I was really disappointed when HB was canceled. Headbangers ball was our TH-cam back then. I discovered so many bands I still listen today. So thanks for all the good years you gave us. It was a great time.
I have to admit that my whole Hard Rock life is and breathed Headbanger's Ball. All music was taken from MTV. Getting a video with Steelheart, The Almighty, Trixter, Sodom, Glorious Bankrobbers and many many more was like a bible in music for an impressionable thirsty Hard Rocker. I recorded every single music video and report on VHS and have over 150 VHS cassettes in the basement. Unfortunately no VHS player today. Have to buy a "new" one. The last one I had chewed up some cassette tapes with a loss of about: 6 hours of unfathomable Headbanger's Ball. So thank you as hell wonderful Vanessa for these wonderful years. You are forever eternally grateful.
Headbangers Ball was the best metal show I've ever watched. I started watching it in the late 80s and continued watching it in the 90s. I remember that at that time I was studying and to get to the University from my hometown to another city I had to get up early in the morning. Headbangers Ball was broadcasted late in the evening, if you take into account the time difference, it was really late. I remember that watching the whole show meant that I would have four hours of sleep. But this show was so good that I never missed an episode! 🙂 And of course later with my friends we would talk about what we had seen, what new bands were coming out, that show was an important part of our lives. Actually, the whole MTV at that time was something amazing, totally innovative, full of passion, joy, positive energy. I miss that whole group of people from those years Ray Cokes, Steve Blame, Kristiane Backer and many, many others. Great production, lovely video montage, innovative jingles, relaxed, friendly atmosphere. Great stuff! Good to have you back!
Thank you so much for sharing your metal memories of HBB! I agree, they were such good times and MTV was so ground-breaking and had great VJs and presenters. It was a privilege to be a small part of that awesome team at such an important time in music!
I was just 12 years old at the time. Whenever my parents were away, I would secretly try to watch MTV Headbangers Ball in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, I didn't really succeed. Today, none of us can get MTV anymore. I would love to have all the old episodes uploaded somewhere. Some are on TH-cam.
Hi Ansgar, it's great to hear of your memories of HBB. If you join the European HBB Facebook group, the community are on a mission to digitise every episode! facebook.com/groups/986006542788779
I, as so many others, were devastated when Headbanger's Ball was cancelled. The show was the major source for new heavy music, along with some Swedish metal magazines. So many great bands I still listen to today discovered by watching the show and still got some VHS tapes, where especially the Black Sabbath 'Cross Purposes' tour special has been played to death. Thanks for sharing the reasons why it was cancelled, 'cause so many rumors have been circulated over the years, and keep up the amazing work!
Thanks Jens. So pleased to hear you have kept the faith with the bands introduced by HBB. Did you know there's a Facebook European Headbangers Ball group? You might be interested to join it! facebook.com/groups/986006542788779
i live i denmark and as a teenager i had to get up again at midnight on sunday evenings and sneak into the livingroom to watch headbangers ball ,because it was past my bedtime and my mum wouldnt let me stay up so late but when i mowed out didnt have cable for a few years so i didnt know,i it happened to abruptly , ionly heard about what was happining in the metalworld when i was in copenhagen and bought cirkus or kerrang,but that werent often at that time,a couple of years later when i moved to a place with mtv i was out of the habit of watching it and mtv had become a strange reality channel for the most part,and vh1 was where we watched most of the musictv we wanted to see.
First of All, i am so glad to See You back on the Screen Vanessa! Headbangers Ball was the World me, when IT got cancelled, IT was a shock to me. In germany there were some metal Magazines through the 80s and 90s, but headbangers ball was the Best metal show on earth!
Ahhh, thank you so much for your lovely comment! It's so great knowing metal heads still remember me. Thank you for commenting and I do hope you have subscribed. :)
Yes, it did leave a huge metal-shaped hole in my teenage heart 😢 I didn't have any friends who would listen to rock or metal, so Headbangers Ball was my only source of information to get to know new music and bands!
I remember the day HB ended.. I was 17yo and very dissapointed. We thought it was a temporary break or something. Definitely the best TV music show ever, with the gorgeous Vanessa Warwick!
I discovered Headbangers Ball as a teenager in the early 90s and never missed an episode, couldn't wait for Sunday nights. The show got me into loads of bands and shaped my development into heavy metal. When Into the Pit was added thst started my fascination with extreme music with death and black metal still being my favoutite styles today. Thought you were absolutely brilliant on the show and always wondered what happened to you. Great that you can use the internet to host your own show and good to see you are looking great after all these years.
Yes a big metal shape hole. We used to watch it religiously every week and especially for the triple thrash treat. Great to see you alive and kicking venessaa. We were just chatting about what happened to you after HB at band practice the other day. 25 years later the lads still talking about your awesome show. Thanks for the great presentation, intelligent interviews you gave and everything else. Thanks for sharing this video.
I started watching Headbangers Ball in 1994, I somehow started getting MTV here in Spain from some sort of cable TV we got when me & my family moved to a new flat then. I was 14 then, full-on metalhead wannabe. Discovering there was a Heavy Metal show on MTV every Sunday was quite the event! There was no internet, not much money to buy music, just magazines, tape-trading and some radio shows. I needed to find and consume new music everyday, so HBB meant the world to me! I used to record the show every Sunday and then, during the week, record my favourite videos to another VHS tape using a double-deck VCR I was fortunate enough to own. Like a compilation cassette, but on VHS! I was so sad when MTV dropped the show, and very confused (again, no internet). The following month I read a news blurb in a Spanish magazine about that, so I thought "oh well, so that's what happened". Thank you Vanessa for all the good times during my "metal formative" years, and the best of luck on TH-cam, I'm gonna be watching for sure! :)
That's awesome to know how much HBB meant to you and helped you discover heavy rock music! Thank you so much for letting me know and for your support. It is much appreciated. :)
I always say it was the golden era and we didn't even know it. Thank you for so many wonderful memories. You really made my young metal days special. It was such a shock when you vanished so suddenly. Welcome back!! \m/
My brother and i were absolutely gutted ! It was our everything music wise because other than tommy vances friday rock show you were the only one playing the vids n music we loved . Mtv made a big mistake cancelling the shows and has never recovered!
Hi Vanessa. Not sure if you'd remember me. I did the stop motion animated title sequence for Headbangers Ball - the one with the gardener and his nemesis the pesky fly. It was my first job out of college and i was very nervous. You and the late Peter Dougherty were really nice to me and could see i was just starting out in animation. I always remember how kindly i was treated and appreciated it immensely. Loved the show too. Welcome back! 👍🤘
Hi Michael, So lovely to re-connect with you! Of course I remember you! I thought your animation was absolutely brilliant and true to the spirit of HBB. I am not sure if you are aware, but Peter Dougherty died in 2015? I was very sad. He was such a lovely man and always very supportive of me and HBB. I hope all is well with you and no doubt you have gone on to a very successful career due to your amazing talent. x
@TrustinRock yes I did hear about Peter. I had just connected with him on Facebook before he died. He was such a nice guy - really patient with me on that first job. I did indeed continue in animation - for 30 years! I made a feature film recently that you might enjoy. It's got an 80s metal soundtrack - Saxon even re recorded a track for us. The film is called Chuck Steel : Night of the Trampires (it's not for kids!) Thanks for giving me my first break! 👍🤘
When HB disappeared from the air, I was broken and devastated. To me, it was the end of the world. I grew up on this show and because of it (and you) I became a metalhead. It was very important to see a woman as a presenter and journalist who is so respected in the metal world, because it made me feel that this world is not only for men and I can have my place in it, too. So thank you Vanessa for everything you did!
@@TrustinRock 😁 I remember you covering Metallica's "Wherever I May Roam" tour on Headbanger's Ball. That was LEGENDARY. I don't have kids or grandkinds, but if I had, I would probably drive them insane with constant blabbering about that tour 🤣 haha
Christ its good to see you back Vanessa! Every monday afternoon I would race home from school in The Netherlands, rewind the VHS tape for the timer taped show recorded the night before. 2 and a half hours of absolute pleasure. All the more because even back then metal was for "insiders" and you could feel that you were not alone, "everyone" in Europe was watching. I also enjoyed the more extreme Into the Pit show that was added later on. Regarding yourself, I was so impressed by the way you interviewed all those guys, very serious, always taking the music serious, not the "yeah yeah yeah hell yeah metal dumbass thing", and this is still today the way I enjoy the music. I never got the Americans with "their" HB and Ricki Rachtman or whatever his name was, always posing as a rockstar himself. Thank you for all those great moments and best of luck with your channel, Im sure it will be great!
Thank you so much Sebastien. Your comments and support are much appreciated - as are your metal memories of watching HBB back in the golden days of metal!
I was so bummed because I lost my metal and punk. Started to see some stupid reality shows and thought this is not for me anymore. Those were the days but here we are 30 years later, still alive and kicking. I really wish all the success for your show. Cheers from Finland!
I remember it not being there anymore as MTV when down the route of reality shows like 17 and pregnant etc. MTV was huge in 80s until mid 90s when it changed direction and totally lost its way - it was called MTV but no music on it!
It was very sad to see it just disappear like that it was somewhat the same grave disappointment all over again, that I'd felt back in the late '80s when Sky Channel folded and Monsters of Rock with Mick Wall ended as '88 drew to a close, music television just wasn't going to be the same anymore. It was an omnimous feeling and sign of uncool duller things to come, I sensed this right away as that decade ended and it suddenly seemed like all of popular music went in a totally different direction now. That all took some getting used to, thankfully Headbangers Ball came along some time after and filled that empty TV spot to warm all metal hearts again will great interviews and reports.
Wow that's crazy! I basically grew up with Headbanger's Ball... And I remember very well waiting for the show to come with my brother and then... nothing... the other weekend... nothing... and it was like, what the hell is going on?.. Never came back and it hurted
I actually was kind of shocked, as a huge fan of Headbanger’s Ball never missed a single episode and suddenly there was nothing. I was a teenager back then and literally grew up watching it and you, so obviously this was a huge disappointment
Amazing to hear this. When it ended, I had no further way of communicating with viewers ... until social media came along and I started connecting with them. It's so exciting to have my own channel now. Thank you for joining me. x
And ironically, TH-cam made MTV redundant! I'm old enough to remember how MTV wanted another Michael Jackson, so they heavily promoted and air-played Prince from 84-85 or so. Nothing against Prince, and he was an amazing talent; but he was also forced upon us wee kids in the 80s as we had no other channel. And admit it...Purple Rain album was extremely overrated, and actually kinda sucked anyway!
Headbangers Ball was total escapism that opened up the rock/metal world further. I've lost count of the bands that were introduced to me and the albums that I bought because of those videos. Of course I was gutted when it got cancelled, but I was also disappointed that Yo! and 120 Minutes were also scrapped - MTV developed my musical palate further. Soon MTV went down the shitter and became almost unwatchable. But I'm not ending this comment on a sour note - I had a Headbangers sweatshirt for sending in my request for that segment known as the Triple Thrash Treat. It came with a note from you, Vanessa, and I valued that note as much as that shirt but over time I've lost that note. Oh well.
Because the show as after my bedtime, I always recorded it. I was a huge fan and actually stopped watching MTV when they cancelled it. All my favorite shows were gone. It was not just you. I think MTV committed suicide that day. Still great to see you again after all these years. You still look the same and I love it that you are back.
big difference between how Headbangers Ball got canceled in the US and how it got canceled in Europe. In the US, they informed Riki via telephone, whereas with you, they called you down to the office and told you in person. Kind of a shame if you think about it. Were you hoping at some point down the road that you would be able to be a metal music presenter again after it all happened the way it did? And did they fully explain the reasons for why Headbangers Ball was being canceled as well?
Thank you for commenting. No, I didn't expect to be a rock presenter again. Those jobs are few and far between. It's only TH-cam that has allowed me to return and I've also done some rock presenting for Staccs TV/Staccs.com recently. It was the positive response I received to that that encouraged me to start my own channel. When the show was cancelled I was told that MTV was down-sizing and concentrating on reality - rather than music - programming. It certainly was the end of an era of great niche music shows. :(
Was gutted when MTV gor rid of all the music shows especially HBB. I stopped watching MTV after that as there was no point watching it and MTV decided to became a reality tv channel going against the name Music Television and its branding. There were other music channels that came and went in the 90s - 2000's. But none of them could ever match MTV Headbangers Ball show. The only other show worth watching was ITV's The Power Hour/Raw Power/Noisy Mothers which ended in 1995. Glad that you are back to tell the story. The Fans of the genre still remain commited and keeping it heavy.
Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and agree with you about MTV dumbing down and losing the specialist music shows. Glad to hear you are keeping it heavy too. :)
Hi Vanessa, I was DEVESTATED when Headbangers Ball was cancelled, I didn't know what to do anymore! I remember about six weeks later they "replaced" it with that stupid "superock" show??? that was rubbish and didn't last long either! x
I was really disappointed when HB was canceled.
Headbangers ball was our TH-cam back then. I discovered so many bands I still listen today. So thanks for all the good years you gave us. It was a great time.
It sure was a golden era of rock and metal! Glad that HBB helped you discover more of it. :)
MTV ended right there. Headbangers Ball was the best music show EVER and nothing has ever come close.
I have to admit that my whole Hard Rock life is and breathed Headbanger's Ball. All music was taken from MTV. Getting a video with Steelheart, The Almighty, Trixter, Sodom, Glorious Bankrobbers and many many more was like a bible in music for an impressionable thirsty Hard Rocker. I recorded every single music video and report on VHS and have over 150 VHS cassettes in the basement. Unfortunately no VHS player today. Have to buy a "new" one. The last one I had chewed up some cassette tapes with a loss of about: 6 hours of unfathomable Headbanger's Ball. So thank you as hell wonderful Vanessa for these wonderful years. You are forever eternally grateful.
Headbangers Ball was the best metal show I've ever watched. I started watching it in the late 80s and continued watching it in the 90s.
I remember that at that time I was studying and to get to the University from my hometown to another city I had to get up early in the morning. Headbangers Ball was broadcasted late in the evening, if you take into account the time difference, it was really late. I remember that watching the whole show meant that I would have four hours of sleep. But this show was so good that I never missed an episode! 🙂
And of course later with my friends we would talk about what we had seen, what new bands were coming out, that show was an important part of our lives. Actually, the whole MTV at that time was something amazing, totally innovative, full of passion, joy, positive energy. I miss that whole group of people from those years Ray Cokes, Steve Blame, Kristiane Backer and many, many others. Great production, lovely video montage, innovative jingles, relaxed, friendly atmosphere. Great stuff!
Good to have you back!
Thank you so much for sharing your metal memories of HBB! I agree, they were such good times and MTV was so ground-breaking and had great VJs and presenters. It was a privilege to be a small part of that awesome team at such an important time in music!
I was just 12 years old at the time. Whenever my parents were away, I would secretly try to watch MTV Headbangers Ball in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, I didn't really succeed. Today, none of us can get MTV anymore. I would love to have all the old episodes uploaded somewhere. Some are on TH-cam.
Hi Ansgar, it's great to hear of your memories of HBB. If you join the European HBB Facebook group, the community are on a mission to digitise every episode! facebook.com/groups/986006542788779
@@TrustinRock Thanks
I, as so many others, were devastated when Headbanger's Ball was cancelled. The show was the major source for new heavy music, along with some Swedish metal magazines. So many great bands I still listen to today discovered by watching the show and still got some VHS tapes, where especially the Black Sabbath 'Cross Purposes' tour special has been played to death. Thanks for sharing the reasons why it was cancelled, 'cause so many rumors have been circulated over the years, and keep up the amazing work!
Thanks Jens. So pleased to hear you have kept the faith with the bands introduced by HBB. Did you know there's a Facebook European Headbangers Ball group? You might be interested to join it! facebook.com/groups/986006542788779
i live i denmark and as a teenager i had to get up again at midnight on sunday evenings and sneak into the livingroom to watch headbangers ball ,because it was past my bedtime and my mum wouldnt let me stay up so late but when i mowed out didnt have cable for a few years so i didnt know,i it happened to abruptly , ionly heard about what was happining in the metalworld when i was in copenhagen and bought cirkus or kerrang,but that werent often at that time,a couple of years later when i moved to a place with mtv i was out of the habit of watching it and mtv had become a strange reality channel for the most part,and vh1 was where we watched most of the musictv we wanted to see.
First of All, i am so glad to See You back on the Screen Vanessa! Headbangers Ball was the World me, when IT got cancelled, IT was a shock to me. In germany there were some metal Magazines through the 80s and 90s, but headbangers ball was the Best metal show on earth!
Ahhh, thank you so much for your lovely comment! It's so great knowing metal heads still remember me. Thank you for commenting and I do hope you have subscribed. :)
Yes, it did leave a huge metal-shaped hole in my teenage heart 😢 I didn't have any friends who would listen to rock or metal, so Headbangers Ball was my only source of information to get to know new music and bands!
They did it with HB in the US a few years earlier. Riki has told the story about finding out from someone else that the show was canceled...
I remember the day HB ended.. I was 17yo and very dissapointed. We thought it was a temporary break or something. Definitely the best TV music show ever, with the gorgeous Vanessa Warwick!
I discovered Headbangers Ball as a teenager in the early 90s and never missed an episode, couldn't wait for Sunday nights.
The show got me into loads of bands and shaped my development into heavy metal. When Into the Pit was added thst started my fascination with extreme music with death and black metal still being my favoutite styles today. Thought you were absolutely brilliant on the show and always wondered what happened to you. Great that you can use the internet to host your own show and good to see you are looking great after all these years.
Headbangers Ball is back now on MTV 80's but they only play the music videos no interviews or a host is there.
Interesting! Is that Europe or the US?
@@TrustinRock Europe
Yes a big metal shape hole. We used to watch it religiously every week and especially for the triple thrash treat. Great to see you alive and kicking venessaa. We were just chatting about what happened to you after HB at band practice the other day. 25 years later the lads still talking about your awesome show.
Thanks for the great presentation, intelligent interviews you gave and everything else.
Thanks for sharing this video.
Ahhhh! Thank you so much! Your kind and supportive comments mean the world to me! x
I started watching Headbangers Ball in 1994, I somehow started getting MTV here in Spain from some sort of cable TV we got when me & my family moved to a new flat then. I was 14 then, full-on metalhead wannabe. Discovering there was a Heavy Metal show on MTV every Sunday was quite the event! There was no internet, not much money to buy music, just magazines, tape-trading and some radio shows. I needed to find and consume new music everyday, so HBB meant the world to me! I used to record the show every Sunday and then, during the week, record my favourite videos to another VHS tape using a double-deck VCR I was fortunate enough to own. Like a compilation cassette, but on VHS! I was so sad when MTV dropped the show, and very confused (again, no internet). The following month I read a news blurb in a Spanish magazine about that, so I thought "oh well, so that's what happened". Thank you Vanessa for all the good times during my "metal formative" years, and the best of luck on TH-cam, I'm gonna be watching for sure! :)
That's awesome to know how much HBB meant to you and helped you discover heavy rock music! Thank you so much for letting me know and for your support. It is much appreciated. :)
Well, it was very sad to see Headbangers ball vanish , it was a wonderful show .
2:50 Sounds very similar to what happened with Simone Angel who hosted the Partyzone block, just let go on the day
Yes i felt sad when HBB closed. But then again MTV prettymuch turned into something strange and then prettymuch disappeared
We were so shocked when they stopped all the music shows.
I always say it was the golden era and we didn't even know it. Thank you for so many wonderful memories. You really made my young metal days special. It was such a shock when you vanished so suddenly. Welcome back!! \m/
My brother and i were absolutely gutted ! It was our everything music wise because other than tommy vances friday rock show you were the only one playing the vids n music we loved . Mtv made a big mistake cancelling the shows and has never recovered!
Hi Vanessa. Not sure if you'd remember me. I did the stop motion animated title sequence for Headbangers Ball - the one with the gardener and his nemesis the pesky fly. It was my first job out of college and i was very nervous. You and the late Peter Dougherty were really nice to me and could see i was just starting out in animation. I always remember how kindly i was treated and appreciated it immensely. Loved the show too. Welcome back! 👍🤘
Hi Michael, So lovely to re-connect with you! Of course I remember you! I thought your animation was absolutely brilliant and true to the spirit of HBB. I am not sure if you are aware, but Peter Dougherty died in 2015? I was very sad. He was such a lovely man and always very supportive of me and HBB. I hope all is well with you and no doubt you have gone on to a very successful career due to your amazing talent. x
@TrustinRock yes I did hear about Peter. I had just connected with him on Facebook before he died. He was such a nice guy - really patient with me on that first job. I did indeed continue in animation - for 30 years! I made a feature film recently that you might enjoy. It's got an 80s metal soundtrack - Saxon even re recorded a track for us. The film is called Chuck Steel : Night of the Trampires (it's not for kids!)
Thanks for giving me my first break! 👍🤘
When HB disappeared from the air, I was broken and devastated. To me, it was the end of the world. I grew up on this show and because of it (and you) I became a metalhead. It was very important to see a woman as a presenter and journalist who is so respected in the metal world, because it made me feel that this world is not only for men and I can have my place in it, too. So thank you Vanessa for everything you did!
Thank you so much for such wonderful and supportive comments. I SO appreciate them. Strong females have a very important place in the metal world. x
@@TrustinRock 😁 I remember you covering Metallica's "Wherever I May Roam" tour on Headbanger's Ball. That was LEGENDARY. I don't have kids or grandkinds, but if I had, I would probably drive them insane with constant blabbering about that tour 🤣 haha
@@ZDvoid 😂😂🤣
Christ its good to see you back Vanessa! Every monday afternoon I would race home from school in The Netherlands, rewind the VHS tape for the timer taped show recorded the night before. 2 and a half hours of absolute pleasure. All the more because even back then metal was for "insiders" and you could feel that you were not alone, "everyone" in Europe was watching. I also enjoyed the more extreme Into the Pit show that was added later on. Regarding yourself, I was so impressed by the way you interviewed all those guys, very serious, always taking the music serious, not the "yeah yeah yeah hell yeah metal dumbass thing", and this is still today the way I enjoy the music. I never got the Americans with "their" HB and Ricki Rachtman or whatever his name was, always posing as a rockstar himself. Thank you for all those great moments and best of luck with your channel, Im sure it will be great!
Thank you so much Sebastien. Your comments and support are much appreciated - as are your metal memories of watching HBB back in the golden days of metal!
I was so bummed because I lost my metal and punk. Started to see some stupid reality shows and thought this is not for me anymore. Those were the days but here we are 30 years later, still alive and kicking. I really wish all the success for your show. Cheers from Finland!
It was devastating
When HB went off the air it felt like I'd lost a limb.
I remember it not being there anymore as MTV when down the route of reality shows like 17 and pregnant etc. MTV was huge in 80s until mid 90s when it changed direction and totally lost its way - it was called MTV but no music on it!
It was very sad to see it just disappear like that it was somewhat the same grave disappointment all over again, that I'd felt back in the late '80s when Sky Channel folded and Monsters of Rock with Mick Wall ended as '88 drew to a close, music television just wasn't going to be the same anymore. It was an omnimous feeling and sign of uncool duller things to come, I sensed this right away as that decade ended and it suddenly seemed like all of popular music went in a totally different direction now. That all took some getting used to, thankfully Headbangers Ball came along some time after and filled that empty TV spot to warm all metal hearts again will great interviews and reports.
Wow that's crazy! I basically grew up with Headbanger's Ball... And I remember very well waiting for the show to come with my brother and then... nothing... the other weekend... nothing... and it was like, what the hell is going on?.. Never came back and it hurted
I actually was kind of shocked, as a huge fan of Headbanger’s Ball never missed a single episode and suddenly there was nothing.
I was a teenager back then and literally grew up watching it and you, so obviously this was a huge disappointment
Amazing to hear this. When it ended, I had no further way of communicating with viewers ... until social media came along and I started connecting with them. It's so exciting to have my own channel now. Thank you for joining me. x
And ironically, TH-cam made MTV redundant! I'm old enough to remember how MTV wanted another Michael Jackson, so they heavily promoted and air-played Prince from 84-85 or so. Nothing against Prince, and he was an amazing talent; but he was also forced upon us wee kids in the 80s as we had no other channel. And admit it...Purple Rain album was extremely overrated, and actually kinda sucked anyway!
Headbangers Ball was total escapism that opened up the rock/metal world further. I've lost count of the bands that were introduced to me and the albums that I bought because of those videos. Of course I was gutted when it got cancelled, but I was also disappointed that Yo! and 120 Minutes were also scrapped - MTV developed my musical palate further. Soon MTV went down the shitter and became almost unwatchable. But I'm not ending this comment on a sour note - I had a Headbangers sweatshirt for sending in my request for that segment known as the Triple Thrash Treat. It came with a note from you, Vanessa, and I valued that note as much as that shirt but over time I've lost that note. Oh well.
Because the show as after my bedtime, I always recorded it. I was a huge fan and actually stopped watching MTV when they cancelled it. All my favorite shows were gone. It was not just you. I think MTV committed suicide that day.
Still great to see you again after all these years. You still look the same and I love it that you are back.
Thank you so much for your kind words of support! I really appreciate them. x
big difference between how Headbangers Ball got canceled in the US and how it got canceled in Europe. In the US, they informed Riki via telephone, whereas with you, they called you down to the office and told you in person. Kind of a shame if you think about it. Were you hoping at some point down the road that you would be able to be a metal music presenter again after it all happened the way it did? And did they fully explain the reasons for why Headbangers Ball was being canceled as well?
Thank you for commenting. No, I didn't expect to be a rock presenter again. Those jobs are few and far between. It's only TH-cam that has allowed me to return and I've also done some rock presenting for Staccs TV/Staccs.com recently. It was the positive response I received to that that encouraged me to start my own channel. When the show was cancelled I was told that MTV was down-sizing and concentrating on reality - rather than music - programming. It certainly was the end of an era of great niche music shows. :(
That’s when I stopped watching MTV
Was gutted when MTV gor rid of all the music shows especially HBB. I stopped watching MTV after that as there was no point watching it and MTV decided to became a reality tv channel going against the name Music Television and its branding. There were other music channels that came and went in the 90s - 2000's. But none of them could ever match MTV Headbangers Ball show. The only other show worth watching was ITV's The Power Hour/Raw Power/Noisy Mothers which ended in 1995. Glad that you are back to tell the story. The Fans of the genre still remain commited and keeping it heavy.
Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and agree with you about MTV dumbing down and losing the specialist music shows. Glad to hear you are keeping it heavy too. :)
So sad 😢
What is your opinion on the current state of metal music? Do you think there is ever a chance for it to be popular again?
It was an unfortunate moment at the time, opening MTV, waiting for the Ball, and seeing instead some crappy show.
Hi Vanessa,
I was DEVESTATED when Headbangers Ball was cancelled, I didn't know what to do anymore! I remember about six weeks later they "replaced" it with that stupid "superock" show??? that was rubbish and didn't last long either!
x
Glad you have found your way back to true metal all these years later. x
Times changed for the worst.
Didnt they replace hb with 'super rock'? , a show for lame indie pop bands like oasis etc ,presented by a dutch model sprawled on a bed ?
MTV did the worst changes possible ! They completely ruined themselves !