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Metal Health (song)

"Metal Health", sometimes listed as "Metal Health (Bang Your Head)", "Bang Your Head" or, as it was listed on the Billboard Hot 100, "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)", is a song by the American heavy metal band Quiet Riot on their breakthrough album, Metal Health. One of their best known hits and receiving heavy MTV music video and radio play, "Metal Health" was the band's second and final top 40 hit, peaking at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Music video
Produced for $19,000 and employing students as extras, the music video was filmed in the Walt Disney Modular Theater and hallways of the California Institute of the Arts. It features the masked man on the album cover breaking out of the asylum he is confined in. After taking off his mask, the man is revealed to be Kevin DuBrow who then joins the band and plays the remainder of the song. ==Personnel==
Personnel
Quiet RiotKevin DuBrowlead vocalsCarlos Cavazoguitars, backing vocalsRudy Sarzobass, backing vocalsFrankie Banalidrums, backing vocals Additional personnelChuck Wright – bass ==Charts==
Uses in popular culture
The song was heard in the 2009 film Babylon A.D., as well as the 1984 film Footloose and its 2011 remake. It was also used in the opening credits of the movies Crank (2006) and The Wrestler (2008), and in a TV commercial for Hyundai first shown during CBS's coverage of Super Bowl XLVII on February 3, 2013. "Weird Al" Yankovic performed the song as part of his 1985 polka medley "Hooked on Polkas" from his album Dare to Be Stupid. The song was featured in the professional wrestling video game Showdown: Legends of Wrestling in 2004. The song was featured in the 2006 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories on the fictional in-game radio station "V-Rock". The song was featured in the rhythm games Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s and Rock Band Blitz. ==References==
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