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Nineteen eighty-six could have been the year that death metal broke wide open, but a storm of cancellations, licensing issues, and bad luck delayed the U.S. releases, sometimes by years, of completed debut LPs by Repulsion, Necrophagia, Death, Master, Sepultura, Morbid Angel, Slaughter (Canada), and others. Join us as we wade through the raw, deathly wreckage of 1986, and know your Roots!
Retrace the baby steps of death metal and grindcore in Decibel editor Albert Mudrian’s CHOOSING DEATH: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore, with forewords by Repulsion’s Scott Carlson and BBC DJ John Peel.
PLAYLIST:
MORBID ANGEL – “Invocation – Chapel of Ghouls” from ABOMINATIONS OF DESOLATION
REPULSION – “Horrified” from HORRIFIED
SLAUGHTER CANADA – “Disintegrator – Incinerator” from STRAPPADO
DEATH – “Scream Bloody Gore” from SBG ORIGINAL FLORIDA SESSION
NECROPHAGIA – “World Funeral” from READY FOR DEATH
MASTER – “Mangled Dehumanization” from UNRELEASED 1985 ALBUM
SEPULTURA – “Empire of the Damned” from MORBID VISIONS
DEATH – “Land of No Return” from SBG ORIGINAL FLORIDA SESSION
DEVASTATION ILLINOIS – “Genetic Poisoning” from DISPENSABLE BLOODSHED
REPULSION – “Radiation Sickness” from HORRIFIED
MORBID ANGEL – “Abominations” from ABOMINATIONS OF DESOLATION
SLAUGHTER CANADA – “Tyrant of Hell” from STRAPPADO
MASTER – “Pledge of Allegiance” from UNRELEASED 1985 ALBUM
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.
