''Arise: The Sri Lankan Metal Music Documentary'' is a 2010 feature film documentary about Sri Lankan

metal music Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock and acid rock, heavy metal bands developed a ...

. The film was directed and produced by Naveen Marasinghe and Dinesh Guneratne. The film features four bands which play different styles within the metal music genre: Funeral in Heaven (

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), Fallen Grace ( Melodic Death), Merlock ( Thrash Progressive) and Cannabis (

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). The filmmakers show the bands in performance, interview the groups about the music scene and their experiences in it. The film was shot on DV using borrowed equipment in clubs around Colombo and Kandy, Sri Lanka over a period of two years. The documentary was screened by Mathawaada Chithrapata on 15 May 2010, at the Alliance Française de Colombo. , the film has not been widely released to reviewers or the Internet - the filmmakers have stated that DVDs will be distributed at concerts presented by the bands.

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ARISE - The Sri Lankan Metal Music Documentary
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