''MTV2 Headbangers Ball'' is a heavy metal

compilation album A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several Performing arts#Performers, performers. If by one artist, then generally the tr ...

released in conjunction with the

MTV MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...

program ''

Headbangers Ball ''Headbangers Ball'' is a music television program that consisted of heavy metal music videos airing on MTV and its global affiliates. The show began on MTV on April 18, 1987, playing heavy metal music videos from both well-known and more obs ...

''. It is the first in a series of compilations and was released approximately five months after the program re-debuted on

MTV2 MTV2 (formerly M2) is an American pay television Cable television, channel owned by the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. The channel launched initially as an all-music video service, once the original MTV had started to sh ...

. The first disc consists largely of singles by mainstream bands, while the second disc features lesser known groups of intense musical style. Nearly all the tracks had a music video which aired on ''Headbangers Ball'' in 2003.

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2003 compilation albums Heavy metal compilation albums {{2000s-metal-album-stub pl:MTV2 Headbangers Ball