The results are in from our viewer’s poll of the top Headbangers Ball videos of the year and, we gotta say, they differ significantly from our own top choices.
Voters chose Mushroomhead’s “12 Hundred” for the top video slot. The horror-themed clip is grisly and bizarre, appealing to fans of damp basements, dangling chains, long needles and, of course, homemade operating tables. The runner up was Dream Theater, whose surreal video “Constant Motion” depicts a giant ant running around a traffic signal that’s leaking water and metal pendulum balls clacking together over a roaring flame. No insects or balls were injured during the making of this clip.
Here’s the Top 20 Headbangers Ball videos as voted by the viewers:
1) Mushroomhead “12 Hundred”
2) Dream Theater “Constant Motion”
3) Avenged Sevenfold “Almost Easy”
4) In This Moment “Beautiful Tragedy”
5) Five Finger Death Punch “The Bleeding”
6) The Agonist “Business Suits and Combat Boots”
7) Amon Amarth “Cry of the Black Birds”
8 ) 3 Inches Of Blood “The Goatriders Horde”
9) Trivium “Becoming the Dragon”
10) (hed) pe “Suffa”
11) Droid “Fueled by Hate”
12) Demon Hunter “Fading Away”
13) Megadeth “Never Walk Alone…A Call to Arms”
14) Aborted “The Chondrin Enigma”
15) Shadows Fall “Redemption”
16) Three “All That Remains”
17) Kittie “Funeral for Yesterday”
18 Lupara “No Pity for the Ants”
19) Arch Enemy “Revolution Begins”
20) Norma Jean “Songs Sound Much Sadder”
And here’s the Headbangers Ball Blog staff’s pick for top 20 videos of 2008.
1) Mastodon “Sleeping Giant”
2) Machine Head “Now I Lay Thee Down”
3) Down “On March the Saints”
4) Every Time I Die “We’rewolf”
5) As I Lay Dying “Nothing Left”
6) Horse the Band “New York City”
7) Through the Eyes of the Dead “Failure in the Flesh”
8 ) Baroness “Wanderlust”
9) DevilDriver “Not All Who Wander Are Lost”
10) Job For a Cowboy “Embedded”
11) High on Fire “Rumors of War”
12) Demon Hunter “Fading Away”
13) Shadows Fall “Redemption”
14) Killswitch Engage “Holy Diver”
15) A Life Once Lost “Firewater Joyride”
16) Behemoth “Prometherion”
17) Throwdown “Holy Roller”
18) Darkest Hour “Demon(s)”
19) Divine Heresy “Failed Creation”
20) Himsa “Big Timber”
Be sure to tune into Saturday night’s Headbangers Ball on MTV2 to see the viewer’s choice countdown, and we’ll see you all in 2008.
