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Battle for Ozzfest

December 2025 •English

Battle for Ozzfest is a reality TV show that aired during autumn 2004 on MTV, where eight bands 'battle' it out in a series of challenges to win a spot on the stage of the metal festival Ozzfest, which is a primarily heavy metal-subgenre based music festival. The series lasted 12 episodes, the winner being decided by online voters.

NOLA: Life, Death and Heavy Blues from the Bayou

December 2025 •English

A seven-part series examining the people and the culture that helped foster bands like Down, Eyehategod, Crowbar, Acid Bath, Goatwhore and many others. The documentary features in-depth interviews discussing the bands, catastrophe, drugs, suicide, murder, and records that helped shape the New Orleans sound known the world over.

Heavy: The Story of Metal

December 2025 •English

Heavy: The Story of Metal is a four-part documentary special that aired on VH1 in 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. Other bands on the program include, Alice Cooper, Kiss, AC/DC, Van Halen, Def Leppard, Quiet Riot, Mötley Crüe, Megadeth, Metallica, Anthrax, Guns N' Roses, and Marilyn Manson. However, the documentary notably passes over lower profile metal sub-genres such as death metal, black metal, doom metal, progressive metal, power metal and many others considered core elements of today's metal pantheon, focusing mostly on hard rock & traditional heavy metal. In Canada, the documentary aired on MuchMoreMusic and on C4 in New Zealand. It is not available on DVD or video.

My Coolest Years

December 2025 •English

My Coolest Years is a television program that aired on VH1 in which actors, musicians, and other celebrities reminisce about their high school years.

Headbangers Ball

December 2025 •English

Headbangers Ball (also referred to as simply The Ball) was a music television program consisting of heavy metal music videos airing on MTV, MTV2 (its sister channel), MTV Australia, MTV Rocks (formerly known as MTV2 Europe), MTV Adria (the MTV subsidiary covering the former Yugoslavia), MTV Brand New, MTV Portugal, MTV Finland, MTV Arabia, MTV Norway, MTV Sweden, MTV Denmark, MTV Greece, MTV Türkiye, MTV Israel, MTV Hungary and MTV Japan. The show began on MTV on April 18, 1987,[1] playing heavy metal and hard rock music videos late at night, from both well-known and more obscure artists. The show offered (and became famous because of) a stark contrast to Top 40 music videos shown during the day. However, with the mainstream rise of alternative rock, grunge, pop punk and rap music in the 1990s, the relevance of Headbangers Ball came into question, and the show was ultimately canceled in 1995. Over eight years later, as new genres of heavy metal were gaining a commercial foothold and fan interest became unavoidable, the program was reintroduced on MTV2. It has remained in varying degrees on the network's website, but is no longer shown on television. Many of the videos that aired on the first incarnation of the series would find a home on the similarly themed Metal Mayhem on sister channel MTV Classic.

BASTARD‼ -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-

December 2025 •Japanese

When evil forces threaten to resurrect Anthrasax, the God of Destruction, the Kingdom of Meta-llicana calls on a volatile dark wizard for help.

That Metal Show

December 2025 •English

That Metal Show is a talk show hosted by Eddie Trunk with co-hosts Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson. It premiered on VH1 Classic on November 15, 2008. New episodes air on VH1 Classic on Saturday nights and are rebroadcast throughout the week. Discussions on the show focus on "all things hard rock and heavy metal", past and present. Among the regular segments are round table discussions between the three regular hosts, top-5 debates, interviews with heavy metal musicians, "Stump the Trunk," where audience members ask provided trivia questions of host Eddie Trunk in hopes of acquiring prizes, and "The Throwdown," where the hosts and guests vote on and debate great moments and figures in metal history. The guitar & bass-heavy theme song, "Day to Remember" was co-written by co-host Jim Florentine and Guns N' Roses lead guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal and performed by Thal. The intro to "Stump the Trunk" was composed by Mark Fain.

Into the Void: Life, Death and Heavy Metal

December 2025 •English

Explore the epic struggles and the cultural impacts made by Heavy Metal's most compelling artists. Their intensely personal stories about finding success offer an intoxicating combo of volume and distortion delivered via pulsating tales of murder, addiction, rebellion and redemption.

Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head

December 2025 •English

Two teenage heavy-metal music fans occasionally do idiotic things because they're bored. For them, everything is "cool" or "sucks."

Mazinkaiser SKL

December 2025 •Japanese

Behind a gravity curtain floats Kikaijima, a colossal island quarantined since the last world war. It’s a lawless prison junkyard of robot machine superweapons from a forgotten age of massive military might. Upon receiving a warning that the unstable island’s reactors will detonate and possibly vaporize the world in just a few days, the Japanese government awakens Kaiser- the most powerful and destructive robot ever created! Judgment day has arrived when the towering Kaiser rockets-off to the island to engage in a thunderous robot-crushing battle to save the planet!

Heavy Metal Heaven Hosted by Elvira

December 2025 •English

Elvira introduces six programmes celebrating the rock phenomenon of deathless appeal - heavy metal.

Aggretsuko

December 2025 •Japanese

Frustrated with her thankless office job, Retsuko the Red Panda copes with her daily struggles by belting out death metal karaoke after work.

Countdown Revolution

December 2025 •English

'Countdown Revolution' was an attempt to update the long running ABC television-music program 'Countdown' for the late 1980's. Filmed at Melbourne's Metro nightclub, the nightly show had a modest cult following until it was axed the following year.

Crime & Punishment

December 2025 •English

Crime & Punishment is a 2002 reality television, nontraditional court show spin-off of the Law & Order franchise. It premiered on NBC on Sunday, June 16, 2002, and ran through the summers of 2002, 2003, and 2004.

Viva La Bam

December 2025 •English

Viva La Bam was an American reality television series that stars Bam Margera and his friends and family. The show was a spin-off from MTV's Jackass, in which Margera and most of the main cast had appeared. Each episode had a specific theme, mission, or challenge which was normally accomplished by performing pranks, skateboarding, and enlisting the help of friends, relations and experts. Although partly improvised, the show was supported by a greater degree of planning and organization.

TransGeneration

December 2025 •English

TransGeneration is an eight episode documentary series depicting the lives of four transgender college students during the 2004/2005 school year as they attempt to balance college, their social lives, and their struggle "to merge their internal and external selves" while gender transitioning.

Au Pairs

December 2025 •Dutch

We Got Love Teyana & Iman

December 2025 •English

An authentically and unfiltered docu-series that follows pop-culture powerhouses Teyana, Iman, and their daughters Junie B, Baby Rue and their tight-knit entourage of family and friends. The series gives unprecedented access into Teyana and Iman's lives together.

Taem-Log 6v6

December 2025 •Korean

SHINee's Taemin reveals his comeback process and everyday life through a series of vlogs.

Singing for the Central Axis of Beijing

December 2025 •Chinese