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Headbangers Ball is a music television program that consists of heavy metal music videos airing on MTV and its global affiliates. [1] The show began on MTV on April 18, 1987, [2] playing heavy metal music videos from both well-known and more obscure artists.
The Athiarchists are an American two-piece, hardcore, thrash metal band from Eugene, Oregon, United States. They originally formed on April 20, 2006. They originally formed on April 20, 2006. The duo consists of Aaron "The Athiarchist" Tunnell on guitar, bass and vocals, and Dano "The Animal" on drums and vocals.
Heavy: The Story of Metal is a four-part documentary special that aired on VH1 from May 22 to 25, 2006.. The series focuses on the origins, subgenres and the bands of heavy metal music, paying close attention to influential bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, who helped to define heavy metal in its early years.
Metal Mayhem (formerly Metal Mania or Headbangers) is a block of classic heavy metal/hard rock music videos that first aired on the American television channel VH1 Classic. The series originally featured music videos from 1970s to early 1990s, but since VH1 Classic's transition to MTV Classic , it has now incorporated music videos from the ...
Heathen is an American thrash metal band originating from the San Francisco Bay Area, active from 1984 to 1993 and again from 2001 onwards.Despite never achieving commercial success, the band is often credited – alongside Exodus, Testament, Forbidden, Death Angel and Vio-lence – as one of the leaders of the Bay Area thrash metal scene of the mid-to-late 1980s, [1] [2] [3] and they have ...
The term "thrash metal" was first used in the music press by Kerrang! magazine's journalist Malcolm Dome [44] while referring to another of the "Big Four", Anthrax (who, like Metallica, formed in 1981), and their song "Metal Thrashing Mad". [45] Before this, Metallica frontman James Hetfield referred to his band's sound as speed metal or power ...
Razor is a Canadian thrash metal band formed in 1983 at Guelph, Ontario. They are also recognized as the pioneers of Canadian thrash metal and have been referred to as one of the country's "Big Four", alongside Sacrifice , Voivod and Annihilator .
Critical Condition changed their name to Forced Entry in 1986, and the following year released two demos, All Fucked Up and Thrashing Helpless Down. The latter won them the 1987 Northwest Music Award for "Best Metal Band". [2] The band released a third demo, Hate Fills Your Eyes, in 1988, which led to the band's first record label contract. [6]