Death Metal Angola

Name: Death Metal Angola
Genre: War, Music, Documentary
Released: November 7, 2014
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 68

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Vladar Company, The | Release Date: November 7, 2014 | R

Summary: Following nearly 40 years of unrelenting war – with every attendant horror – peace and reconstruction are slowly arriving to Angola. Damaged first by the war for independence from Portugal, Angola was then ripped apart by a devastating civil war that orphaned thousands of children. Huambo, Angola’s second largest city, finds 55 of theseFollowing nearly 40 years of unrelenting war – with every attendant horror – peace and reconstruction are slowly arriving to Angola. Damaged first by the war for independence from Portugal, Angola was then ripped apart by a devastating civil war that orphaned thousands of children. Huambo, Angola’s second largest city, finds 55 of these children in the Okutiuka orphanage under the care of Sonia Ferreira. Sonia’s boyfriend, Wilker Flores, is a death metal guitarist who uses the brutal sounds and rhythms of this hardcore music as a path to healing, or, as Sonia says, “to clear out the debris from all these years of war.”… Expand

Director: Jeremy Xido

Genre(s): War, Music, Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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The Playlist Nicholas Laskin

Nov 25, 2014

Death Metal Angola is deeply involving and, in its own way, completely and refreshingly unusual. Read full review

Neil Young

Nov 4, 2014

An upbeat chronicle of very hard rock in a very hard place, Death Metal Angola is one of the livelier and more enticingly exotic additions to the ever-burgeoning music-documentary sub-genre. Read full review

Michael Nordine

Nov 4, 2014

While hardly the first or most accomplished film of its kind, Death Metal Angola's focus on the ability of abrasive music to act as a healing agent builds toward genuine moments of renewal and serenity. Read full review

Anita Gates

Nov 20, 2014

The concert itself was a bold, life-affirming project, but with a couple of additional extended music sequences, Mr. Xido’s film might have been more powerful and way more hardcore. Read full review

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