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ROOTS 1990: DEATH METAL’S BIG BREAKOUT

Week of May 3, 2025

Sat 5/3, 6PM ET
Sun 5/4, 1PM ET
Mon 5/5, 9AM ET
Tues 5/6, 4PM ET
Thurs 5/8, 9PM ET

Five years after thrash metal’s breakthrough year in 1985, death metal massively erupted into full public view in 1990 with a rash of gruesome instant classic records by Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Autopsy, Death, Bolt Thrower, Napalm Death, Obituary, Nocturnus, Paradise Lost, and, of course, Entombed. Grab your gravedigger’s shovel and join us for a lesson in one of the sickest years in metal history. Read the book, and know your Roots!

METAL BOOK OF THE WEEK: learn the lessons of CHOOSING DEATH: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore by Decibel magazine editor Albert Mudrian.

PLAYLIST

DEATH – “Spiritual Healing” from SPIRITUAL HEALING

AUTOPSY – “Charred Remains” from SEVERED SURVIVAL

CANNIBAL CORPSE – “Shredded Humans” from EATEN BACK TO LIFE

DEICIDE – “Dead by Dawn” from DEICIDE

OBITUARY – “Chopped in Half” from CAUSE OF DEATH

MORTICIAN – “Brutally Mutilated” from BRUTALLY MUTILATED 7″

BOLT THROWER – “Warmaster (1990)” from THE PEEL SESSIONS 1988-90

NAPALM DEATH – “The Chains That Bind Us” from HARMONY CORRUPTION

ENTOMBED – “The Truth Beyond” from LEFT HAND PATH

PARADISE LOST – “Deadly Inner Sense” from LOST PARADISE

NOCTURNUS – “Droid Sector” from THE KEY

DARKTHRONE – “Neptune Towers” from SOULSIDE JOURNEY

INCANTATION – “Entrantment of Evil” from ENTRANTMENT OF EVIL 7″

MORBID ANGEL – “Unholy Blasphemies” from BLESSED ARE THE SICK

CARCASS – “Corporeal Jigsure Quandry” from NECROTICISM