1 00:00:28,196 --> 00:00:29,321 This is "Wacken Open Air" 2 00:00:29,794 --> 00:00:31,866 the biggest gathering of Metalheads in the world... 3 00:00:33,409 --> 00:00:38,334 each year over 60000 devoted fans come to camp out on the fields of the northern Germany 4 00:00:38,873 --> 00:00:41,511 to worship their favorite Metal bands... 5 00:00:43,314 --> 00:00:50,092 and whether you've come to see Death Metal, Power Metal, Black Metal, Goth Metal... or even Viking Metal 6 00:00:50,604 --> 00:00:52,366 if you're a die-hard Metal fan, 7 00:00:52,927 --> 00:00:54,736 this is the place to be... 8 00:00:57,957 --> 00:01:02,097 [METALLICA : Fight Fire With Fire] 9 00:01:20,849 --> 00:01:22,904 this is me, my name is Sam Dunn 10 00:01:23,083 --> 00:01:26,659 and as you can see, I'm one of the die-hard Metal fans... 11 00:01:27,624 --> 00:01:31,274 ever since I was 12 years old I've been obessed with all things Metal 12 00:01:31,928 --> 00:01:35,281 and although my parents hoped it was a phase, it wasn't... 13 00:01:35,757 --> 00:01:39,402 I grew up, got my graduate degree in Anthropology 14 00:01:39,407 --> 00:01:42,926 and then decided to make a documentary about Heavy Metal culture 15 00:01:43,265 --> 00:01:48,999 in the film I traced the music back to its working class roots in the factory towns of England and America 16 00:01:49,804 --> 00:01:54,960 and the showed how Early Metal bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Blue Cheer 17 00:01:55,133 --> 00:01:58,962 layed the foundation for crazy number of Metal subgenres 18 00:01:58,964 --> 00:02:02,420 along the way, I met some of my childhood heroes 19 00:02:02,525 --> 00:02:06,651 and spoke to the tons of musicians about the controversy surrounding this music... 20 00:02:06,655 --> 00:02:08,182 Satan ! 21 00:02:08,287 --> 00:02:11,415 I also heard from hundreds of Metal fans about what this music means to them... 22 00:02:11,936 --> 00:02:15,302 from the time I was 12 years old Metal was just a constant... 23 00:02:15,656 --> 00:02:19,866 and what I discovered is this underground movement is even bigger than I first thought... 24 00:02:20,719 --> 00:02:23,950 and for Metalhead its about more than just music... 25 00:02:24,135 --> 00:02:26,220 it's an identity... 26 00:02:27,576 --> 00:02:29,661 after the film was released 27 00:02:29,773 --> 00:02:35,313 I got a flood of emails from Metal fans thanking me for giving this community the respect it deserves... 28 00:02:35,624 --> 00:02:39,997 but what surprised me, was how many different countries the e-mails came from 29 00:02:40,269 --> 00:02:43,690 many were from places I had no idea Metal even existed 30 00:02:44,257 --> 00:02:47,874 I mean I knew there was Metal outside of Europe and North America 31 00:02:48,428 --> 00:02:50,487 one of my favorite bands is Sepultura from Brazil 32 00:02:50,539 --> 00:02:54,415 I also have Metal albums recorded live in Japan... 33 00:02:54,684 --> 00:02:57,985 but the stories in these e-mails got me thinking 34 00:02:57,986 --> 00:03:01,886 for years anthropologists have studied the effects of Globalization 35 00:03:01,887 --> 00:03:05,087 but I've never considered Heavy Metal's role in this process 36 00:03:05,088 --> 00:03:07,786 as Metal has spreaded across the globe 37 00:03:08,190 --> 00:03:11,415 what new meanings is it taking on for fans and countries... 38 00:03:11,415 --> 00:03:15,907 ...with such vastly different cultural, political and religious backgrounds? 39 00:03:16,578 --> 00:03:20,619 clearly, there's whole world of Metal out there I know nothing about... 40 00:03:22,592 --> 00:03:25,818 but I'm not gonna find answers on the fields of northen Germany 41 00:03:25,962 --> 00:03:28,763 so I am taking my anthropology studies on the road 42 00:03:29,253 --> 00:03:32,186 to understand how Metal has gone Global... 43 00:03:36,038 --> 00:03:40,508 "Global Metal" 44 00:03:41,245 --> 00:03:44,764 ( Only way to feel the noise, is when it's good and loud ) 45 00:03:45,382 --> 00:03:48,735 ( So good I can't believe it, screaming with the crowd ) 46 00:03:50,217 --> 00:03:54,274 ( Don't sweat it, give it back to you ) 47 00:03:58,392 --> 00:04:03,726 (Overkill, Overkill, Overkill...) 48 00:04:04,469 --> 00:04:05,357 (Get the fuck out...) 49 00:04:07,505 --> 00:04:12,065 [MOTORHEAD : Overkill] 50 00:04:30,031 --> 00:04:37,031 <<< Subtitles Transcribed By Ehsun Safari >>> angryagain_e@yahoo.com 51 00:04:42,224 --> 00:04:44,224 (Rio De Ganeiro, Brazil) 52 00:04:44,598 --> 00:04:48,233 "We should have our own identity" 53 00:05:15,229 --> 00:05:19,464 the first stop on my journey is Brazil the largest country in Latin America 54 00:05:19,607 --> 00:05:23,778 and a place most people associate with beaches, soccer and Samba 55 00:05:24,299 --> 00:05:29,588 but if you ask any Metal fan, they'll tell you that it's also known for its massive Metal scene 56 00:05:29,930 --> 00:05:32,944 so what happened to make Metal so huge in this country? 57 00:05:34,452 --> 00:05:38,687 [Carlos Lopes / Dorsal Atlantica] the people in the 70's lived under a dictatorship in Brazil 58 00:05:39,418 --> 00:05:41,730 we had this dictatorship for almost 25 years 59 00:05:42,434 --> 00:05:49,531 during this dictatorship there was not a lot of freedom and it wasn't easy to access information 60 00:05:50,522 --> 00:05:52,493 [Rafael Bittencourt/Angra] on that period, when we were teenagers, 61 00:05:52,500 --> 00:05:55,470 it was very hard to find good instruments 62 00:05:55,542 --> 00:05:58,706 the market was very closed, for everything then comes from abroad 63 00:05:59,226 --> 00:06:03,397 the Brazilian dictatorship ended in 1985 64 00:06:03,918 --> 00:06:11,519 at that moment the bands were starting to release their first albums of Brazilian Heavy Metal 65 00:06:12,051 --> 00:06:16,221 and what that means is that Heavy Metal came along with democracy 66 00:06:18,133 --> 00:06:22,491 [SCORPIONS /Rock In Rio / January 15, 1985] 67 00:06:29,190 --> 00:06:32,274 [Claudia Azevedo / University of Rio De Janeiro] I think the organizers of Rock In Rio fell to the momentum 68 00:06:32,849 --> 00:06:36,755 and they organized this festival which was huge... 69 00:06:37,337 --> 00:06:42,182 there were 1.380.000 people during ten days 70 00:06:42,826 --> 00:06:47,975 and it was the first time, you know, everyone knew what a Metalhead was 71 00:06:48,086 --> 00:06:50,136 and there were so many... 72 00:06:52,468 --> 00:06:57,132 [SCORPIONS : Rock You Like A Hurricane] 73 00:07:05,642 --> 00:07:10,022 it may seem funny to you today, wanting to see Whitesnake... 74 00:07:10,023 --> 00:07:18,363 it's a little ridiculous, but seeing Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne, Scorpions and Iron Maiden 75 00:07:18,364 --> 00:07:22,534 was overwhelming for a Brazilian in 1985 76 00:07:23,319 --> 00:07:26,809 I wouldn't say that Metal came to free us but... 77 00:07:25,918 --> 00:07:30,572 I would say that it was something that we were begging for... 78 00:07:28,791 --> 00:07:38,796 we were begging to have that atmosphere of freedom of speech... freedom of communication 79 00:07:42,202 --> 00:07:46,202 [IRON MAIDEN : 2 Minutes To Midnight] 80 00:07:51,099 --> 00:07:55,479 we had to fly by helicopter, because to get there, all the roads were blocked and stuff... 81 00:07:55,791 --> 00:08:02,292 [Adrian Smith / IRON MAIDEN / Dave Murray] as we were getting closer and closer, 82 00:07:57,781 --> 00:08:01,781 you could kinda see, kinda blue-like smoke coming up in the air... 83 00:08:02,330 --> 00:08:08,040 and what it was, it was actually the steam rising off the bodies, off the crowd... 84 00:08:08,116 --> 00:08:09,436 so all in sync were having a great time... 85 00:08:11,638 --> 00:08:14,732 you would see a multitude of people lose themselves 86 00:08:14,732 --> 00:08:18,222 it seemed like we were part of something bigger than us 87 00:08:18,533 --> 00:08:24,150 we felt like we were part of a big family... of a religion... 88 00:08:24,529 --> 00:08:29,885 and people started to imagine that this could be the music 89 00:08:30,086 --> 00:08:35,915 ...and the soundtrack of the moment that brazil became a new and free country... 90 00:09:17,844 --> 00:09:22,718 here we are, we're in Sao Paulo, Brazil we're at the Grande Galerias 91 00:09:22,822 --> 00:09:25,408 Otherwise known as the Galleria to Rock 92 00:09:25,855 --> 00:09:29,210 and... I guess you know Metal is huge in a country 93 00:09:29,314 --> 00:09:31,920 when there's a whole mall devoted to it... 94 00:10:01,426 --> 00:10:07,056 I first heard Sepultura when I must have been around 13 or 14 years old 95 00:10:07,265 --> 00:10:11,829 it was hard to believe that there was Metal actually coming out of Brazil 96 00:10:12,103 --> 00:10:17,388 it seemed like it was coming from so far away from a place that was really so different... 97 00:10:18,431 --> 00:10:23,431 [SEPULTURA : Beneath The Remains] 98 00:10:36,041 --> 00:10:40,525 Sepultura's founder, Max Cavalera is one of my All Time Metal Heroes... 99 00:10:40,628 --> 00:10:45,632 and finally I get to ask him what is was like to starting out as an Extreme Metal band in Brazil 100 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,430 [Max Cavalera] well, the thing was the struggle actually 101 00:10:48,530 --> 00:10:55,336 from our own struggle, we didn't know how to play but we wanted to a have a band 102 00:10:55,336 --> 00:10:57,766 then we didn't have money... 103 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:00,205 but we really wanted to be in a band 104 00:11:00,532 --> 00:11:05,717 the money was never a problem, you know you go around somehow... you figure out 105 00:11:05,794 --> 00:11:08,901 even how we look, we find ways 106 00:11:09,092 --> 00:11:12,741 when we saw the Destruction album covers, they had bullet-belts... 107 00:11:13,003 --> 00:11:17,785 we have to look like those guys man, we look like shit, we look stupid, we need bullet-belts... 108 00:11:17,850 --> 00:11:19,429 i think that Igor came up with the idea 109 00:11:19,534 --> 00:11:23,324 well, let's get some bunch of AA batteries, glue them together, 110 00:11:23,781 --> 00:11:26,533 take the picture from far they would look like bullet-belts... 111 00:11:26,786 --> 00:11:31,300 I was like "you must be nuts", it's not gonna work he was like "yeah it'll work" 112 00:11:31,550 --> 00:11:37,193 and he worked on those batteries for like a couple of days and then they looked perfect, they looked great... 113 00:11:37,366 --> 00:11:42,190 i was like "man, cool, now we got bullet-belt... what's next?" 114 00:11:43,305 --> 00:11:47,705 [SEPULTURA / Rock In Rio II / January 23, 1991] 115 00:12:03,099 --> 00:12:07,290 it was crazy, man the Brazilian crowd just went nuts from the first note... 116 00:12:07,841 --> 00:12:10,559 you know, the entire stadium went crazy, mosh-pit... 117 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:12,559 my head's going a thousand miles and I was like... 118 00:12:13,004 --> 00:12:15,024 ..."this is my country, this is where I grew up 119 00:12:15,112 --> 00:12:18,291 we're playing the in biggest stadium in the world of soccer 120 00:12:18,549 --> 00:12:20,323 All the people that thought Sepultura would never make it 121 00:12:20,386 --> 00:12:23,564 everybody here is watching..." and we turned it up... 122 00:12:23,904 --> 00:12:26,457 you know, we would play anything faster than we ever did 123 00:12:40,113 --> 00:12:46,792 [Eric De Hass / Rock Hard Brazil] : many kids identify themselves with them, because they were poor 124 00:12:43,252 --> 00:12:49,455 they started out without anything, they just like wanted to play Metal 125 00:12:49,455 --> 00:12:51,219 and managed to make a living out of it... 126 00:12:51,633 --> 00:12:57,837 Sepultura is our big triumph, our flag of Brazilian Heavy Metal 127 00:12:58,150 --> 00:13:05,525 [Toninho / Sepultura Fan Club] in the past Brazil was not recognized as a country that had Heavy Metal 128 00:13:07,035 --> 00:13:09,001 but today it is recognized as a country of Heavy Metal because of Sepultura 129 00:13:09,698 --> 00:13:13,674 Talking about Sepultura outside of Brazil is like talking about Pele or the Amazon... 130 00:13:14,432 --> 00:13:18,798 Sepultura belongs to Brazil it is very important 131 00:13:23,590 --> 00:13:26,167 a few years after I got into Sepultura 132 00:13:26,286 --> 00:13:30,679 they surprised me when they added traditional Brazilian instruments into their music 133 00:13:30,784 --> 00:13:35,201 this shocked a lot of people in Metal community, including their own record company 134 00:13:35,599 --> 00:13:38,239 I think the owner said... he laughed as like : 135 00:13:38,309 --> 00:13:42,370 why they wanna go with a bunch of naked Indians in the middle of the Amazon...? 136 00:13:43,087 --> 00:13:46,264 why they're not just recording the album in New York? you know, something like that... 137 00:13:46,665 --> 00:13:48,751 i think he didn't understand at first but definitely when he became focused, he had the project.. 138 00:13:49,968 --> 00:13:56,224 "that was awesome man, you know, I think people like got blown away..." 139 00:13:56,618 --> 00:14:01,618 SEPULTURA - Roots] 140 00:14:04,765 --> 00:14:07,221 I believe in our fate 141 00:14:07,650 --> 00:14:09,229 We don't need to fake 142 00:14:09,476 --> 00:14:11,206 It's all we wanna be 143 00:14:11,571 --> 00:14:15,095 Watch me Freak ! 144 00:14:20,933 --> 00:14:27,480 through my country fall under the idea that we should copy America 145 00:14:28,203 --> 00:14:30,880 and music goes under that too... 146 00:14:31,673 --> 00:14:36,618 I think it sucks, 'cause I don't we should copy States i think we should have our own identity, you know... 147 00:14:39,704 --> 00:14:43,704 [SEPULTURA - Kaiowas] 148 00:14:55,388 --> 00:14:57,395 (Tokyo - Japan) 149 00:14:57,595 --> 00:15:01,662 "That could never happen in America" 150 00:15:09,303 --> 00:15:13,327 dude, that is a huge subway system... 151 00:15:26,931 --> 00:15:31,611 I saw in Brazil how a country's culture can be incorporated into Metal music 152 00:15:32,145 --> 00:15:36,882 but wut about Japan? a placed stereotyped for its obsession for western culture 153 00:15:37,983 --> 00:15:44,275 its also known for its hard-working salary men conformity, and extreme organization 154 00:15:44,655 --> 00:15:46,704 none of which seems very Metal to me... 155 00:15:46,740 --> 00:15:52,788 so what happens to Metal's rebellious spirit when it mixes with Japanese culture? 156 00:15:52,891 --> 00:15:58,835 hopefully I'll find out at Loud Park, the biggest Metal festival in Asia 157 00:16:05,949 --> 00:16:09,957 [LAMB OF GOD - Walk with me in Hell] 158 00:16:43,563 --> 00:16:44,887 - is it the first time you came to Japan 159 00:16:44,887 --> 00:16:45,887 [Tom Araya / SLAYER] : we played at a theater, it had like 3000 seaters at theater 160 00:16:49,728 --> 00:16:55,450 and they were all... everybody was sitting in their seats and they had ushers and every ail... 161 00:16:56,025 --> 00:17:00,450 [Kerry King / SLAYER] : so we came here, not having any idea what was gonna happen 162 00:17:00,976 --> 00:17:02,725 not believing they were gonna sit down, 163 00:17:02,691 --> 00:17:05,005 somehow there's no way you can sit down and watch a Slayer show... 164 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:06,250 it just ain't gonna happen... 165 00:17:06,325 --> 00:17:12,235 and the minute we started playing, they got up and rushed to the front... 166 00:17:12,444 --> 00:17:13,803 and the promoter at the time, freaked out ! 167 00:17:14,124 --> 00:17:17,124 they had never seen an audience just get off their seat and rush... 168 00:17:18,387 --> 00:17:22,453 we stood there playin' and all of a sudden while we were playin', you could see all the ushers were like doing this... 169 00:17:22,874 --> 00:17:24,621 and made everybody have back in their seats... 170 00:17:24,731 --> 00:17:25,731 and everbody is told for the rest of the show they sat in their seats... they did this... 171 00:17:29,663 --> 00:17:33,104 now the Japanese are moshing, now the Japanese are body-surfing, so... 172 00:17:33,105 --> 00:17:35,608 we've seen that complete evolution from when 173 00:17:35,609 --> 00:17:39,362 it wasn't loud at all, to now it's kinda like common place 174 00:17:40,109 --> 00:17:44,109 [SLAYER : War Ensemble] 175 00:17:49,830 --> 00:17:51,777 ( The sport is war... a total war ) 176 00:17:52,215 --> 00:17:54,239 ( When the end is a slaughter ) 177 00:17:54,648 --> 00:17:56,463 ( The final swing is not a drill ) 178 00:17:56,904 --> 00:17:59,152 ( It's how many people I can kill... ) 179 00:17:59,779 --> 00:18:09,190 [Masa Itoh - Rock City TV] : I think Japanese Metal fans way of thinking is different from western people's way of thinking 180 00:18:09,266 --> 00:18:13,598 for example if you ask them if Metal expresses their feelings of... 181 00:18:13,646 --> 00:18:20,004 oppression and dissatisfaction... most of them would probably say "No" 182 00:18:20,754 --> 00:18:25,687 in the West, if you're looking for rebellion or feel isolated in society 183 00:18:27,010 --> 00:18:28,930 you would be drawn to Metal music 184 00:18:30,020 --> 00:18:32,020 this is not the case in Japan 185 00:18:33,142 --> 00:18:37,780 [Katsuya Minamida : Kabe University] for example, fans at Rock festivals are very couteous 186 00:18:38,564 --> 00:18:46,363 if they throw down their garbage, later they'll pick it up and perhaps bring it home with them 187 00:18:46,592 --> 00:18:50,831 if you're a Metal fan, you'll maintain your demonic image 188 00:18:50,831 --> 00:18:55,430 during the concert you will appear very demonic... 189 00:18:56,018 --> 00:19:00,372 but once outside the concert, you go back to your couteous self 190 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:11,670 usually I wear suits and necktie.. 191 00:19:12,524 --> 00:19:16,410 that is my normal every life... 192 00:19:17,558 --> 00:19:23,260 listening to hard music like Metal at home or at a concert 193 00:19:23,391 --> 00:19:28,786 changes my daily life dramatically... 194 00:19:29,476 --> 00:19:35,070 it makes me feel happier and my feelings burst wide open... 195 00:19:37,375 --> 00:19:40,646 [Lars Ulrich : Metallica] sometimes Japans gets a little bit of a bad rap from people 196 00:19:40,881 --> 00:19:45,523 because of the way people kind of interact at the shows 197 00:19:45,563 --> 00:19:47,563 or the lack of inner action or whatever... 198 00:19:47,585 --> 00:19:52,217 to me that's horseshit ! I mean it's just a different way of expressing themselves 199 00:19:52,765 --> 00:19:54,121 and we love going there 200 00:19:54,976 --> 00:19:57,238 and we love all the tooth brushes we get 201 00:19:57,333 --> 00:19:58,867 we were wondering of course at the beginning if there was anything... 202 00:19:59,195 --> 00:20:02,911 ...we had bad dental hygene or bad breath of whatever... 203 00:20:03,034 --> 00:20:09,213 but then again we realized that it's just their love it's their way of showing love... 204 00:20:09,293 --> 00:20:14,667 here, have a tooth brush with some Japanese teddy bear on it or whatever... 205 00:20:14,667 --> 00:20:15,667 and it's was like: "ok, thank you"... 206 00:20:19,688 --> 00:20:24,520 - do you like Metal - yeah... I like Metal ! 207 00:20:26,437 --> 00:20:34,029 ok and cut... yes, thank you, I wish all my interviews were that easy... 208 00:20:36,155 --> 00:20:41,155 [Ïí Ñá : ÓÊÇÑå ÈÒѐÑÇå] 209 00:20:48,995 --> 00:20:52,957 at Loud Park I found a new generation of Japanese Metal fans 210 00:20:53,166 --> 00:20:58,692 but now I'm on the hunt for some of the old guard to discover how Metal arrived in this country 211 00:20:58,844 --> 00:21:01,271 rumor has it, they hang out at Blackmore's 212 00:21:01,775 --> 00:21:05,763 a small bar named after Deep Purple legendary guitarist "Richie Blackmore" 213 00:21:17,771 --> 00:21:20,992 Deep Purple arrived in Japan in August 1972 214 00:21:21,029 --> 00:21:28,349 before that I thought that Deep Purple had an organized and structured way of playing... 215 00:21:28,564 --> 00:21:30,927 but it wasn't like that, 216 00:21:29,426 --> 00:21:34,020 they were bringing more and more improvisation into their performance 217 00:21:34,057 --> 00:21:38,624 the finale was crazy... we had never seen that before 218 00:21:38,660 --> 00:21:43,315 everyone rushed to the front of the Budokan stage 219 00:21:43,629 --> 00:21:47,174 Richie Blackmore was turning the guitar upside down 220 00:21:47,277 --> 00:21:51,448 that was the night Deep Purple became a legend 221 00:22:03,437 --> 00:22:07,547 there is a current trend among men in their 50's... 222 00:22:07,584 --> 00:22:11,801 they reunite with old band members from university or high school and play together 223 00:22:11,837 --> 00:22:17,976 and what they always play in the studio is "Highway Star" 224 00:22:18,013 --> 00:22:21,234 everyone wants to be the guitarist and only play the solo... 225 00:22:21,270 --> 00:22:24,869 but I heard the vocalists have a hard timebecause the key is too high 226 00:22:33,673 --> 00:22:39,250 "Kiss" arrived a few years later 227 00:22:45,872 --> 00:22:50,568 when they came off the plane they were in full makeup and costume 228 00:22:50,605 --> 00:22:54,275 the problem was that they couldn't pass through immigration like this 229 00:22:54,312 --> 00:22:57,909 so they had to take the makeup off in order to pass through immigration 230 00:22:57,946 --> 00:23:03,044 afterwards they re-applied all their makeup and changed back into their costumes 231 00:23:03,097 --> 00:23:07,170 then they came out of immigration in full stage costume... 232 00:23:07,275 --> 00:23:09,838 thousands of fans flooded them 233 00:23:09,874 --> 00:23:14,139 if you see the videos of when they arrived in 70's you might faint 234 00:23:24,604 --> 00:23:32,706 [Yoshiyuri Ohno - Journalist] : the bang of the pyro and their use of fire was the biggest shock to us 235 00:23:33,743 --> 00:23:38,627 but wearing make up on stage was pretty well accepted 236 00:23:42,411 --> 00:23:47,031 In Japan because of the makeup Kiss also reminds us of Kabuki theatre 237 00:23:47,068 --> 00:23:51,129 because of that I think a lot of Japanese people felt a certain intimacy with them 238 00:23:53,005 --> 00:23:58,913 [KISS : Rock and Roll All Nite] 239 00:24:20,437 --> 00:24:22,623 after spending some time in Japan 240 00:24:22,659 --> 00:24:27,110 I realized there's a lot more going on than just obsession with Western culture 241 00:24:27,319 --> 00:24:31,453 this place is unlike anywhere I've ever experienced 242 00:24:31,489 --> 00:24:36,306 but I still need to know if the Japanese have done anything unique with Heavy Metal music 243 00:24:36,390 --> 00:24:41,498 welcome, it's a good time to go and meet Marty Friedman "the guitar god" 244 00:24:51,508 --> 00:24:55,249 [Marty Friedman] I'm a multi-platinium artist from a major band called Megadeth 245 00:24:55,408 --> 00:24:59,155 that has rocked Japan so many times rocked the whole world... 246 00:24:59,295 --> 00:25:04,748 and yet I choose to live in Japan and play Japanese pop music 247 00:25:04,958 --> 00:25:07,499 and be on Japanese variety TV shows 248 00:25:08,189 --> 00:25:10,637 In Japan Taboos are off 249 00:25:11,132 --> 00:25:13,289 I mean there's all kinds of mixes and... 250 00:25:13,399 --> 00:25:17,692 for example, i'm about to do this project that was telling you about before called Death Panda 251 00:25:18,345 --> 00:25:20,391 where I'm playing this full-on Metal music 252 00:25:20,391 --> 00:25:24,452 but it's gonna be sung by 48 teenage girls... 253 00:25:37,486 --> 00:25:42,188 that could never happen in America, in other countries or you know where or the way I grew up 254 00:25:42,224 --> 00:25:45,996 every single culture has something really cool to offer 255 00:25:46,032 --> 00:25:52,188 and Metal you know, I think it was like America and England... you know what I mean? 256 00:25:52,668 --> 00:25:54,988 and then other countries did their own stant on it 257 00:25:55,107 --> 00:26:00,715 and Japan, my favorite kind of Japanese Metal is Visual K music 258 00:26:05,441 --> 00:26:09,441 [SEX MACHINEGUNS] 259 00:26:18,045 --> 00:26:21,410 Visual K is a Phenomenon it's unbelievable... 260 00:26:22,057 --> 00:26:30,869 it's guys that are dressed up in gorgeous, I guess kind of "Glam meets Goth, meets really extravagant Heavy Metal" 261 00:26:31,287 --> 00:26:36,501 not Twisted Sister guys wearing their moms clothes kind of feminine... the makeup, it's beautiful... 262 00:26:43,276 --> 00:26:47,300 of all the bands that were doing Visual music X-Japan became the biggest 263 00:26:48,676 --> 00:26:50,980 and by far the most versatile musically 264 00:26:54,260 --> 00:26:58,061 [Yoshiki / X-Japan] : I started playing the piano when I was 4... the classical piano... 265 00:26:58,473 --> 00:27:01,473 the first concert I saw was Kiss 266 00:27:02,415 --> 00:27:07,377 I think I was 9 or 10 years old, I went to see Kiss with my mother 267 00:27:08,508 --> 00:27:10,492 so that put a lot of changes in my life... 268 00:27:35,112 --> 00:27:37,147 at the beginning, the music industry hated us 269 00:27:37,489 --> 00:27:40,715 we were like black sheep of the family, completely... 270 00:27:41,046 --> 00:27:44,152 nobody wanted to interview us... 271 00:27:44,153 --> 00:27:50,095 but eventually we sold twenty million albums, so they had no choice... 272 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:56,989 X- Japan is probably the first thing that really got me into Japanese Rock music 273 00:27:57,093 --> 00:28:04,129 and why? because it's got the fastest heaviest music next to the sappy sappy ballads 274 00:28:04,225 --> 00:28:06,306 and I happen to love sappy ballads 275 00:28:06,410 --> 00:28:08,313 but like I would never as an American have the guts 276 00:28:08,333 --> 00:28:11,712 to put out an album next a song that sounds like "Fight Fight With Fire" 277 00:28:13,116 --> 00:28:14,510 you know, they got songs that sound like Barry Manilow 278 00:28:14,510 --> 00:28:18,910 they come right after like these full-on Metal epics, and i'm like: "how can they do this?" 279 00:28:38,172 --> 00:28:42,663 and the people who listen to the Japanese domestic Rock and heavy sounding music 280 00:28:42,709 --> 00:28:46,608 they don't even know really that the international Heavy Metal bands exist 281 00:28:46,967 --> 00:28:50,058 it is very like that they've never heard of Metallica 282 00:28:50,267 --> 00:28:57,266 so it is very interesting how these two genres can exist and they don't like each other 283 00:28:57,303 --> 00:28:58,816 and they sound so similar... 284 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,498 people who like the international bands like at Loud park 285 00:29:01,558 --> 00:29:03,988 they don't think the Japanese stuff is very cool... 286 00:29:05,176 --> 00:29:09,211 so what is Visual K? I guess what makes it "Not Metal" in your opinion? 287 00:29:09,733 --> 00:29:15,016 [Mirai Kawashima / Sigh] : because Metal is something cool... that's the answer ! 288 00:30:11,987 --> 00:30:14,340 [Mumbai, India] 289 00:30:15,313 --> 00:30:18,617 "it's just like the sky above us, it is one for everyone..." 290 00:30:19,849 --> 00:30:22,981 oh my God... check these out 291 00:30:25,125 --> 00:30:26,766 dude, you're gonna find "Global Metal" here? 292 00:30:26,813 --> 00:30:32,239 just arrived in Mumbai, India we have to find "Global Metal" among all these... 293 00:30:36,293 --> 00:30:40,318 - I have a really sound *** idea - what's that? 294 00:30:40,318 --> 00:30:41,318 if someone bust it out to colored paper, you just might spot it... 295 00:31:17,485 --> 00:31:21,200 so far I've visited countries with well-established Metal scenes 296 00:31:21,446 --> 00:31:26,138 but in India the scene is just getting started, and no major Metal bands have played here 297 00:31:27,178 --> 00:31:31,663 back in school, I would always read about India in my anthropology textbooks 298 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:35,045 it's one of the world's oldest and most distinct cultures 299 00:31:35,104 --> 00:31:37,259 but I can see it's quickly modernizing... 300 00:31:37,522 --> 00:31:41,777 and Metal isn't the only western influence that's starting to creep in... 301 00:31:44,905 --> 00:31:48,849 people love the camera in india, they know this is a film, a film is being made 302 00:31:49,002 --> 00:31:52,583 and they're excited, you know, they can't get close enough... 303 00:31:53,381 --> 00:31:54,381 they case and point... 304 00:31:55,895 --> 00:31:58,805 I have to say it's pretty obvious that this is the home of Bollywood 305 00:31:59,384 --> 00:32:01,197 [Sahil "Demonstealer" Makhija / Demonic Resurrection] Bollywood in short is : 306 00:32:01,317 --> 00:32:06,377 a really really cheesy movie with hell of a lot of songs and dancings around trees... 307 00:32:27,463 --> 00:32:30,102 it's one of the biggest industries in India, I mean... 308 00:32:30,989 --> 00:32:35,003 [Prashant Shaw / Exhumation] : and all the in-keeps and remixes and Indie pop stuff 309 00:32:35,107 --> 00:32:40,036 ...whatever the channels are showing that's what people are absorbing 310 00:32:40,060 --> 00:32:45,691 not just among young people, throughout... I mean right on the villages to the most religious guy in India probably 311 00:32:45,691 --> 00:32:46,691 they're all fans of the Bollywood music... 312 00:32:53,405 --> 00:32:57,966 [Nolan Lewis / Kryptos] : it's gotta be catchy, it's gotta be bouncy... you can shake that ass, stuff like that... 313 00:32:58,228 --> 00:33:00,911 I mean, it's just nothing, it's... there's no meaning to it 314 00:33:01,231 --> 00:33:04,282 [Atul Sharma / Metalindia.net] : it's a very soft timid kind of music 315 00:33:04,365 --> 00:33:07,225 for very weak-hearted kind of people 316 00:33:08,044 --> 00:33:11,479 I don't relate to all that, I want my music to be strong 317 00:33:12,277 --> 00:33:14,460 so that's why I relate to Metal... 318 00:33:21,347 --> 00:33:26,432 Metal fans in Mumbai have told me about the problems they have finding venues to put on Metal shows 319 00:33:26,978 --> 00:33:30,845 recently they've been having them at a beach motel at the north side of the city 320 00:33:31,162 --> 00:33:34,640 a venue that's more known for Hindu weddings than Extreme Metal concerts... 321 00:33:42,052 --> 00:33:46,052 [Demonic Resurrection] 322 00:33:58,882 --> 00:34:00,340 for me Metal is something special 323 00:34:00,445 --> 00:34:05,658 I grew up with [Judas] Priest, [Iron] Maiden, [Black] Sabbath and Dio and all these bands 324 00:34:06,041 --> 00:34:11,984 and everytime I put on a CD, I feel like... I practically move to the edge sometimes... 325 00:34:12,331 --> 00:34:16,211 people who listen to Metal are very passionate about the music 326 00:34:16,397 --> 00:34:20,089 I guess they can identify with it it gives you some sort of identity of your own 327 00:34:20,790 --> 00:34:25,218 it also makes a statement that we aren't exactly gonna just be force-fed 328 00:34:25,728 --> 00:34:29,029 and conform to anything and everything that society asks us to do... 329 00:34:29,429 --> 00:34:32,148 we have our own way of thinking, our own way of living 330 00:34:32,515 --> 00:34:35,515 you know, we wanna follow our own path in life 331 00:34:35,894 --> 00:34:39,232 specially when society tells you what to do, who you're supposed to be... 332 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,317 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 00:34:49,667 --> 00:34:52,827 people still live with their parents till they grow older 335 00:34:53,300 --> 00:34:57,073 [Anamt Dwivedi & Vincent Pereira / Prakalp] it's like our parent are... they are our gods 336 00:34:57,289 --> 00:34:59,632 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 00:35:03,628 --> 00:35:07,515 - how do your parents feel while you listen to Metal music? - [cursing in indian] 339 00:35:07,843 --> 00:35:10,509 [scorning in Indian] 340 00:35:10,822 --> 00:35:13,177 "quite playing the fool", you know, "you've passed the age now" 341 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...? 343 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..." 344 00:35:27,578 --> 00:35:31,578 [Bhayanak Maut] 345 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:48,577 on one side, we've got Metal show, a local Mumbai Metal show... 346 00:35:49,195 --> 00:35:53,221 on the other side, we have a traditional Indian wedding so, let's go and check it out... 347 00:36:05,871 --> 00:36:09,289 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... 349 00:36:15,832 --> 00:36:20,579 the Metal crowds are all people who are actually like many of them engineers 350 00:36:20,911 --> 00:36:24,058 or the graduates, post-graduates from colleges 351 00:36:24,802 --> 00:36:28,765 although actually intellectual they think but they're ready to stand up for what they believe.. 352 00:36:28,766 --> 00:36:33,145 there's a lot of discrimination that happens, otherwise in society out here 353 00:36:33,146 --> 00:36:35,648 in god's, creed, religion, sex, whatever you wanna call it... 354 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... 366 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 368 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 370 00:37:39,811 --> 00:37:44,485 - and we are giving India to you... - thank you, thank you very much 371 00:37:46,340 --> 00:37:49,430 - do I wear it? - if you wish to... yes 372 00:37:49,163 --> 00:37:51,921 - do people wear them? - yes they do 373 00:37:55,725 --> 00:38:01,021 here we go... this is Hindi-Black Metal. 374 00:38:10,469 --> 00:38:15,964 visiting India makes me realize that my anthropology textbooks are seriously out of date... 375 00:38:16,470 --> 00:38:19,293 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 00:38:44,639 --> 00:38:47,295 [Beijing, China] 381 00:38:48,097 --> 00:38:50,989 "They long to express their dark emotions..." 382 00:38:52,690 --> 00:38:55,749 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 386 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'. 396 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... 412 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, 414 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... 422 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 <<< Subtitles Transcribed by Ehsun Safari >>> angryagain_e@yahoo.com 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"