Memories of Kerrang/Scuzz/MTV2 etc

Used to love Gonzo with Zane Lowe, he became a bit insufferable just before he left but he always played great music and was quite funny too

Never got into Scuzz, Kerrang wasn't bad but MTV2 had more variety.

Ah man, Kerrang TV. I didn't have "the channels" myself, so I used to get a friend to tape the videos. Those were the days.

Oh man.

Staying up to watch Kerrang's post watershed hour. Coolest thing ever when I was 12/13. Smack My Bitch Up, Manson, the Stinkfist video etc.

Seeing Buried Alive By Love on heavy rotation and convincing myself HIM were the best thing going (the first few albums are still mustard).

Being sick of Chop Suey, even back then.

That glorious summer Scuzz played classic metal on a loop in 2004.

Seeing Kerrang gradually go from my kind of naff garbage to the next generation's kind of naff garbage and having to gracefully bow out. You Me At Six, Paramore etc. Nah thanks. Not like I was much better with Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park etc though.

The United States of Whatever video.

Getting into Gonzo on MTV2 and going 'proper' in 2005. Only miserable bastards wear black every day, The Bravery are music for grown ups etc.

All good times. Kerrang and Scuzz were a huge part of my alternative youth. Like I said in the other thread, we still go to Download because it has that fun element to it. I love my black metal, too, but you can't take this stuff seriously all the time.

Great post, bringing back nice memories of the teenage years. I remember coming home from school and sticking on MTV2 or kerrang straight away. Loved the songs you mentioned but I also, as a teenage girl, loved searching between the channels for HIM, buried alive by love and swooning over Ville Valo. MTV2 seem to have more of a diverse playlist of music. Thoria- I got Satan has just popped into my head, it used to be played a lot on MTV2.

Remember getting the magazine which sometimes came with a video of the best videos.... Think mine had left behind and... Creed? And that song nothing by... A?

would watch kerrang on repeat and then watch epidoes of jack ass on repeat....

Ah good times

Headbangers Ball was where it was at. Kerrang, Scuzz, MTV2 etc tried, but weren't even close.

Was a fan of MTV2 in the beginning when they did top 10 videos for a particular band and the viewers top 10's were great too.

Never a fan of the others. Too many pop acts like Greenday/Blink 182 etc.

Even worse now with the american pop punk crap on all the time.

Headbangers ball was great but John Kenny on 2fm Sunday nights was the best

Headbangers Ball - Donington 94 special was the peak of music television

I listen to Kerrang radio a couple of hours a day. Great variety and I've found a lot of new music through it!

Oh wow... I'd like to say I haven't thought of these bands or music in awhile but they're still on my Spotify Playlists and will go to any club night that plays it

Was only at Sum 41 last night sure hah

I never had the stations back in the day - poor yo - but my friends did and we'd hang out, TV blaring in the background - Wonderful!

As an above poster said, my love of HIM and Ville Valo - even had to go to their farewell tour in the last few years.

There's a Jackass 4 being made - dunno how those boys do it
Still tune into Kerrang radio every now and then.

Didn't have Kerrang, but sometimes got to see it at a friend's house. Really liked Scuzz when we got the channel at home - even after moving out, it was a go-to for me any time I was staying there at the weekend. Definitely introduced me to some bands that I would still listen to today.

Used to pick up the Kerrang magazine pretty regularly, especially if it had a mix CD. The good old days and one of the ways that I used to love finding music. Really bothered a friend of mine when he wanted to copy some music from my iPod, excitedly clicked into an artist, and it was only one song

Yeah, all that time, around the year 1999-2000, was when I was first getting into music in a big way and I was the in the exact age group to eat up all of that stuff. Young, filled with energy and stupidly angry at stupid things. GIVE ME SOMETHING TO BREAK.

Limp Bizkit were the big one at the very beginning. I have an awful hard time listening to them these days. But I did love them for a while. I remember hearing Take A Look Around on the radio real late at night and buying the single the next day. Truth be told, I still kinda like the song. The intro is cool, with the band all coming in instrument by instrument, but then Fred Durst arrives at about forty seconds and utterly ruins it with his presence. The breakdown at 3:30 in the song is still pretty epic. Limp Bizkit have qualities musically, but Durst is the worst frontman in the history of music and makes them unlistenable to my ears these days



I bought Kerrang pretty much every week and then Metal Hammer once a month. I'd read them from cover to cover. It's so quaint now when you think about it, I used to read about bands for ages before I'd hear them. 90% of the time, unless you heard them thanks to a free CD, the only way to hear them was by buying an album or swapping an album with someone else.

I've a lot to thank Kerrang and Metal Hammer for. I read about countless bands and they made me curious to know more, but, when you look back, Jesus, they fairly chased the trends at the time. Even though it was aimed at a bit of a younger audience Kerrang was arguably better at showing a bit more diversity in rock and metal overall. It was usually some nu-metal or pop-punk flavour of the month shyte on the front page, but I remember them giving a cover story to Emperor when they had their last album out. At the time I'd only heard about one black metal song and I couldn't understand how anyone could listen to it. If I was to go back now and hunt down that old copy of Kerrang, I'm sure out of all the other bands written about in the that issue I'd respect Emperor the most.

Metal Hammer though hyped up some awful bands - and it was supposed to be the more "metal" of the two. I read it regularly for about two years and death and black or any vaguely underground forms of metal were badly sidelined in that time in favour of endless coverage of crap, crap bands or former bands who were now chasing the trend. The amount of rubbish bands that got mileage out of that period is amazing. I have some seriously dodge musical purchases from that period: Adema, Slaves on Dope, Boy Hits Car, Pitchshifter, One Minute Silence, Mudvayne... the list goes on. I guess there was money to be made. A bit like how there's an endless stream of mumblin' crap trap and emo rappers out there now.

From that era the only ones I still have fondness for are Deftones, System and Tool. I used to hate Slipknot in particular at the time, with their masks and 25 members, but I have a soft spot for them these days. Some of the stuff off Iowa is properly brootal, they did well to sneak that stuff into the mainstream. What a time to be alive it was when this was the type of craic that'd end up on chat shows in the states:



And yeah Kerrang TV. I remember bands getting big on the strength of one good video and Rammstein going from German weirdos to being massive. I didn't watch it after about 2003 and when I checked back in a few years later, all that ironed hair made me immediately realise that time had moved on.

Worked late nights in a bar so MTV2 was my church when I got home. Was always my go to channel. Scuzz was good on Friday and Saturday nights. Kerrang became the ultimate My Chemical Romance, Fallout Boy, Blink 182 pile of ****e so got sick of that very quickly. Always amazed me how record companies forgot the importance of a good music video,in the chase of a new stream online. A good video is still worth the effort. Maybe I'm just getting old but I appreciate any band/artist willing to put their time into a promo video now, cos it's coming from them. No record company is throwing money at them to do it.