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This is "Wacken Open Air"
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the biggest gathering of Metalheads in the world...
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each year over 60000 devoted fans
come to camp out on the fields of the northern Germany
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to worship their favorite Metal bands...
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and whether you've come to see Death Metal,
Power Metal, Black Metal, Goth Metal... or even Viking Metal
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if you're a die-hard Metal fan,
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this is the place to be...
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[METALLICA : Fight Fire With Fire]
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this is me, my name is Sam Dunn
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and as you can see,
I'm one of the die-hard Metal fans...
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ever since I was 12 years old
I've been obessed with all things Metal
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and although my parents hoped it was a phase,
it wasn't...
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I grew up, got my graduate degree in Anthropology
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and then decided to make a documentary
about Heavy Metal culture
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in the film I traced the music back to its working class roots
in the factory towns of England and America
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and the showed how Early Metal bands
like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Blue Cheer
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layed the foundation for crazy number of Metal subgenres
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along the way, I met some of my childhood heroes
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and spoke to the tons of musicians
about the controversy surrounding this music...
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Satan !
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I also heard from hundreds of Metal fans
about what this music means to them...
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from the time I was 12 years old
Metal was just a constant...
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and what I discovered is this underground movement
is even bigger than I first thought...
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and for Metalhead its about more than just music...
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it's an identity...
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after the film was released
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I got a flood of emails from Metal fans thanking me
for giving this community the respect it deserves...
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but what surprised me,
was how many different countries the e-mails came from
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many were from places I had no idea Metal even existed
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I mean I knew there was Metal outside of
Europe and North America
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one of my favorite bands is Sepultura from Brazil
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I also have Metal albums recorded live in Japan...
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but the stories in these e-mails got me thinking
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for years anthropologists have studied
the effects of Globalization
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but I've never considered Heavy Metal's role in this process
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as Metal has spreaded across the globe
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what new meanings is it taking on
for fans and countries...
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...with such vastly different cultural,
political and religious backgrounds?
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clearly, there's whole world of Metal out there
I know nothing about...
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but I'm not gonna find answers
on the fields of northen Germany
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so I am taking my anthropology studies on the road
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to understand how Metal has gone Global...
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"Global Metal"
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( Only way to feel the noise, is when it's good and loud )
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( So good I can't believe it, screaming with the crowd )
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( Don't sweat it, give it back to you )
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(Overkill, Overkill, Overkill...)
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(Get the fuck out...)
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[MOTORHEAD : Overkill]
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angryagain_e@yahoo.com
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(Rio De Ganeiro, Brazil)
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"We should have our own identity"
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the first stop on my journey is Brazil
the largest country in Latin America
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and a place most people associate
with beaches, soccer and Samba
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but if you ask any Metal fan, they'll tell you
that it's also known for its massive Metal scene
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so what happened to make Metal so huge in this country?
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[Carlos Lopes / Dorsal Atlantica]
the people in the 70's lived under a dictatorship in Brazil
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we had this dictatorship for almost 25 years
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during this dictatorship there was not a lot of freedom
and it wasn't easy to access information
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[Rafael Bittencourt/Angra]
on that period, when we were teenagers,
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it was very hard to find good instruments
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the market was very closed,
for everything then comes from abroad
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the Brazilian dictatorship ended in 1985
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at that moment the bands were starting to
release their first albums of Brazilian Heavy Metal
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and what that means is that
Heavy Metal came along with democracy
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[SCORPIONS /Rock In Rio / January 15, 1985]
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[Claudia Azevedo / University of Rio De Janeiro]
I think the organizers of Rock In Rio fell to the momentum
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and they organized this festival which was huge...
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there were 1.380.000 people during ten days
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and it was the first time, you know,
everyone knew what a Metalhead was
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and there were so many...
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[SCORPIONS : Rock You Like A Hurricane]
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it may seem funny to you today,
wanting to see Whitesnake...
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it's a little ridiculous, but seeing Whitesnake,
Ozzy Osbourne, Scorpions and Iron Maiden
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was overwhelming for a Brazilian in 1985
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I wouldn't say that Metal came to free us
but...
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I would say that it was something that we were begging for...
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we were begging to have that atmosphere of
freedom of speech... freedom of communication
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[IRON MAIDEN : 2 Minutes To Midnight]
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we had to fly by helicopter, because to get there,
all the roads were blocked and stuff...
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[Adrian Smith / IRON MAIDEN / Dave Murray]
as we were getting closer and closer,
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you could kinda see, kinda blue-like smoke
coming up in the air...
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and what it was, it was actually the steam
rising off the bodies, off the crowd...
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so all in sync were having a great time...
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you would see a multitude of people lose themselves
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it seemed like we were part of something bigger than us
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we felt like we were part of a big family...
of a religion...
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and people started to imagine that this could be the music
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...and the soundtrack of the moment that
brazil became a new and free country...
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here we are, we're in Sao Paulo, Brazil
we're at the Grande Galerias
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Otherwise known as the Galleria to Rock
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and... I guess you know Metal is huge in a country
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when there's a whole mall devoted to it...
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I first heard Sepultura when I must have been
around 13 or 14 years old
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it was hard to believe that there was
Metal actually coming out of Brazil
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it seemed like it was coming from so far away
from a place that was really so different...
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[SEPULTURA : Beneath The Remains]
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Sepultura's founder, Max Cavalera
is one of my All Time Metal Heroes...
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and finally I get to ask him what is was like
to starting out as an Extreme Metal band in Brazil
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[Max Cavalera]
well, the thing was the struggle actually
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from our own struggle, we didn't know how to play
but we wanted to a have a band
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then we didn't have money...
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but we really wanted to be in a band
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the money was never a problem, you know
you go around somehow... you figure out
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even how we look, we find ways
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when we saw the Destruction album covers,
they had bullet-belts...
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we have to look like those guys man,
we look like shit, we look stupid, we need bullet-belts...
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i think that Igor came up with the idea
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well, let's get some bunch of AA batteries,
glue them together,
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take the picture from far
they would look like bullet-belts...
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I was like "you must be nuts", it's not gonna work
he was like "yeah it'll work"
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and he worked on those batteries for like a couple of days
and then they looked perfect, they looked great...
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i was like "man, cool, now we got bullet-belt... what's next?"
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[SEPULTURA / Rock In Rio II / January 23, 1991]
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it was crazy, man
the Brazilian crowd just went nuts from the first note...
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you know, the entire stadium went crazy, mosh-pit...
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my head's going a thousand miles and I was like...
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..."this is my country, this is where I grew up
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we're playing the in biggest stadium in the world of soccer
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All the people that thought Sepultura would never make it
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everybody here is watching..." and we turned it up...
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you know, we would play anything faster than we ever did
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[Eric De Hass / Rock Hard Brazil] : many kids identify
themselves with them, because they were poor
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they started out without anything,
they just like wanted to play Metal
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and managed to make a living out of it...
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Sepultura is our big triumph,
our flag of Brazilian Heavy Metal
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[Toninho / Sepultura Fan Club]
in the past Brazil was not recognized
as a country that had Heavy Metal
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but today it is recognized as
a country of Heavy Metal because of Sepultura
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Talking about Sepultura outside of Brazil
is like talking about Pele or the Amazon...
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Sepultura belongs to Brazil
it is very important
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a few years after I got into Sepultura
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they surprised me when they added
traditional Brazilian instruments into their music
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this shocked a lot of people in Metal community,
including their own record company
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I think the owner said... he laughed as like :
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why they wanna go with a bunch of naked Indians
in the middle of the Amazon...?
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why they're not just recording the album in New York?
you know, something like that...
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i think he didn't understand at first but definitely
when he became focused, he had the project..
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"that was awesome man, you know,
I think people like got blown away..."
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SEPULTURA - Roots]
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I believe in our fate
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We don't need to fake
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It's all we wanna be
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Watch me Freak !
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through my country fall under the idea
that we should copy America
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and music goes under that too...
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I think it sucks, 'cause I don't we should copy States
i think we should have our own identity, you know...
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[SEPULTURA - Kaiowas]
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(Tokyo - Japan)
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"That could never happen in America"
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dude, that is a huge subway system...
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I saw in Brazil how a country's culture
can be incorporated into Metal music
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but wut about Japan?
a placed stereotyped for its obsession for western culture
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its also known for its hard-working salary men
conformity, and extreme organization
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none of which seems very Metal to me...
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so what happens to Metal's rebellious spirit
when it mixes with Japanese culture?
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hopefully I'll find out at Loud Park,
the biggest Metal festival in Asia
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[LAMB OF GOD - Walk with me in Hell]
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- is it the first time you came to Japan
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[Tom Araya / SLAYER] :
we played at a theater, it had like 3000 seaters at theater
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and they were all... everybody was sitting in their seats
and they had ushers and every ail...
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[Kerry King / SLAYER] : so we came here,
not having any idea what was gonna happen
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not believing they were gonna sit down,
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somehow there's no way you can sit down
and watch a Slayer show...
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it just ain't gonna happen...
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and the minute we started playing,
they got up and rushed to the front...
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and the promoter at the time, freaked out !
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they had never seen an audience
just get off their seat and rush...
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we stood there playin' and all of a sudden while we were
playin', you could see all the ushers were like doing this...
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and made everybody have back in their seats...
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and everbody is told for the rest of the show
they sat in their seats... they did this...
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now the Japanese are moshing,
now the Japanese are body-surfing, so...
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we've seen that complete evolution from when
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it wasn't loud at all, to now it's kinda like common place
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[SLAYER : War Ensemble]
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( The sport is war... a total war )
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( When the end is a slaughter )
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( The final swing is not a drill )
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( It's how many people I can kill... )
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[Masa Itoh - Rock City TV] : I think Japanese Metal fans way of
thinking is different from western people's way of thinking
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for example if you ask them
if Metal expresses their feelings of...
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oppression and dissatisfaction...
most of them would probably say "No"
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in the West, if you're looking for rebellion
or feel isolated in society
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you would be drawn to Metal music
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this is not the case in Japan
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[Katsuya Minamida : Kabe University]
for example, fans at Rock festivals are very couteous
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if they throw down their garbage,
later they'll pick it up and perhaps bring it home with them
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if you're a Metal fan, you'll maintain your demonic image
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during the concert you will appear very demonic...
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but once outside the concert,
you go back to your couteous self
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usually I wear suits and necktie..
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that is my normal every life...
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listening to hard music like Metal
at home or at a concert
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changes my daily life dramatically...
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it makes me feel happier
and my feelings burst wide open...
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[Lars Ulrich : Metallica]
sometimes Japans gets a little bit of a bad rap from people
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because of the way people kind of interact at the shows
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or the lack of inner action or whatever...
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to me that's horseshit ! I mean it's just
a different way of expressing themselves
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and we love going there
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and we love all the tooth brushes we get
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we were wondering of course at the beginning
if there was anything...
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...we had bad dental hygene or bad breath of whatever...
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but then again we realized that it's just their love
it's their way of showing love...
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here, have a tooth brush with some
Japanese teddy bear on it or whatever...
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and it's was like: "ok, thank you"...
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- do you like Metal
- yeah... I like Metal !
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ok and cut... yes, thank you,
I wish all my interviews were that easy...
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[�� �с� : ����� ��ѐ���]
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at Loud Park I found a new generation of Japanese Metal fans
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but now I'm on the hunt for some of the old guard
to discover how Metal arrived in this country
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rumor has it, they hang out at Blackmore's
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a small bar named after Deep Purple legendary guitarist
"Richie Blackmore"
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Deep Purple arrived in Japan in August 1972
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before that I thought that Deep Purple
had an organized and structured way of playing...
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but it wasn't like that,
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they were bringing more and more
improvisation into their performance
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the finale was crazy...
we had never seen that before
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everyone rushed to the front of the Budokan stage
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Richie Blackmore was turning the guitar upside down
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that was the night Deep Purple became a legend
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there is a current trend among men in their 50's...
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they reunite with old band members from
university or high school and play together
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and what they always play in the studio is "Highway Star"
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everyone wants to be the guitarist
and only play the solo...
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but I heard the vocalists have a
hard timebecause the key is too high
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"Kiss" arrived a few years later
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when they came off the plane
they were in full makeup and costume
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the problem was that they couldn't
pass through immigration like this
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so they had to take the makeup off
in order to pass through immigration
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afterwards they re-applied all their makeup
and changed back into their costumes
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then they came out of immigration
in full stage costume...
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thousands of fans flooded them
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if you see the videos of when
they arrived in 70's you might faint
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[Yoshiyuri Ohno - Journalist] : the bang of the pyro
and their use of fire was the biggest shock to us
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but wearing make up on stage
was pretty well accepted
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In Japan because of the makeup
Kiss also reminds us of Kabuki theatre
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because of that I think a lot of Japanese
people felt a certain intimacy with them
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[KISS : Rock and Roll All Nite]
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after spending some time in Japan
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I realized there's a lot more going on
than just obsession with Western culture
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this place is unlike anywhere I've ever experienced
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but I still need to know if the Japanese
have done anything unique with Heavy Metal music
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welcome, it's a good time to go and meet
Marty Friedman "the guitar god"
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[Marty Friedman]
I'm a multi-platinium artist from a major band called Megadeth
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that has rocked Japan so many times
rocked the whole world...
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and yet I choose to live in Japan
and play Japanese pop music
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and be on Japanese variety TV shows
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In Japan Taboos are off
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I mean there's all kinds of mixes and...
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for example, i'm about to do this project that
was telling you about before called Death Panda
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where I'm playing this full-on Metal music
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but it's gonna be sung by 48 teenage girls...
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that could never happen in America, in other countries
or you know where or the way I grew up
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every single culture has something really cool to offer
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and Metal you know, I think it was like
America and England... you know what I mean?
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and then other countries did their own stant on it
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and Japan, my favorite kind of Japanese Metal
is Visual K music
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[SEX MACHINEGUNS]
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Visual K is a Phenomenon
it's unbelievable...
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it's guys that are dressed up in gorgeous, I guess kind of
"Glam meets Goth, meets really extravagant Heavy Metal"
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not Twisted Sister guys wearing their moms
clothes kind of feminine... the makeup, it's beautiful...
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of all the bands that were doing Visual music
X-Japan became the biggest
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and by far the most versatile musically
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[Yoshiki / X-Japan] : I started playing the piano
when I was 4... the classical piano...
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the first concert I saw was Kiss
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I think I was 9 or 10 years old,
I went to see Kiss with my mother
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so that put a lot of changes in my life...
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at the beginning, the music industry hated us
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we were like black sheep of the family, completely...
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nobody wanted to interview us...
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but eventually we sold twenty million albums,
so they had no choice...
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X- Japan is probably the first thing that
really got me into Japanese Rock music
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and why? because it's got the fastest heaviest music
next to the sappy sappy ballads
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and I happen to love sappy ballads
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but like I would never as an American have the guts
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to put out an album next a song
that sounds like "Fight Fight With Fire"
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you know, they got songs that sound like Barry Manilow
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they come right after like these full-on Metal epics,
and i'm like: "how can they do this?"
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and the people who listen to the Japanese
domestic Rock and heavy sounding music
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they don't even know really that
the international Heavy Metal bands exist
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it is very like that they've never heard of Metallica
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so it is very interesting how these two genres
can exist and they don't like each other
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and they sound so similar...
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people who like the international bands like at Loud park
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they don't think the Japanese stuff is very cool...
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so what is Visual K?
I guess what makes it "Not Metal" in your opinion?
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[Mirai Kawashima / Sigh] : because Metal is something cool...
that's the answer !
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[Mumbai, India]
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"it's just like the sky above us,
it is one for everyone..."
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oh my God... check these out
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dude, you're gonna find "Global Metal" here?
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just arrived in Mumbai, India
we have to find "Global Metal" among all these...
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- I have a really sound *** idea
- what's that?
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if someone bust it out to colored paper,
you just might spot it...
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so far I've visited countries with well-established Metal scenes
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but in India the scene is just getting started,
and no major Metal bands have played here
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back in school, I would always read about India
in my anthropology textbooks
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it's one of the world's oldest and most distinct cultures
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but I can see it's quickly modernizing...
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and Metal isn't the only western influence
that's starting to creep in...
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people love the camera in india, they know this is a film,
a film is being made
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and they're excited, you know,
they can't get close enough...
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they case and point...
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I have to say it's pretty obvious
that this is the home of Bollywood
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[Sahil "Demonstealer" Makhija / Demonic Resurrection]
Bollywood in short is :
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a really really cheesy movie
with hell of a lot of songs and dancings around trees...
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it's one of the biggest industries in India, I mean...
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[Prashant Shaw / Exhumation] :
and all the in-keeps and remixes and Indie pop stuff
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...whatever the channels are showing
that's what people are absorbing
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not just among young people, throughout... I mean
right on the villages to the most religious guy in India probably
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they're all fans of the Bollywood music...
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[Nolan Lewis / Kryptos] : it's gotta be catchy,
it's gotta be bouncy... you can shake that ass, stuff like that...
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I mean, it's just nothing, it's... there's no meaning to it
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[Atul Sharma / Metalindia.net] :
it's a very soft timid kind of music
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for very weak-hearted kind of people
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I don't relate to all that,
I want my music to be strong
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so that's why I relate to Metal...
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Metal fans in Mumbai have told me about the problems
they have finding venues to put on Metal shows
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recently they've been having them
at a beach motel at the north side of the city
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a venue that's more known for
Hindu weddings than Extreme Metal concerts...
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[Demonic Resurrection]
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for me Metal is something special
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I grew up with [Judas] Priest, [Iron] Maiden,
[Black] Sabbath and Dio and all these bands
324
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and everytime I put on a CD, I feel like...
I practically move to the edge sometimes...
325
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people who listen to Metal are
very passionate about the music
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I guess they can identify with it
it gives you some sort of identity of your own
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it also makes a statement that
we aren't exactly gonna just be force-fed
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and conform to anything and everything
that society asks us to do...
329
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we have our own way of thinking,
our own way of living
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you know, we wanna follow our own path in life
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specially when society tells you what to do,
who you're supposed to be...
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way you're supposed to walk
who you're supposed to marry, all that shit...
333
00:34:42,568 --> 00:34:49,577
it's not like the American system or like the system in the West,
where the kid moves out after he turns 18
334
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people still live with their parents till they grow older
335
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[Anamt Dwivedi & Vincent Pereira / Prakalp]
it's like our parent are... they are our gods
336
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whatever they say, has to be right first
337
00:35:00,858 --> 00:35:03,611
it might not be necessarily correct all the time...
338
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- how do your parents feel while you listen to Metal music?
- [cursing in indian]
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[scorning in Indian]
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"quite playing the fool", you know,
"you've passed the age now"
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00:35:13,866 --> 00:35:16,866
"get serious about your studies, your career ",
"you have to get married soon"
342
00:35:17,278 --> 00:35:20,883
why? and what for...?
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00:35:20,935 --> 00:35:25,901
"what is this crap you're listening to for God's sake?"
"please stop listening to all this..."
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[Bhayanak Maut]
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on one side, we've got Metal show,
a local Mumbai Metal show...
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on the other side, we have a traditional Indian wedding
so, let's go and check it out...
347
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people here are mostly religious, very Orthodox
348
00:36:09,329 --> 00:36:14,717
people are only opening up to new things
and becoming different and open-minded...
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00:36:15,832 --> 00:36:20,579
the Metal crowds are all people who are
actually like many of them engineers
350
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or the graduates, post-graduates from colleges
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00:36:24,802 --> 00:36:28,765
although actually intellectual they think
but they're ready to stand up for what they believe..
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00:36:28,766 --> 00:36:33,145
there's a lot of discrimination that happens,
otherwise in society out here
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in god's, creed, religion, sex, whatever you wanna call it...
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00:36:35,649 --> 00:36:40,592
but within Metal, the way you open to people of any
cast, religion, creed, whatever...
355
00:36:41,063 --> 00:36:44,242
there's no specifications or classifications in Metal
356
00:36:44,383 --> 00:36:47,028
it's just... it combines a whole community together
357
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:52,364
we as a band follow one religion that it's called Music
358
00:36:52,861 --> 00:36:58,594
we originally... I am a Hindu by birth
and the others are Christian, they're...
359
00:36:59,130 --> 00:37:02,130
people who follow different religions...
alright?
360
00:37:03,896 --> 00:37:07,464
but you know, that doesn't hamper us from making music
which is universal...
361
00:37:07,637 --> 00:37:10,247
music is you know, one language...
362
00:37:10,617 --> 00:37:11,617
it's just like this sky above us...
it's one for everyone...
363
00:37:15,726 --> 00:37:19,617
so we can have a guy wearing a Ghandi shirt
and a guy wearing an Iron Maiden shirt...
364
00:37:19,721 --> 00:37:21,200
- in the same band...?
- yes
365
00:37:23,377 --> 00:37:26,520
we have Ghandi in our hearts
we have Mahmata Ghandi in our hearts...
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00:37:27,319 --> 00:37:28,319
- and [Iron] Maiden in your heart...
- Maiden's in my heart
367
00:37:30,706 --> 00:37:31,934
it's been an honor for all of us
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00:37:33,023 --> 00:37:35,207
and may you succeed in all walks of life
369
00:37:36,602 --> 00:37:39,791
this is considered very sacred and very holy
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- and we are giving India to you...
- thank you, thank you very much
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- do I wear it?
- if you wish to... yes
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- do people wear them?
- yes they do
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here we go...
this is Hindi-Black Metal.
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00:38:10,469 --> 00:38:15,964
visiting India makes me realize that my anthropology
textbooks are seriously out of date...
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this country is going through massive changes
376
00:38:19,345 --> 00:38:23,116
and my new Indian Metal friends
are part of an emerging middle class
377
00:38:23,184 --> 00:38:27,014
for them Metal is a way to connect to a Global culture
378
00:38:27,418 --> 00:38:31,838
and break free from restrictions
they feel in their traditional society
379
00:38:32,046 --> 00:38:38,231
but India isn't the only country in this region
going through massive changes...
380
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[Beijing, China]
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"They long to express their dark emotions..."
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China is increasingly opening up to the West
383
00:38:55,818 --> 00:39:00,950
but the government still keeps tight control on the
music and culture they officially let into the country
384
00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:04,783
and at this point I'm not even sure
we'll get through customs
385
00:39:04,890 --> 00:39:08,666
traveling with 300 kilograms of film equipments on tourist visas
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00:39:09,576 --> 00:39:15,605
In China I will be known as S. Duhh
387
00:39:15,657 --> 00:39:19,065
I think it's kind of haslte trying to get the visa and stuff like that
388
00:39:19,065 --> 00:39:20,065
so we don't really know what's gonna happen
389
00:39:20,987 --> 00:39:26,762
- what are we gonna say?
- we'll say we're here on a holiday
390
00:39:27,379 --> 00:39:32,227
We just came to Beijing for a Holiday
because it's in the neighborhood
391
00:39:37,211 --> 00:39:39,296
next please
392
00:39:40,140 --> 00:39:46,325
- hello
- thank you
393
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:50,139
that was easy
394
00:39:50,243 --> 00:39:53,996
- did they ask you anything?
- nothing, I just walked right through
395
00:39:54,033 --> 00:39:56,081
'Welcome to China'.
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00:40:27,596 --> 00:40:30,099
biking in Beijing man... I don't know
397
00:40:30,211 --> 00:40:32,266
I don't know it's good for the health exactly
398
00:40:32,346 --> 00:40:34,281
it feels good to ride, but...
399
00:40:35,387 --> 00:40:37,203
token on the pollution to be honest...
400
00:40:38,307 --> 00:40:41,485
China is the home to 20% of world's population
401
00:40:41,686 --> 00:40:44,904
and where probably 90% percent of
my Metal T-shirts were made !
402
00:40:45,815 --> 00:40:49,917
and yet like India, no major Metal band has ever played here
403
00:40:50,643 --> 00:40:53,928
but searching the Internet,
I found one place where they sell Metal music
404
00:40:54,301 --> 00:40:56,950
the 666 Rock Shop in downtown Beijing
405
00:40:57,588 --> 00:40:58,588
- hey guys, how are you?
- Welcome to China
406
00:41:03,823 --> 00:41:06,404
[Wang Xiao - 666 Rock Shop]
in the past Chinese youth just listened
407
00:41:06,888 --> 00:41:09,058
We listened to teachers, parents...
408
00:41:09,637 --> 00:41:12,202
and accepted what we were told
409
00:41:12,785 --> 00:41:16,161
We didnt have our own independent thoughts...
410
00:41:16,791 --> 00:41:19,353
...and we didn't have freedom of speech
411
00:41:20,371 --> 00:41:24,301
through the music we could begin
to express ourselves...
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00:41:24,414 --> 00:41:30,116
...and do what we want to do,
not caring what other people think
413
00:41:30,854 --> 00:41:34,489
[Yang Yu - Painkiller Magazine] :
the older generation, including my parents,
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00:41:34,587 --> 00:41:37,256
represent a traditional Chinese education...
415
00:41:37,587 --> 00:41:43,707
...which is Confucian and Communist
education mixed together
416
00:41:44,924 --> 00:41:50,158
Chinese parents don't know how to face
a boy who wants to have long hair...
417
00:41:50,195 --> 00:41:54,392
get a tattoo and learn to play guitar...
418
00:42:08,703 --> 00:42:12,962
[Zhang Fan - Principal, MIDI Music School] :
the MIDI school was established in 1993
419
00:42:12,977 --> 00:42:16,552
back then China had just opened up
420
00:42:16,604 --> 00:42:20,169
...and many young people
wanted to learn modern music
421
00:42:20,206 --> 00:42:24,440
at the school they learn all genres...
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00:42:24,477 --> 00:42:32,797
including Metal and Blues,
as well as Jazz and Improvisation
423
00:42:43,545 --> 00:42:49,493
for 20 years China was completely
closed off culturally from the outside world
424
00:42:49,854 --> 00:42:55,098
in terms of music, Western Rock
had a history of 50 years
425
00:42:55,134 --> 00:43:00,445
we had to learn it in 10 years time
426
00:43:05,351 --> 00:43:08,426
Heavy Metal drums solitary confinement...
427
00:43:11,989 --> 00:43:15,117
in a lot of countries big bands from West come and tour,
428
00:43:15,207 --> 00:43:16,559
but in China it's very different,
429
00:43:16,579 --> 00:43:20,279
it hasn't had major Metal bands play here...
430
00:43:20,445 --> 00:43:23,317
how did Metal come to China?
431
00:43:23,353 --> 00:43:32,370
80% of youngsters came to know Metal from
listening to a band called Tang Dynasty
432
00:43:32,688 --> 00:43:38,356
it was the first Metal band in China,
and an outstanding one
433
00:43:57,447 --> 00:44:01,620
now that I'm here, it's a bit surreal actually...
434
00:44:01,825 --> 00:44:04,579
[Kaiser Kuo] :
I'm Kaiser, and I was born in up-state New York,
435
00:44:04,794 --> 00:44:08,530
and around the time I was 12,
I think I bought my first Kiss album
436
00:44:09,274 --> 00:44:14,694
and it wasn't until I moved to China for first time in 1988
437
00:44:14,731 --> 00:44:16,474
then I started playing in a pure Metal band
438
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,600
that band was called Tang Dynasty
439
00:44:31,756 --> 00:44:39,802
the real story of my coming here deciding to play Rock
starts with a little shitty Roland cube 60 amp and a guitar
440
00:44:39,905 --> 00:44:43,807
I came out here just sure
I was gonna find some Metal musicians
441
00:44:43,843 --> 00:44:47,589
when I got here, the first thing that happens,
I ran into this guy named Dingu
442
00:44:47,769 --> 00:44:52,269
Dingu, who's got some fuckin' Blues chops, and he was
like vanning strings as he's sliding off down on them..
443
00:44:53,192 --> 00:44:56,203
but one thing he didn't know how to do really
was to make a guitar really overdrive...
444
00:44:56,438 --> 00:44:57,203
he didn't really know... I mean he didn't have
the *** box and anything like that... so anyway...
445
00:44:59,108 --> 00:45:00,944
then the lessons began,
446
00:45:00,944 --> 00:45:07,139
where I did my whole through Jack Black, you know,
School of Rock, history of Rock lessons... the family trees
447
00:45:08,240 --> 00:45:11,519
and I said: Dingu, you are a Metal guy... I mean...
448
00:45:11,519 --> 00:45:14,519
it's clear to me that you are a Metal...
you should be a fuckin' headbanger... I mean you ARE...
449
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,889
he can sing like a goddamn banshee,
and he had like this bewitching charisma
450
00:45:22,261 --> 00:45:23,261
I mean just a beautiful stage presence
451
00:45:24,089 --> 00:45:30,499
eyes new dude, man we're gonna make
the greatest band that China will ever see..
452
00:45:51,509 --> 00:45:56,164
a phenomenon like Tang Dynasty, we did it all well
and we packed stadiums...
453
00:45:56,201 --> 00:45:58,846
most of the people that came were not Metal fans,
454
00:45:59,127 --> 00:46:03,902
they were just sort of interested in this phenomenon,
they thought it was, you know, a curiosity...
455
00:46:04,438 --> 00:46:11,108
when we used to tour, people would just sit there
sort of slap-jobs, not knowing what the fuck we were...
456
00:46:11,528 --> 00:46:13,829
I'd hear people cussing on each other : [in Chinese...]
457
00:46:15,490 --> 00:46:18,319
which means: hey, buddy is that hair real...?
458
00:46:21,536 --> 00:46:25,107
the Metal look works for Chinese males
459
00:46:25,157 --> 00:46:29,812
this shit spreads out of our heads quite naturally
and it looks pretty good
460
00:46:29,877 --> 00:46:34,585
that echoes also with Naluvu great warriors at ancient times...
461
00:46:34,674 --> 00:46:39,831
sometimes they'd tie it up like this or whatever
but it's long hair... and that *** for sure
462
00:46:42,597 --> 00:46:46,679
long hair means sort of martial powers...
463
00:46:55,734 --> 00:46:59,280
Tang Dynasty is how most people heard about Metal in China
464
00:46:59,487 --> 00:47:01,480
but how did they find out all about Western Metal?
465
00:47:01,532 --> 00:47:09,453
prior to say 1994 all stemming bit of music
that came into China that was of the Metal ilk
466
00:47:09,557 --> 00:47:17,331
was from students or children of diplomats,
or children of like multi-national corporations
467
00:47:17,421 --> 00:47:22,534
who made tapes or made copies or whatever...
and that stuff circulated...
468
00:47:23,143 --> 00:47:30,957
what really turned on the tap here,
was the advent of what had called CD catalog cutouts
469
00:47:30,994 --> 00:47:33,439
when an artist is cut out of *** from record company
470
00:47:33,657 --> 00:47:36,938
to realize some tax saving, they destroy inventory,
471
00:47:36,952 --> 00:47:38,622
and of course they don't actually destroy it,
472
00:47:38,562 --> 00:47:46,102
they call, you know like Toni Fezuchi's trucking company
and comes and take 'em straight to the shipping yard
473
00:47:46,289 --> 00:47:49,587
and hauls away to China...
474
00:47:49,833 --> 00:47:52,069
you could find millions of these CDs
from any genre of music
475
00:47:52,243 --> 00:47:56,530
Jazz, Blues, Classical, Metal music... everything
476
00:47:57,311 --> 00:48:02,130
suddenly all the stuff was available,
dirt cheap and really affordable for Chinese people
477
00:48:02,518 --> 00:48:07,224
most of it was shit, I mean there's a reason
why these artists were cut out from the ***
478
00:48:08,073 --> 00:48:12,112
but there are always diamonds in there as well...
479
00:48:15,703 --> 00:48:21,488
Heavy Metal in China is has come a long way since
Tang Dynasty and illegal Glam Metal CDs...
480
00:48:21,533 --> 00:48:24,669
In Beijing I discovered a growing underground music scene
481
00:48:25,072 --> 00:48:30,118
a scene that's producing the darkest most extreme Metal
I've heard on my journey so far
482
00:48:45,313 --> 00:48:46,922
[Nong Yong / Ritual Day] :
my name is Nong Yong.
483
00:48:47,022 --> 00:48:49,336
I am now 34 years old
484
00:48:50,406 --> 00:48:58,305
I have always been very interested in music
since childhood, but in Metal since 1998
485
00:48:58,341 --> 00:49:03,956
I was very shocked that music
could be played in a such way
486
00:49:03,993 --> 00:49:07,386
so I organized a band and started to play Metal music
487
00:49:07,769 --> 00:49:12,606
at that time I was a part of the first wave
of people playing this type of music
488
00:49:12,642 --> 00:49:20,425
I possess a certain kind of emotion,
whenever I face trials in my life I feel very dark
489
00:49:21,707 --> 00:49:26,363
how do I express these dark feelings?
I choose to use Metal music
490
00:49:35,539 --> 00:49:39,463
The most important thing about Metal
is that it gives young people a tool...
491
00:49:39,645 --> 00:49:42,741
...to express their emotions
in a very frank and direct way
492
00:49:44,106 --> 00:49:50,166
they long to express their own hatred and emotions
493
00:49:51,519 --> 00:49:54,830
I grew up during the tail end of the
Chinese Cultural Revolution
494
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:57,996
in my childhood if youngsters
had hatred for each other...
495
00:49:58,631 --> 00:50:06,187
...they would get together at the front gate
of the school and have these brutal fights
496
00:50:06,367 --> 00:50:13,484
so I think that Metal has helped the Chinese
government solve some social problems...
497
00:50:14,152 --> 00:50:19,165
...because youngsters can express
their hatred and emotions through Metal
498
00:50:23,199 --> 00:50:27,201
the music of Chinese Metal groups
reflects "injustice"
499
00:50:27,621 --> 00:50:32,177
...political inadequacy
and corruption in government
500
00:50:36,075 --> 00:50:40,456
it also reflects the low standard of
living, poverty and unfair treatment
501
00:51:16,388 --> 00:51:19,800
I think that we're coming into a time
now where China is finding its footing
502
00:51:20,485 --> 00:51:25,624
it can be something that it's at once distinctly modern
and unashamedly modern
503
00:51:26,248 --> 00:51:29,691
and distinctly and unabashedly Chinese...
504
00:51:30,985 --> 00:51:34,331
that's the movement I wanna be a part of...
505
00:52:39,693 --> 00:52:43,300
so I just traveled to two of the world's most populist countries,
506
00:52:43,752 --> 00:52:47,697
India and China,
where no major Metal bands have ever toured...
507
00:52:48,034 --> 00:52:50,206
and yet in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
508
00:52:50,620 --> 00:52:53,945
an impoverish nation with the
largest Muslim population in the world
509
00:52:54,395 --> 00:52:56,854
Has had big several Metal concerts
510
00:52:56,890 --> 00:52:59,341
even while under an oppressive dictatorship...
511
00:53:00,705 --> 00:53:05,192
[Jakarta, Indonesia]
"It's like a mass demonstration..."
512
00:53:05,434 --> 00:53:11,598
we're now facing the fifth or fourth
the biggest population in the world
513
00:53:11,767 --> 00:53:15,734
[Wendi Putranto - Rolling Stone, Indonesia] :
we're nearly 300 million people living in Indonesia...
514
00:53:16,290 --> 00:53:19,030
unemployment here is staggeringly
how bad unemployment is,
515
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:21,381
[Jason Tedjasukmana - Time Magazine, Indonesia] :
I mean officially it's only like 10% or 11%
516
00:53:21,955 --> 00:53:24,841
but unofficially it's probably more like 40%
517
00:53:25,047 --> 00:53:27,631
and that's a lot of people... it's a big country
518
00:53:28,126 --> 00:53:33,532
[Barney Greenway / NAPALM DEATH] :
you could be in like the most plush copra high rise area
519
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:37,274
and then right next to it there's
all shanties right there on the street
520
00:53:37,559 --> 00:53:40,409
I mean people are litterally living in the gutter
521
00:53:41,241 --> 00:53:46,737
[Andre Tiranda / Siksakubur] :
and it's ironic to see so many poor people in the country...
522
00:53:48,021 --> 00:53:52,676
who has a mountain of diamonds, sea of gold...
523
00:53:54,240 --> 00:53:57,290
that's ironic, huh?
that's Indonesia...
524
00:53:59,916 --> 00:54:05,432
"nonconformity in my inner self..."
525
00:54:06,816 --> 00:54:11,816
[SEPULTURA : Inner Self]
[Surabaya, Indonesia / July 11, 1992]
526
00:54:18,533 --> 00:54:20,513
( walking these dirty streets )
527
00:54:21,378 --> 00:54:23,344
( with hate in my mind... )
528
00:54:24,014 --> 00:54:25,634
( feeling scorn of world, )
529
00:54:26,392 --> 00:54:27,592
(I won't follow your rules... )
530
00:54:29,024 --> 00:54:30,912
( blame and lies... )
531
00:54:31,670 --> 00:54:33,005
( contradications arise... )
532
00:54:33,860 --> 00:54:38,828
I think there's a whole thing connected to Brazil,
and where I'm from
533
00:54:38,864 --> 00:54:42,908
that's connects to Third World lyrics,
'cause this is their lyrics...
534
00:54:42,943 --> 00:54:47,906
when I'm singing about Inner Self,
of growing up in this fucked up streets and shit...
535
00:54:48,255 --> 00:54:53,617
the Indonesian fans reading some of those lyrics,
they'd feel onnected to it...
536
00:54:53,814 --> 00:54:56,115
Sepultura are coming from a Third [World] country as well
537
00:54:54,820 --> 00:55:03,053
and Indonesia with poor, injustice, everywhere starving people,
you know, the corruption...
538
00:55:03,887 --> 00:55:06,123
the're singing about that too in their lyrics
539
00:55:06,863 --> 00:55:13,444
it so matches with happened in this country
all over years...
540
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:21,389
halfway to the show, the kids got so crazy,
fuckin' place in chaos, Hell broke loose, you know, mosh-pits...
541
00:55:21,426 --> 00:55:25,768
couple of minutes after that they stopped the entire show
and had these huge bamboo sticks...
542
00:55:25,828 --> 00:55:29,302
and they were like kinda beating up the first row of kids
543
00:55:30,370 --> 00:55:34,609
and they made 20000 people sit down on the floor
without making one sound...
544
00:55:35,119 --> 00:55:38,594
I've never seen anything like that in my life, you know
545
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:44,091
none of us, man...
I feel we were like "holy shit"...
546
00:55:44,757 --> 00:55:46,827
we played for the first time ever here,
547
00:55:47,177 --> 00:55:49,424
we're so fuckin' proud to be playing in front of you,
548
00:55:49,748 --> 00:55:51,748
I'm sorry for anything that happened here tonight...
549
00:55:53,158 --> 00:55:57,485
it's a lot similar, the kids in Brazil or India or Eastern Europe
550
00:55:58,659 --> 00:56:02,617
Rebellion... fuckin' pissed off,
real pissed about the shit,
551
00:56:02,705 --> 00:56:09,013
the way their life is...
it's how they had to grow in this shithole
552
00:56:09,511 --> 00:56:12,304
and it's pretty much they're gonna die in this shithole,
553
00:56:12,655 --> 00:56:16,250
so what do you do about it?
so you know, Metal comes in...
554
00:56:17,301 --> 00:56:22,301
[METALLICA / Jakarta, Indonesia / April 10, 1993]
555
00:56:35,846 --> 00:56:41,619
people were coming from everywhere
From Donggala, from Surabaya, even from Dahli
556
00:56:42,180 --> 00:56:45,058
Arian 13 / Seringai]
everyone from median people come just to see Metallica
557
00:56:45,588 --> 00:56:51,661
I had to sell my father's shoes,
so I can afford the tickets
558
00:56:52,186 --> 00:56:55,889
yes, I had my father angry at me...
559
00:56:56,177 --> 00:57:01,866
I remember driving to the gig,
there were a fuck lot of people outside
560
00:57:02,879 --> 00:57:06,078
and the stadium was in a very rich part of Jakarta
561
00:57:06,569 --> 00:57:10,569
where a lot of the politicians
and a lot of the old money family lives
562
00:57:11,912 --> 00:57:18,354
so here were thousands and thousands of young kids
and a lot of kind of adolescent
563
00:57:20,023 --> 00:57:23,735
when Metallica was on the other side of the stadium walls,
564
00:57:24,595 --> 00:57:27,735
and we were playing and bunch of people couldn't get in so on
565
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:33,047
and obviously pretty much all hell broke loose out there
566
00:58:00,289 --> 00:58:02,358
we're standing up on stage, playing, doing our thing
567
00:58:02,358 --> 00:58:09,905
and you can see like fires and smoke
and all the police sirens and all that crap...
568
00:58:10,579 --> 00:58:14,361
and it was just...
they basically just fuckin' tore the whole neighborhood up
569
00:58:14,790 --> 00:58:21,776
army chased us, and they were like... I was yelling
"sir, I got tickets, I want to get into stadium"
570
00:58:21,812 --> 00:58:22,605
"you can't get into stadium..."
571
00:58:22,952 --> 00:58:32,827
and he was like "your black T-shirts fucks!
you are all communists!" and then starts swaying everthing...
572
00:58:33,140 --> 00:58:34,471
...and we just ran way
573
00:58:35,985 --> 00:58:40,116
yeah, I got hit in my head too,
even though I got the ticket...
574
00:58:40,438 --> 00:58:45,989
they just hit everything... no matter...
whether you got ticket or not.. they just hit everything...
575
00:58:59,206 --> 00:59:05,702
after the Metallica's concert, they banned all the Metal shows
they banned all the Rock concerts
576
00:59:06,244 --> 00:59:08,972
from the international acts of course,
577
00:59:09,008 --> 00:59:13,149
cause they said that, it kind of brings
a bad impact for Indonesian youth
578
00:59:13,342 --> 00:59:20,660
'cause you know, it's like a mass demonstration...
just like what we had in 1998
579
00:59:20,875 --> 00:59:26,221
the Mei revolution, while Suharto stepped down
by the students movement
580
00:59:27,773 --> 00:59:33,882
[Franki Raden . Professor] : after Suharto stepped down,
there was some sort of leads of this
581
00:59:33,919 --> 00:59:39,991
like holding back anarchy, that during the Suharto era
you cannot [couldnot] really express...
582
00:59:40,099 --> 00:59:45,324
so everywhere people saw themselves sort of
liberated from all this oppression...
583
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:48,126
like 52 years is not a short period
584
00:59:48,189 --> 00:59:51,086
so they feel like "now I can do almost anything"...
585
00:59:51,338 --> 00:59:57,537
not long after Suharto stepped down
we have very a political underground scene here
586
00:59:59,015 --> 01:00:03,015
[Siksakubur]
587
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:16,160
[Seringai]
588
01:00:20,776 --> 01:00:23,776
[Jasad]
589
01:00:29,661 --> 01:00:34,274
in Jakarta most Metal bands sing
about social and political issues...
590
01:00:34,703 --> 01:00:37,627
something I associate more with Punk Rock than Metal,
591
01:00:39,116 --> 01:00:41,774
but Indonesia's most popular Metal band
"Tengkorak",
592
01:00:41,863 --> 01:00:46,074
has started to incorporate more controvesial ideas...
593
01:00:46,596 --> 01:00:50,465
what are you trying to say through Tengkorak's music?
594
01:00:50,502 --> 01:00:55,592
we have some themes about our
disagreement with the Capitalist countries...
595
01:00:56,533 --> 01:01:01,938
...as they always push
Third World countries into a corner
596
01:01:02,537 --> 01:01:06,668
[Ombat Masution / Tengkorak] :
as you know the majority of Indonesians are Muslims...
597
01:01:07,744 --> 01:01:14,006
...and because of this they say
we are a "terrorist country"
598
01:01:14,618 --> 01:01:18,440
... and we do not agree with or respect that statement.
599
01:01:22,773 --> 01:01:26,772
most of the song have a very strong
poiltical or social commentary
600
01:01:26,809 --> 01:01:31,857
but there is one song which is called I think "Destroy Zionism"
what do you look past through that song?
601
01:01:31,894 --> 01:01:36,043
Zionism is a system made by the Jews
602
01:01:38,477 --> 01:01:43,950
these Jewish people have this system which is not good...
603
01:01:44,518 --> 01:01:51,323
because they have this goal
to this destroy Islamic people
604
01:01:53,326 --> 01:01:56,831
Zionists must be destroyed
605
01:01:57,612 --> 01:02:00,176
They should be no more
606
01:02:00,327 --> 01:02:03,889
if necessary, Israel must be
eliminated from the global map
607
01:02:05,313 --> 01:02:06,777
people who would hear that song and then...
608
01:02:07,936 --> 01:02:10,672
...see your jacket with a Swastika and a slash through it
609
01:02:11,088 --> 01:02:14,470
you think they might see that as a bit of a contradiction?
610
01:02:15,147 --> 01:02:19,521
it is not the Jewish people that we are against...
611
01:02:20,426 --> 01:02:23,457
...only their system
612
01:02:23,777 --> 01:02:26,949
the right wing politics and their religious leader
613
01:02:27,468 --> 01:02:31,738
they're kind of more to fitch people of Indonesia
614
01:02:32,663 --> 01:02:36,501
You got to live in Islam way
615
01:02:37,634 --> 01:02:43,150
me, I was born in Islam, but I don't trust that religion anymore
616
01:02:43,545 --> 01:02:46,789
'cause for me, religion is "individual"
617
01:02:47,245 --> 01:02:49,030
it's only between you and God...
618
01:02:49,728 --> 01:02:54,456
Muslims teach about peace,
every religion teaches about peace
619
01:02:54,689 --> 01:02:58,915
they don't teach to make enemies
or to make war with others
620
01:03:00,183 --> 01:03:04,085
those are the people who
impose their will on others
621
01:03:04,122 --> 01:03:07,083
and they are not good people,
no matter which religion...
622
01:03:07,187 --> 01:03:12,666
they could be Muslims, Christians or whoever,
and they are not good people in my opinion...
623
01:03:19,215 --> 01:03:22,300
- there you go
- I'm ready !
624
01:03:36,959 --> 01:03:39,261
I'm in a mosque in Indonesia
625
01:03:40,199 --> 01:03:43,302
and it's the end of Ramadan
626
01:03:43,617 --> 01:03:46,214
so it's Friday, so it's the big pray day
627
01:03:47,036 --> 01:03:51,460
and we're going in with our new friend Rudi,
628
01:03:51,496 --> 01:03:54,884
it's the first foot-bath I had in a long time...!
629
01:03:59,166 --> 01:04:04,630
Muslims ideally should be like me
or like the other people you see
630
01:04:05,262 --> 01:04:10,211
very common, they pray, they go to work,
like me...
631
01:04:10,848 --> 01:04:11,848
Normal
632
01:04:13,105 --> 01:04:15,607
They're the Muslims...
633
01:04:42,122 --> 01:04:44,625
Metal is for my life, Metal is for life
634
01:04:44,728 --> 01:04:48,424
Make relationship with friends
just hear the music and take the spirit
635
01:04:48,485 --> 01:04:49,485
it's only for life...
636
01:04:51,537 --> 01:04:57,255
but religion is my relation
particularly with my God
637
01:05:16,548 --> 01:05:19,198
Jerusalem, Israel
638
01:05:19,829 --> 01:05:23,066
"More scared of the Living..."
639
01:05:29,666 --> 01:05:33,030
Metal music has never shied away from controversy
640
01:05:33,066 --> 01:05:37,753
it has always rebelled against authority
and stood up against mainstream religion
641
01:05:37,790 --> 01:05:43,048
but as I was reminded in Indonesia,
in rare cases in can be a voice of hatred
642
01:05:43,323 --> 01:05:46,556
well there's one place that had
a history of dealing with hatred
643
01:05:46,865 --> 01:05:47,865
it's Israel
644
01:05:48,607 --> 01:05:53,224
so I'm curious to know how this has
affected the Metal being created here
645
01:05:55,059 --> 01:05:59,126
I think there isn't any other place special as Jerusalem
646
01:05:59,127 --> 01:06:03,858
[Kobi Farhi / Orphaned Land]
the culture of this place, this land, it's very complicated
647
01:06:03,918 --> 01:06:08,256
it's very ancient on one hand,
and it's very mixed on ther other hand
648
01:06:09,063 --> 01:06:10,357
we have here a Jewish cemetery
649
01:06:10,514 --> 01:06:11,907
we have a church over here
650
01:06:11,937 --> 01:06:12,966
and we have a mosque over there...
651
01:06:13,155 --> 01:06:17,638
all Jerusalem is like this, it's some kind
of a harmony of colors, of prayings...
652
01:06:18,209 --> 01:06:22,706
everyone was here,
Abraham, Jesus, Mohammed...
653
01:06:47,091 --> 01:06:53,019
well I think this it's important for an artist
to reflect his place, his culture
654
01:06:53,140 --> 01:06:57,229
the fact that we live in probably
one of the most controvesial places on earth...
655
01:06:57,938 --> 01:07:00,487
[Eran Segal / "Whorecore" / 'Evil' Haim] :
...and probably one of the more hostile places on earth
656
01:07:01,312 --> 01:07:07,442
it gets in, there's a fact of
violence everywhere and inbalance, stuff like that...
657
01:07:07,668 --> 01:07:14,308
and probably that's why we could be heavier
than other bands in other places of the world
658
01:07:14,459 --> 01:07:18,183
[Butchered / Arallu] : when I got into the genre of
Black Metal, mostly listened to Norwegian Black Metal
659
01:07:18,344 --> 01:07:20,957
I loved them very much
and I really connected with them
660
01:07:21,018 --> 01:07:26,091
in retrospect they were singing about stories
that were told to them...
661
01:07:26,349 --> 01:07:27,349
... mother, to mother, to mother
662
01:07:27,597 --> 01:07:29,776
handed down for generations, but...
663
01:07:29,847 --> 01:07:34,769
then we started to see with our own eyes,
what they were writing about in their books
664
01:07:34,853 --> 01:07:36,478
...because we live it for real
665
01:07:38,859 --> 01:07:41,859
[Arallu]
666
01:07:47,940 --> 01:07:50,898
[Tishai Sweartz - Raven Music]
if you witness to something and you come to write a song
667
01:07:51,910 --> 01:07:57,501
you song will be more real than someone
who just read about it in history lessons...
668
01:07:58,419 --> 01:08:05,460
because we live in a country
where insanity became closer to reality
669
01:08:06,135 --> 01:08:09,262
here in Jerusalem, here in Kottel and the
enitire region...
670
01:08:09,263 --> 01:08:13,187
the three large religions: Islam, Judaism and
Christianity are responsible for all of these wars
671
01:08:13,436 --> 01:08:17,965
always... the Jews slaughtered Christians,
Christians slaughtered Muslims,
672
01:08:18,033 --> 01:08:22,258
Muslims slaughtered the Jews,
and the cycle keeps repeating itself...
673
01:08:23,299 --> 01:08:25,536
when kids in Israel turn 18,
they have to go to the army
674
01:08:26,020 --> 01:08:29,020
that's one of the things that Jew may most play extreme music
675
01:08:29,598 --> 01:08:35,503
as I finish the school I'm supposed to go the army,
but fuck that, I'm not be a part of that or do that...
676
01:08:35,754 --> 01:08:37,838
and I wanna do another thing,
I wanna play in a band
677
01:08:37,839 --> 01:08:42,288
I wanna go travel the world and meet other people
that like the same things that I like
678
01:08:42,634 --> 01:08:46,076
I believe if we don't do our army service,
our country will be destroyed
679
01:08:46,077 --> 01:08:50,830
it not like I enjoy it, but if we
don't step forward...
680
01:08:51,071 --> 01:08:52,959
...we might get swallowed up
681
01:08:52,960 --> 01:08:55,880
that's it,
you just have to do it...
682
01:09:09,050 --> 01:09:11,050
[Salem]
683
01:09:10,478 --> 01:09:13,709
at first Salem was occupied with the occult
684
01:09:14,544 --> 01:09:16,630
[Nir Nakav / Salem] :
hence the name, you know, Salem, witches...
685
01:09:17,778 --> 01:09:26,222
but then you realize that your reality
is scarier than any *** demon you can summon...
686
01:09:27,370 --> 01:09:29,633
like it's scarier that I'm walking down the street...
687
01:09:30,644 --> 01:09:34,251
...and someone will show up and explode,
just because he hates me...
688
01:09:35,399 --> 01:09:40,196
I'm usually not scared to walk down the street
and be attacked by demons,
689
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:43,637
or Pinhead from Hellraiser...
690
01:09:44,264 --> 01:09:44,995
doesn't scare me...
691
01:09:45,100 --> 01:09:47,185
I watch their movies, I think they're funny,
I like 'em...
692
01:09:48,645 --> 01:09:52,935
I'm more scared of the living, and their actions...
693
01:09:57,091 --> 01:10:00,010
someone at Israel Parliment got mad at Salem
694
01:10:00,011 --> 01:10:04,704
because we covered a song that was identified
with the Holocaust...
695
01:10:05,642 --> 01:10:10,230
and he said "Holocaust is sacred,
you cannot play a Metal music to it,
696
01:10:10,648 --> 01:10:16,384
you cannot play it now in bars or where
people headbang or dance or hug or...
697
01:10:16,807 --> 01:10:18,614
Holocaust is sacred...
698
01:10:19,053 --> 01:10:21,286
there was someone else from the parliment who said :
699
01:10:21,287 --> 01:10:26,812
"wait, it's the best vehicle for new generation
to learn about the Holocaust"...
700
01:10:29,970 --> 01:10:33,970
[SLAYER :Angel of Death]
701
01:10:46,623 --> 01:10:48,592
Auschwitz, the meaning of pain.
702
01:10:48,701 --> 01:10:50,201
The way that I want you to die...
703
01:10:51,097 --> 01:10:57,001
one song, it's always been particularly contentious
and that is the song "Angel Of Death" by Slayer,
704
01:10:57,885 --> 01:10:59,137
I mean how do you feel about the song?
705
01:10:59,241 --> 01:11:03,203
Auschwitz... The meaning of pain.
- The way that I want you to die...
706
01:11:04,143 --> 01:11:05,989
How do you feel abou that?
707
01:11:08,314 --> 01:11:11,330
I don't know if Slayer actually meant of...
708
01:11:11,500 --> 01:11:16,125
I don't know of their intention was
to hurt Jewish people when the sang about it...
709
01:11:16,638 --> 01:11:18,141
I don't think they are a Nazi band...
710
01:11:18,429 --> 01:11:25,224
[Maor Appelbaum - Producer / Engineer] : I think that song
is probably the most controversial song in the history of Metal
711
01:11:25,581 --> 01:11:29,477
and I won't lie to you, it'll also disturb me...
712
01:11:30,256 --> 01:11:32,787
because my father was in the Holocaust...
713
01:11:33,716 --> 01:11:37,177
but I don't look at it in a negative way
714
01:11:37,317 --> 01:11:41,087
I do play it on my stereo and I do play it as a DJ
715
01:11:41,453 --> 01:11:44,185
so I don't take it personally...
716
01:11:44,186 --> 01:11:50,134
[Yotam 'Defiler' Avin / Abed] : I translate Slayer's
"Angel Of Death" to they were against the Holocaust...
717
01:11:50,248 --> 01:11:52,868
if they were for it , they would deny it...
718
01:11:53,052 --> 01:11:57,430
won't tell a huge 4 mintues story about it...
719
01:11:58,265 --> 01:12:01,207
- so you think "Angel of Death" is sort of...
- it's a monument
720
01:12:01,777 --> 01:12:04,003
it's against it because it's exposing the horrors of it...?
721
01:12:04,209 --> 01:12:07,446
it's a monument of the horrors that shouldn't be repeated...
722
01:12:32,569 --> 01:12:34,679
although Slayer is not a Nazi Metal band
723
01:12:35,044 --> 01:12:39,126
there are a small number of bands out there
that do promote Nazi ideas...
724
01:12:39,243 --> 01:12:44,873
Varg Vikernes otherwise known as Kahn Grishnackh,
was in prison for church burning and murder in Norway
725
01:12:44,874 --> 01:12:48,443
and is known for his Fascist and racist ideas...
726
01:12:48,629 --> 01:12:52,590
I was surprised to find out that there's
also an Israeli connection to this story
727
01:12:54,260 --> 01:13:00,412
the year was 1990, Salem was just after releasing
the live demo called "Millions Slaughtered"
728
01:13:01,413 --> 01:13:05,491
it was time of the tape-trading
and the Norwegian Black Metal was just started
729
01:13:05,829 --> 01:13:07,607
that's how Grishnackh heard us...
730
01:13:07,608 --> 01:13:11,825
the title song "Millions Slaughtered"
talks about the Holocaust...
731
01:13:12,301 --> 01:13:19,117
so I guess being whoever he was, he wrote us back
"that the music was great but those lyrics are stupid"
732
01:13:19,451 --> 01:13:21,895
"it's too bad that Hitler didn't finish the job that he started"
733
01:13:21,896 --> 01:13:24,898
and it was just before the Gulf War,
734
01:13:25,632 --> 01:13:27,632
"may Saddam finish you all..."
735
01:13:29,820 --> 01:13:34,950
and again, you know, this was not just lyrics
that were written and were dettached from it
736
01:13:35,320 --> 01:13:36,520
it's a part of us...
737
01:13:36,605 --> 01:13:41,811
so obviously he we were getting angrier...
738
01:13:42,812 --> 01:13:48,532
so we got a very angry reply,
739
01:13:48,793 --> 01:13:53,074
using some cuss words,
I'm not sure you want me to repeat here...
740
01:13:54,075 --> 01:13:59,788
and about a couple of months later,
police knocks on lead singers door and goes :
741
01:13:59,810 --> 01:14:01,435
"who hates you in Norway?"
742
01:14:01,792 --> 01:14:04,075
we had just got a bomb in the mail...!
743
01:14:28,527 --> 01:14:32,009
anywhere that we go
everybody only knows the bad news
744
01:14:32,969 --> 01:14:34,339
the war and stuff like that...
745
01:14:34,389 --> 01:14:39,295
and we try to show or to be
some kind of a good news coming out of Israel
746
01:14:41,770 --> 01:14:45,046
when we played in Turkey,
you'd always see people in the crowd...
747
01:14:45,397 --> 01:14:49,771
they sing with us together
and they do like this with their hands
748
01:14:50,365 --> 01:14:53,478
this is what usually the Muslims are doing when they pray...
749
01:14:53,536 --> 01:14:56,094
it's like they are holding the Quran book...
750
01:14:57,199 --> 01:14:59,391
it's amazing,
it's Metal people...
751
01:15:00,125 --> 01:15:02,819
all these wars between religions,
752
01:15:03,295 --> 01:15:06,302
all these massacres in the name of God,
753
01:15:06,382 --> 01:15:07,570
this is a big confusion...
754
01:15:08,229 --> 01:15:09,934
we all believe in same God
755
01:15:10,290 --> 01:15:14,106
and we can stop all this bloodshed and confusion and war...
756
01:15:19,415 --> 01:15:22,611
I mean if we think about the Dark, we did nothing,
757
01:15:22,837 --> 01:15:25,361
there is plenty of darkness in this world...
758
01:15:25,574 --> 01:15:27,419
I think this is why we should speak about the Light...
759
01:16:10,482 --> 01:16:13,760
of all the Metal fans that contacted me from around the world
760
01:16:13,827 --> 01:16:16,526
I was most shocked to hear from people in Iran
761
01:16:17,333 --> 01:16:21,861
but because of the increased tensions in the area
my visa application was denied
762
01:16:21,932 --> 01:16:23,808
and I couldn't get into their country...
763
01:16:24,805 --> 01:16:27,490
so instead we're meeting the Iranians in Dubai
764
01:16:27,614 --> 01:16:31,205
where Metalheads from throughout
the region are gathering for Desert Rock.
765
01:16:31,241 --> 01:16:33,345
the only Metal festival in the Middle East...
766
01:16:33,924 --> 01:16:35,933
[Dubai, United Arab Emirates]
767
01:16:36,603 --> 01:16:39,949
"They consider it anti-moralistic"
768
01:17:14,995 --> 01:17:19,868
my name is Armin,
and I'm 28, turned 29 two days ago...
769
01:17:20,025 --> 01:17:23,380
[Armin - Fan, Iran] :
and I'm an engineer, a mechincal engineer...
770
01:17:23,728 --> 01:17:25,108
that's what I do for living...
771
01:17:25,117 --> 01:17:29,741
but Metal has been with me since my teenage era
772
01:17:30,266 --> 01:17:31,642
and I truely love it...
773
01:17:31,677 --> 01:17:38,828
can you tell me about some of the restrictions
that had been placed on getting access to Metal in Iran?
774
01:17:39,508 --> 01:17:43,024
you don't have any CDs sold,
this is the biggest restriction
775
01:17:43,439 --> 01:17:45,834
the music cannot go on
776
01:17:45,870 --> 01:17:47,238
you cannot sell Metal T-shirts
777
01:17:47,789 --> 01:17:50,185
before that even jeans were forbidden,
778
01:17:50,259 --> 01:17:54,221
long hair... I was just caught up
for just having long hair by the police
779
01:17:54,614 --> 01:17:57,659
[Ali - Musician, Iran] :
they took me to the police office
780
01:17:58,143 --> 01:18:01,323
"why do you have long hair like that?"
and...
781
01:18:01,557 --> 01:18:07,900
"are you worshipping Satan?!"
or "are you in those kind of bad Metal bands?!"
782
01:18:08,347 --> 01:18:11,494
[Maher - Musician, Saudi Arabia] :
I got caught by the religious police
783
01:18:12,115 --> 01:18:14,372
for wearing a Slayer T-shirt and having long hair...
784
01:18:15,740 --> 01:18:19,902
I was just back from Slayer concert in Turkey
785
01:18:20,006 --> 01:18:23,832
I almost forgot how restricted this thing is...
786
01:18:24,119 --> 01:18:26,300
[Abed - Fan, Lebanon]
I know a couple of friends who were put in jail
787
01:18:26,515 --> 01:18:28,407
they had their heads shaved
and they were beaten up,
788
01:18:28,515 --> 01:18:32,358
because the authorities really thought
they were Satanists... and they were not,
789
01:18:32,497 --> 01:18:34,197
they just looked Metal...
790
01:18:34,485 --> 01:18:37,805
they consider it anti-moralistic
791
01:18:38,184 --> 01:18:42,271
and they say that it's bringing a lot of excitement,
792
01:18:42,722 --> 01:18:45,746
which is not good for a music,
like in Islamic context...
793
01:18:50,071 --> 01:18:54,071
[SDS / Tehran, Iran - 2004]
794
01:19:00,624 --> 01:19:04,925
there had been some limited gigs
like two ro three years ago...
795
01:19:04,994 --> 01:19:07,935
there was this gig and a band called SDS
796
01:19:08,158 --> 01:19:13,279
they were covering live like from Morbid Angel and Slayer,
797
01:19:13,449 --> 01:19:18,485
but no vocals was [were] allowed,
they said vocals are too harsh and aggressive...
798
01:19:19,279 --> 01:19:22,477
and we had to be sitted !
799
01:19:22,716 --> 01:19:24,832
later on they cancelled all the show...
800
01:19:26,365 --> 01:19:31,961
with the system that we have right now
we cannot perform Western music,
801
01:19:32,136 --> 01:19:33,419
not only Metal...
802
01:19:33,523 --> 01:19:39,918
and so, the Metal community in Iran has grown
really isolated from what had been in the real world...
803
01:19:39,955 --> 01:19:42,942
someone that we knew has sent us a picture,
804
01:19:43,047 --> 01:19:46,503
they had gone to Iran, to go visit family...
805
01:19:47,048 --> 01:19:52,801
and they took a picture of Slayer
spray painted on the wall in Iran,
806
01:19:52,950 --> 01:19:58,223
and they took a picture standing next to it,
so to identify that...
807
01:19:58,223 --> 01:20:02,165
they were there and this was there and this is Iran...
808
01:20:02,716 --> 01:20:08,602
and I just kinda looked at that and I thought :
wow, Slayer in a Muslim country...
809
01:20:08,760 --> 01:20:10,040
you know what I mean?
810
01:20:10,893 --> 01:20:13,893
that had to be is just, screams "death" !
811
01:20:16,933 --> 01:20:19,076
we met with Tom in Japan
812
01:20:19,354 --> 01:20:25,750
and he described a photograph of a Slayer logo
that had been spray painted on the wall...
813
01:20:26,038 --> 01:20:28,807
wow... yeah, we got lots of that, yeah...
814
01:20:29,964 --> 01:20:32,154
have you ever seen something like that in your country?
815
01:20:32,258 --> 01:20:35,533
I have done something like that in my country... ok?
816
01:20:47,168 --> 01:20:48,958
In a lot of the Middle East,
817
01:20:49,024 --> 01:20:54,157
conservative governments and religious authorities
repeatedly censor and restrict Metal music
818
01:20:54,787 --> 01:20:58,390
but the city of Dubai seems completely
open to anything Western...
819
01:20:58,865 --> 01:21:02,188
and it's one of the fastest growing
tourist destinations in the world...
820
01:21:02,393 --> 01:21:05,970
so I am going to talk to some Metal fans
who were born and raised here,
821
01:21:06,074 --> 01:21:09,193
to get their thoughts on the spread of Metal
throughout the region...
822
01:21:09,846 --> 01:21:14,275
my full name like in Arabi tradition is
"Omar Abdula Aziz Mohammed Khan Abdula"
823
01:21:14,312 --> 01:21:16,793
our licenses are like this wide,
driver's license...
824
01:21:16,986 --> 01:21:24,614
basically this is called Qandora
or a lot of the experts call it a Dish-Dash...
825
01:21:25,427 --> 01:21:26,427
and this is a Qatran...
826
01:21:26,474 --> 01:21:28,731
basically it's not a Ku Klux Klan outfit,
827
01:21:28,768 --> 01:21:35,259
it's basically mostly white to reflect the heat of the sun,
'cause it's really hot here and gets really uncomfortable
828
01:21:35,276 --> 01:21:40,615
they do come in different colors and they're extremely
comfortable and they have a very good ventilation...
829
01:21:40,758 --> 01:21:43,245
good for playing Metal too, keeps the air flowing...
830
01:21:43,468 --> 01:21:49,032
actually, in high-school I played "Purple Haze"
on stage with a black one of these and a bandana...
831
01:21:50,141 --> 01:21:52,070
Metal is generally coming from the West,
832
01:21:52,150 --> 01:21:54,945
and I guess in a way it's a part of process of Globalization
833
01:21:55,493 --> 01:21:58,782
what's your opinion on Metal and it's spread around the world?
834
01:21:59,003 --> 01:22:01,490
if you say Globalization I know a lot of...
835
01:22:02,140 --> 01:22:10,048
... like a 1500 years ago a lot of the ideas from the East
during Dark Ages crept from the East to the West,
836
01:22:10,084 --> 01:22:12,907
and I think it's just a cycle,
837
01:22:12,943 --> 01:22:17,894
you guys discovered something cool, ok, bring it over
ok, that's a nice instrument the Arabs play, their uod...
838
01:22:17,894 --> 01:22:18,894
ok, let's use that one in my song
839
01:22:19,821 --> 01:22:22,506
the Indian have the Sitar, ok let's mix that...
840
01:22:23,331 --> 01:22:27,089
I don't think it's a bad idea when it naturally happens,
841
01:22:27,450 --> 01:22:31,099
so when we talk about the IMF and the World Bank,
then we can discuss...
842
01:22:33,201 --> 01:22:38,484
with the help of Internet,
obviously Internet was the main driver for Globalization
843
01:22:38,632 --> 01:22:41,284
because it's just easy to reach information,
to reach anywhere...
844
01:22:41,334 --> 01:22:46,182
I don't think anyone in the world benefitted
from MP3 downloading as much as we did...
845
01:22:46,218 --> 01:22:48,907
[Ahmid - Musician, Saudi Arabia] :
because we start discovering new bands through the Internet
846
01:22:49,097 --> 01:22:50,766
downloading their music and listening to it
847
01:22:51,067 --> 01:22:54,164
specially that we couldn't get it,
we didn't have any access to it
848
01:22:54,263 --> 01:22:58,716
I apologize to all the bands, but we had to do this,
that's the only way we could discover them...
849
01:22:58,753 --> 01:23:02,591
so Lars you know, most of the fans
we're meeting around the world
850
01:23:02,611 --> 01:23:06,128
the only way they can get music is
by downloading it, the Internet...
851
01:23:06,498 --> 01:23:08,113
how do you feel about that?
852
01:23:08,157 --> 01:23:10,706
I think it great to get, I think it's great,
I mean...
853
01:23:12,156 --> 01:23:16,565
obviously it's the way to share the stuff
and I think it's awesome...
854
01:23:16,760 --> 01:23:26,842
I think that we were somewhat flabbergasted at some
early Internet things that were going on a few years ago...
855
01:23:26,900 --> 01:23:31,189
but we sort of, were appeased with that
and we stood champion like everybody else
856
01:23:31,865 --> 01:23:33,598
what the Internet had done, you know
857
01:23:33,844 --> 01:23:40,445
which is a great thing of bringing everything and
making everything available and global and so on...
858
01:23:40,475 --> 01:23:41,820
I mean it's just awesome...
859
01:23:43,243 --> 01:23:48,777
listen, at this point if kids can get their hands
on the music, then it's a great thing...
860
01:23:48,896 --> 01:23:52,090
[Al-Sharif - Musician, Egypt] :
Now you can download music, you can access everthing
861
01:23:52,858 --> 01:23:57,325
so it's easy for most of the people
around the Middle East to listen to Metal,
862
01:23:57,326 --> 01:23:59,766
it's gonna grow,
it's fuckin' gonna grow...
863
01:24:03,179 --> 01:24:08,825
the Desert Rock festival is like a
yearly Anniversary to Metal, basically...
864
01:24:09,122 --> 01:24:16,517
Libanon, Kuweit, Bahrain, Oman, Duha,
Saudi-Arabia, you can name every middle eastern country
865
01:24:16,553 --> 01:24:20,007
there're people out here tonight...
866
01:25:11,992 --> 01:25:14,422
it was my first show ever
867
01:25:14,501 --> 01:25:19,801
it was the day after my birthday,
best birthday party I could have...
868
01:25:20,801 --> 01:25:25,006
when you have tough times,
which in our country is not so scarce,
869
01:25:25,849 --> 01:25:27,491
it's a relief for you...
870
01:25:27,943 --> 01:25:32,824
you truely put all your ambitions, thoughts and dreams into it
871
01:25:32,931 --> 01:25:38,729
you wanna speak out and there aren't
as many outlets there should be to do this...
872
01:25:38,766 --> 01:25:41,332
we found this in Metal,
it's speaking to us...
873
01:25:41,820 --> 01:25:46,598
it's talking about our problems, it's talking about our wars,
about our aggression, about our oppression...
874
01:25:46,711 --> 01:25:52,405
it's giving us a chance to release all this
bottled-up anger in a positive way
875
01:25:52,724 --> 01:25:56,262
so we don't have to go and do it in a negative way
876
01:25:59,431 --> 01:26:06,582
a chance to be together and enjoy their time,
free of political shit outside...
877
01:26:07,270 --> 01:26:10,259
so this is something more than important...
878
01:26:10,587 --> 01:26:13,848
- it's essentieel.
- yeah, it's essential...
879
01:26:19,768 --> 01:26:24,768
[IRON MAIDEN - Hallowed Be Thy Name]
880
01:26:26,018 --> 01:26:29,436
the stories I have heard from fans here have made me realize...
881
01:26:29,436 --> 01:26:33,272
...just how much is at stake for Metalheads
in this part of the world...
882
01:26:34,187 --> 01:26:40,564
for some of these fans, Desert Rock is the only place
where they can safely show their devotion to Heavy Metal...
883
01:26:41,487 --> 01:26:46,808
and that's far beyond anything that I have had to deal
as a Metalhead growing up in Canada
884
01:26:47,913 --> 01:26:53,126
so I traveled over 40000 kilometers
since the Wacken festival in Germany
885
01:26:53,162 --> 01:26:56,217
but there's one last stop I have to make
886
01:26:56,254 --> 01:26:59,392
I'm heading back to India, to the city of Bangalore,
887
01:26:59,741 --> 01:27:02,100
where something historic is about to happen...
888
01:27:02,742 --> 01:27:09,483
my favorite band of all time, Iron Maiden is playing
the first major Metal show is this country's history...
889
01:27:09,519 --> 01:27:12,524
and with 30000 Indian Metalhead lining up at the gates,
890
01:27:12,734 --> 01:27:16,017
this is one concert that I have to be a part of...
891
01:27:33,996 --> 01:27:38,046
this is the biggest show India will ever have,
it's gonna be great...
892
01:27:38,082 --> 01:27:41,911
I don't think you'll hear a louder crowd
anywhere in the world, because...
893
01:27:42,622 --> 01:27:45,202
I mean we haven't experienced shows like this...
894
01:27:45,349 --> 01:27:50,039
so you know, it's like 20 years of
these panned-off feelings are all gonna come out...
895
01:27:46,336 --> 01:27:56,412
[in Indian]
896
01:28:00,284 --> 01:28:05,284
[IRON MAIDEN - Fear Of the Dark]
897
01:28:40,515 --> 01:28:46,824
aren't you surprised that your music is deeply connected
with people from so many different cultures?
898
01:28:47,187 --> 01:28:49,187
[Bruce Dickinson / IRON MAIDEN]
899
01:28:49,690 --> 01:28:55,268
I suppose I should, but after
years and years of traveling around the world...
900
01:28:55,871 --> 01:28:57,964
kids are kids...
901
01:28:58,371 --> 01:29:00,829
doesn't matter what culture you're come from,
902
01:29:01,132 --> 01:29:04,652
at least a certain proportion of kids
in whatever cultural society
903
01:29:04,687 --> 01:29:07,310
wanna get up and just go "arrrrrghhh", like that...
904
01:29:08,917 --> 01:29:12,879
and we kind of provide their soundtrack...
905
01:29:55,674 --> 01:29:58,764
( have you run your fingers down the wall? )
906
01:29:58,934 --> 01:30:01,189
( Have you felt your neck skin crawl? )
907
01:30:01,239 --> 01:30:03,739
( when you're searching for the light� )
908
01:30:05,486 --> 01:30:07,858
( sometimes when you're scared to take a look,)
909
01:30:08,559 --> 01:30:10,470
( at the corner of the room, )
910
01:30:10,832 --> 01:30:13,029
(you've sensed that something's watching you� )
911
01:30:14,132 --> 01:30:18,096
( fear of the dark... )
912
01:30:19,252 --> 01:30:22,563
standing here with India's new generation of Metalheads
913
01:30:22,669 --> 01:30:25,402
I can feel the excitement in the air
914
01:30:26,264 --> 01:30:29,740
it's like I'm 13 and I'm back at my first Metal show...
915
01:30:31,625 --> 01:30:36,501
I realized on this journey that although Heavy Metal
may be part of the process of Globalization
916
01:30:36,711 --> 01:30:38,617
something unique is happening...
917
01:30:38,775 --> 01:30:45,034
Metal connects with people, regadless of their
cultural, political, or religious backgrounds...
918
01:30:45,629 --> 01:30:48,818
and these people aren't just absorbing Metal from the West
919
01:30:49,333 --> 01:30:54,685
they're transforming it, creating a new outlet
they can find in their traditional cultures...
920
01:30:54,721 --> 01:31:01,822
a voice to express their discontent with chaos and uncertainty
that surrounds them in their rapidly changing societies...
921
01:31:02,103 --> 01:31:04,823
and for Metalheads all across the globe,
922
01:31:05,001 --> 01:31:06,450
Metal is more than music,
923
01:31:07,056 --> 01:31:09,141
more than an identity
924
01:31:09,402 --> 01:31:11,010
"Metal is freedom"
925
01:31:11,590 --> 01:31:16,387
"and together we are now a Global Tribe..."
926
01:31:51,502 --> 01:32:00,662
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927
01:32:12,211 --> 01:32:17,211
[METALLICA : Fight Fire With Fire]
928
01:32:42,387 --> 01:32:47,112
( Do unto other as they've done to you... )
929
01:32:47,284 --> 01:32:54,095
( but what the hell is this world coming to...? )
930
01:32:57,701 --> 01:33:02,598
( blow the universe into nothingness, )
931
01:33:02,863 --> 01:33:09,599
( nuclear warfare shall lay us to rest... )
932
01:33:12,600 --> 01:33:14,343
( Fight fire with fire )
933
01:33:15,266 --> 01:33:16,869
( ending is near... )
934
01:33:17,914 --> 01:33:19,478
( Fight fire with fire )
935
01:33:20,594 --> 01:33:22,009
( bursting with fear... )
936
01:34:12,805 --> 01:34:17,882
( soon to fill our lungs the hot winds of death, )
937
01:34:17,918 --> 01:34:24,572
( the gods are laughing, so take your last breath... )
938
01:34:27,923 --> 01:34:29,586
( Fight fire with fire )
939
01:34:30,627 --> 01:34:32,180
( ending is near... )
940
01:34:33,275 --> 01:34:34,851
( Fight fire with fire )
941
01:34:35,922 --> 01:34:37,437
( bursting with fear... )
942
01:34:38,501 --> 01:34:49,679
( Fight fire with fire... )
943
01:35:09,065 --> 01:35:13,065
"Global Metal"
93046
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