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MICHAEL JACKSON’S 10 MOST METAL MOMENTS

While big-media news outlets continue to parse Michael Jackson’s successes and scandals, we here at Revolver want to commemorate why we loved the Gloved One through the years: Dude was metal. Sure, Jackson could be pretty off-putting to headbangers—he helped popularize disco music, wore Mickey Mouse T-shirts, and fed starving kids—but let’s look past all that. Here’s Revolver’s 10-horn salute…

10. His first solo No. 1 was about a murderous, telepathic rat

Jackson’s first hit, “Ben,” was the theme song for the 1972 movie of the same name, the sequel to the horror movie Willard. In the movie, a boy befriends one of the evil rats (Ben) trained by the titular character in the original; the rat then starts controlling the boy and Ben’s rat buddies get violent. “Ben, most people would turn you away… They don’t see you as I do.” ’Nuff said.

9. Jackson hung out with Ronald Reagan

It may have been only once, but just palling around with the dude who carried out such malfeasance as quadrupling the United States’ national debt, trading weapons with Iran, and helping launch a war on drugs sounds like the basis of an S.O.D. song.

8. He caught on fire

In 1984, Jackson filmed a Pepsi commercial. At one point, he got too close to the pyrotechnics and ended up suffering second-degree burns to his scalp…in front of a stand-in audience. Only Metallica’s James Hetfield, who himself was burned in a pyro mishap onstage, could relate.

7. Jackson smashed stuff

At the end of Jackson’s “Black or White” video (viewable here), he transforms into a black panther then back into himself, after which he smashes car windows and blows up a building. When this sequence was met with controversy and protests, MJ explained that that’s what a panther would do. MTV removed the part of the clip, and since his death, has restored it to include racist epithets on the windows Jackson smashes. (Aside: It was in the promotion for this video that Jackson decided he should be called the "King of Pop" and made everyone call him that—that's metal!) With no blood spilt, we challenge any metal band to replicate the video’s menace on a worldwide scale.

6. He dangled a baby over a balcony

In 2002, Jackson held his 9-month-old son over his hotel balcony in Berlin, Germany, holding a towel over the child’s head. Hell, we can’t defend that one, but check out the video.

Kory Grow

Michael Jackson's 10 Most Metal Moments

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 11:02.

love how by the mere mention you make michael j. metal. That's what the loudest magazine can do though!

-=Wicked C.

Hated

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 11:04.

Who cries for a pedophile? Not me. Don't like to see anyone die, but I'm sure there are alot of kids having nightmares still, over this monstrosity. Although, as the rest of world deludes themselves into believing, "he was framed". Yeah, all fifty/sixty times it happened.

Framed

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 02:02.

AMEN. To me, when a grown man touches a helpless child "fifty/sixty times" I have a hard time having any compassion for him. I hope all the children he mentally fucked up are celebrating. Their monster is dead. Good riddance.

your uninformed!!!!!!!!!

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 07/09/2009 - 16:50.

WHY DO YOU GUYS BELIEVE that crap if you look into all 3 trials he was aquited because 1. all the courts speacialist found him to have a repressed mind of a 10 year old and he does not fit the profile!!! 2. he was being set up for money extortion and they found all the familes had history of it. 3. HE Had witness of other children saying he never touched those kids!!!

now go fuck yourself!!!! you iqnorant uninformed FUCK. go hate on something worth hating

this girlpant core movement!!!

Michael was metal as all hell

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 12:47.

True, he had his flaws, MJ always saw himself as a kid, and never matured, reason why he did a lot of things that got him in trouble.

May he rest in peace, he was a good soul and a kind heart, think about it.

MJ was metal as f#@k!

mike was alot of things but

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 16:53.

mike was alot of things but metal i think not if anything he was plastic.sooooo, put your goat horns up for the king of heavy fucking plastic!!!!!! RIP MIKEY

oh and one more thing "the kids is not my son......." man thats a maury show moment

licksanbites

Mikey Jackson metal? What

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 19:32.

Mikey Jackson metal? What the fuck is this world coming to? Whats next Hannah fucking Montana is going to praised as grindcore? Give me a break. Hes dead (thank god) now everybody says hes so great? Remember him touching countless children? Let me guess, it was their fault. Fuck him and his gay ass music.

hannah montana

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 12:40.

wait, hannah montana is pretty grindcore when u think about it, hahahah,

u such a bitter prick. MJ owned and thats all there is to say (666)

hannah

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 01:47.

Im not bitter. Just saying whats on my mind. Hes a douche bag and im sure im not the first person to say thank god hes gone. MJ owned? Owned what? A fucking monkey. (666) How dare you use that number and say mj owned. Im bitter. No. Truthful, Yes. And you pathetic for caring about the baby fucker.

michael jackson.

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 20:56.

point blank michael jackson has balls. he did whatever he wanted and if he was alive he would moonwalk your butt. the guy was tough and don't say thank god he's dead. because the dead comes back to haunt you. p.s. its very metal to work with slash and to slow down computers.

A legend never dies.....

R.I.P Michael Joesph Jackson...heaven can't wait.

Balls???

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 01:57.

MJ dont have balls. Moonwalk all over my butt? He was tough? Are we talking about the same guy/homo here? Thank God hes worm food. Im sure all the families of the children he screwed is just as happy as me. Slash is a good guitarist, so is eddie van halen, but they made mistakes by working with that freak. I could give two shits about MJ. Heaven can't wait. I doubt that the pedophille is going there. Go have a little candle light vigil for him, maybe moonwalk in honor of him. Boo-hoo. Hes dead, move on with it.

Ugh

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 01:11.

You sound like a homophobic moron.

mj live on bitches

Submitted by durrtybear06 on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 00:12.

all u fucks who talk shyt bout mike where the ones watching his videos when u were younger and u probably don't wanna admit it but u know u sung his shyt!!!!!!!!!

and did the mother fuckin moonwalk so quit talking shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

michael jackson is more metal then u'll ever be so take that and suck it!!!!!!!!!

just a thought by: Safi

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 12:04.

Some people may want to come down on MJ because their stupidity allows them to believe he was a pedophile, but did anyone stop to think that if these things are true then after the first finger was pointed every parent after, that sent their kid to stay the night over at his ranch or allowed their child to hang out with MJ is just as guilty, who the hell does that, as a parent of 3 children, I would NEVER in a million years let my children be with anyone who has been on trial for molesting a kid. If anyone should have been on trial it should have been the parents of these children that were supposedly molested, the parents for their stupidity, carelessness, and for endangering their own. What it all comes down to is MJ did not do these things, the parents used their children as pawns to extort money, I've heard of parents looking at their child as a paycheck but God damned, they would even do it at the cost of their own childs mental health. Stupid people shouldn't be allowed to breed and the world saw numerous cases of why this should be a law, shame on the parents of these children.