Just a couple more days of special "Headbangers Ball" programming on MTV2 before the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards special telecast rips you a new orifice Saturday night at 11 p.m. Tonight's "Ball," which starts at 11 p.m., will be hosted by Massachusetts mainstream metalcore band All That Remains, and will feature exclusive interview footage and videos.
Tomorrow's special "Headbangers Ball" will air at midnight and will feature 30 minutes with Cali deathcore sensations Suicide Silence and a half hour with Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor, who deejayed the Golden Gods pre-show.
Stay tuned after Saturday's Golden Gods special for a one-hour post-show special featuring performance outtakes as well as more interviews and backstage footage. Click "more" to see our Golden Gods interview snippets with All That Remains. Read more...
Starting this weekend, "Headbangers Ball" will begin eight days of special programming leading up to the exclusive premiere of the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards, which airs Saturday, May 22 at 11 p.m.
On Saturday, April 25 we've got a Golden Gods Awards preview special on "Headbangers Ball" that'll air at 2 a.m. on MTV2. The show will feature music videos from all of the Golden Gods performers -- Megadeth, Killswitch Engage, Hatebreed, All That Remains and Suicide Silence -- as well as behind-the-scenes footage from the event itself, the first ever metal awards show on U.S. soil, which took place on April 7 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, California.
Click "more" for the full schedule of next week's special Golden Gods programming and our review of the show. Read more...
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Although were were still suffering the after-hangover of the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods for much of last week, we were still able to bring on the rock and offer a slew of exclusive videos, interviews and news stories, including the premiere of Slipknot's new video for "Sulfur." Click "more" to see what else you might have missed if you were also hungover all week. And don't miss out regular posts on Twitter. Read more...
Melodic metalcore band All That Remains have gotten some flack for the euphoric choruses and infectious riffs that made "Two Weeks" a staple of rock radio. But the Massachusetts band's mainstream success wasn't pre-formulated, and, is actually pretty surprising. Their songs might be catchier than those of their peers, however All That Remains latest album, Overcome, still features lots of vicious thrash riffs, Swedish death metal guitar harmonies and enough screaming to keep Throat Coat tea in business. Plus, the band's songwriting is crafty, but hardly conventional thanks to guitarist Oli Herbert's background in classical music composition.
After their soundcheck for the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards we hooked up with vocalist Phil Labonte, Herbert and guitarist Mike Martin to talk about All That Remains' considerable success, unorthodox writing approach, extra-curricular activities and the difference between touring the U.S. and other countries. We also discussed plans for their next album, the importance of a national metal awards ceremony and the way metal thrives under Republican administrations and. Click "more" to stream or download the podcast. And watch All That Remains' performance on the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards on our exclusive telecast May 2 on MTV2. Read more...
Slayer guitarist Kerry King with Anthrax axeman Scott Ian backstage at Golden Gods
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"Holy f-ck, I've never seen a circle pit at an awards ceremony before" joked metal-bred comic Brian Posehn ("The Sarah Silverman Show"), who hosted the First Annual Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards, which was held Tuesday night at Club Nokia in Los Angeles.
The reason Posehn has never seen it is because it hasn't happened -- at least not in the U.S. The Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods marked the first large scale metal awards show ever in the States, and all corners of the metal community united to pay tribute to the music that has fired up hearts, stirred souls and changed lives. The highlight of the night was headliner Megadeth, whose crushing, polished three-song set of "Peace Sells," "Sweating Bullets" and "Holy Wars" was virtuosic, kinetic and undeniably sincere -- the perfect cap to an evening of heavy metal celebration. Read more...
Even though there's a dude in the band who wears a purple shirt to a publicity shoot, that didn't stop you guys from overwhelmingly voting for A Hero a Fake over Machine Head, Arise and Ruin, All That Remains and Today is the Day to win the encore slot on the next "Headbangers Ball." Read more...
photo by Jon Wiederhorn
On the last "Headbangers Ball" we premiered videos by A Hero a Fake and Today is the Day. We also played new clips by Machine Head, Arise and Ruin and others. Now it's your turn to bring one of them back for the next show.
Pick from the list below, and feel free to include a comment, the best of which will be published when we announce the winner. Remember, only one vote per IP address and this year's prior winners are ineligible, so you must pick from our list. Voting runs through Wednesday at 3 p.m. Click "more" to see this week's choices and watch the vids. Read more...
MTV2 will be teaming up with Revolver magazine to present the premiere hard rock and heavy metal awards show, the first annual Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards, which will storm through Los Angeles' Club Nokia on Tuesday, April 7. The event will feature Ozzy Osbourne, Killswitch Engage, Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan and more, and will be aired on MTV2 as a one-hour special on Saturday, May 2.
"We're working really hard to make this an event worthy of the music it celebrates," Revolver editor in chief Tom Beaujour tells HeadbangersBlog.com. "Metal deserves this and deserves to have it done f---ing right." Read more...
Tags All-That-Remains, Bleeding Through, Brian Posehn, Chuck Billy, Dethklok, Eric Peterson, Glenn Danzig, Hatebreed, Isis, Killswitch-Engage, Lemmy Kilmister, Marta Peterson, Maynard James Keenan, Motörhead, Ozzy-Osbourne, Protest the Hero, Suicide Silence, Testament, Tool
This week's episode of "Headbangers Ball" features no video premieres, no exclusive live footage, nothing you haven't seen before if you're a regular viewer. So why should you tune in? 'Cuz this is the show you dudes programmed all on your own. We've tallied your votes for best videos of the year, and on Saturday we'll run your top 10 choices from 2 to 3 a.m. EST, ending the show with your favorite metal vid of 2008.
Due to the diverse demographics of our viewers, your final 10 doesn't exactly mirror ours, which is why we've included a separate list of our own favorite videos of 2008. If you can't wait until tomorrow night to see who won, click "more" to read both lists and watch the top five vids on each. Read more...
Tags 3 Inches of Blood, All-That-Remains, Avenged Sevenfold, Behemoth, Black Dahlia Murder, Dir En Grey, Dream Theater, Headbangers Ball, Machine-Head, meshuggah, Slipknot, Top Videos of 2008
Tomorrow night in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, In Flames will wrap up a U.S. headline tour. Then, the band members will return to Sweden to take some time off for the holidays. We talked to bassist Peter Iwers backstage before the group's December 7 gig in New York City and discussed the current tour with Gojira and 36 Crazyfists, how the departure of All That Remains from the bill affects the show, In Flames' plan to stay on tour for all of 2009 and how Christmas in Sweden differs from Christmas in America. Click "more" to watch: Read more...
