Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

About Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

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.

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey is a 2005 documentary music film directed by Jessica Joy Wise and Sam Dunn. It runs 91 minutes and was released in September 2005.

Sam Dunn appears as Self, Chris Adler as Self, Tom Araya as Self, and Gavin Baddeley as Self. Written by Jessica Joy Wise and Sam Dunn.

Shelv files it under music documentary, heavy metal, testimony, and music festival.

The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, Bridget Jones's Baby, and Wayne's World make useful companions to Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, all filed under anthropology. It scores 7.6 out of 10 from 176 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.