Jose Mangin, Sirius XM Liquid Metal/Octane Program Director and DJ and an all-around good dude, has released a new music video, for the song “One Reason.” You should check it out. Jose plays a guy who stares very intensely at this lady, and he does an extremely convincing job of it.

I have no idea who Jose’s backing band in this video are, but it was nice of him to give them so much time in the spotlight. Some solo artists won’t even do that much.

You can find out more about Liquid Metal on Sirius XM by going here. It’s also fun to follow Jose on Twitter, which is how I found out about this video in the first place.

-AR

First SMNnews.com reported that Jose Mangin revealed in a Metal Injection podcast that Headbanger’s Ball will return to MTV in 2010 with him as the host. Then the sleuths at Metal Insider contacted Jose himself to ask him about the situation. Mangin denies any official full-time launch of the show or his place in it, but he does promise that some plans are in the works for Headbanger’s Ball in 2010. Sounds to me like Mangin is at the very least in the running for the host job but perhaps spilled the beans a bit too soon.

But here’s the thing: can Headbangers Ball even be relevant anymore? In 2009, a TV show about metal hardly seems like it will, or even can, matter at all.

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