Headbangers Ball — Season 1, Episode 229: Episode 229
90 min • 2 seasons, 21 episodes • ★ 9.0/10
Episode synopsis
August 24, 1991 - Hosted by Riki Rachtman With Warrior Soul, & White Trash Skid Row - Slave To The Grind Motorhead - Angel City The Screaming Jets - C'mon Warrior Soul - The Wasteland Living Colour - Time's Up Kiss - God Gave Rock And Roll To You II Van Halen - Runaround Junkyard - All The Time In The World Friend At Large Segment #1 Megadeth - Go To Hell Laaz Rockett - Fire In The Hole Sepultura - Dead Embryonic Cells Kik Tracee - You're So Strange White Trash - Apple Pie Skid Row - Monkey Business L.A. Guns - Kiss My Love Goodbye Contraband - Loud Guitar, Fast Cars & Wild, Wild Livin' Friend At Large Segment #2 The Eric Gales Band - Sign Of The Storm Aldo Nova & Wayne Isham Segment Aldo Nova - Medicine Man Aldo Nova - Someday Metallica - Enter Sandman Chrissy Steele - Love You Till It Hurts Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole Mordred - Esse Quam Viden Anthrax Ft. Public Enemy - Bring The Noise XYZ - Face Down In The Gutter Friend At Large Segment #3 Aerosmith - Angel
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.