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This is Wacken Open Air,

the biggest gathering of metal heads in the world.

Each year, over 60,000 devoted fans

come to camp out in the fields of northern Germany

to worship their favourite metal bands.

And whether you've come to see death metal,

power metal,

black metal,

goth metal,

or even viking metal,

if you're a diehard metal fan,

this is the place to be.

This is me.

My name is Sam Dunn

and, as you can see,

I'm one of the diehard metal fans.

Ever since I was 12-years-old,

I've been obsessed with all things metal.

And although my parents hoped it was a phase,

it wasn't.

I grew up,

got my graduate degree in anthropology,

and then decided to make a documentary

about heavy metal culture.

In the film, I traced the music back

to its working class roots

in the factory towns of England and America.

I then showed how early metal bands

like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Blue Cheer

laid the foundation for a crazy number of metal sub-genres.

Along the way,

I met some of my childhood heroes

and spoke to a ton of musicians

about the controversy surrounding this music.

Satan.

I also heard from hundreds of metal fans

about what this music means to them.

From the time I was 12-years-old,

metal was just a constant.

And what I discovered is this underground movement

is even bigger than I first thought.

And for metal heads,

it's about more than just music -

it's an identity.

After the film was released,

I got a flood of emails from metal fans

thanking me for giving this community

the respect it deserves.

But what surprised me was how many different countries

the emails came from.

Many were from places

I had no idea metal even existed.

I mean, I knew there was metal outside of Europe

and north America -

one of my favourite bands is Sepultura from Brazil

and I also have metal albums recorded live in Japan -

but the stories in these emails got me thinking.

For years anthropologists have studied the effects

of globalization,

but I've never considered heavy metal's role

in this process.

As metal has spread across the globe,

what new meanings is it taking on

for fans in countries

with such vastly different cultural,

political and religious backgrounds?

Clearly, there's a whole world of metal out there

I know nothing about.

But I'm not gonna find answers

in the fields of northern Germany.

So I'm taking my anthropology studies on the road

to understand how metal has gone global.

Yeah!

♪ Only way to feel the noise is when it's good and loud ♪

♪ So good you can't believe it screaming with the crowd ♪

♪ Don't sweat it ♪

♪ Get it back to you ♪

♪ Overkill! ♪

♪ Overkill! ♪

♪ Overkill! ♪

The first stop on my journey is Brazil,

the largest country in Latin America,

and a place most people associate with beaches,

soccer and samba,

but if you ask any metal fan,

they'll tell you that it's also known

for its massive metal scene.

So what happened to make metal so huge in this country?

The people in the '70s lived under a dictatorship in Brazil.

We had this dictatorship for almost 25 years.

During this dictatorship there was not a lot of freedom and it wasn't easy to access information.

And on that period when we were teenagers,

it was very hard to find good instruments.

The market was very closed

for everything that comes from abroad.

The Brazilian dictatorship ended in 1985.

At that moment the bands were starting to release their first albums of Brazilian heavy metal.

And what that means is that heavy metal came along with democracy.

I think the organizers of "Rock in Rio"

felt the momentum

and they organized this festival,

which was huge.

There were 1,380,000 people during 10 days,

and it was the first time, you know,

everyone knew what a metal head was

and that there were so many.

♪ Here I am! ♪

♪ Rock you like a hurricane! ♪

♪ Here I am! ♪

♪ Rock you like a hurricane! ♪

It may seem funny to you today, wanting to see Whitesnake.

It's a little ridiculous, but seeing Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne, Scorpions and Iron Maiden...

...was overwhelming for a Brazilian in 1985.

I wouldn't say that metal came to free us,

but I say that it was something that we were begging for.

We were begging to have

that atmosphere of freedom of speech,

freedom of communication.

Hey! Hey!

Two minutes to midnight!

Let me see your hands in the air!

Come on!

Hey!

We had to fly in by helicopter,

because to get there

all the roads were kind of blocked and stuff.

And so, as we got-

as you get in closer and closer,

you know, you could kind of see,

you know, you saw this kind of...

It looked like smoke coming up in the air,

you know, and what it was,

it was actually the steam rising off-

bodies.

The bodies, off the crowd.

They were all in sync, all having a great time.

You would see a multitude of people lose themselves.

It seemed like we were part of something bigger than us.

We felt like we were part of a big family...

...of a religion.

And people started to imagine that this could be the music,

...and the soundtrack of the moment that Brazil became a new and free country.

Everybody sing it! Go!

♪ Two minutes to go! ♪

♪ To midnight! ♪

♪ The hands that threaten doom ♪

♪ , amigo! ♪

♪ Two minutes to go! ♪

♪ To midnight! ♪

♪ To kill the unborn in the womb! Yeah! ♪

♪ The blind men shout let the creatures out ♪

♪ We'll show the unbelievers ♪

♪ The napalm screams of human flames ♪

♪ Of a prime time Belsen feast yeah! ♪

So here we are.

We're in Sao Paulo, in Brazil.

We're at the Grandes Gallerias,

otherwise known as the Galleria du Rock.

And uh...

I guess you know metal's huge in a country

when there's a whole mall devoted to it.

♪ ...or the demon's seed! ♪

♪ The glamour, the fortune, the pain! ♪

♪ Go to war again ♪

♪ Blood is freedom's stain ♪

♪ But don't you pray for my soul anymore! ♪

♪ Two minutes to midnight! ♪

♪ The hands that threaten doom! ♪

♪ Two minutes to midnight... ♪

I first heard Sepultura

when I must have been around...

13 or 14-years-old.

It was hard to believe that there was metal

actually coming out of Brazil.

It seemed like it was coming from so far away,

from a place that was really so different.

Sepultura's founder, Max Cavalera,

is one of my all-time metal heroes,

and finally I get the chance to ask him

what it was like starting out

as an extreme metal band in Brazil.

Well, everything was a struggle actually.

From... From our own struggle -

we didn't know how to play,

but we wanted to have a band.

Then we didn't have money,

but we really wanted to be in a band.

The money was never a problem, you know.

You go around somehow.

You figure out.

Even how we looked we find ways.

When we saw the destruction album covers,

they had bullet belts.

So like we had to look like those guys, man.

You know, it was like,

"we look like shit. We look stupid.

We need bullet belts."

I think Igor came up with with the idea -

"well, let's get a bunch of double-a batteries,

glue them together, take the picture from far.

They will look like bullet belts."

And I was like, "you must be nuts.

It's not gonna work."

And like, "yeah, it'll work."

So he worked on those batteries for like a couple days.

And they looked perfect, they looked great.

And I was like, "man, cool.

Now we've got bullet belts.

You know, what's next?" You know?

Mass hypnosis!

It was crazy, man.

The Brazilian crowd just went nuts

from the first note...

You know, the entire stadium went crazy, mosh pit.

My head's going a thousand miles an hour.

Like this is my country.

This is where I grow up.

We're playing in the biggest stadium

in the world of soccer.

All the people that thought Sepultura would never make it,

everybody's here watching us.

And we're turning it up, you know,

and we're playing everything faster than we ever did.

♪ Soldiers going nowhere! ♪

♪ Soldiers blinded by their faith! ♪

Many kids identify themselves with them

because they were poor.

They started out without anything.

They just like wanted to play metal

and managed to make a living out of it.

Sepultura is our big triumph, our flag of Brazilian heavy metal.

In the past Brazil was not recognized as a country that had heavy metal...

...but today it is recognized as a country of heavy metal because of Sepultura.

Talking about Sepultura outside of Brazil is like talking about Pelé or the Amazon.

Sepultura belongs to Brazil, it is very important.

A few years after I got into Sepultura,

they surprised me

when they added traditional Brazilian instruments

into their music.

This shocked a lot of people in the metal community,

including their own record company.

I think the owner said, like it...

He laughed. He was like,

"why do you want to go with a bunch of naked Indians

in the middle of the Amazon?

Why don't they just record the album in New York?"

You know, something like that.

You know, I think they didn't understand at first,

but definitely, when everything focused,

yeah, the project...

That was awesome, man.

You know, I think people were like blown away.

♪ I believe in our fate! ♪

♪ We don't need to fake! ♪

♪ It's all we wanna be! ♪

♪ Watch me freak! ♪

I think a lot of countries fall under the idea

that we should copy America,

and music goes under that too.

And I think it sucks, you know,

because I don't think we should copy the States.

I think we should have our own identity, you know.

Dude...

That is a huge subway system.

I saw in Brazil how a country's culture

can be incorporated into metal music.

But what about Japan,

a place stereotyped

for its obsession with Western culture?

It's also known for its hardworking salary men,

conformity,

and extreme organization,

none of which seems very metal to me.

So what happens to metal's rebellious spirit

when it mixes with Japanese culture?

Hopefully, I'll find out at Loud Park,

the biggest metal festival in Asia.

Tokyo, Japan!

Lamb of God! Lamb of God!

Lamb of God!

Walk with me in hell!

The very first time we came to Japan,

we played a theater.

We had like a...

I think it was a 3,000-seater theater.

And they were all...

Everybody was sitting in their seats,

and they had ushers in every aisle.

So we came here, you know,

not having any idea what was gonna happen,

not believing they were gonna sit down.

'Cause I'm like, "there's no way you can sit down

and watch a Slayer show.

It just ain't gonna happen."

And the minute we started playing...

They got up and they rushed to the front.

And the promoter at the time freaked out.

They had never seen an audience

just get up from their seats and rush.

You know, and we were sitting there playing

and all of a sudden, while we were playing,

you could see all the ushers were like doing this.

They made everybody get back in their seats.

And everybody- so for the rest of the show

they sat in their seats.

They did this.

Now the Japanese are moshing,

now the Japanese are body surfing.

So we've seen that complete evolution

from when it wasn't allowed at all,

to now, it's kind of like commonplace.

Abort the war!

Slayer!

♪ The sport is war, total war, ♪

♪ When the end is a slaughter ♪

♪ The final swing is not a drill ♪

♪ It's how many people I can kill! ♪

I think Japanese metal fans' way of thinking is different from Western people's way of thinking.

For example, if you ask them if metal expresses their feelings of...

...oppression and dissatisfaction most of them would probably say "No."

In the West, if you're looking for rebellion or feel isolated in society...

...you would be drawn to metal music.

This is not the case in Japan.

For example, fans at rock festivals are very courteous.

If they throw down their garbage, later they'll pick it up and perhaps bring it home with them.

If you're a metal fan you'll maintain your demonic image.

During the concert you will appear very demonic...

...but once outside the concert you go back to your courteous self.

Wah!

Usually I wear suits and a necktie...

...that is my normal everyday life.

Listening to hard music like metal at home or at a concert...

...changes my daily life dramatically.

It makes me feel happier and my feelings burst wide open.

Sometimes Japan gets a little bit of a bad rap from people

because of the way people kind of interact at the shows

or the lack of interaction or whatever,

and to me that's horseshit.

I mean, it's just...

It's a different way of expressing themselves and...

We love going there and um...

We love all the toothbrushes that we get.

We were wondering, of course, in the beginning,

if there was anything...

If we had bad dental hygiene or bad breath or whatever,

but then, again, you realize that it's just...

It's their love.

It's their way of showing love.

"Here, have a toothbrush

with some Japanese teddy bear on it or whatever,"

and it's like, "okay, thank you."

Okay, okay?

Do you like metal?

Yeah.

I love metal!

Okay... and cut.

Okay? Okay?

Arigato.

Yes, thank you. Thank you.

I wish all my interviews were that easy.

At loud park,

I found the new generation of Japanese metal fans,

but now I'm on the hunt for some of the old guard

to discover how metal arrived in this country.

Rumor has it they hang out at Blackmore's,

a small bar

named after Deep Purple's legendary guitarist,

Ritchie Blackmore.

♪ Nobody gonna take my car ♪

♪ I'm gonna race it to the ground! ♪

♪ Nobody gonna beat my car ♪

♪ It's gonna break the speed of sound! ♪

Deep Purple arrived in Japan in August 1972.

Before that I thought that Deep Purple had an organized and structured way of playing.

But it wasn't like that.

They were bringing more and more improvisation into their performance.

The finale was crazy. We had never seen that before.

Everyone rushed to the front of the Budokan stage.

Ritchie Blackmore was turning the guitar upside down.

That was the night when Deep Purple became a legend.

There is a current trend among men in their 50s...

...they reunite with old band members from university or high school and play together.

And what they always play in the studio is "Highway Star."

Everyone wants to be the guitarist and only play the solo.

But I heard the vocalists have a hard time because the key is too high.

♪ I love her! I need her! ♪

♪ I seed her! ♪

♪ Yeah, it's a wild hurricane! All right! All right! ♪

KISS arrived a few years later.

All right, Tokyo!

When they came off the plane they were in full makeup and costume.

The problem was that they couldn't pass through immigration like this.

So they had to take the makeup off in order to pass through immigration.

Afterwards they re-applied all their makeup and changed back into their costumes.

Then they came out of immigration in full stage costume...

...thousands of fans flooded them.

If you see the videos of when they arrived in the '70s you might faint.

♪ You show us everything you've got! ♪

♪ You keep on dancin' and the room gets hot! ♪

♪ You drive us wild, we'll drive you crazy! ♪

The bang of the pyro and their use of fire was the biggest shock to us.

But wearing makeup on stage was pretty well accepted.

♪ I can't hear ya! ♪

♪ I wanna rock and roll... ♪

In Japan, because of the makeup KISS also reminds us of Kabuki theater.

Because of that I think a lot of Japanese people felt a certain intimacy with them.

♪ All right! ♪

♪ And party every day! ♪

♪ I wanna rock and roll all night! ♪

♪ And party every day! ♪

After spending some time in Japan,

I realize there's a lot more going on

than just obsession with Western culture.

This place is unlike anywhere I've ever experienced,

but I still need to know if the Japanese

have done anything unique with heavy metal music.

Welcome. It's good times.

We're gonna meet Marty Friedman,

guitar god.

Rock Fujiyama!

I'm a multi-platinum artist

from a major band called Megadeth

that has rocked Japan so many times,

rocked the whole world,

and yet I choose to live in Japan

and play Japanese pop music

and be on Japanese variety TV shows.

In Japan, taboos are off.

I mean there's all kinds of mixes

and like, for example, I'm about to do this project

that I was telling you about before

called "Death Panda,"

where I'm playing this full-on metal music,

but it's gonna be sung by 48 teenage girls.

♪ Death panda death! ♪

♪ Death panda death! ♪

♪ Death panda death! ♪

♪ Death panda death! ♪

That could never happen in America

or in other countries

or, you know, the way I grew up.

Every single culture has something really cool to offer.

And metal, you know,

I think it was like America and England,

you know what I mean?

And then other countries did their own slant on it.

In Japan,

my favourite kind of Japanese metal

is visual kei music.

Visual kei is a phenomenon

that is unbelievable.

It's guys that are dressed up in gorgeous,

I guess kind of glam meets goth

meets really, really extravagant heavy metal.

Not "Twisted Sister"

guys-wearing-their-mom's-clothes kind of feminine;

the makeup, it's beautiful.

Of all the bands that were doing visual music,

"X-Japan" became the biggest

and by far the most versatile musically.

I started playing the piano when I was four,

classical piano.

The first concert I saw was KISS.

I think I was nine or ten-years-old.

I went to see KISS with my mother.

So that pretty much changed my life.

At the beginning, the music industry hated us.

We were like the black sheep of the family.

Completely.

Yeah, nobody even wanted to interview us.

But eventually...

Yeah, we sold 20 million albums.

So they had no choice.

X-Japan is probably the first thing

that really got me into Japanese rock music.

And why?

Because it's got the fastest, heaviest music

next to these sappy, sappy ballads,

and I happen to love sappy ballads.

But like I would never, as an American,

have the guts to put it on an album

next to a song

that sounds like "Fight Fire With Fire."

You know, they've got songs that sound like Barry Manilow

that come right after like these full-on metal epics.

I'm like, "how can they do this?"

♪ ...endless hurt falling down! ♪

♪ Rain flows into my heart ♪

♪ In the pain ♪

♪ I'm waiting for you! ♪

♪ Can't go back! ♪

And the people who listen to the Japanese domestic rock

and heavy-sounding music,

they don't even know, really,

that the international heavy metal bands exist.

It's very likely

they've never heard of Metallica.

So it is very interesting how these two genres can exist

and they don't like each other

and they sound so similar.

The people who like the international bands

like at Loud Park,

they don't think the Japanese stuff is very cool.

So what is visual kei?

I guess what makes it not metal

in your opinion?

Because metal is something cool.

That's the answer.

♪ I keep burning! ♪

♪ The flame of vengeance ♪

♪ In the temple of the cold heart! ♪

♪ A vengeance in grief with a vengeance in relief ♪

♪ They tore my heart ♪

♪ And they tore me apart! ♪

♪ Take my oath now! ♪

♪ Can't escape the devil ♪

♪ That is part of yourself! ♪

♪ Take my oath now! ♪

♪ Take your mind ♪

♪ And call on the devil in your heart! ♪

♪ Calling up the devil in my heart! ♪

♪ I need to retrieve the things that I've wept for! ♪

♪ Calling up the devil in my heart! ♪

♪ Before I drown in the deepest sorrow! ♪

♪ Calling up the devil in my heart! ♪

♪ The devil is my scar! ♪

Oh my God. Check this out.

We've gotta find "Global Metal" here.

We just arrived in Mumbai, in India.

We have to find "Global Metal"

among all these signs.

I've got a really sound entrepreneurial idea.

What's that?

If someone busted out into colored paper

you just might spot it.

So far I've visited countries

with well-established metal scenes,

but in India the scene is just getting started

and no major metal bands have played here.

Back in school, I would always read about India

in my anthropology textbooks.

It's one of the world's oldest and most distinct cultures,

but I can see it's quickly modernizing

and metal isn't the only Western influence

that's starting to creep in.

People love the camera in India.

They know this is a film, a film's being made,

and they're excited.

You know, they can't get close enough.

A case in point.

I have to say it's pretty obvious

that this is the home of Bollywood.

Bollywood, in short,

is a really, really cheesy movie

with a hell of a lot of songs and dancing around trees.

It's one of the biggest industries in India.

And all the Indian kids are listening to remixes

and indie pop stuff.

And like, you know,

basically whatever the channels are showing,

that's what people are absorbing.

Not just among young people.

I mean, right from the villages

to the richest guy in India probably,

they're all fans of Bollywood music.

It's got to be catchy. It's got to be bouncy.

They can shake their ass to it and stuff.

But at the end of the day, it's just nothing.

There's no meaning to it.

It's a very soft, timid kind of music

for very, you know, weak-hearted kind of people.

I don't relate to all that.

I want my music to be strong,

so that's why I relate to metal.

Metal heads in Mumbai

have told me about the problems they have

finding venues to put on metal shows.

Recently, they've been having them at a beach motel

on the north side of the city,

a venue that's more known for Hindu weddings

than extreme metal concerts.

Fucking metal!

For us, metal is something special, you know?

It's like I grew up with Priest, Maiden, Sabbath, Dio,

all these bands,

and every time say I put on a Priest CD,

I feel like...

I'm practically moved to tears, you know, sometimes.

People who listen to metal

are very passionate about the music.

I guess they can identify with it.

It gives you sort of an identity of your own.

It also makes a statement that, you know,

we aren't exactly going to just be force-fed

or conform to anything and everything

that society asks us to do.

We have our own way of thinking,

our own way of living.

You know, we want to follow our own path in life,

especially in a society that tells you what to do,

who you're supposed to be,

where you're supposed to work,

who you're supposed to marry.

All that shit, you know?

It's not like the American system

or like the system in the West

where like, you know, the kid moves out

after he turns 18.

Like people still live with their parents

till like, you know, they grow old out here.

It's like, you know, our parents are our...

You know, they are our gods.

Whatever they say has to be right for us.

It need not be necessarily correct all the time.

How do your parents feel about you listening to metal music?

"Quit playing the fool, you know.

You're past the age now.

Get serious about your studies, your career.

You have to get married soon."

"Why?"

And "what for?"

"What is this crap you're listening to?

For God's sake, please stop this noise."

So on one side you've got a metal show -

the local Mumbai metal show.

On the other side,

we have a traditional Indian wedding.

So let's go check it out.

People here are mostly religious,

very Orthodox.

You know, people are only of late

opening up to newer things and becoming different,

you know, open-minded.

The metal crowd is...

are all people who are actually

like many of them are engineers

or they're graduates,

post graduates from top colleges.

They're all actually intellectual.

They think,

but they're ready to stand up for what they believe.

Like there's a lot of discrimination

that happens otherwise in society out here

with caste, creed, religion, sex,

whatever you want to call it.

Like, but within metal,

they are very open to people of any caste,

religion, creed, whatever.

There's no specifications or classifications in metal.

It's just...

It combines the whole community together.

We, as a band,

follow one religion that is called music.

We- originally, I am a Hindu by birth.

And the others are Christians,

they are Maharashtrians,

they are, you know,

people who follow different religions, all right?

And uh...

But, you know, that doesn't hamper us

from making music, which is universal.

Music is, you know, one language.

It's just like the sky above us.

You know, there's one for everyone.

So we can have a guy wearing a Gandhi shirt

and a guy wearing an iron maiden shirt

in the same band?

Yes.

Yeah, we have Gandhi in our hearts.

We have Mahatma Gandhi-ji in our hearts.

And Maiden in your hearts.

And Maiden in my heart. And Maiden, yes.

It's been an honour for all of us

and may you succeed in all walks of life.

And, yes, that's it.

This is considered very sacred

and very holy,

and we are giving India to you.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Do I wear it?

Yeah. If you wish to, yes.

Do people wear them?

Yes, they do.

There we go.

This is...

This is Hindi black metal right here.

Hindi black metal.

Visiting India makes me realize

that my anthropology textbooks are seriously out of date.

This country is going through massive changes

and my new Indian metal friends

are part of an emerging middle class.

For them, metal is a way to connect to a global culture

and break free from the restrictions they feel

in their traditional society.

But India isn't the only country in this region

going through massive changes.

China is increasingly opening up to the West,

but the government still keeps tight control

on the music and culture

they officially let into the country.

And at this point

I'm not even sure we'll get through customs

traveling with 300 kilograms of film equipment

on tourist visas.

In China, I will be known as "S. Duhh."

Duhh.

Duhh.

It was a big kind of hassle

trying to get the visas and stuff like that.

So we don't really know what's gonna happen.

What are we gonna say?

We're going to say we're here on a holiday.

We've just come to Beijing for a holiday

because it's in the neighbourhood.

Next please.

Hello.

Your passport?

Thank you.

Yup.

That was easy.

Did he ask you anything?

Nothing.

I think we just walked right through.

Welcome to China.

Biking in Beijing, man.

I don't know.

I don't know if it's good for the health exactly.

I don't know. It feels good to ride, but...

I'm choking on the pollution to be honest.

China is home to one fifth of the world's population

and where probably 90 percent of my metal t-shirts were made.

And yet, like India,

no major metal band has ever played here.

But searching the Internet

I found one place where they sell metal music -

the 666 Rock Shop in downtown Beijing.

Hey, guys, how are you?

I'm Sam.

Hey! Welcome to China.

Thank you.

In the past, Chinese youth just listened.

We listened to teachers, parents...

...and accepted what we were told.

We didn't have our own independent thoughts...

...and we didn't have freedom of speech.

Through the music we could begin to express ourselves...

...and do what we want to do. Not caring what other people think.

The older generation, including my parents, represent a traditional Chinese education...

...which is Confucian and Communist education mixed together.

Chinese parents don't know how to face a boy who wants to have long hair...

...get a tattoo and learn to play guitar.

The MIDI school was established in 1993.

Back then, China just opened up...

...and many young people wanted to learn modern music.

At the school they learn all genres...

...including metal and blues, as well as jazz and improvisation.

One, two, three...

For twenty years, China was completely closed off culturally from the outside world.

In terms of music, Western rock had a history of 50 years.

We had to learn it in 10 years time.

It's like heavy metal drum solitary confinement.

In a lot of countries,

big bands from the West come and tour.

But in China it's very different.

It hasn't had major metal bands play here.

How did metal come to China?

80% of youngsters came to know metal from listening to a band called Tang Dynasty.

It was the first metal band in China, and an outstanding one.

It's amazing. I can't believe it.

I can't believe I'm here.

It's a bit surreal actually.

I'm Kaiser

and I was born in upstate New York.

And around the time I was 12

I think I bought my first KISS album.

And it wasn't until I moved to China

for the first time in '88

that I started playing in a pure metal band.

That band was called Tang Dynasty.

The real story of my coming here

and deciding to play rock

starts with a little...

Shitty Roland Cube 60 amp and a guitar.

And I came out here

just sure I was going to find some metal musicians.

And when I got here, the first thing that happened

was I ran into this guy named Ding Wu.

Ding Wu's got some fucking blues chops.

He's like bending strings,

he's sliding up and down the neck.

But one thing he didn't know how to do really

was make a guitar really overdrive.

He didn't really know-

I mean, he didn't have effects boxes

or anything like that.

So anyway, then the lessons began

where I did my whole sort of Jack Black,

you know, School of Rock history of rock lessons,

the family trees.

And I said, "Ding Wu,

you are a metal guy.

I mean, it's clear to me that you are a metal-

I mean, you should be a fucking headbanger.

I mean, you are."

He can sing like a goddamned banshee

and he had this like bewitching charisma.

I mean, just a beautiful stage presence.

And so I just knew, "dude, man,

we're gonna make the greatest band

that China will ever see."

A phenomena like Tang Dynasty, we did real well

and we packed stadiums and stuff,

but most of the people who came

were not metal fans.

They were just sort of...

Interested in this phenomenon.

They thought it was, you know, a curiosity.

When we used to tour,

people would just sit there sort of slack-jawed, staring,

not knowing what the fuck we were.

You know, I'd hear people,

people would constantly shout -

which means "hey buddy, is that hair real?"

The metal look works for Chinese males.

This shit sprouts out of our head quite naturally

and it looks pretty good.

I mean that echoes also with,

I mean, all the great warriors of ancient times, you know?

Sometimes they'd tie it up like this or whatever,

but, you know, but it's long hair.

And so that resonates for sure.

You know, long hair means sort of,

you know, martial prowess.

Tang Dynasty is how most people heard about metal in China,

but how did they find out about Western metal?

Prior to, say 1994,

almost every bit of music that came into China

that was of the metal ilk,

was from students or children of diplomats

or children of like...

Of multinational corporations

who made tapes or made copies or ripped them or whatever,

and then that stuff circulated.

What really turned on the tap here

was the advent of what are called

CD catalogue cut-outs.

When an artist is cut out of a repertoire

from a record company

to realize some tax savings,

they destroy inventory.

And, of course, they don't actually destroy it.

They call in, you know, like...

Tony Fazucci's trucking company that comes

and takes them straight to the shipping yards

and then halls this away to China.

You could find millions of these CDs from any genre of music...

...jazz, blues, classical, metal music... everything.

Suddenly, all this stuff was available dirt cheap.

I mean really affordable for Chinese people.

I mean, most of it was shit.

I mean, there's a reason why these artists

were cut out of the repertoire I suppose.

But there were always like,

there were always diamonds in there as well.

Heavy metal in China has come a long way since Tang Dynasty

and illegal glam metal CDs.

In Beijing,

I've discovered a growing underground music scene,

a scene that is producing the darkest,

most extreme metal I've heard on my journey so far.

My name is Nong Yong.

I am now 34 years old.

I have always been very interested in music since childhood, but in metal since 1998.

I was very shocked that music could be played in such a way.

So I organized a band and started to play metal music.

At that time, I was part of the first wave of people playing this type of music.

I possess a certain kind of emotion. Whenever I face trials in my life, I feel very dark.

How do I express these dark feelings? I choose to use metal music.

The most important thing about metal is that it gives young people a tool...

...to express their emotions in a very frank and direct way.

They long to express their own hatred and emotions.

I grew up during the tail end of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

In my childhood, if youngsters had hatred for each other...

...they would get together at the front gate of school and have these brutal fights.

So I think that metal has helped the Chinese government solve some social problems...

...because youngsters can express their hatred and emotions through metal.

The music of Chinese metal groups reflects injustice,

...political inadequacy and corruption in government.

It also reflects the low standard of living, poverty and unfair treatment.

I think that we're coming into a time now

where China's finding its footing.

It can be something that is at once...

Distinctly modern and unashamedly modern,

and distinctly and unabashedly Chinese.

That's the movement that I want to be a part of.

So I've just travelled

to two of the world's most populous countries,

India and China,

where no major metal bands have ever toured.

And yet, in the middle of the pacific ocean,

an impoverished nation

with the largest Muslim population in the world

has had several big metal concerts,

even while under an oppressive dictatorship.

We're now facing the fifth or the fourth...

The biggest population in the world,

with nearly 300 million people living in Indonesia.

Unemployment here,

it's staggering how bad unemployment is.

I mean, officially,

it's only like 10 or 11 percent,

but unofficially it's probably more like 40 percent.

You know, and that's a lot of people.

It's a big country.

You could be in like the most plush,

corporate high-rise, you know, area,

and then right next to it

there's like shanties right there on the street.

I mean, people literally living in the gutter.

And it's ironic to see so many poor people

in the country

who have a mountain of diamonds,

sea of gold.

That's ironic, huh?

That's Indonesia.

Hello, Indonesia!

Nonconformity in my inner self!

♪ Walking these dirty streets ♪

♪ With hate in my mind ♪

♪ Feeling the scorn of the world ♪

♪ I won't follow rules! ♪

♪ Blame and... ♪

♪ Contradictions arise! ♪

I think there's a whole thing connected to Brazil

and where I'm from

that's connected to third world lyrics,

'cause this is their lyrics.

When I'm singing about inner-self,

of growing up on these fucked up streets and shit,

the Indonesian fans, reading some of those lyrics,

they feel connected to it.

Sepultura are coming from the third country as well,

and Indonesia with poor, injustice everywhere,

starving people, you know,

the corruption.

They're singing about that too in their lyrics.

You know, it's a match

with what happened in this country

all over the years.

Halfway through the show, the kids got so crazy.

The fucking place - chaos, man.

Hell broke loose in the mosh pit.

A couple minutes after that they stopped the entire show

and had these huge bamboo sticks.

And they were like kind of beating

like the first row of kids.

And they made 20,000 people sit down on the floor

without making one sound.

You know, like,

I never seen anything like that in my life.

You know, it was...

None of us, man.

I think we were like, "holy shit."

We played for the first time ever here.

We're so fucking proud to be playing in front of you.

I'm sorry for everything that happened tonight.

It's a lot similar - the kids in Brazil

or in Eastern Europe.

Rebellion. Fucking pissed off.

Real pissed off about this shit,

the way the life is, is...

how they had to, you know,

they grow up in this shithole

and pretty much gonna die in this shithole.

So what do you do about it, you know?

So metal comes in.

People were coming from everywhere,

from Georgia, from Surabaya,

even from Bali.

Everyone from mainland people come just to see Metallica.

I had to sell my father's shoes

so I can afford the tickets.

So, yes, of course, I have...

My father's angry at me.

I remember driving to the gig, there were...

A fuck of a lot of people outside

and the stadium was in a very rich part of Jakarta

where a lot of the politicians

and a lot of the old money families live.

So here we're thousands and thousands of young kids

with a lot of kind of adolescent...

That, you know,

and Metallica was on the other side

of these stadium walls.

And we were playing

and a bunch of people couldn't get in and so on.

And then, obviously,

pretty much all hell broke loose out there.

♪ Die by my hand! ♪

♪ I creep across the land ♪

♪ Killing first-born man! ♪

♪ I rule the midnight air... ♪

We're sitting up on stage playing, doing our thing,

and you can see like fires and smoke

and all the, you know, police sirens,

and, you know, all that crap.

And it was just...

They basically just fucking tore the whole neighbourhood up.

The army chased us and we were like...

I was yelling, "sir, I got tickets.

I want to get in the stadium.

We can't get in the stadium."

And he was like staring at us,

"you black t-shirt fucks, you are all communist,"

and then starts swinging with everything

and we just run away.

And I...

Got hit in my head too.

Even I got the ticket,

they just hit everything.

No matter whether you got ticket or not,

they just hit everything.

After the Metallica concert,

they banned all the metal show,

they banned all the rock concerts...

From the international acts, of course.

'Cause they thought that it's gonna bring a bad impact

for Indonesian youth.

Because, you know,

it's like a mass demonstration.

Yeah.

It's like a mass demonstration,

just like what we had in 1998.

The main revolution, while Suharto stepped down,

by the student movement.

After Suharto stepped down,

there was some sort of release

of this like holding back energy

that during the Suharto era you cannot really express.

So everywhere, people all of a sudden

got liberated from all this, you know, oppression.

You know, like,

32 years is not a short period, you know.

So they feel like now I can do almost anything.

Not long after Suharto stepped down,

we have a very political underground scene here.

In Jakarta,

most metal bands sing about social and political issues,

something I associate more with punk rock than metal.

But Indonesia's most popular metal band, Tengkorak,

has started to incorporate more controversial ideas.

What are you trying to say through Tengkorak's music?

We have some themes about our disagreement with the capitalist countries...

...as they always push Third World countries into a corner.

As you know, the majority of Indonesians are Muslims...

...and because of this, they say that we are a "terrorist country,"

...and we do not agree with or respect that statement.

Most of the songs

have a very strong political or social commentary,

but there was one song which was called, I think,

"Destroying Zionism."

What are you expressing through that song?

Zionism is a system made by the Jews.

These Jewish people have this system, which is not good...

...because they have this goal to destroy Islamic people.

Zionists must be destroyed.

They should be no more.

If necessary, Israel should be eliminated from the global map.

People would hear that song

and then see your jacket with a swastika

and a slash through it.

Do you think they might see that

as bit of a contradiction?

It is not the Jewish people that we are against...

...only their system.

The right wing politics and the religious leader

they're kind of more to teach people of Indonesia,

"you got to live in Islam way."

Me, I was born Islam,

but I don't trust that religion anymore.

'Cause for me, religion,

it's individual.

It's only between you and God.

Muslims teach about peace. Every religion teaches about peace.

They don't teach to make enemies, or to make war with others.

Those are the people who impose their will on others.

And they are not good people, no matter which religion...

...they could be Muslims, Christians or whoever. They are not good people in my opinion.

Cool. That's better.

Will that stay up?

Yeah.

There you go.

I'm ready.

You must wash your...

In the same place?

Yeah, it's okay.

I'm in a mosque in Indonesia

and it's the end of Ramadan.

So it's Friday, so it's a big prayer day.

And uh...

We're going in with our new friend, Rudi.

It's the first foot bath I've had in a long time.

Muslims, ideally, should be like me or like the other people you see.

Very common. They pray, they go to work. Like me.

Normal.

They're the Muslims.

Metal is for my life. Metal is for life.

Make relationships with friends. Just hear the music and take the spirit.

It's only for life.

But religion is my relation particularly with my God.

Amen.

Metal music has never shied away from controversy.

It has always rebelled against authority

and stood up against mainstream religion.

But as I was reminded in Indonesia,

in rare cases it can be a voice of hatred.

Well, if there's one place

that's had a history of dealing with hatred,

it's Israel.

So I'm curious to know

how this has affected the metal being created here.

I think there isn't any other place

special as Jerusalem.

The culture of this place, this land,

it's very complicated.

It's very ancient on one hand,

and it's very mixed on the other hand.

We have here a Jewish cemetery,

we have a church over here,

and we have a mosque over there.

All Jerusalem is like this.

It's some kind of a harmony of colours, of prayings.

Everyone was here -

Abraham, Jesus, Mohammed.

Well, I think that it's important for an artist

to reflect his place, his culture.

The fact that we live in probably

one of the most controversial places on earth

and probably one of the more hostile places on earth,

it gets in you, you know,

this effect of violence everywhere

and battle and stuff like that.

And probably that's why...

We could be heavier than other bands

in other places of the world.

When I got into the genre of black metal, I listened to mostly Norwegian black metal.

I loved them very much and really connected with them.

In retrospect they were singing about stories that were told to them...

...mother, to mother, to mother...

...handed down for generations. But...

...then we started to see with our own eyes, what they were writing about in their books,

...because we live it for real.

If you are a witness to something

and you come to write a song,

your song will be more real

than someone who just read about it in history lesson,

because we live in a country

when insanity became closer to reality.

Here in Jerusalem, here in the Kottel and the entire region...

...the three large religions: Islam, Judaism and Christianity are responsible for all these wars.

Always... Jews slaughtered Christians, Christians slaughtered Muslims,

...Muslims slaughtered the Jews and the cycle keeps repeating itself.

When kids in Israel turn 18

they have to go to the army.

That's one of the things that drew me most

to playing extreme music.

Because I finished school

and I was supposed to go in the army,

but like fuck that.

I'm not gonna be a part of that or do that.

And I want to do another thing.

I want to play in a band

and I want to go travel the world

and meet other people that like the same things that I like.

I believe if we don't do our army service, our country will be destroyed.

It's not like I enjoy it, but if we don't step forward...

...we might get swallowed up.

That's it. You just have to do it.

At first, Salem was occupied with the occult,

hence the name -

you know, Salem witches.

But then you realize that your reality

is scarier than any Mesopotamian demon

you can summon.

Like it's scarier that I walk down the street

and someone will show up and explode

just because he hates me.

I'm usually not scared to walk down the street

and be attacked by demons

or, uh, Pinhead from "Hellraiser."

Doesn't scare me.

I watch the movies, I think they're funny.

I like 'em.

I'm more scared of the living and their actions.

Someone from the Israeli parliament got mad at Salem

because we covered a song

that was identified with the holocaust.

And he said, "the Holocaust is sacred.

You cannot play metal music to it.

You cannot play it now in bars

or where people will head bang or dance or hug or...

The Holocaust is sacred."

There was someone else from the parliament who said,

"Wait.

It's the best, best vehicle

for the new generation to learn about the Holocaust."

♪ Auschwitz, the meaning of pain ♪

♪ The way that I want you to die! ♪

One song that's always been

particularly contentious,

and that is the song "Angel of Death"

by Slayer.

I mean how do you feel about a song,

you know, "Auschwitz..."

"The meaning of pain..."

"The way that I want you to die."

"To die."

how do you feel about that?

Well...

I don't know if Slayer actually meant of...

I don't know if their intention

was to hurt the Jewish people

when they sang about it.

I don't think they are a Nazi band.

I think that song

is probably the most controversial song

in the history of metal,

and I won't lie to you, it also disturbed me,

because my father was in the Holocaust.

But I don't look at it in a negative way.

I do play it on my stereo and I do play it as a DJ.

So I don't take it personally.

I translate Slayer in "Angel of Death"

to they were against the Holocaust.

If they were for it, they will deny it.

They won't tell a huge four-minute story about it.

So do you think "Angel of Death" is sort of...

It's a monument.

It's against it

because it's exposing the horrors of it?

It's a monument of the horrors

that shouldn't be repeated.

♪ Angel of death ♪

♪ Monarch to the kingdom of the dead ♪

♪ Infamous butcher! ♪

♪ Angel of death! ♪

♪ Angel of death ♪

Although Slayer is not a Nazi metal band,

there are a small number of bands out there

that do promote Nazi ideas.

Varg Vikernes,

otherwise known as Count Grishnackh,

was imprisoned for church burning and murder in Norway

and is known for his fascist and racist ideas.

I was surprised to find out

that there's also an Israeli connection to this story.

The year was '90.

Salem was just after releasing a live demo

called "Millions Slaughtered."

It was the time of the tape trading

and the Norwegian black metal scene just started.

That's how Grishnackh heard us.

The title song, the "Millions Slaughtered,"

talks about the Holocaust.

So I guess being whoever he was,

he wrote us back that the music was great,

but those lyrics are stupid, you know.

"It's too bad that Hitler

didn't finish the job that he started" -

and it was just before the Gulf War -

"may Saddam finish you all."

And, again, you know, this was not just lyrics

that were written

and we're detached from it,

it's part of us.

So, obviously, uh...

We were getting angrier.

So we got a very... angry reply

using some cuss words

I'm not sure you want me to repeat here.

And um...

About a couple of months later, we uh...

The police knocks on the lead singer's door and goes,

"who hates you in Norway, you know.

We just got a bomb in the mail."

Anywhere that we go,

everybody only knows the bad news -

the war and stuff like that.

And we try to show or to be,

some kind of good news coming out of Israel.

When we played in Turkey

you always see people in the crowd,

they sing with us together,

and they do like this with their hands.

Now, this is what usually the Muslims are doing

when they pray.

It's like they are holding the Koran book.

It's amazing. It's metal people.

All these wars between religions,

all this massacre in the name of God,

this is a big confusion.

We all believe in the same God.

And we can stop all this bloodshed

and confusion and war.

I mean if we will sing about the dark,

we did nothing.

There is plenty of darkness in this world.

I think this is why we should speak about the light.

Of all the metal fans that contacted me

from around the world,

I was most shocked to hear from people in Iran.

But because of the increased tensions in the area,

my visa application was denied

and I couldn't get into their country.

So instead, we're meeting the Iranians in Dubai,

where metal heads from throughout the region

are gathering for Desert Rock -

the only metal festival in the Middle East.

My name is Armin

and I'm 28, turned 29 two days ago.

And, well, I'm an engineer actually,

a mechanical engineer.

That's what I do for a living.

But metal has been with me since my teenage era

and I truly love it, you know.

Can you tell me about some of the restrictions

that have been placed on getting access to metal

in Iran?

You don't have any CDs sold.

This is the biggest restriction.

The music cannot go on.

So you cannot sell metal t-shirts.

Before that, even jeans were forbidden.

Long hair -

I was just caught up for just having long hair

by the police.

They took me to a police office and said,

"why do you have long hair like that?

Are you worshiping Satan

or are you in those kind of bands,

metal bands?"

I got caught by the religious police

for wearing a Slayer t-shirt

and having long hair.

I was just back from a Slayer concert in Turkey.

So I was very... I almost forgot

how restricted this thing is.

I know of a couple of friends who were put in jail,

they had their heads shaved and they were beaten up,

because the authorities really thought they were Satanists

and they were not.

They just looked metal.

They consider it anti-moralistic

and they say that it's bringing a lot of excitement,

which is not good for a music like in Islamic context.

There had been some limited gigs.

Like two or three years ago,

there was this gig and the band's called SDS.

They were covering like from Morbid Angel and Slayer,

but no vocals was allowed.

They said vocals are too harsh and aggressive.

And we had to be seated.

Later on, they canceled all the shows.

With the system that we have right now,

we cannot perform Western music,

not only metal.

And so the metal community in Iran

has grown really isolated

from what had been in the real world.

Someone that we knew has sent us a picture.

They had gone to Iran to go visit family

and they took a picture of Slayer

spray-painted on the wall in Iran.

And they took a picture standing next to it

so they could, you know, identify that they were there

and that this was there and this is Iran.

And I just kind of looked at that, you know,

and I thought, "wow.

Slayer in a Muslim country."

You know what I mean?

That to me just screams "death."

We met with Tom in Japan

and he described a photograph of a Slayer logo

that had been spray-painted on a wall.

Wow, yeah.

We got lots of that. Yeah.

Have you ever seen something like that

in your country?

I have done something like that in my country, okay?

In a lot of the Middle East,

conservative governments and religious authorities

repeatedly censor and restrict metal music.

But the city of Dubai seems completely open

to anything Western,

and is one of the fastest growing tourist destinations

in the world.

So I'm going to talk to some metal fans

who were born and raised here

to get their thoughts on the spread of metal

throughout the region.

My full name, like in the Arabic tradition,

Omar Abdula Aziz Mohammed Khan Abdula.

Our licenses are like this wide,

driver's license.

Basically, this is called a kandura

or a lot of the experts call it a dishdash, okay?

And this is a guthra.

And, basically,

it's not a Ku Klux Klan outfit.

It's basically mostly white

to reflect the heat of the sun,

'cause it's really hot here

and it gets really uncomfortable.

They do come in different colours

and they're extremely, extremely comfortable,

and they have very good ventilation.

Good for playing metal in too.

Keeps the airflow going.

In high school,

I played "Purple Haze" on stage

with a black one of these.

And a bandana.

Metal is generally coming from the West,

and I guess, in a way,

it's part of the process of globalization.

What's your opinion on metal

and its spread around the world?

If you say globalization, I know a lot of...

Like 1,500 years ago

a lot of the ideas from the East,

you know, during the Dark Ages,

crept from the East to the West.

And I think it's just a cycle, you know.

"You guys discover something cool.

Okay, bring it over.

Okay, oh, that's a nice instrument the Arabs play.

Okay, let's use that one in my song.

And the Indians have the sitar.

Okay, let's mix that." I mean...

I don't think it's a bad idea when it naturally happens.

Right.

If you want to talk about the IMF and the World Bank,

then we can discuss.

With the help of Internet,

obviously Internet was the main driver

for globalization,

because it's just easier to reach,

information to reach anywhere.

I don't think anyone in the world

benefited from mp3 downloading

as much as we did.

Because we started discovering new bands

through the Internet,

downloading their music and listening to it.

Especially we couldn't get it.

We didn't have any access to it.

I apologize to all the bands,

but we had to do this.

It was the only way we could discover them.

So, Lars, you know,

most of the fans we're meeting around the world,

the only way they can get music is by downloading it

on the Internet.

You know, how do you feel about that?

I think it's a great thing, yeah.

I think it's great.

I mean it...

Obviously it's the way to share the stuff

and I think it's awesome.

I think that we were somewhat um...

Flabbergasted at the um...

At some early Internet things

that were going on a few years ago,

but we've sort of- we're at peace with that

and we champion it like everybody else.

What the Internet has done, you know,

which is a great thing of bringing everything,

you know, and making everything available

and global and so on.

I mean it's just awesome.

I mean, listen, at this point,

if kids can get their hands on the music

then it's a great thing.

Now you can download music,

you can access everything.

So it's easy for most of the people

around the middle East to listen to metal.

It's gonna grow. It's fucking gonna grow.

The Desert Rock festival

is like a yearly anniversary for metal heads basically.

I mean Lebanon, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman,

Doha, Saudi Arabia.

You can name every Middle Eastern country,

there's people out here tonight for it.

Yeah, baby! It's about time!

♪ You crossed the line ♪

♪ You remembered my name ♪

♪ Let time run backwards ♪

♪ As we're heading that way! ♪

Come on!

It was my first show ever.

It was the day after my birthday.

Best birthday party I could have.

When you have tough times,

which in our country is not so scarce,

it's a relief for you.

You truly put all your ambition,

thoughts and dreams into it.

You want to speak out

and there aren't as many outlets

as there should be to do this.

We found this in metal. It's speaking to us.

It's talking about our problems.

It's talking about our wars,

about our aggression, about our oppression.

It's giving us the chance

to release all this bottled up anger

in a positive way

so we don't have to go and do it

in a negative way.

Yeah!

A chance to be together and enjoy the time

free of political shit outside.

So it's...

This is something more than important.

It's essential.

Yeah, it's essential.

♪ I'm waiting ♪

♪ in my cold cell ♪

The stories I've heard from fans here

have made me realize just how much is at stake

for metal heads in this part of the world.

For some of these fans,

Desert Rock is the only place

where they can safely show their devotion to heavy metal.

And that's far beyond anything I've had to deal with

as a metal head growing up in Canada.

So I've travelled over 40,000 kilometers

since the Wacken festival in Germany,

but there's one last stop I have to make.

I'm heading back to India, to the city of Bangalore,

where something historic is about to happen.

My favourite band of all time, Iron Maiden,

is playing the first major metal show

in this country's history.

And with 30,000 Indian metal heads

lining up at the gates,

this is one concert that I have to be a part of.

Maiden! Maiden! Maiden!

Maiden! Maiden! Maiden!

This is the biggest show India's ever had.

It's going to be chaos.

I don't think you'll hear a louder crowd

anywhere in the world because...

I mean...

We haven't experienced shows like this.

So, you know, it's like 20 years

of just pent up feelings and stuff.

They're all gonna come out.

And the minute Bruce hits the stage

we're all gonna go like berserk.

I think I'm gonna like gush fountains.

I mean, are you surprised that your music

has deeply connected with people

from so many different cultures?

Um...

Well, I suppose it should,

but after years and years of...

Of traveling around the world,

kids are kids.

It doesn't matter what culture you come from.

At least a certain proportion of kids,

in whatever culture or society,

want to get up and just go, "Agh!" Like that.

And... and...

We kind of provide that soundtrack.

♪ Fear of the dark! ♪

♪ I have a constant fear that something's always near ♪

♪ Fear of the dark ♪

Bangalore!

♪ Fear of the dark! ♪

♪ I have a phobia ♪

♪ Someone's always there ♪

Yeah!

♪ Have you run your fingers down the wall? ♪

♪ Have you felt your neck skin crawl ♪

♪ When you're searching for the light? ♪

♪ Sometimes when you're scared to take a look ♪

♪ At the corner of the room ♪

♪ You've sensed that something's watching you! ♪

♪ Fear of the dark! ♪

♪ Fear of the dark! ♪

Standing here with India's new generation of metal heads,

I can feel the excitement in the air.

It's like I'm 13

and I'm back at my first big metal show.

I've realized on this journey

that although heavy metal

may be part of the process of globalization,

something unique is happening.

Metal connects with people regardless of their cultural,

political or religious backgrounds.

And these people aren't just absorbing metal from the West.

They're transforming it,

creating a new outlet they can't find

in their traditional cultures,

a voice to express their discontent

with the chaos and uncertainty that surrounds them

in their rapidly changing societies.

And for metal heads all across the globe,

metal is more than music,

more than an identity.

Metal is freedom,

and together we are now a global tribe.

♪ Yeah! ♪

♪ Hallowed be thy name! ♪

♪ Yeah! ♪

♪ Hallowed be thy name! ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah! ♪

♪ Yeah... ♪

Maiden fuckin' rocks!