Above: 3/4 of Burn Ey Eyes-era Machine Head, courtesy of Machine Head
ROOTS of 1994: The Year in Groove Metal | on SiriusXM #2
Week of May 18, 2024
Sat 5/18, 6PM ET
Sun 5/19, 1PM ET
Mon 5/20, 9AM ET
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Thirty years ago, metal put its ear and found its bounce. Veterans including Obituary, Slayer, and Sepultura joined new faces Machine Head and Biohazard in forging frenetic groove metal engineered for macho moshpit mayhem. Bands including Meshuggah and Prong took their grooves in different directions. And on their 1994 debut Korn metastasized the sound into the diversion soon known as nu metal. Join us, burn your eyes, and know Your Roots!
Read the full-frequency saga of metal history in SOUND OF THE BEAST: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, by ROOTS host Ian Christe.
PLAYLIST:
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MACHINE HEAD – “Old” from BURN MY EYES
SEPULTURA – “Slave New World” from SLAVE NEW WORLD
BIOHAZARD – “State of the World Address” from STATE OF THE WORLD ADDRESS
PRO-PAIN – “The Truth Hurts” from THE TRUTH HURTS
OBITUARY – “Don’t Care” from WORLD DEMISE
SLAYER – “Divine Intervention” from DIVINE INTERVENTION
PANTERA – “Becoming” from FAR BEYOND DRIVEN
TESTAMENT – “Legions (in Hiding)” from LOW
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY “Broken Man” – from DELIVERANCE
MESHUGGAH – “Sickening” from NONE
PRONG – “Broken Peace” from CLEANSING
KORN – “Divine” from KORN
Roots is Sound of the Beast author Ian Christe’s heavy metal history show on Sirius XM Liquid Metal channel 40. Since June 2004, each weekly show has examined another subgenre, band, movement, country, or theme. The show is available on-demand online from SiriusXM.com.
