Headbangers Ball — Season 1, Episode 408: Episode 408
90 min • 2 seasons, 21 episodes • ★ 9.0/10
Episode synopsis
January 15, 1995 - Best of The Headbangers Ball (Last Show) Intro Segment Guns N' Roses Interview Guns N' Roses - Paradise City Various Segments With Riki Over The Years Faith No More Interview Metallica - One Riki With Metallica Interview Riki & Mission Megadeth Show Megadeth - Peace Sells Riki With Queensryche In England Riki With Aerosmith At The Monsters Of Rock Riki Birthday Segments Various Alice In Chains, Nirvana & Soundgarden Segments Alice In Chains - Man In The Box Soundgarden Segments Pearl Jam Interviews Pearl Jam - Alive Nirvana Interview Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Riki On The Road Segments Kiss - Rock And Roll All Night Riki Interview Segments Riki On Stage With Ozzy Osbourne Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears Various Food Segments With Riki Stone Temple Pilots - Plush (Live) Various Segments With Riki Riki With Metallica & Soundgarden Soundgarden - Spoonman More Segments With Riki Riki Sings "Stone Cold Crazy" With Metallica Over End Credits
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.