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Two decades later, your weekly metal history lesson returns Crimson to the spotlight for a new look.

Gore and guts meet the precision craftsmanship and spiraling imaginations of the German bands Necrophagist, Defeated Sanity, Obscura, Profanity, Hannes Grossmann, and many others

In honor of what should have been Chuck Schuldiner's 50th birthday, we honor "Evil Chuck"'s long road to creating his band Death's 1987 debut Scream Bloody Gore.

This week's show singles out the extraordinarily driven one-man metal bands whose solitary efforts have uniquely altered the arc of metal history

For a billion headbangers across the seas, the metal story has just begun. Know your Roots!

Bands like Inter Arma, Schammasch, Thou, Sumac, Almyrkvi, and Bölzer are converging from across the metal universe to craft a humongous, titanic new sonic expanse.

Engage the eternal madness this week with tracks by Demilich, Sentenced, Xysma, Amorphis, Krypts, Convulse, Torture Killer (feat. Chris Barnes) and more.

Fly into a whirlwind pit tour of Europe, featuring over 30 years of classic and state-of-the-art hardcore punk from Germany, Sweden, Spain, Finland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and beyond.

This week Roots honors the anniversary tour of Norwegian black metal's most controversial and cursed classic recording.

Push your way to the front for classic live and studio Saxon anthems, plus salutes by Sodom, Deceased, Destruction, Metallica, Motörhead, Paragon, and other stallions of the highways.

Terrific tracks by Gaga, Miley, Biebler, Lilo, Cheezy, Gnap Gnop, the genius Kanye, and some random Kardashians.

Mike “McBeardo” McPadden blasts a black lite on the most headbanging hair-raisers of the PMRC era!

This week the well-traveled boots of ROOTS return to the historical heavy metal hotbed of Germany for an unleashed lesson in unbridled German thrash metal.

A barnstorming assault of instant classic anthems that introduced new singer Bruce Dickinson and catapulted the band into worldwide headlining status.

Roots revisits the savage leading edge of progress by post-nuclear pilgrims including Power Trip, Havok, Dust Bolt, Lost Society, Hellbringer, and Vektor.

New music spit out by Discharge, the Meatmen, G.B.H., Suicidal Tendencies, D.R.I., Harley Flanagan, C.O.C., Mob 47, Agnostic Front, Snapshot, and others

Keep reminding yourself—it's only a podcast!

This long-awaited documentary by Antidote singer Drew Stone will sell out by the end of the day, so make your move and score tickets

The illustrious Bazillion Points author will screen clips and discuss the most metal of heavy metal movies. Admission is free.

Join us as we unearth the relentless power, melody, and groove of Stockholm, Sweden's, death metal magistrates Entombed