ROOTS of 2025 Metal Instrumentals | on SiriusXM
Week of December 20, 2025
Sat 12/20, 6PM ET
Sun 12/21, 1PM ET
Mon 12/22, 9AM ET
Tues 12/23, 4PM ET
Thurs 12/25, 9PM ET
As 2025 comes to a fiery close, we wish you a happy holidays with a wide-ranging tour of the landscape of metal instrumentals in 2026. Know your Roots!
Enjoy metal history in the words of those who created it with Swedish Death Metal, Choosing Death, Murder in the Front Row (including the first photos ever taken of Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, Megadeth, Death Angel and others), Sound of the Beast, NYHC, and many more at BAZILLION POINTS Books.
PLAYLIST:
PELICAN – “Evergreen” from FLICKERING RESONANCE
DREAM THEATER – “In the Arms of Morpheus” from PARASOMNIA
CENTURY – “Sorceress” from SIGN OF THE STORM
SACRI SUONI – “Plow the Void” from TIME TO HARVEST
GUTTURAL VOID – “Cataclysmic Aberration” from SEASON 17
IS – “Mark of the Devil” from MARK OF THE DEVIL
DEEPARSHI ROY – “Regiment” from FURY
TUESDAY THE SKY – “The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You” from INDOOR ENTHUSIAST
NON – “Turiye” from VIPASSANA
CHAT PILE HAYDEN PEDIGO – “Behold a Pale Horse” from IN THE EARTH AGAIN
WODE – “Phantom” from UNCROSSING THE KEYS
RWAKE – “Phi” from THE RETURN OF MAGIK
CRATOPHANE – “Ranx” from from EXODE
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.
