[Post freshly updated with a much higher quality version of the trailer. Rock. Our review of Global will be up on June 9th!]

I lost track of this project a while back. The last thing I remember was bumping into one of the directors, Sam Dunn, on a flight out to Calgary a couple Christmas' ago. Then they were half way through filming their second documentary about Metal music. Global Metal has since been completed and played in a couple festivals since October of last year.

Today, Seville International has announced that Warner Home Video has acquired US, UK and Mexican distribution rights to the feature documentary GLOBAL METAL directed by Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn. The two companies had previously collaborated on the filmmakers' previous film: Metal: A Headbanger's Journey.

Here in Canada in the center of our universe, Toronto, and on the Left Coast in Vancouver we'll get to see it on June 20th. In Montreal they will have to wait a week later on June 27th. The documentary will also open the 14th Annual North By Northeast Film Festival here in Toronto on Thursday, June 12. It's time to polish off my devil horns and get me to that screening.

In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West’s most maligned musical genre – heavy metal – has impacted the world’s cultures beyond Europe and North America. The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn on a whirlwind journey through Asia, South America and the Middle East as he explores the underbelly of the world’s emerging extreme music scenes; from Indonesian death metal to Chinese black metal to Iranian thrash metal. GLOBAL METAL reveals a worldwide community of metalheads who aren’t just absorbing metal from the West – they’re transforming it - creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass-consumerism.

Nice. Appearances by Metallica, Slayer and Iron Maiden. Starring Orphaned Land, X Japan, Tang Dynasty and Max Cavalera. Music featuring KISS, Deep Purple, Sepultura, Lamb of God and In Flames. Yes please.

Photo Gallery and trailer after the break!