ROOTS Worst of 2025: Metal’s A.I. Nightmare | on SiriusXM
Week of December 6, 2025
Sat 12/6, 6PM ET
Sun 12/7, 1PM ET
Mon 12/8, 9AM ET
Tues 12/9, 4PM ET
Thurs 12/11, 9PM ET
Welcome to the Worst of 2025! As A.I.-generated tracks have recently reached the #1 position on Christian and Country music charts, ROOTS faces the uncertain future of auto-generated metal with a current menu of A.I. metal slop. The first half of the show was made by host Ian Christe in less than a half-hour. How will flesh-and-blood metal musicians maintain the animalistic edge? Will metal emerge as a last bastion of human music? Listen and leave your comments below…
Read about past challenges to heavy metal in SOUND OF THE BEAST: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal and other fine books on rough music at BAZILLION POINTS BOOKS.
PLAYLIST:
VAPOROUS GRAVE – “Dolls in the Shadows” from METAL’s WORST NIGHTMARE
AT THE WASTE – “Echoes of the Damned” from METAL’s WORST NIGHTMARE
NOTHINGHAM – “Savage Pursuit” from METAL’s WORST NIGHTMARE
SILENT SHRIEK – “Frenzy of the Hunt” from METAL’s WORST NIGHTMARE
A FALSE PROMISE – “Echoes of Dread” from METAL’s WORST NIGHTMARE
EPIC WHALE – “Whispers of the Abyss” from METAL’s WORST NIGHTMARE
FAKEDOWN – “Digital Destruction” from METAL’s WORST NIGHTMARE
GUTLESS – “Chaos in the Emerald City” from METAL’s WORST NIGHTMARE
FOG INHALER – “Echoes of Ancestral Shadows” from METAL’s WORST NIGHTMARE
AWKWARD INCOUNTER – “Synthetic Reign” from METAL’s WORST NIGHTMARE
KNUCKLE DRUGGER – “Chaos and Craft” from METAL’s WORST NIGHTMARE
ALIEN INVADER – “Echoes of Resistance” from METAL’s WORST NIGHTMARE
ROOTSTALLICA – “A.I. Must Die” from METAL’s WORST NIGHTMARE
ARTIFICIAL STEEL – “The Battle Has Begun” from STREAMING FOR VENGEANCE
T.Y. – “Thrash Metal!” from METAL MACHINE
FREE CONTENT LAB – “Slayer Style Thrash Metal” from FREE CONTENT LAB
ALGORITHMIC AI AUDIO – “Thunderous Rage” from ALGORITHMIC AI AUDIO
STEI CAMEL – “The Necromancer” from STEI CAMEL
HAIL DARKNESS – “With Horns Of A Beast” from DEATH DIVINE
FROSTBITE ORCKINGS – “Guardians Of Time” from GUARDIANS OF TIME
Bloody 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. Since June 2004, each weekly show has examined another subgenre, band, movement, country, or theme in metal, punk, and heavy rock. The show is available on-demand online from SiriusXM.com.
