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In the late 80's,the only reason my teenager friends and i stopped drinking beer at field parties at midnight on a Saturday,was to get home and watch Headbangers Ball on M-TV. 🤟

I used to have a Headbangers Ball T shirt. It had a bleach stain on it and I had to use a black Sharpie to color in the white spot after every wash. Anyway, I wore it to a Tower Records Pantera signing in Manhattan when Far Beyond Driven came out. When I finally got up there and was in front of Dime, he points to my shirt and him and Vinnie have a conversation about Headbangers Ball. And I was able to stay in front of them the whole time they were commenting on my shirt, which held up the line a bit. But, Dime was super nice to me and he signed a few things because of the extra time I had. It was a memorable experience I never forgot and it was because of Headbangers Ball.

I am obsessed with watching old Headbanger's Ball clips on KZfaq...especially, the hilarious Alice in Chains episodes. 🖤

Headbanger's Ball and 120 Minutes are the best indie and mainstream rock shows on MTV.

For me, the magic was gone when they started playing more “alternative” artists. I’m not talking about the crossover stuff like Faith No More or Alice In Chains, which was fine, but I remember Blind Melon’s “No Rain” getting significant play near the end.

Me and my friends, we all worked fast food at the mall in the 80s, we'd all go to one guy's apartment Saturday nights after work to drink wildly and watch Headbangers Ball....and then play Dungeons & Dragons all day Sunday 🎉 88 was the best era for sure 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

The stuff Rachtman did with Alice in Chains is classic

"One foot in the gutter. One fist in the gold." Man, MTV was so essential to my music tastes in that era. 120 minutes, alternative nation and of course Headbangers ball. Yo! MTV raps was also one I very fondly remembered too. Was such a sea change when they focused more and more on reality TV and lost more and more of me and my friends interest. Switching out stuff for Gen X interests to early millennials. I don't begrudge them that much as I did back in the mid 2000's but it was sad to lose what was a pillar of my fading adolescence I suppose.

I loved Headbangers Ball!!! I still watch classic MTV on Friday when they show metal videos!!! I really wish we'd get the actual episodes again!! MTV is trash these days.

You should have covered Vanessa Warwick's run of the European version. She was awesome- professional, knowledgeable about the bands she interviewed and took it all very seriously.

I loved Headbangers Ball in the early 90s when Riki Rachtman was the host. I watched every week and would record episodes on VHS. Great memories. Thanks.

I only ever saw MTV Europe Headbangers Ball. The show was hosted by Vanessa Warwick and for 15 year old me, that show was religious viewing. They played so many great metal bands and cool interviews. Max Cavalera was a guest host when they covered a couple of European metal festivals. Ah, those were the days... 🤘😁

Most people that weren't teenagers during the MTV golden era (lets say 1985-1995) have no idea how much cultural pull it had with the youth of America. MTV was basically the only channel I watched from age 12-16. Many of my friends were the same.

This show changed my life

I LOVED that show!!! From 1989-1995, I used to have a "date" with my TV on Saturday night.

The UK version with Vanessa Warwick really rocked! I still have some old VHS tapes with recordings of some of the most memorable shows, the coverage of music festivals was really good - can't forget the Dynamo Open Air 95 one!! 🤘

Headbanger's Ball was Saturday nights 11pm-1am Eastern; 120 Minutes was Sundays Midnight-1:30 am. I especially enjoyed the road trips on HB: Alice in Chains to Action Park, Oktoberfest with Danzig, Skydiving with Megadeth, etc.

I have fond memories of the Headbangers Ball as a young father and homeowner in the early nineties, my ball and chain would be at work, I'd put the kids to bed and blaze one up just before the show started, it was my brief escape from the monotony of my life at that time!

I went through puberty at a early age which introduced me to the outstanding world of depression. When my friends finally started going through it and were all interested in girls, I was trying to figure out wtf happened and wtf was wrong with me? Obviously today I know, but back in this days I had head bangers ball. It was the show for outcasts and helped me discover new music and while other kids were out partying I had friends that would stay the night and watch Headbangers Ball. We've all went down different paths, but still remain very close to this day. Shout-out to MTV. It had a major impact on my life and got me through some shit. Everyone has a place. Sometimes it's not where you want, but where you least expect and in time you'll realize that you wouldn't want it any other way.

Much Music in Canada had something akin to this called “Power Hour” and I used to love it so I can understand the appeal of Headbangers Ball. Great times and great music in the 80s.

I loved the headbangers Ball... I remember when it was new, and amazing..

Watched it RELIGIOUSLY on Saturdays, either at home or with my friends.

The UK version ran until 95' or 96' Me and my mates always used to swoon over the host Vanessa Warwick. The Monsters Of Rock Festival coverage was always spot on

Brings back lots of good memories... Staying up late as a kid, maybe spending the night at a friend's house and watching the show... I remember how exciting it was to get to see all the bands Mtv wouldn't normally play during the daytime. Good times...!

I always loved it when Dave Mustain would give Ricky a hard time! Danzig gave him the business a few times too. 😂😂

The 80's was something truly special. Probably the early 90s like '90 '91! But the music was changing and the music I loved wasn't the same but I still listen to Crue METALLICA Dokken White Lion Cinderella GNR and so on in the 80's which was the absolute best from the band's.

One of my absolute favorite memories was spending the night t my friends house,and watching Bangers Ball.

I worked with Rikki back in April on his speaking tour… It was awesome to hear the stories and discuss with him about the show… It was just dumb luck he got the show… The Rob Zombie episodes were the best… I enjoyed the show as a whole..

Myself and three of my friends.... would light some "salad greens" on fire and watch HEADBANGERS BALL!!! 🤘 We were in a "band"..... In the loosest of terms.

Headbangers ball introduced me to Helloween, Metal Church, and Overkill. I had already been getting into Metallica and Iron Maiden prior to the show but it turned me on to so many great bands that I could have missed out on back in the day.

I had Riki Rachtman on my show a while back, still have the fondest memories of this show.

I remember waiting for midnights on Saturdays for Headbangers Ball. Best 3 hours on MTV! I still love metal and always will!

I use to watch headbangers ball with my dad in the 90's I was 4/5 years old at the time. I remembered it like it was yesterday! I wish they would bring it back! I'd definitely watch it!

I was much too young to appreciate the original Headbangers ball but I was around 13-14 when the revival came out with Jamie jasta, it was absolutely great to discover newer bands coming out along the new wave of american metal becoming big

When I saw the thumbnail I thought every Saturday night it was HBB and Yo MTV Raps. So thought it was funny you opened with that

I loved Headbanger's Ball. Watched it EVERY Saturday with a blank tape in my VCR ready to record as soon as I hit the "RECORD" button when a great video came on.

🤘🏻😎🤘🏻 Riki's time spent with Alice In Chains at the water park, was epic! Definitely my favorite episode❤ I miss that shizz😍

Headbanger's Ball was my first exposure to Pantera. Incredible. What an amazing time.

Headbangers ball & 120 minutes were pivotal in my teenage life

I spent my teen years watching it. Loved it. But then the Seattle scene took over, which i also loved. I still love metal and am a grunge kid at 50 years old. Ill blast metal and grunge all day long!!

I was 13 in 1987 and totally wrapped up in MTV and all the new music coming out. Seeing it change from the early 80s to early 90s was amazing. Rock, hard rock and all the other music was great. Good times.

Say what you will about Rachtman, but the dude was legit. He wasn’t a wannabe metal poser, like Adam Curry was. 1990-95, Rachtman’s era was by far the best. Wish we could get the entire archive of shows officially released on DVD, Blu-ray, and/or digital download. I’d buy those in a heartbeat.

My favorite season of the headbangers ball was 1987 to 1993!! The first time I saw the headbangers ball was 1987 and I saw Kevin Seale interviewing Ozzy Osbourne and his new guitar player at that time Zach Wylde! I just wish they can bring back headbangers ball doing in the classic metal videos from 1984 to 1993!! 🤘👊

My favorite MTV show was the midnight classic closet capsule it introduced me spill the wine and war what an amazing group they were, I’d love to see you cover them I still don’t know a whole lot about them

HEADBANGERS BALL!! 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

My old band crashed Rikki's Cathouse open house he did in NC a few years ago and we set up and played in the park lot and he loved it and took photos with all of us and gave us free Cathouse shirts for playing it was awesome!

I miss it, my kids grew up watching MTV and Headbangers Ball! 🤘🏻👍🏻✌🏼😊

I found alot of great bands from watching headbangers ball ( the jamie jasta hosted era ). Killswitch engage, lamb of god, from autumn to ashes, poison the well, bleeding through, E town concrete, god forbid etc. It introduced me to a whole new wave of metal genres i didnt know existed. I even bought the headbangers ball album.

I love your videos because they remind me of the 90s when I was a teen and a young adult. The best times ever!

"Metal" was quite a spectrum in the 80's/90s. Some people considered Poison metal, while others thought Judas Priest was heavy metal. I watched Headbanger's Ball to see Slayer, Anthrax and the like. I was always pissed when "soft" bands got a lot of airplay on HB.

Small mistake, the clip you showed of Adam curry on dutch tv is actually Wesley van Diepen. He is the guy behind the Vengaboys.

Thanks for this, I grew up watching this and this show gave me such exciting Saturday nights after my Grandparents went to sleep. I did not have cable at home, but I used to spend time with my Grandparents and they had MTV so I would watch it there. Happy happy times!

I managed to record a couple of HBB episodes, started using them to snag albums like Leeway's "Despeeate Measures", Death Angel's "Frolic Through The Park"... it was a huge influence on my teenage purchases! Thanks for this, and how about a combined story on White Trash/Hash? Edit: Riki Rachtman-era was absolutely the best. Jamey Jasta second, definitely.

Rap City and Much Loud was the one thing I looked forward to on fridays. LOUD was the only place to watch Tool vids...but you had to wait till 2am. Kids will never even know

I loved Headbangers Ball in the UK, hosted by Vanessa Warwick, as a teen. Actually ended up on an episode recorded on location at a Slayer gig in Belfast in the 90's. Good times.

I was addicted to Headbangers ball !

Headbanger’s Ball from 1992-1995 got me into Fight, Infectious Grooves, Dream Theater, Queensryche, and many more. Rachtman was much more comfortable by then. There was a final episode, Rikki announced it and then the next month Super Rock.That show had like a 70s vibe and more alternative. Jackie Farry is cool. She created the F**K Cancer thing being a survivor of a rare form.

I was in College and a bunch of us guys and gals got together in the dorm to watch The Headbanger’s Ball! Later we would watch Liquid Television!

Nirvana killed the Ball

I was 15 when "the ball" started,watched it every Saturday night till 4 in the morning! Also there was "metal shop" on the local college radio station on Friday and Saturday night 12am to 4am, I bought a many a blank cassette sitting up recording on my usually high end tape deck! I miss it, recording music at home now ain't no fun anymore!

I loved HBB and I have stacks of VHS tapes in storage from where I’d record it almost every Saturday and re-watch my favorite videos. Riki Rachtman was cool… When I finally saw Metallica live for the first time in 2018, for whatever reason, Riki Rachtman was there and participated in some of the pre-show shenanigans on stage. That was a bonus, full circle moment for me.

Rachtman-era haedbangers ball and 120 minutes were great for showing us kids that were cut off from the "underground" music scene that there was something more than the top 40 pop music plaguing the airwaves at the time.

After Z-Rock left my local radio station selection (around 1987), Headbangers Ball became crucial for discovering new metal bands. I watched it whenever I could.

Riki Rachtman was on a panel talking about the documentary "The decline of Western Civilization II" in which he appeared. He said it was the `"best time of his life" then he lowered his head and said "I wish it was still here" man, I felt that.

Headbangers ball, alternative nation, super rock, and 120 minutes were my go to mtv programs aside from beavis and butthead, Daria, liquid television as well as sifle and olly. This was back when MTV was good.

Wow that was amazing, ty. New respect for Rachtman, truly.❤

Every Saturday night my brothers and I were glued to the TV for Headbangers Ball. Megadeth's video "Go to Hell" was one of our favorites. Along with Pantera's "Walk" video.

Before headbanger's ball, we had the Heavy Metal half hour, right after school. I would run home hoping to find something worth buying. Wow, I miss those days

Rock N' Roll True Stories fantastic video Sydd. I'm pretty sure it all ended when Ricky sent out that letter and it came back return to sender. I'm pretty sure that letter basically said he wasn't the one picking the videos and the videos they're playing he doesn't even like.

How are we gonna do a whole story about Headbangers Ball, and not even talk about the absolute greatest TV show theme song EVER?! March of the S.O.D by S.O.D!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘

Headbanger's Ball Europe, April 1993 - the debut of Entombed "Hollowman", the Roadrunner special (Deicide, Obituary, Sepultura) and the extended coverage of the tour by Death, Carcass, Cannibal Corpse, Gorefest and Unleashed. The best episode ever!

The MTV Latino was also great. One could find lots of heavier, underground bands like Amorphis, Mercyful Fate, Morbid Angel, Carcass and Eyehategod alongside Machine Head, Type O Negative, Fear Factory and Bruce Dickinson going solo.

I got to meet Riki Rachtman a few years ago, he was doing remote podcasts from the NAMM Show (a music equipment trade show). Very nice guy.

Ricky really wanted to be a rockstar himself. He was in bands, one call Virgin. I saw them at the Whisky in 1988 they really weren’t that bad. he was a decent singer.

What killed mtv for me was when all the videos started to be rock ballads about love and whatnot. Its headbangers ball, not drown my tears in beer cuz im in love/lost love ball.

My favorite time during the show's run was 1993. There you had Nirvana, Danzig, White Zombie, and Ozzy at the peak of his powers.

1991 HBB had a contest: Bang in the New Year with Slayer. Everyone at my small college entered. Alas, we did not win. That and 120 minutes were prime reasons to watch.

I remember the original show when I was really young, but the MTV2 version with JJ came out in my late teens. I went to a lot of hardcore and metal shows during that time in CT, and even at house parties, the show would be on in someone’s living room with a handful of attendees watching. I think there was a sense of pride going on since Hatebreed came from the New Haven scene.

The orig headbangers ball started the year i was born. The reboot with jasta was my era. I have 5 years on vhs tape. I'd argue the reboot was just as important as the orig run. A lot of the bands that are huge now, lamb of god, killswitch engage, cojira, a7x, mastodon, ffdp and so many others owe there success to the reboot of hbb.

My brother and i always watched Headbanges Ball. A channel on KZfaq is uploading a lot of the shows. So awsome to them again.

I remember many moons ago when Motley Crue was in flux (aka John Corabi era) and they came by the radio station I worked for at the time. They pointed out the M in MTV stood for MONEY. How true that was back then... And still now!

Corporate greed killed a lot of the music industry. Real art and passion doesn’t sell in their eyes compared to their cookie cutter over promoted videos that are clearly dumbed down and lack the real emotions of music from the era covered. It’s a damn shame

I was always asked on Saturdays at work "what ya doing tonight?" I'd say, grabbing a 6 pack and watching Headbangers Ball! Remember we didn't have YT and thee only way to see a band was either Live or on MTV, so it was a major treat. Speaking for myself I really appreciated MTV, before that it was pretty much zero as far as seeing you fave bands on TV.

I remember watching Head Bangers Ball back in the day and I like rewatching old episodes to this day. I’ll never forget the episode where White Zombie was on after Thunder Kiss 65 was on Beavis and Butthead and Rob gave Ricky hell.

It was the golden music seen at the time and Guns n Roses live at the Ritz, Ricky Rachtman was naturally cool as the host, it was very influential.

Yup, Gen X here used to watch both HB as well as "120 Minutes" religiously as a kid. Most memorable moment was probably seeing "Smells like Teen Spirit" for the first time, thinking: Holy Shit - this is head bangin' good AS WELL AS ironic and funny. (Kurt Cobain showing up to the studio in a gown with Chris Novascelic as his prom date not long after - setting the stage for Ricky R's most awkward interview - was also the stuff of legend 😂😂)

I was a teen in the late 80s, and my favorite memory of Headbanger's Ball was a Halloween episode where King Diamond was the host.

Im 34. I loved the reboot of headbangers ball I watched it religiously every week for the years it was on.

I was big fan of Headbangers Ball in my teenage years. A few thoughts here: 1 - by the time I was 16 or 17, I had NO interest in being home by 11pm (CST) on a Saturday night, just to watch videos that were played most of the day. 2 - if I remember correctly, the first hour was the much more mainstream pop “Metal.” Bands like Poison, Cinderella, Bon Jovi, etc. By the 3rd/last hour, the videos were by heavier and/or more obscure bands: Motörhead, Anthrax, early Jane’s Addiction, etc. 3 - the show had simply run it’s course. It was time to end it. 4 - by my early 20’s the show, Super Rock, mentioned in the video, was much more enjoyable, more diverse in terms or music and bands featured. And it was much more edgy, I saw videos that were virtually never played on MTV and one or two that had been previously banned by MTV (Cypress Hill’s How I could Just Kill A Man, being one). Highly underrated show that probably should have lasted longer. All of that said, Headbangers Ball was a huge part of my early teens and I’ll always have an affinity for that show.

I still can't wrap my head around how it took years to Riki get that joke when Kurt and Krist were guests on Headbanger's Ball. I live in Finland so I watched European Headbanger's Ball. We had metal show on Finnish tv too. I remember when Metallica did their first video and it was shown on MTV. That was huge back then. Also Guns N' Roses live in Ritz blew my young mind even though i was a fan already. They really looked and sounded dangerous. Too bad that we live in a world where bands like that would be cancelled in a heartbeat. Cheers, Petri

This was our midnight entertainment back in the good ol days of youth and rock 'n roll

S.O.D.'s March of the S.O.D. as Headbangers ball's intro was the best part of the show

I absolutely LOVED Headbanger's Ball! I was about 12 @ the time. I watched it every week! I was so bummed about it being cancelled!!! 🙌💯🎵 🎸 🥁 🎤

I hope someday MTV would release a box set on Blu-ray of Headbanders ball by season from 1987 to 1995 then the reboot that didn't last that long in 2003.

There were actually two other Headbangers Ball formats that you did not cover. MTV Europe had their own version hosted by Vanessa Warwick and MTV Asia had another version hosted by Danny McGill. These were completely separate programs and very different than the US version. Each show appealed to its own market. As expected, the MTV Europe HB played a lot of Euro metal bands (as well as US bands). MTV Asia HB apperanly played a lot of Death Metal like Morbid Angel and Obiituary. There were rumors in my highschool about the existence of these programs but your video inspired me to run some searches and verify that not only they existed but that they were entirely different shows than the US version. Even Wikepedia doesn't mention them! Would be great if you did a followup and showed the history of these two separate versions of the Ball.

I loved head bangers ball. It was the only time I could catch videos from bands like Death, Napalm Death, Mordred etc.

In the early days of digital cable probably 96/97 I had for a short time MTV Latino and they had headbangers ball. It was incredible because they showed actual metal. I remember seeing a Napalm Death video, Latin bands like A.N.I.M.A.L. And even some of the stuff I was starting to get into like (hed)pe’s video for Ground and Incubus a certain shade of green. I want to say they showed that stuff also on MTV X which my buddy had via a different cable provider and he also had Much Music which I think was Canadian. It wasn’t abnormal to see real metal band’s videos on either of those channels as well. It’s so odd that MTV was afraid to play metal but later on made a killing off Nu-metal like Korn. And also all the rap stuff that illustrated real life things as opposed to the occult and some heavy metal topics which are factionalized more often than not…

Headbangers ball UK ruled 🤘 I got my “triple thrash threat”request videos played back in 91, made my day 😄 The 3 videos were Napalm Death, suffer the children Bolt Thrower, cenotaph Carcass, incarnated solvent abuse Got a headbangers ball pack in the post of T-shirts stickers etc. Good times

When MTV actually played some music in South Africa we had Headbangers ball on a Monday night at 11 pm thank goodness for vcr's