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Bang Bang Meditation: Visualize a Slayer Party
The pressure is building already, and it's so early in the day. You feel the twitch in your temples. Why won't the phone stop...
Roots of Jazz in Metal | on SiriusXM
Flip your wig with sax-soaked madness from pioneers Painkiller, Flying Luttenbachers, Ephel Death, and Yakuza
WORD CUP 2016
ROOTS of Rare Collectible Metal Vinyl | on SiriusXM
$100,000 worth of metal and hardcore vinyl by Bathory, Iron Maiden, Judge and Mayhem, plus Flames of Hell, Militia, Paradoxx, Fallout and more
Bloody Roots Honors Defenders of the Old on Sirius XM
Bloody Roots unearths classic molten tracks by performers Exciter, the Rods, Riot, and Brocas Helm, as well as new breed metal defenders Cauchemar, Natur, October 31, High Spirits and others
Bloody Roots of SLEEP on Sirius XM
Leaving a slow, sticky slime trail since crawling out of a Northern California cave in the early 1990s...
WRC Rally Cup
Roots Farewell to Slayer, Part III: Reaping in the 1990s on SiriusXM
A decade of successful aggression from the revamped Slayer lineup featuring drummer Paul Bostaph.
Roots of Black Metal Rock ‘n’ Roll | on SiriusXM
ROOTS OF BLACK METAL ROCK 'N' ROLL
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Roots Farewell to Slayer, Part IV: The Final Command | on SiriusXM
Picking up with the return of original drummer Dave Lombardo in 2002 and continuing through the Christ Illusion, World Painted Blood, and Repentless albums.
CYCLING TOUR
MEAN DEVIATION: New Songs by Texas Prog Metal Gods WATCHTOWER Available Now
How long has Watchtower made the world wait for its next multidimensional breath?
Swedish Sensationsfilms: A Sneak Peek
Available April 1 in bookstores everywhere, Bazillion Points Books presents SWEDISH SENSATIONSFILMS: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema (ISBN 978-09796163-6-5 US$19.95), a lavish and fiery 328pp retrospective of over 200 banned and cut films produced during the golden age of Swedish sin.
The Gear of Satan
Demolition Hammer's excellent "Skull Fracturing Nightmare" sits here ready for rescue, but I've been battling my infernal analog-digital converter for over a month now....
SiriusXM Bloody Roots of Korean Metal
A quarter century of traditional, thrash, death, black, and doomy theatrical metal from the nation that brought us gold farming, Oldboy, and "Gangnam Style."
Terror: Snuffing Out Terror From Gothenburg
Thanks to recently-reactivated At the Gates drummer Adrian Erlandsson (also ex-Cradle of Filth) for posting three great demo songs recorded in two days in...
TENNIS
ROOTS of 2024 Metal Instrumentals | on SiriusXM
Epic metal instrumentals from 2024 by High on Fire, Deceased, 200 Stab Wounds, Blood Incantation, Darkthrone, Inter Arma, Passage d'Hiver, and more
Bloody Roots of Brazil’s 1980s Raw Metal Attack | on SiriusXM
Brazil's over-the-top frenzied headbanger invasion, with Sepultura, Sarcofago, Vulcano, Mystifier, Holocausto, Mutilator, and more
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ROOTS Remembers Tomas Lindberg of AT THE GATES | on SiriusXM
A powerful journey through Tompa's recordings with At the Gates, Disfear, Skitsystem, Lock Up, Converge, the Crown, Necronaut, the Lurking Fear, more
ROOTS of 2025 Metal Instrumentals | on SiriusXM
in 1985 the metal world was upended by young thrash metal bands including Overkill, Slayer, Exodus, Celtic Frost, Anthrax, Megadeth, Dark Angel, and Destruction.
ROOTS Best of 2025: Thrash Metal’s 1985 Assault | on SiriusXM
in 1985 the metal world was upended by young thrash metal bands including Overkill, Slayer, Exodus, Celtic Frost, Anthrax, Megadeth, Dark Angel, and Destruction.
ROOTS Worst of 2025: Metal’s A.I. Nightmare | on SiriusXM
A.I.-generated metal slop by Frostbite Orckings, Stei Camel, Artificial Steel, Fog Inhaler, Vaporous Grave, and more, as metal faces its worst nightmare this week on Roots
ROOTS of Native American Metal 2025 | on SiriusXM
Winterhawk, Medicine Horse, Inferno Antichrist, Mutilated Tyrant (pictured), Land Lost, Six Million Dead, Maul, Six Million Dead, and more
ROOTS of South American Progressive Metal | on SiriusXM
Recent tracks by former DEATH members in Autopsy, Testament, Cynic, Expulsion, Obituary, Charred Walls of the Damned, Massacre, King Diamond, and more.
ROOTS of Chuck Schuldiner’s Death Band Members | on SiriusXM
Recent tracks by former DEATH members in Autopsy, Testament, Cynic, Expulsion, Obituary, Charred Walls of the Damned, Massacre, King Diamond, and more.
ROOTS of NEW ORLEANS METAL | on SiriusXM
BONDED BY BLOOD. We go track by violent track, including live Exodus versions and tributes from Exhumed, Sepultura, Slayer, and Metal Allegiance
ROOTS of Total Metal Evil | on SiriusXM
Diabolical tracks by Bathory, Possessed, Mercyful Fate, Slayer, Satyricon, Deicide, Carnage, Behemoth, Testament, Morbid Angel
ROOTS of Metal Body Horror | on SiriusXM
Shocking tracks by Voivod, Enforcer, Autopsy, Fear Factory, Cannibal Corpse, Devourment, Revocation, Pestilence, and more
ROOTS of Metal Folk Horror | on SiriusXM
A chill-inducing journey into metal folk horror by Venom, Iron Maiden, Wurdulak, Jex Thoth, Mansion, Green Lung, Type O Negative, Vampire, and more.
ROOTS of Metal Space Horror | on SiriusXM
A terrifying trek across the creepy cosmos with Vektor, Nocturnus, Hypocrisy, Cryptic Shift, Blood Incantation, Wormed, Artificial Brain, Voivod, Gigan, & more
ROOTS Death Band 2025 Alumni Update | on SiriusXM
Recent tracks by former DEATH members in Autopsy, Testament, Cynic, Expulsion, Obituary, Charred Walls of the Damned, Massacre, King Diamond, and more.
ROOTS Honors Tomas Lindberg of AT THE GATES | on SiriusXM
A powerful journey through Tompa's recordings with At the Gates, Disfear, Skitsystem, Lock Up, Converge, the Crown, Necronaut, the Lurking Fear, more
ROOTS Creator Series: SATYRICON + PARADISE LOST | on SiriusXM
Join our Satyricon / Paradise Lost primer / refresher feat. live material, tributes by Grave, Sinister, and Evoken, and music by Thorns and 1349
ROOTS Tribute to Brent Hinds of Mastodon | on SiriusXM
Rare Mastodon tracks, side projects Fiend Without a Face and West End Motel, plus bands w/ members of High on Fire, Behemoth, Dillinger Escape Plan, Mars Volta
ROOTS Megadeth Speed Session | on SiriusXM
Rattle yer head w/live & album tracks, plus tributes by Ghoul, Lamb of God, Arch Enemy, Nightwish, Black Dahlia Murder and ex Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman.
ROOTS of 1990s Stoner Metal | on SiriusXM
The retro rumblings of Down, the Obsessed, Kyuss, Sleep, Melvins, Acid King, Goatsnake, Cathedral, Acid King, Melvins, and more
ROOTS of Songs About Metal History | on SiriusXM
Songs that tell the history of metal, by Entombed, Saxon, Kreator, Darkthrone, Anthrax, Pantera, Overkill, Ill Bill, Heaven, Judas Priest, Sabaton, Sodom
ROOTS of Birmingham’s British Steel | on SiriusXM
Birmingham steel by Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Diamond Head, G.B.H., Napalm Death, Bolt Thrower, Godflesh, Cathedral, Anaal Nathrakh, and more


























































