Scot McFadyen is a Canadian film director, producer and music supervisor whose work focuses on the subculture of heavy metal.

It also explores the themes of heavy metal: violence, death, religion and Satanism, gender and sexuality.

In the film, McFadyen and Dunn set out to discover how the West’s most maligned musical genre — heavy metal[citation needed] — has impacted the world’s cultures beyond Europe and North America.

The film reveals a worldwide community of metalheads who are not only absorbing metal from the West, but are also transforming it and creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass consumerism.

In 2009, McFadyen and Dunn started working on a documentary about progressive metal band Rush.