Representasi Budaya Metalhead Pada Musik Metaldalam Film Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey (Analisis Semiotika Roland Barthes)

Abstract

This research aims to determine the representation of metalhead culture in metal film: A headbanger’s journey. Music is an art that is very close to human life, even believed to be an intermediary between humans and the creator. Over time music is more favored as entertainment, and also becomes part of self-expression. Metal music is one of the interesting music genres studied. This music genre is one of the most controversial musical streams and negative judgments in the public because the musicians are too expressive. Metal music performances contain elements of rebellion, violence, and freedom, one of which is depicted by the band Black Sabbath who burned the cross in his stage action. In that case the researcher tried to examine by exposing the scenes in the Metal film: a headbanger’s journey by an anthropologist and also a metalhead from Canada Sam dunn with the aim of changing the perspective of the general public with metalhead culture. In this film researchers found 12 scenes related to the theme, and examined using the theory of Roland Barthes, denotation, connotation, myth with a critical paradigm. In one scene shows the interview of Tony Iomi the black sabbath guitarist who burned the cross in his stage act, but still wore a cross necklace as a symbol of religion that he believed in. In conclusion, all negative judgments that always overshadow metalhead's life have a cause. The assessment that metalhead worshiped the devil and always attacks the religion of God is not always true, in this film it is shown that metalhead also has a religion of God. Metal musicians only want to show a social reflection that makes religion aware that good is bad and bad is human greed. Assessments like this must be straightened out so they don't become stereotypes. Metal musicians who only fight for their lives and want to make others believe that power comes from themselves.