Airs Saturdays at 2 AM ET/PT on MTV2
Highlights
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Headbangers Ball | Top 25 Metal Videos of 2008 Japanese metal geniuses Dir En Grey lead off Headbangers Ball fans' 25 favorite videos of 2008 with their snarling hit single, 'Dozing Green.' Watch the whole bone-crushing countdown, only on Headbangers Ball!
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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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Exclusive Podcast: Lars Ulrich of Metallica Watch an in-depth video interview with Metallica founder Lars Ulrich, shot at the band's San Francisco practice space/hangout/home studio Metallica HQ.
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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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Headbangers Classic Episode: Metallica In 2003, Headbangers Ball made a triumphant return to MTV2. Watch the first episode, hosted by Metallica, in all its glory.
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Video Premiere: Slipknot One of the biggest names in metal debuts their 'Dead Memories' on Headbangers Blog. Get your new Slipknot here!
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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.
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MTV2.com Discover the latest new music videos and watch MTV2's original shows at MTV2.com.
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.
