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Recently I've seen some pretty good music documentaries such as Such Hounds - Such Hawks, Until The Light Takes Us, Hated: GG Allin And The Murder Junkies, and Noisey's three part series One Man Metal. I have a lot of free time on my hands and was wondering if anybody had any suggestions on what I should check out next. Metal or Non-Metal it doesn't matter.

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I was fascinated by Such Hounds - Such Hawks, but I don't have any good suggestions. When they were streaming on Netflix I enjoyed "Classic Rock Albums" series or whatever it was called, but I wouldn't say they were especially good. My brother told me about a documentary by a young American guy very up on genre distinctions who goes all over the world talking to metal musicians. He can remember the title, but if anyone knows what I'm talking about please speak up.

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Last Days Here on Pentagram's frontman was a pretty fun watch, it should still be on Netflix currently. That one about Anvil was surprisingly good too. There's a documentary out there on the southern doom scene called Slow Southern Steel that I've been dying to fucking see but I cant find it ANYWHERE, so if anybody here knows of a way to find it let a ginger know!

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Last Days Here on Pentagram's frontman was a pretty fun watch, it should still be on Netflix currently. That one about Anvil was surprisingly good too. There's a documentary out there on the southern doom scene called Slow Southern Steel that I've been dying to fucking see but I cant find it ANYWHERE, so if anybody here knows of a way to find it let a ginger know!
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Global Metal is one I found particularly interesting. It explores the growth of metal in Brazil, Japan, India, China, Indonesia and the Middle East. Lots of subtitles though for obvious reasons. Metal: A Headbangers Journey is a less impressive doco by the same guy (he also did a short lived tv series called Metal Evolution which I never got to see so can't speak to the quality of)

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Last Days Here on Pentagram's frontman was a pretty fun watch' date=' it should still be on Netflix currently. That one about Anvil was surprisingly good too. There's a documentary out there on the southern doom scene called Slow Southern Steel that I've been dying to fucking see but I cant find it ANYWHERE, so if anybody here knows of a way to find it let a ginger know![/quote'] Just saw it on Youtube, check it it's great!
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^^^ yeah man I caught it a couple weeks ago, I loved it for the most part. Saw a few people I know, including a couple of distant cousins I didn't know about who play in Deadbird. Trippy shit. Noisey has been doing this series on the New Orleans scene on youtube week by week and so far its been fantastic, aside from the short length of episodes

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