ROOTS of South American Progressive Metal | on SiriusXM
Week of November 22, 2025
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Sun 11/23, 1PM ET
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As beauty contestant Ignacia Fernandez uses her Miss World Chile crown as a platform for her progressive death metal band Decessus, we heed the call and explore the mountains, jungles, and epic cities of Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Columbia, and Uruguay for a rich variety of progressive metal bands. Know your Roots!
Experience Brazil’s incredible metal assault in 528 colorful pages in UNITED FORCES: An Archive of Brazil’s Raw Metal Attack, 1986-1991, by Marcelo R. Batista..
PLAYLIST:
ANGRA (Brazil) – “Temple of Hate” from TEMPLE OF SHADOWS
DECESSUS (Chile) – “Dying Hope Blossoms” from DYING HOPE BLOSSOMS
PLEIA (Argentina) – “Pachakuti” from BETORI EP
FUGHU (Argentina) – “Inertia (Human The Tales)” from HUMAN THE TALES
ANTORCHAS (Argentina) – “G.A.E.L” from APHELION
FALLEN SYMMETRY (Peru) – “Alpha & Omega” from REHENES
KADETH (Colombia) – “Dahaka” from SINGLE
FRACTAL (Venezuela) – “Universal Voyager” from DUOSPHERES
CHAOS EDENIA (Uruguay) – “Athromagelidae” from DAETHIK
SEPULTURA (Brazil) – “Machine Messiah” from MACHINE MESSIAH
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.
