Airs Saturdays at 2 AM ET/PT on MTV2
Highlights
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Headbangers Ball | 6/27/09 The heaviest metal videos known to man.
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Revolver Golden Gods Awards: Full Show On Demand Walk the black carpet of metal's first-ever awards show, with heavyweights Dave Mustaine, Ozzy and Anthrax. Stick around for an orgy of blistering live metal from Killswitch Engage, Hatebreed, All That Remains, Suicide Silence and Megadeth.
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Headbangers Ball | Revolver Golden Gods Awards: The Aftermath Go behind the scenes of the Golden Gods as Dirty and Jose Mangin interview Slayer and Motorhead, plus bonus live performances you didn't see.
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Revolver Golden Gods Awards: Live Performances All the paralyzing performances - including ones you didn't see - from some of metal's heaviest artists.
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Revolver Golden Gods Week: Megadeth Dave Mustaine of Megadeth tells you what it's like to be part of the first metal music awards held in the US.
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Revolver Golden Gods Week: Killswitch Engage Find out the title of Killswitch Engage's new album on this special edition of Headbangers Ball.
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Revolver Golden Gods Week: Hatebreed Learn all you wanted about Hatebreed and more on Revolver Golden Gods Week!
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Revolver Golden Gods Week: All That Remains How far up the Billboard Charts did All That Remains get? Check it out!
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Revolver Golden Gods Week: Corey Taylor from Slipknot Corey Taylor's humor is showing in these interview clips with Jose Mangin.
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Revolver Golden Gods Week: Suicide Silence Learn how to make metal hand symbols with Suicide Silence!
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Headbangers Ball 20th Anniversary - B'day Highlights Special Shred down memory lane with new interviews, classic moments and music videos from TV's original heavy rock show, 'Headbangers Ball.'
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Headbangers Ball 20th Anniversary - 20 Years of Metallica Get up close and personal with metal pioneers Metallica - in their practice space and on the set of their latest video 'The Day That Never Comes' - in this Headbangers 20th Anniversary retrospective.
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Headbangers Classic Episode: Howard Stern and Leslie West Howard Stern and Mountain's Leslie West take over the second ever aired Headbangers Ball and turn the show on its head!
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Episode Archive Looking to make your life a little more wicked? Relive all your favorite hard-rockin' playlists and special guests from past episodes.
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Headbangers Ball Podcast Get your weekly fix of interviews with your favorite metal heroes by subscribing to the HBB podcast with iTunes or any RSS reader.
Show summary
Welcome to Headbangers Ball, the heshest, most gnarliest (yes, most gnarliest) horror show on air and online. Seriously, if the Brothers Grimm had laptops, this s#@%'d be on repeat. But all that's just talk. Let's do figures (don't be alarmed if your eyes start to bleed). You want Metallica? We got your Metallica. We got your Black Sabbath and your Slayer, your Mastodon and your Converge, your Pantera and your Killswitch Engage. Friends, neighbors, we even have your Goatwhore. Sorry, mom. This is heavy metal.
What, you must wonder, are such a hardened crew of brain exploding babycrushers doing together in the same room? Well, asky viewer, quite simply, they're having a ball. A Headbangers Ball. And you're invited. On top of ripping through the most absurdly, obscenely raw and perverse videos in the history of darkness, we also go one on one with the bands, drawing out the secrets of their sinister worlds.
Are these interviews conducted behind glass? No. Are there at least bars? 'Fraid not. We literally sit directly across from the scariest people who have ever lived and ask them questions like, "What did you have for breakfast?" We don't even flinch when they answer "eyeballs." We're that metal.
The metalest show in the world, which airs on about 400 channels has been on the air since 1987. Back then it was hosted by Kevin Seal, who was quickly replaced by Adam Curry, who was in turn replaced by Riki Rachtman. Moving from MTV to its current home on MTV2, Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed-fame took the reigns and interviewed some of the most bad-ass bands around. Jamey may be gone now, but keep on the look out for special guests.
Why so many hosts? Why so many channels? Well mostly because there's a billion different kinds of metal. There's black metal, death metal, doom metal, folk metal, glam metal and goth metal. Of course there's also groove metal, industrial metal, metalcore and nu metal. And we'd be laughable amateurs with no blood in our mouths if we left out power metal, sludge metal, speed metal, stoner metal and thrash metal. And yeah, we got all of those on Headbangers Ball. What else you wanna throw at us?
You wanna meet Slipknot? No problem. You wanna cheat death with Deftones? Stick around. Are you OK with face blisters? Waking up screaming? Pants made of chains? Being on fire? Well, then this is your show. It's called Headbangers Ball. Share it with a friend.
