Because this here video TOTALLY DELIVERS in this regard.
DEGREE OWNING HEAVY METAL ANTHROPOLOGIST Sam Dunn plunges into what looks like another fun documentary about metal [albeit most likely campy as hell]. His other film, Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (Its Youtube'd into ten 10-min segments) seemed to be a genuine defense of metal as an art form--buuuuuuut I hope the uninitiated take it with a healthy grain of salt.
Some fun interviews though--Dio is amazingly charming, as is Tony Iommi, and I think I have a crush on sociologist Dana Weinstein (I like the idea of coining metal as a transcendental sort of Sturm und Drag).
A few caveats from the top of my head include Alice Cooper (FOR SHIT'S SAKE SHUT UP), portraying Twisted Sister's Dee Snider as a HEAVY METAL SOCRATES, and the guy from Slipknot talking about how metal is "THE LAST BASTION OF UNABASHED MALE SEXUALITY."
(sigh)
Either way, I'm anxious to discover just what happens when "heavy metal goes global."
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Hey man, urelated, but this guy's just published a book on Master of Reality with 33 1/3.
I'm going to order it on account of the author, John Darnielle, is an interesting guy, from or of The Mountain Goats band.
This guy?
http://www.imeem.com/davobrosia/music/97Wdu01Y/the_mountain_goats_best_ever_death_metal_band_out_of_denton/
I think I vaguely remember playing stuff by these guys from the "New Music" section back in radioland.
Yes, that's the one & the same Darnielle, though I'd never heard that one before so thanks for the link; it's a keeper.
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