although we both felt that the film shouldn’t just be a sequel - it should take us somewhere completely new. We wanted to know what heavy metal means to people who are coming from such vastly different cultural, political and religious backgrounds. How did metal arrive in these countries? And does it have the same rebellious, anti-religious spirit that it does in the West? We thought that metal could be a fascinating “lens” through which to explore the globalization of culture and its impact on youth around the world.”

A trailer for Global Metal can be viewed here.