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Matt Zane of Society 1 Breaks Silence on Censorship, Ozzy Snub, Lost MTV Footage, Wayne Static’s Unreleased Music, and the Extreme Legacy Rock Won’t Acknowledge
When Matt Zane speaks, you don’t get half-truths or carefully...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Matt Zane of Society 1 Breaks Silence on Censorship, Ozzy Snub, Lost MTV Footage, Wayne Static’s Unreleased Music, and the Extreme Legacy Rock Won’t Acknowledge
When Matt Zane speaks, you don’t get half-truths or carefully polished anecdotes. You get the real thing, unfiltered and straight from the fire. And during his interview on The Zach Moonshine Show, the Society 1 frontman laid out a story so dense with insanity, controversy, and underground history that it’s a wonder the mainstream music world ever pretended it didn’t happen.
For more than thirty years, Zane has lived at the crossroads of metal, shock performance, and outsider art. His career reads like a fever dream: from coming up alongside Korn, Incubus, and Weezer on the Sunset Strip, to directing adult films, to becoming the first frontman to perform full body suspension onstage, to working with icons like DMC, John 5, Wednesday 13, and Zakk Wylde. He even shot the final music video Wayne Static ever filmed.
But what really blows minds is the list of strangely missing receipts. Despite appearing on MTV, VH1, and even Jerry Springer, almost none of that footage exists online. Zane claims it’s not by accident.
“You can find everything from G.G. Allin,” he said on the show. “You can find everything from Marilyn Manson and Peter Steele. But you can’t find my MTV or VH1 appearances anywhere. It’s like they burned it all.”
The censorship theme doesn’t end there. Zane talked about an infamous incident where Mark McGrath allegedly got him banned from MTV networks. Then there’s the long-buried story of Ozzy Osbourne giving him a disgusted look and walking out of a VIP room rather than share the space with him.
“That one still stings,” Zane admitted. “I grew up worshiping Black Sabbath. Our first real release was a Sabbath cover. And Ozzy wanted nothing to do with me.”
Alice Cooper also enters the conversation. Zane compared Cooper’s famous Elvis karate-kick story to his own experiences, pointing out that Cooper never needed proof because he was already accepted by the industry. “If I told the same story, nobody would believe it. That’s the wall I live behind.”
Despite that uphill fight, Zane has carved out a place in rock history the hard way. Society 1’s notorious stage acts—suspension, bloodletting, fan-assisted cutting, and even their infamous backstage debauchery—pushed shock performance past anything the genre had seen since the days of G.G. Allin. And Zane believes that’s exactly why the industry has kept its distance.
“I’m the guy who crossed every line nobody else wanted to go near,” he said. “That’s why people refuse to acknowledge it. It’s easier to pretend I never existed.”
One of the biggest revelations of the interview revolves around the new Wayne Static and Tera Wray documentary Zane is preparing for 2026. He and Wayne had begun working on a project together in 2014 before Static’s death. What’s more, Zane holds unreleased music Wayne recorded with him—material that was long stored away until modern technology made it possible to extract usable stems.
“It’s not some big lost album,” he clarified, “but it’s real music Wayne played on. I’m going to finish what we started.”
Zane also confirmed he’s acquiring rare, never-before-seen footage from Wayne’s final years, aiming to let Wayne and Tera “tell their own story” instead of relying on secondhand commentary.
The interview goes far beyond documentaries and lost tapes, though. Zane dug into his early porn-to-rock days, the massive backlash to Society 1’s Quran-smearing video, the band’s notorious backstage mayhem, encounters with Lemmy and Kelly Clarkson, and even a digital recreation of the room where Kurt Cobain died—a video banned from YouTube within minutes.
In a world where shock rock has been watered down, sanitized, and rebranded as nostalgia, Zane stands out as one of the last artists who still carries the dangerous energy of the underground. Whether people like him or not, the man has lived a life most bands wouldn’t dare put on their rider.
With a new documentary, unreleased Wayne Static material, and a sequel to Everyone Dies on the way, Matt Zane’s name is impossible to bury—no matter how hard certain corners of the industry try.
For media inquiries and further coverage, contact: zach@metaldevastationradio.com
The full show is available now on Mixcloud and the interview segments are also on YouTube, Spotify etc.
Track List:
Battle Of The Bands Top Six Winners:
1 - Saturnine Sorrows - Phantasmal - (7,872 votes)2 - AUDIO REIGN - Gone - (4,105 votes)3 - Ianthin - Caverne - (1,054 votes)4 - taberah - MASTER ESCAPA DEL DRAGON.REV - (855 votes)5 - Humming Whale - The Wake - (688 votes)6 - Ness da Silva - honesty rock version - (422 votes)
The Zach Moonshine Intro
7 - Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train/Believer8 - Gravewitch - White City Devil
Matt Zane Interview - Featuring Lose Your Faith/You Made Me/EXIT THROUGH THE FEAR
9 - Static-X - Push It/Black And White/The Only10 - Selfgod - Chaos Born11 - Ashes Awaken - For You12 - Wisent - Crater13 - Darren Michael Boyd - Dangerous Curves14 - GHOST IN THE MACHINE - F.I.S.T. (Take You Down)15 - Philippe Drouin Obvurt - Résilience16 - RELENTLESS AGGRESSION - MINDBOLTED17 - Royal Hunt - Ride into The Sunset18 - NetherDred - Spellbound19 - NEPTHISIS - All is Fair20 - Skulls Of Death - Carnival Of Death21 - BDF - BAPTIZED/Cunts (Demo)22 - Skullgrinder - House Of Death
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