Death Metal Angola is deeply involving and, in its own way, completely and refreshingly unusual.
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The Hollywood ReporterNeil Young
The Hollywood ReporterNeil Young
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.
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Village VoiceMichael Nordine
Village VoiceMichael Nordine
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.
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.