Metalhead is a 2013 Icelandic comedy-drama film written and directed by Ragnar Bragason. Starring Thora Bjorg Helga, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, and Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, the film follows Hera Karlsdóttir (Helga), an aspiring black metal musician who returns to her family farm as she and her estranged parents struggle coming to terms with the death of her older brother Baldur in a tractor accident nine years prior.

Plot

In the summer of 1983, twelve-year-old Hera Karlsdóttir lives a normal life on her family farm in a close-knit community. One afternoon, Hera witnesses her older brother Baldur fall off a tractor before his long hair is scalped by its blades. Baldur's parents drive him in their pickup truck to hospital, but he dies from his injury. At his funeral, Hera glares at a portrait of Jesus Christ on the wall and runs out of the church. After returning home, Hera enters Baldur's bedroom, where she picks up his guitar and starts playing. Upon glaring at the numerous posters of metal bands adorning his bedroom walls, Hera experiences an awakening. As a result, she burns all of her old clothes and adopts her brother's metal music and fashion.