Hailed as the 'lost episode' of the Metal Evolution series, the Extreme Metal segment is here. It had somehow slipped my mind that documentary/concert film maker Sam Dunn was working on this episode, but I'm glad it's here. While I've only had the chance to watch it once, it's worth watching. (As are the other episodes of the Metal Evolution series).
When the Metal Evolution series first aired, many people wondered why the more extreme side of metal was not examined in further detail. While the answer is probably that mainstream television audiences would not be as interested in such an episode, metal heads the world over definitely were. Sam Dunn always does a pretty thorough job with any of his projects, pulling in some interesting interviews. Remember the interview with Gaahl of Gorgoroth, and the interview with Necrobutcher and Blasphemer of Mayhem? The great interviews continue in the Extreme Metal episode.
Personally, I wish the metal scenes in Sweden and Finland would have been touched on a little bit more in this mini-documentary, but you can only jam so much into a short time frame. A full length film looking further into the aforementioned metal scenes, or into other aspects of extreme metal, would be fantastic as I tend to enjoy the films that Sam Dunn has created. Maybe sometime in the future?
Metal Evolution - Extreme Metal: http://bundles.bittorrent.com/bundles/extrememetal
Banger Films: http://www.bangerfilms.com/
