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The story of a 30-year old scientist who pursues to study a distinctive culture, one he has been ever a part: the culture of heavy metal. He has a trip to discover the reason why this music is loved by a lot of people. He realizes that metals' obsession with controversial issues: sexuality, religion, violence and death.
30 May 1964, New York City, New York, USA
10 July 1942, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
12 January 1965, Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA
15 March 1955, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
25 January 1984
21 February 1971, Virginia, USA
3 June 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 April 1975, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
9 June 1974, Norway
19 August 1948, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
7 August 1975, Norway
6 June 1961, Valparaiso, Chile
1969, Buffalo, New York, USA
November 10, 2006
The success of Dunn's film in support of heavy metal music might be the result of not offering the audience too much musicApril 14, 2006
A lightweight fanboy valentine for ostensibly heavyweight music.April 13, 2006
Full of splendid social and psychological insights.May 12, 2006
The metal scene emerges throughout the documentary as the recruitment center of an army of misfits, where the outcasts of the world can seek each other out based on their love of the angsty, eardrum-destroying tunes their parents warned them about.April 13, 2006
Interviews with metal practitioners such as Tony Iommi, Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie and Dee Snider, journalists and academic types paint a compelling portrait of a vibrant society of outsiders.April 21, 2006
A film that manages to be intelligent without being boring, making it one of the better music documentaries in recent memory.April 21, 2006
The movie is woefully short on concert footage, which could have shown us the power of metal instead of just telling us.May 06, 2006
A documentary that preaches to the converted if ever there was one, but Dunn's enthusiasm for the subject and the range of pretension and humour of his interviewees makes for fun viewing.May 06, 2006
Enjoyable whether you're a fan of the music or not.April 21, 2006
It'll make you want to dig out your Whitesnake T-shirt. It might even convince Tipper Gore that heavy metal thunder is all in good fun.October 20, 2007
Brings on a variety of eloquent voices from both the fanbase and the gods of metal themselves.