***Metal: A Headbanger's Journey*** adalah film dokumenter tahun 2005 oleh Sam Dunn, seorang antropolog yang pergi ke banyak negara untuk menyelidiki asal mula musik heavy metal dan mengapa genre ini disukai banyak orang. Film ini ditayangkan dalam Festival Film Internasional Toronto 2005, dan diterbitkan sebagai DVD pada 19 September 2006.

**Tagline**:

* *The film that will take you into the heart of the beast*

Wawancara
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Dunn mewawancarai berbagai tokoh musik heavy metal:

* Bruce Dickinson dari Iron Maiden
* Tony Iommi dari Black Sabbath
* Ronnie James Dio
* Geddy Lee dari Rush
* Tom Araya dan Kerry King dari Slayer
* Corey Taylor dan Joey Jordison dari Slipknot
* Lemmy Kilmister dari Motörhead
* Dee Snider dari Twisted Sister
* Alice Cooper
* Rob Zombie
* Necrobutcher dan Blasphemer dari Mayhem
* Angela Gossow dari Arch Enemy
* Randy Blythe dan Mark Morton dari Lamb of God
* Jorn Tunsberg dari Hades Almighty
* Gaahl dari Gorgoroth
* Morgan Lander dan Mercedes Lander dari Kittie
* Munky dari KoЯn
* Tom Morello dari Rage Against the Machine

Musik film
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* Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills dan Number of the Beast
* Accept - Balls to the Wall
* Dio - Heaven and Hell
* Lamb of God - Laid to Rest
* Rush - Working Man
* Motörhead - Ace of Spades
* Motörhead - Killed by Death
* Diamond Head - Am I Evil?
* Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
* Venom - Bloodlust
* Slayer - Disciple
* Enslaved - Havenless
* Arch Enemy - Silent Wars
* Slipknot - (SIC)
* Children of Bodom - Needled 24/7
* Cannibal Corpse - Decency Defied
* Emperor - Inno A Satana (Live)
* Metallica - Master of Puppets

"Definitive Metal Family Tree"
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Bagan berikut ini menjelaskan pandangan Dunn tentang perkembangan berbagai subgenre metal, dan mencoba mendaftar grup musik yang mewakili setiap kategori.

* **Early metal (1966 - 1971)**

- Cream
- Jimi Hendrix
- Blue Cheer
- Deep Purple
- Led Zeppelin
- MC5
- Mountain
- The Stooges
- Black Sabbath

* **Original hard rock (1974 - 1979)**

- Thin Lizzy
- Blue Öyster Cult
- Aerosmith
- AC/DC
- Ted Nugent

* **Shock rock (1968 - 1983)**

- Arthur Brown
- Alice Cooper
- New York Dolls
- KISS
- Ozzy Osbourne
- W.A.S.P.

* **Early punk (1976 - 1979)**

- The Ramones
- The Damned
- The Sex Pistols
- The Clash
- The Dead Boys

* **Power metal (1976 - sekarang)**

- Scorpions
- Judas Priest
- Rainbow
- Accept
- Manowar
- Dio
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen
- Helloween
- Blind Guardian
- HammerFall
- Primal Fear

* **New Wave of British Heavy Metal (1979 - 1983)**

- Motörhead
- Saxon
- Iron Maiden
- Angel Witch
- Girlschool
- Tygers of Pan Tang
- Diamond Head

* **Progressive metal (1970 - sekarang)**

- Uriah Heep
- Rush
- Queensrÿche
- Savatage
- Fates Warning
- Voivod
- Dream Theater
- Meshuggah
- Symphony X
- Evergrey

* **Glam metal (1973 - 1990)**

- Slade
- Sweet
- Hanoi Rocks
- Mötley Crüe
- Twisted Sister
- Poison
- Cinderella
- Skid Row

* **Pop metal (1978 - sekarang)**

- Quiet Riot
- Van Halen
- Whitesnake
- Def Leppard
- Europe
- Dokken
- Lita Ford
- Ratt
- Guns N' Roses
- Winger
- Warrant
- Doro
- The Darkness

* **Stoner metal (1982 - sekarang)**

- Witchfinder General
- Trouble
- Candlemass
- Kyuss
- Today is the Day
- Cathedral

* **Original hardcore (1980 - 1986)**

- Agnostic Front
- D.O.A.
- Exploited
- Black Flag
- Bad Brains
- The Misfits
- GBH
- Dead Kennedys
- Minor Threat

* **Thrash metal (1983 - sekarang)**

- Metallica
- Slayer
- Anthrax
- Megadeth
- Exodus
- Overkill
- Kreator
- Destruction
- Testament
- Sepultura
- Nuclear Assault
- Death Angel
- Pantera

* **First wave of black metal (1981 - 1986)**

- Venom
- Mercyful Fate
- Bathory
- Celtic Frost

* **Norwegian black metal (1990 - sekarang)**

- Mayhem
- Gorgoroth
- Darkthrone
- Emperor
- Satyricon
- Enslaved
- Dimmu Borgir
- Cradle Of Filth (UK)

* **Grindcore (1987 - sekarang)**

- Napalm Death
- Carcass
- Repulsion
- Brutal Truth
- Cephalic Carnage

* **Death metal (1985 - sekarang)**

- Possessed
- Sodom
- Death
- Morbid Angel
- Obituary
- Deicide
- Cannibal Corpse
- Immolation
- Autopsy
- Nile

* **Swedish death metal (1990 - sekarang)**

- Grave
- Entombed
- At the Gates
- Dismember
- Arch Enemy
- Soilwork
- In Flames
- Dark Tranquility
- The Haunted

* **Metalcore (1985 - sekarang)**

- Corrosion of Conformity
- Suicidal Tendencies
- Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
- Machine Head
- Stormtroopers of Death
- Hatebreed
- The Dillinger Escape Plan

* **Grunge (1988 - 1993)**

- Green River
- The Melvins
- Soundgarden
- Mudhoney
- Nirvana
- Alice In Chains
- Mother Love Bone
- Pearl Jam
- Stone Temple Pilots

* **Goth metal (1990 - sekarang)**

- Paradise Lost
- Tiamat
- Therion
- Type O Negative
- My Dying Bride
- Anathema
- Theatre Of Tragedy
- Opeth

* **Industrial metal (1988 - sekarang)**

- Ministry
- White Zombie
- Godflesh
- Nine Inch Nails
- Fear Factory
- Marilyn Manson
- Static-X

* **Hard alternative (1989 - sekarang)**

- Faith No More
- Jane's Addiction
- Prong
- Living Colour
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Tool
- Rage Against The Machine

* **Nu-metal (1994 - sekarang)**

- Biohazard
- KoЯn
- Slipknot
- Limp Bizkit
- Godsmack
- Coal Chamber
- Disturbed
- Kittie
- System of a Down

* **New Wave of American Metal (2000 - sekarang)**

- Shadows Fall
- Lamb of God
- Darkest Hour
- Chimaira
- Killswitch Engage
- Unearth
- God Forbid

Pranala luar
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