Headbangers Ball(1987)
First Air Date: 1987-04-18
Average Runtime: 1h 30m
Rating: 9.0
Votes: 1
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 21
Headbangers Ball (also referred to as simply The Ball) was a music television program consisting of heavy metal music videos airing on MTV, MTV2 (its sister channel), MTV Australia, MTV Rocks (formerly known as MTV2 Europe), MTV Adria (the MTV subsidiary covering the former Yugoslavia), MTV Brand New, MTV Portugal, MTV Finland, MTV Arabia, MTV Norway, MTV Sweden, MTV Denmark, MTV Greece, MTV Türkiye, MTV Israel, MTV Hungary and MTV Japan. The show began on MTV on April 18, 1987,[1] playing heavy metal and hard rock music videos late at night, from both well-known and more obscure artists. The show offered (and became famous because of) a stark contrast to Top 40 music videos shown during the day. However, with the mainstream rise of alternative rock, grunge, pop punk and rap music in the 1990s, the relevance of Headbangers Ball came into question, and the show was ultimately canceled in 1995. Over eight years later, as new genres of heavy metal were gaining a commercial foothold and fan interest became unavoidable, the program was reintroduced on MTV2. It has remained in varying degrees on the network's website, but is no longer shown on television. Many of the videos that aired on the first incarnation of the series would find a home on the similarly themed Metal Mayhem on sister channel MTV Classic.
Keywords
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 20E01
Iron Maiden & Van Halen
Air Date: 1987-04-18
No episode overview available.
E89
Episode 89
Air Date: 1988-12-24
December 24, 1988 - Christmas Special, Hosted by Ozzy Osbourne & Zakk Wylde Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Babies Poison - N...
E110
Episode 110
Air Date: 1989-05-27
May 27, 1989 - Hosted by Adam Curry, Lonn Friend & Scott Ian Rock Block Edition Bruce Dickenson Intro Skid Row - Yo...
E186
Episode 186
Air Date: 1990-11-10
November 10, 1990 - Hosted by Angus Young & Brain Johnson of AC/DC AC/DC - Thunderstruck AC/DC - Back In Black Cin...
E211
Episode 211
Air Date: 1991-04-20
April 20, 1991 - Hosted by Riki Rachtman With White Lion & Mind Funk Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild Thunder - Dirty Lov...
E213
Episode 213
Air Date: 1991-05-04
May 04, 1991 - Hosted by Riki Rachtman With Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead Great White - Desert Moon Queensryche - Be...
E214
Episode 214
Air Date: 1991-05-11
May 11, 1991 - Hosted by Riki Rachtman With Primus & Katmandu Iron Maiden - Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter Al...
E216
Episode 216
Air Date: 1991-05-25
May 25, 1991 - Riki Rachtman Host Mission Megadeth At the Cat House Part 2
E217
Episode 217
Air Date: 1991-06-01
June 01, 1991 - Hosted by Riki Rachtman With Tyketto & Wrathchild America
E229
Episode 229
Air Date: 1991-08-24
August 24, 1991 - Hosted by Riki Rachtman With Warrior Soul, & White Trash Skid Row - Slave To The Grind Motorhead ...
E233
Episode 233
Air Date: 1991-09-21
September 21, 1991- Hosted by Riki Rachtman With The Four Horsemen Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly Tesla - Edison's Medi...
E242
Episode 242
Air Date: 1991-11-23
November 23, 1991 - Hosted by Riki Rachtman With Ozzy & Jack Osbourne Rock Blocks Edition Ozzy Osbourne - No More Te...
E243
Episode 243
Air Date: 1991-11-30
November 30, 1991 - Hosted by Riki Rachtman With Prong, Soundgarden, Corrosion Of Conformity
E245
Episode 245
Air Date: 1991-12-14
December 14, 1991 - Riki Rachtman Host Aerosmith Tribute Show Aerosmith - Dude Looks Like A Lady Def Leppard - Let ...
E247
Banging In the New Year With Slayer
Air Date: 1992-01-04
Bang in the New Year with Slayer 1991/92 on Headbanger's Ball in Denver, Colorado. Motley Crue - Wild Side Slayer -...
E254
Episode 254
Air Date: 1992-02-15
February 15, 1992 - Hosted by Riki Rachtman With Asphalt Ballet & War Babies At the Bordello Warrant - We Will Rock ...
E299
Episode 299
Air Date: 1992-12-19
December 19, 1992 - Riki Rachtman Host Best of 1992 Metallica - Sad But True Pantera - Walk Helmet - Unsung Stone...
E300
Episode 300
Air Date: 1992-12-26
December 26, 1992 - Riki Rachtman Host Holiday Special At the Scrap Bar In NY. With Sepultura & Helmet
E307
Episode 307
Air Date: 1993-02-06
February 06, 1993 - Hosted by Riki Rachtman Taped Interview With Al Jourgensen of Ministry Guns N' Roses - Garden Of...
E408
Episode 408
Air Date: 1995-01-15
January 15, 1995 - Best of The Headbangers Ball (Last Show) Intro Segment Guns N' Roses Interview Guns N' Roses - ...
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