Songs featuring Slipknot band members Corey Taylor and Joey Jordison appeared on all three CDs through their other bands. The earliest-released CD has famous bands, and the second has obscure ones.
The first Headbangers Ball compilation featured 'Raining Blood' by Slayer as its live track, the second compilation used an in-studio performance of 'My Tortured Soul' by Probot, and the latest compilation had two live tracks: 'A Bid Farewell' by Killswitch Engage and 'Now You've Got Something To Die For' by Lamb of God. Several punk rock bands, including the Ramones, The Offspring, Rancid, Bad Religion and Sick of It All, also received airplay on the show, which, by 1995, would continue to focus on less mainstream forms of heavy metal.
Bands such as Stone Temple Pilots, White Zombie, Tool and Blind Melon would follow suit, resulting in a major shift in identity for the show, where metal mainstays such as Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, Testament, Suicidal Tendencies and Dream Theater shared airspace with the new crop of alternative hard rock acts. Heavier alternative acts, spearheaded by the likes of The Cult, Faith No More, Primus and Jane's Addiction, were finding increased residence on Headbangers Ball at the dawn of the 1990s, but it was earlier that decade that grunge and alternative rock bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains began to uproot the 'hair metal' scene and led to its final decline. This level of popularity also resulted in North American tours presented by Headbangers Ball one took place in 1987 and featured Helloween, Armored Saint and Grim Reaper, while the lineup of the 1989 tour consisted of Anthrax, Exodus and Helloween and the 1992 version had Megadeth and Suicidal Tendencies. While the program primarily showed videos from the mainstream friendly 'hair metal' during the 1980s, it gave an equal amount of time to the often more aggressive-sounding heavy metal music scene active in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Its influence was made widespread with the rise of heavy metal in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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