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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 ...
Relaunched on August 1, 1999 as VH1 Classic Rock, the channel primarily featured a mainstream rock/adult hits-formatted mix of music videos and concert footage from the 1960s to the 1980s, though it originally included a wider range of genres and time periods. [6] The channel name was quickly changed to VH1 Classic in 2000.
The tune was ranked number 51 on VH1: 100 Greatest Songs of the '80s [13] and was named the 61st best hard rock song of all time also by VH1. [14] In March 2023, Rolling Stone ranked "Round and Round" at number 20 on their "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time" list. [15]
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.
He also wrote The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time (2010). Popoff put together this book by requesting thousands of heavy metal fans, musicians, and journalists to send in their favorite metal songs. Almost 18,000 individual votes were tallied and entered into a database from which the final rankings were derived.
Youth Gone Wild: Heavy Metal Hits of the '80s is a series of compilation albums of heavy metal songs of the 1980s, the heyday of the genre. The title comes from the song by Skid Row , which does not appear in the series.
[2] [3] In 2006, VH1 ranked "Peace Sells" at number 11 on their list of the "40 Greatest Metal Songs" of all time. [4] In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked the song number nineteen on their list on the 100 greatest heavy metal songs. [5] The song is also known for the distinctive bass intro played by Ellefson.
The song was also ranked ninth by VH1 on the list of the 40 Greatest Metal Songs [9] and in 2009 it was named the 23rd-greatest hard rock song of all time also by VH1, [10] the highest placement by a solo artist on the list. In 2021, it topped Metal Hammer ' s readers' poll of the Top 50 Ozzy Osbourne songs, with the magazine informing that it ...