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Bloody Roots of Grindcore on Sirius XM
BLOODY ROOTS OF GRINDCORE
Week of March 12, 2016
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Mon 3/14, 9AM ET
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From the pre-grind...
Machine Dog: This Dog Didn’t Get Its Day
Though this tape has been the source of so much fun and fascination over the years, I have little to say about Machine Dog's...
WORD CUP 2016
Pimping the Ride of the Valkyries
What the fukkin-fukkity-fukk-fukk? Cheery black metal Swedes get their Audi adjusted by crunk king Lil...
Roots of Heavy Love: Valentine’s Day Metal Sweethearts | on SiriusXM
Roots of Heavy Love: Valentine's Day Metal Sweethearts | on SiriusXM
Week of Feb 9, 2019
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Roots Hails the Return of POSSESSED | on SiriusXM
Delve into new Possessed tracks, rarities, and tributes by heavy-hitting peers and proteges including Amon Amarth, Marduk, Cannibal Corpse, Death, and Cavalera Conspiracy.
WRC Rally Cup
Bloody Roots of Haunting Female-Fronted Heavy Occult Metal on SiriusXM
The best of recent incantations by Castle, Lucifer (pictured), Wooden Stake, Holy Grove, Serpentcult, Cauchemar, Mansion, and more.
Devastation: A Re-Re-Creation of Ripping Death
Now here's a band whose head is screwed onto their legacy right. Devastation from Chicago...
Stephen King Is a Tesco Vee Fan
Bazillion Points author Tesco Vee has friends in high places, no doubt, but who knew Stephen King was listening to Tesco's early Touch and Go Records releases?
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CYCLING TOUR
Decibel Mag Previews METALION Book
Waaaay ahead of publication, Decibel profiles Metalion author Jon Kristiansen in its March 2009 issue about his upcoming Slayer Mag book:
"I mostly did everything...
Roots of Metal Live Albums | on SiriusXM
Live classics by Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Slayer and peak Pantera, plus extreme perfection by Morbid Angel, Emperor, and Entombed
Bloody Roots of Crushing Psychedelic Doom Metal on Sirius XM
Bloody Roots of Crushing Psychedelic Doom Metal on Sirius XM
Week of May 7, 2016
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Roots of Fresh Bands from Familiar Metal Faces
Can you teach an old metal dog new tricks?
Metal, She Signified
As the latest in our ongoing series of people engaging in metal behavior before heavy metal was invented (see recent post of Velvet Underground in grim corpse paint in the mid-1960s), here's a gaggle of gals experimenting with cryptic hand gestures in North Berkeley
TENNIS
NYHC: Vinnie Stigma Turns 60 at St. Vitus in Brooklyn on...
Ever the working class hero, Stigma will be busy playing at his birthday bash, as Agnostic Front headlines a bill with fellow NYHC legends Antidote and Boston oi band Hammer and the Nails
Thumbs Up, Laina Dawes!
Production proofs of Laina Dawes's upcoming book What Are You Doing Here?
LATEST ARTICLES
ROOTS Remembers Alexi Laiho of Children of Bodom | on SiriusXM
We lay prolific Finnish guitar phenomenon Alexi Laiho to rest this week at age 41.
ROOTS of Post-Black Metal | on SiriusXM
Intense new atmospheric waves of expression by Solstafir, Ihsahn, Alcest, Deafheaven, Axioma, Altar of Plagues, Oranssi Pazuzu, and more
ROOTS of 2020 Metal Instrumentals | on SiriusXM
Ranging from the savage to the sublime, instrumental Mastodon, Kirk Windstein, Sweven, Dark Fortress, Cirith Ungol, Metallica, Triptykon, and more.
ROOTS of Classic 1980s Power Metal…and a Metal Mystery! | on SiriusXM
A power metal mystery! And tracks by like-minded pioneers Helstar, Liege Lord, Jag Panzer, Sacred Rite, Heir Apparent, Omen, Riot, and others
ROOTS of the Youngest Teen Metal Terrors | on SiriusXM
Influential 15-, 16-, and 17-year-olds from the metal bands Sepultura, Possessed, Scorpions, Def Leppard, Emperor, Bathory, and Alien Weaponry
Metal Turns 50: ROOTS of 21st Century Metal Influencers | on SiriusXM
State-of-the-art metal by Gojira, Mastodon, Lamb of God, Ghost, Power Trip, Baroness, Triptykon, Municipal Waste, Dragonforce, and more
ROOTS of Native American Metal | on Sirius XM
This Thanksgiving week, we bring to the table a metal history lesson uniting fifty years of heavy metal with centuries of North American roots.
Roots of Slayer’s Evil 1985 Masterpiece HELL AWAITS | on SiriusXM
We go track by track into Slayer's Hell Awaits, including the originals plus tributes by Sinister, Fleshcrawl, Angelcorpse & Cradle of Filth
ROOTS Deals Forty Years of Motörhead’s Ace of Spades | on SiriusXM
November 8 marks the 40th anniversary of Motörhead's Ace of Spades
ROOTS of Italian Horror Metal | on SiriusXM
Join us this Halloween week as we invoke the arcane and melodramatic aura of Italian horror metal bands on SiriusXM's Bloody Roots
Roots of Inspirational Power Metal | on SiriusXM
A triumphant, uplifting hour of inspirational power metal by Demons & Wizards, Lost Horizon, Manowar, Hammerfall, Nocturnal Rites, Dragonforce, and more.
Roots of 21st Century Metal Comebacks | on SiriusXM
Featuring bands dormant for ten years or more, including Carcass, Angel Witch, Cirith Ungol, Exhorder, At the Gates, Sacred Reich, Sleep
Roots Remembers Edward Lodewijk Van Halen | on SiriusXM
This week we remember Eddie Van Halen, the king of heavy metal guitar.
ROOTS of 1990: Thrash Metal’s Hour of Reckoning | on SiriusXM
Prime 1990 offerings by Destruction, Megadeth, Exodus, Forbidden, Artillery, Anthrax, Prong, Kreator, and Suicidal Tendencies
ROOTS of Infectious Plague Metal | on SiriusXM
Infectious plague- and pandemic-themed tracks by Cannibal Corpse, Death, Slayer, Pestilence, Kreator, Napalm Death, Morbid Angel, and more
ROOTS of Black Sabbath’s PARANOID at 50 | on SiriusXM
Fifty years of Black Sabbath's PARANOID, exploring its creation, bracing lyrics, and tributes by Slayer, Megadeth, Type O Negative, and more
Roots of Killing Joke | on SiriusXM
In the ominous, relentless world of Killing Joke: four decades of heavy tracks and covers by Metallica, Prong, Fear Factory, Behemoth, Helmet
ROOTS of Black Sabbath’s Debut | 50 Years of Metal on SiriusXM
Roots celebrates the birth of heavy metal and fifty years since February 13, 1970, and the release of the first Black Sabbath LP
ANTIDOTE | NYHC Band of the Week
Matt Warnke, Bold: "Antidote's Thou Shalt Not Kill is one of the singularly sickest, most perfect blasts of hardcore ever created."
ROOTS of Post-Black Metal | on SiriusXM
Sounds from the black metal toolbox—but don't call it black metal—by Solstafir, Deafheaven, Altar of Plagues, Oranssi Pazuzu, and more