That Metal Show With Eddie Trunk

Has anyone else been following VH1’s new That Metal Show with Eddie Trunk? I’ve caught two episodes and found them quite boring. The focus isn’t so much on modern metal but features mostly stuff about older hair metal and whatnot.

Yngwie Malamsteen was on the first episode and Lita Ford was on the second episode I saw. Lita Ford is obviously showing age but she’ll always be a hottie in my book. Malsteen still looks and dresses like he has for the last 20 years, but he can still shred like a madman.

They have a segment called “Stump The Trunk” where audience members ask Eddie Trunk a trivial type question about metal and if they can stump him then they win a prize out of a box. One audience member won “The Making Of Winger 4” and was a little too excited about it.

What makes this show slightly interesting is the co-hosts. Don’t as me their names but they were much more interesting than Trunk was, however it was still a boring show. After all, it’s VH1 and we know how Metal-Mania is on VH1. They should probably change both of the names of those shows to “Hair Metal Mania” and “That Hair Metal Show“. Not nearly as good as Fuse’s Talking Metal. So far Talking Metal is probably the best metal show on TV but you never know when it’s going to be on and I haven’t seen anything about a new episode in awhile. Headbanger’s Ball is nothing but videos for an hour and comes on far too late for me to watch.

I’m not that young anymore at 32, but what I wouldn’t mind seeing is some younger metal hosts on these shows. The problem I see with a lot of these metal shows is that the hosts don’t cover as much of the modern metal scene and a lot of the focus goes to older and/or well established bands instead of putting some kind of focus on some bands that deserve more coverage.