Back in the Day
Since it started broadcasting in 1981, MTV has been banning videos from airing on their network for a remarkably diverse range of reasons. In...
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Since it started broadcasting in 1981, MTV has been banning videos from airing on their network for a remarkably diverse range of reasons. In...
Most headbangers are likely aware of British vocalist, songwriter, and record producer Robert Palmer, most likely thanks to the success of his mid-80s supergroup,...
The footage of the late Layne Staley performing with Tool during the first Big Mele festival on Oahu in 1993 has some interesting back...
Ron McGovney has some things to share with you.
Since this is Metal Injection, it's safe to assume anyone reading this is aware Slayer came to be in just outside of Los Angeles...
Before Black Sabbath became Black Sabbath, Tony Iommi briefly departed the band while they were still known as Earth, cutting their Brummie beginnings short...
Written by Hermann Rarebel, ("Herman Ze German," drummer for the Scorpions from 1977 until 1995), and vocalist Klaus Meine, the reggae-influenced track "Is There...
In 1994 Rob Halford and Judas Priest were still on a break, and Rob was slaying shows all around the world with his rock...
Original vocalist Azuzena (Azuzena Dorado, pictured above) was known as the Queen of Spanish speed metal. Before joining Santa (not to be confused with...
Death metal is one of metal’s most varied and misunderstood subgenres. With a sound ranging everywhere from Cannibal Corpse to Gojira, it’s not difficult...
In 1998 an event billed as the "biggest show of the summer," the WASP Rock & Horror Expo 98 took over the Meadowlands Convention...
In my ongoing effort remind everyone the 1980s and 1990s were fucking great times, let's look back on the time Oderus Urungus (aka the...
This interstellar story about Ronnie James Dio's account of seeing what he believed was a UFO from the window of his home in New...
The outpouring of grief and remembrance following the passing of Ric Ocasek, the extraordinary vocalist/lyricist for The Cars and producer of so many other...
W.A.S.P. vocalist and buzzsaw codpiece enthusiast Blackie Lawless is an intimidatingly large dude. Standing around 6'4 without the help of platform boots, in his...
Between 1982 and 1986, IRON MAIDEN would release five albums concluding with the ambitious 193-date World Slavery Tour. The tour so enervated vocalist Bruce...
2005 was an interesting time for Judas Priest. After departing the band in 1992, vocalist Rob Halford returned Priest replacing Tim "Ripper" Owens who...
1983 was a pretty great year for heavy metal, and many metal bands would release albums which to this day are coveted by headbangers....
The show was $15 per person.
Before we get started on this headbanging nod to the heavy metal scene in Seattle in the 1980s, I think it's important to disclose...
Heavy Metal Mania only ran on MTV for about a year starting in 1985–two years before the Headbangers Ball gave us a reason to...
Full disclosure–I don't remember a time in my life when I didn't worship Judas Priest. So using the word "surreal" to describe the footage...
