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ROOTS of 1990: Death Metal’s Big Breakout | on SiriusXM

Chief — Sat, 03 May 2025 18:57:46 +0000

ROOTS 1990: DEATH METAL’S BIG BREAKOUT Week of May 3, 2025 Sat 5/3, 6PM ET Sun 5/4, 1PM ET Mon 5/5, 9AM ET Tues 5/6, 4PM ET Thurs 5/8, 9PM ET Five years after thrash metal’s breakthrough year in 1985, death metal massively erupted into full public view in 1990 with a rash of gruesome instant classic records by Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Autopsy, Death, Bolt Thrower, Napalm Death…

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ROOTS of 1990: Death Metal’s Big Breakout | on SiriusXM

Chief — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 11:09:49 +0000

ROOTS 1990: DEATH METAL’S BIG BREAKOUT Week of July 18, 2020 Sat 7/18, 6PM ET Sun 7/19, 1PM ET Mon 7/20, 9AM ET Tues 7/21, 4PM ET Thurs 7/23, 9PM ET After festering in the underground since the early 1980s, death metal erupted in view in 1990 with an undeniable rash of gruesome instant classic records by Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Napalm Death, Obituary, Nocturnus, Paradise Lost…

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Roots of the Exhumed Family of U.S. Metal Freaks | on Sirius XM

Chief — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 16:56:21 +0000

ROOTS OF THE EXHUMED FAMILY OF U.S. METAL FREAKS on SiriusXM Week of March 23, 2019 Sat 3/23, 6PM ET Sun 3/24, 1PM ET Mon 3/25, 9AM ET Tues 3/26, 4PM ET Thurs 3/28, 9PM ET Twenty years after their sickening Gore Metal debut, we extract the bloody root of San Jose’s long-running Exhumed, and yank out the vast infectious network of related bands including Impaled, Ghoul, Dekapitator…

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Sun, Dec. 2, L.A.: Tom Gabriel Fischer, Albert Mudrian, Brian Lew, Ian Christe at Decibel Metal + Beer Fest

Chief — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:29:01 +0000

BAZILLION POINTS Book Signing and Q&A Sunday, Dec. 2, 6 P.M., Decibel Metal + Beer Fest L.A. Wiltern Theatre, 3790 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles Bazillion Points and Decibel are righteously stoked to announce a Sunday signing and Q&A session at the Decibel Metal + Beer Fest in Los Angeles. Four authors of the heaviest books known to humanity will celebrate ten years of Bazillion Points and…

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ROOTS Salutes Death by Metal, the Chuck Schuldiner Documentary, on SiriusXM

Chief — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 22:30:23 +0000

ROOTS Salutes Death by Metal—the Chuck Schuldiner Documentary—on SiriusXM w/special guest Felipe Belalcazar week of July 7, 2018 Sat 7/7, 6PM ET Sun 7/8, 1PM ET Mon 7/9, 9AM ET Tues 7/10, 4PM ET Thurs 7/12, 9PM ET This week, host Ian Christe welcomes Felipe Belalcazar, director of the new documentary DEATH BY METAL, a loving look at the life and times of death metal icon Chuck Schuldiner…

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Roots of the Exhumed Family of U.S. Metal Freaks on SiriusXM

Chief — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:20:40 +0000

ROOTS OF THE EXHUMED FAMILY OF U.S. METAL FREAKS on SiriusXM Week of June 16, 2018 Sat 6/15, 6PM ET Sun 6/16, 1PM ET Mon 6/17, 9AM ET Tues 6/18, 4PM ET Thurs 6/20, 9PM ET Twenty years after their sickening Gore Metal debut, we extract the bloody root of San Jose’s long-running Exhumed, and yank out the vast infectious network of related bands including Impaled, Ghoul, Dekapitator…

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Roots of Technical German Death Metal on SiriusXM

Chief — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 21:19:29 +0000

ROOTS OF TECHNICAL GERMAN DEATH METAL Week of June 8, 2018 Sat 6/8, 6PM ET Sun 6/9, 1PM ET Mon 6/10, 9AM ET Tues 6/11, 4PM ET Thurs 6/13, 9PM ET Harness yourself into the crash cage for a jarring assault by the highly trained death metal technicians of modern Germany. Gore and guts meet the precision craftsmanship and spiraling imaginations of the German bands Necrophagist…

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Roots Remembers Death Metal Pioneer Frank “Killjoy” Pucci of Necrophagia on SiriusXM

Chief — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 16:16:48 +0000

ROOTS OF DEATH METAL PIONEER FRANK “KILLJOY” PUCCI Week of March 31, 2018 Sat 3/31, 6PM ET Sun 4/1, 1PM ET Mon 4/2, 9AM ET Tues 4/3, 4PM ET Thurs 4/5, 9PM ET This week we mourn and mark a place in metal history for death metal pioneer Frank “Killjoy” Pucci of Necrophagia. Check out Necrophagia tracks spanning from the band’s deathly 1987 debut through the recent White Worm Cathedral…

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Roots of the Great 1990s Major Label Metal Swindle on SiriusXM

Chief — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 22:53:07 +0000

Roots of the Great 1990s Major Label Metal Swindle on SiriusXM Week of February 24, 2018 Sat 2/24, 6PM ET Sun 2/25, 1PM ET Mon 2/26, 9AM ET Tues 2/27, 4PM ET Thurs 3/1, 9PM ET This week’s metal history lesson tracks the brief window between 1991 and 1996 when, anxious to get a grip on the next Metallica or even Nirvana, major corporate record labels signed or aided and abetted the extreme…

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ROOTS Presents 2017: The Year of Death Metal w/Decibel’s Albert Mudrian on Sirius XM

Chief — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 22:21:27 +0000

ROOTS Presents 2017: THE YEAR OF DEATH METAL w/special guest Albert Mudrian December 2, 2017 Sat 12/2, 6PM ET Sun 12/3, 1PM ET Mon 12/4, 9AM ET Tues 12/5, 4PM ET Thurs 12/7, 9PM ET Wrapping up a brutal 2017, host Ian Christe (Sound of the Beast, Bazillion Points) again welcomes Albert Mudrian (Choosing Death, Decibel), for a review of the outstanding year in death metal.

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