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Death Metal Angola

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Sonia Ferreira and Wilker Flores make plans to mount the first national rock concert in Angolan history.

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Anita Gates New York Times 11/20/2014
What we have here is a rather sweet story of the plan to hold Angola's first national rock concert in its bombed-out, rubble-strewn, second-largest city, Huambo. Go to Full Review Martin Tsai Los Angeles Times 11/07/2014
Director Jeremy Xido pays attention to the music only peripherally, without providing cultural context to supplement the history, and the country's demotic kuduro genre gets only a couple of passing references. Go to Full Review Michael Nordine Village Voice 11/05/2014
The genre's aggressive qualities aren't just a coping mechanism, but also a means of recontextualizing personal and national traumas. Go to Full Review Brent McKnight The Last Thing I See 07/07/2020
B+
Illuminates a corner of the world you've never seen and shows you why you should care. Even angry music about blood and death can be hopeful given the right setting. Go to Full Review Pat Padua Spectrum Culture 08/31/2018
3/5
Connects a dark music usually associated with misunderstood teenagers with the harrowing trials of a national nightmare. Go to Full Review Nicholas Laskin The Playlist 05/16/2015
A-
"Death Metal Angola" is engrossing, entertaining and, above all, deeply true - here's to hoping more people find a way to see it. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Jeremy Xido

Director

Joseph Castelo

Producer

Jeremy Xido

Producer

David Gallagher

Executive Producer

Christian Frederickson

Original Music

Johan Legraie

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Movie Info

Synopsis Sonia Ferreira and Wilker Flores make plans to mount the first national rock concert in Angolan history.
Director
Jeremy Xido
Producer
Joseph Castelo, Jeremy Xido
Rating
R (Language)
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Brazilian Portuguese
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 26, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$2.5K
Runtime
1h 23m