Headbangers Ball — Season 1, Episode 211: Episode 211
90 min • 2 seasons, 21 episodes • ★ 9.0/10
Episode synopsis
April 20, 1991 - Hosted by Riki Rachtman With White Lion & Mind Funk Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild Thunder - Dirty Love White Lion - Love Don't Come Easy King's X - We Are Finding Who We Are Saigon Kick - What You Say Mr. Big - Green - Tinted Sixties Mind Slaughter - Mad About You Iron Maiden - Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter Scorpions - Wind of Change Living Colour - Sailin' On Bang Tango - Someone Like You Poison - I Want Action Thin Lizzy - Dedication Bulletboys - THC Groove Mind Funk - Bighouse Burning Alice In Chains - Man In the Box Sepultura - Dead Embryonic Cells Warrior Soul - Downtown Kreator - People of the Lie Wrathchild America - Surrounded By Idiots Cyclone Temple - Words Are Just Words
About Headbangers Ball
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.