Due to an overwhelming demand from metal fans worldwide, Grammy-nominated and Juno award-winning Banger Films is setting out to raise funds to make what has become known as “The Lost Episode” a reality. Metal Evolution: Extreme Metal “The Lost Episode” covers co-director Sam Dunn’s favorite genres: Death Metal, Black Metal and Grindcore, and he is reaching out to metal fans to help make it happen: https://vimeo.com/49472617
“Hundreds of fans have emailed us demanding, pleading, that we do this episode,” says Banger Films co-founder Sam Dunn. “So in response we’re launching an IndieGoGo campaign to raise funding within the Metal community to finance the episode. The goal is to raise $175,000 in 90 days!” The campaign kicked off Friday, September 14th. Details of the campaign, including cool donor gifts at various contribution levels can be found here: http://www.indiegogo.com/ExtremeMetal
Originally broadcast on VH1 Classic (USA) and Much More Music (Canada), Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn’s series Metal Evolution presented 11 episodes based on their “Heavy Metal Family Tree” originally shown in their groundbreaking documentary, Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey. Host and metalhead-turned-anthropologist Sam Dunn crisscrossed the globe exploring the vast history of Heavy Metal across its 40+ year history, covering everything from the Pre-History of Metal and Shock Rock to Grunge and Thrash Metal. But one very important episode was left out: Extreme Metal. Perceived to be perhaps too niche or “extreme” to attract enough audience interest, the episode did not see the light of day, ironic considering it is Heavy Metal’s most vibrant and fastest growing genre.
“For many fans, including myself, extreme metal is massively important. It continues to push metal forward, both sonically and aesthetically,” says Sam. Alex Webster, co-founder/bass player of death metal legends Cannibal Corpse, agrees: “There’s really no way that you could tell the complete story of heavy metal without including a chapter that covers extreme metal. And given their knowledge, experience, and passion for the genre of heavy metal, I think that Banger Films are the most qualified people to do it!”
Contributors’ support will send Sam on a global journey from San Francisco and Tampa to the United Kingdom, Norway and Sweden to investigate the history, myths and intricacies of extreme metal. Sam will unravel the lineage between Extreme Metal’s divergent branches – Death Metal, Grindcore and Black Metal – and meet with the sub-genre’s most influential sonic architects, including members of Death, Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Napalm Death, Entombed, Emperor, Dimmu Borgir, Opeth, Enslaved and many more. The result will be an unforgettable portrait of metal’s most iconoclastic sub-genre.
Watch the 11 episodes of Metal Evolution here:
In Canada: http://www.muchmore.ca/metal-evolution/
In USA: http://www.vh1.com/shows/metal_evolution/series.jhtml
Also available in:
TV Broadcast:
SKY ARTS (UK, Ireland, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, British Forces Overseas Bases)
http://skyarts.sky.com/metal-evolution
IMUSICTV (Germany)
SVT (Sweden)
http://www.svt.se/
NRK (Norway)
http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/819599/
YLE (Finland)
http://teema.yle.fi/ohjelmat/juttuarkisto/metal-evolution
ACHT / VIEWCOM (Belgium)
ABC (Australia)
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/abc2/201209/programs/ZX8824A006D2012-09-15T234700.htm
GLOBOSAT (Brazil)
http://http://canaisglobosat.globo.com/
TRUE VISION (Thailand)
http://truevisions.truecorp.co.th/
SPAFAX (Air Canada In-flight)
MUSIQUE PLUS (French Canada)
VIACOM (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives)
LENS MEDIA (China)
DVD/Digital:
POLYBAND (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Alto Adige)
http://www.polyband.de/
BEYOND (Australia, New Zealand)
ATLANTIC FILM (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland)
http://www.atlanticfilm.se/
EAGLE ROCK (UK, Ireland, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Japan)
http://www.eagle-rock.com/
About Scot McFayden and Sam Dunn
Scot McFayden and Sam Dunn founded Banger Films Inc. in Toronto in 2004. Their first film, the award-winning Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and screened in over 30 countries across four continents. Their follow-up Global Metal, was released in the U.S. through Warner Bros., and received critical acclaim from press and audiences around the world. Their third film, Iron Maiden: Flight 666, follows the band on a seven-week tour by plane piloted by the band’s singer Bruce Dickinson, it won the 2009 Juno for Music DVD, the SXSW Audience Choice Award and screened in 42 countries on “World Maiden Day”, becoming the largest-ever simultaneous release of a documentary. Banger’s most recent feature documentary Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage received a Grammy nomination and won the 2010 Juno for Music DVD of the Year and took home the audience choice award at Tribeca Film Festival in 2010. Their first TV production Metal Evolution was the biggest series ever on the history of hard rock and heavy metal, hitting #1 on VH 1 Classic (USA) and MuchMore (Canada) and now airing across Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. Banger Films is currently in production on feature-length documentaries on Alice Cooper and the modern history of The Devil.
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