Above: Jeff Becerra of Possessed in Pinole, CA. Photo by Harald Oimoen, from MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW: Shots From the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter.
ROOTS of California Death Metal | on SiriusXM
Week of September 14, 2024
Sat 9/14, 6PM ET
Sun 9/15, 1PM ET
Mon 9/16, 9AM ET
Tues 9/17, 4PM ET
Thurs 9/19, 9PM ET
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Unlike Sweden, Florida, or New York, America’s largest state California doesn’t have a recognizable death metal style, but where would death metal be without Possessed, Terrorizer, Autopsy, and evil early influence of Slayer? Even Death mastermind lived in California during the crucial period before that band’s genre-defining debut album Scream Bloody Gore. We follow death metal’s path across the massive state with tracks by all of the above, plus Fear Factory, Impaled, Exhumed, Cattle Decapitation, and the offshoot California-bred deathcore bands Suicide Silence and Carnifex. To the death… Know your Rooots!
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PLAYLIST
AUTOPSY – “Charred Remains” from SEVERED SURVIVAL
POSSESSED – “Death Metal” from SEVEN CHURCHES
DEATH – “Mutilation” from MUTILATION DEMO
TERRORIZER – “The Dead Shall Rise” from NIGHTMARES DEMO
SLAYER – “Necrophobic” from REIGN IN BLOOD
SADISTIC INTENT – “Condemned in Misery” from RESURRECTION
FEAR FACTORY – “Desecrate” from SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE
BRUJERIA – “Pito Wilson” from RAZA ODIADA
EXHUMED – “Under the Knife” from ANATOMY IS DESTINY
IMPALED – “Back to the Grave” from THE DEAD SHALL DEAD REMAIN
GHOUL – “Death Campaign” from DUNGEON BASTARDS
GRAVEHILL – “One Million Dead & Counting” from RITES OF THE PENTAGRAM
ABYSMAL DAWN – “A Nightmare Slain” from NIGHTMARE FRONTIER
CATTLE DECAPITATION – “Manufactured Extinct” from THE ANTHROPOCENE EXTINCTION
SUICIDE SILENCE – “Unanswered” from THE CLEANSING
CARNIFEX – “How the Knife Gets Twisted” from NECROMANTEUM
STATIC ABYSS – “Mind Tentacles” from ABORTED FROM REALITY
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.
