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Jose Mangin

Jose Mangin (born April 12, 1977) is a broadcaster, media personality, and actor. He is the program director and host of Sirius XM's Liquid Metal, Octane, and Ozzy's Boneyard stations. Mangin is the longest running rock host in the company's history, having worked with Sirius since September 2000.

Mangin was born at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1977. He lived in Sierra Vista and Tucson before his family settled in Douglas, a town near the Mexico–United States border, where Mangin was raised.

Mangin was introduced to metal music in his youth by his cousins when he was in kindergarten, hearing Shout at the Devil by Mötley Crüe. In addition to metal, Mangin became interested in science in his youth after watching the 1988 film The Serpent and the Rainbow. In 1992, he went to his first concert, seeing Iron Maiden and Anthrax. During high school, Mangin played in a metal band called Damnation.

After graduating high school, Mangin received a full-ride scholarship to the University of Arizona (UA), where he majored in chemistry. He worked as the music director for KAMP, the UA campus radio station, creating the show Beyond The Pit. Mangin later attended graduate school at the University of Tennessee, studying to become a pharmacist. He also worked at WMFS-FM, a local radio station where he continued his Beyond The Pit show, during graduate school. Mangin won the Metal Director of the Year award in the Album Network magazine while at WMFS-FM, leading to other job offers. Mangin decided to pursue a career in radio and moved to New Jersey.

Mangin's first major radio interview was with Chuck Billy of Testament, taking place in 1996.

Mangin was initially hired by TVT Records, working as the company's metal director to promote bands like Sevendust, Nothingface and Nashville Pussy. After a few months, he discovered Sirius Satellite Radio, and reached out to executives to meet with them. Eventually, in September 2000, he was hired by the company to program the alternative rock en español channel and the metal channel, Hard Attack. After Sirius and XM Satellite Radio merged to create Sirius XM in 2008, Hard Attack became the broadcaster's Liquid Metal channel, of which Mangin continued to be the programmer and host. Mangin also hosts the Octane radio channel for Sirius XM.

In 2011, Mangin introduced Metallica before their headlining set at Yankee Stadium during the Big Four tour with Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax.

From 2011 to 2012, Mangin was the host of MTV's Headbangers Ball.

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