ROOTS Salutes Twisted Sister | on SiriusXM
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In support of metal elder Dee Snider, this week we salute New York institution Twisted Sister. One of the only U.S. bands to make an impact in England during the UK metal explosion of the early 1980s, Twisted Sister became a multi-platinum household name in America with 1984’s Stay Hungry LP. Singer Dee Snider became the first host of MTV’s Headbangers Ball, and righteously stood up for heavy metal during the PMRC Congressional hearings in Washington. We rev up the band’s ultra-heavy side, complete with tributes from Motörhead, Entombed, Dimmu Borgir, Sabaton, Hammerfall, Broken Hope, and Vision of Disorder. You’re an S.M.F….now know your Roots!
Meet the streets in NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990, by Tony Rettman, and retrace the baby steps of death metal and UK 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:
TWISTED SISTER – “Sin After Sin” from READING 1982
TWISTED SISTER – “You Can’t Stop Rock ‘n Roll” from YOU CAN’T STOP ROCK AND ROLL
MOTORHEAD – “Shoot Em Down” from TWISTED FOREVER
HAMMERFALL – “Were Gonna Make It” from MASTERPIECES
ENTOMBED – “Tear It Loose” from SONS OF SATAN PRAISE THE LORD
HAIL OF BULLETS – “Destroyer” from WARSAW RISING EP
DIMMU BORGIR – “Burn In Hell” from PURITANICAL EUPHORIC MISANTHROPIA
CRADLE OF FILTH – “The Fire Still Burns” from TWISTED FOREVER
NOCTURNAL BREED – “Under the Blade” from NO RETREAT…NO SURRENDER
BROKEN HOPE – “Captain Howdy” from REPULSIVE CONCEPTION
SABATON – “The Beast” from PRIMO VICTORIA
VISION OF DISORDER – “Don’t Let Me Down” from TWISTED FOREVER
TWISTED SISTER – “S.M.F.” from STAY HUNGRY
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.
