As much as I love metal, I really don't like watching documentaries about it or reading books. I find the books are usually the worst offenders, with an incredibly limited scope that really only talks about the bands that people already talk about. I have found some winners out there like Swedish Death Metal and Heavy Metal Islam, but those are few and far between. As to documentaries, they're usually a little better. While Sam Dunn's Metal: A Headbanger's Journey and Global Metal were very broad in what they covered, at least you knew it was coming from someone who actually cared for the genre. Most seem to just be tarted up VH1 countdowns that tell you a load of crap you already know, as jackhammer has unfortunately discovered.
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