Roots Celebrates 40 Years of Motörhead’s Overkill | on SiriusXM
Week of March 30, 2019

Sat 3/30, 6PM ET
Sun 3/31, 1PM ET
Mon 4/1, 9AM ET
Tues 4/2, 4PM ET
Thurs 4/4, 9PM ET

Carrying the torch for forty years of Motörhead’s blazing first fully-realized album, Overkill, this week’s metal history lesson lights some candles on the cake and then bulldozers a nation of skulls with a track-by-track playback of the record using rare, live, and alternate takes by Motörhead, plus tributes by the Plasmatics, Metallica, Overkill, Deceased, MX Machine, Bebe Buell, Superchrist, Vader, and more. Born to lose, live to win, and know your Roots!

Check out the history of heavy metal’s evolution from Sabbath through Motörhead and beyond inSOUND OF THE BEAST: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, by Ian Christe.

PLAYLIST:

MOTÖRHEAD – “Overkill” from OVERKILL
OVERKILL – “Overkill” from COVERKILL
MX MACHINE – “Stay Clean” from MANIC PANIC
DECEASED – “Stay Clean” from DEAD FOREVER (MX MACHINE??)
MOTÖRHEAD – “(I Won’t) Pay Your Price” from OVERKILL
ZEKE – “I’ll Be Your Sister” from BUILT FOR SPEED
BEBE BUELL – “I’ll Be Your Sister” from RETROSEXUAL
MOTÖRHEAD w/BRIAN ROBERTSON – “Capricorn” from LIVE IN TORONTO 1982
DISCHARGE – “Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing” from HEAR NOTHING SEE NOTHING SAY NOTHING
THE PLASMATICS – “No Class” from COUP D’ETAT
METALLICA – “Damage Case” from GARAGE INC
MOTÖRHEAD – “Tear Ya Down (Alternate Take)” from OVERKILL DELUXE
SUPERCHRIST – “Metropolis” from SOUTH OF HELL
VENOM – “Sons of Satan” from WELCOME TO HELL
MOTÖRHEAD – “Limb from Limb” from BBC RADIO 1
VADER – “Overkill” from IRON TIMES

Roots is Sound of the Beast author and Bazillion Points publisher Ian Christe’s heavy metal history show on Sirius XM Liquid Metal channel 40. Launched in June 2004, each weekly show has examined another subgenre, band, movement, country, or theme in metal, punk, and heavy rock. Past episodes are available on-demand online from SiriusXM.com.

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