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Roots of 2024 Metal Instrumentals on SiriusXM / photo by Ian Christe

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
Death Band Alumni Update ROOTS Playlist with Ian Christe on SiriusXM

ROOTS Death Band 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.
Max Cavalera, Basel 2023, by Ian Christe

ROOTS Revisits Brazil’s Metal Veterans | on SiriusXM

tracks from 2018 through 2023 by Mutilator, Cavalera, MX, Ratos de Porao, The Troops of Doom, Holocausto, Vulcano, Mystifier, Sepultura, and more!
ROOTS of Progressive Metal on SiriusXM playlist

ROOTS of Progressive Metal | on SiriusXM

Transcend time and space with Opeth, Rush, Void, Coroner, Dream Theater, Cynic, Control Denied, Enslaved, Deathspell Omega, Blood Incantation...
Roots Metal Feast Playlist on SiriusXM with Ghoul Repulsion Bloodbath Black Sabbath

ROOTS Ravenous Metal Thanksgiving Feast | on SiriusXM

A wretched metal menu served raw by Repulsion, Grave, Deceased, Autopsy, Carnivore, Dark Angel, Carcass, Devourment, Black Sabbath, Municipal Waste...
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ROOTS of 30 Years of Emperor’s IN THE NIGHTSIDE ECLIPSE | on SiriusXM

We go track by track to celebrate 30 years of Emperor's In the Nightside Eclipse Norwegian black metal masterpiece
ROOTS of 40 years of Celtic Frost's Morbid Tales

ROOTS of 40 Years of Celtic Frost’s MORBID TALES | on SiriusXM

Morbid Tales by Celtic Frost, plus Triptykon, Triumph of Death, High on Fire, Brutal Truth, Sepultura, Dimmu Borgir, Mayhem, and more... OOH!
Metal's Worst Nightmare Roots on SiriusXM Liquid Metal

Roots of Metal’s Worst Nightmare | Halloween on SiriusXM

Tracks by Frostbite Orckings, Stei Camel, Artificial Steel, Fog Inhaler, Vaporous Grave, and more, as metal confronts its worst nightmare this week on Roots.
Mikael Akerfeldt of Opted, image via Mikael

Roots of Metal Ghost Stories | Halloween on SiriusXM

Terror tracks by King Diamond, Opeth, Iron Maiden, Ghost, Entombed, Deceased, Testament, Mortician, Stench, the Devil's Blood, and others
Roots of Real-World Monsters playlist on SiriusXM

ROOTS of REAL-WORLD MONSTERS | on SiriusXM

Real-world human savagery in metal songs by Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Venom, Melvins, Testament, Suffocation, Bloodbath, the Black Dahlia Murder
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ROOTS of GLENN DANZIG’s SAMHAIN | on SiriusXM

New levels of demonic post-punk horror metal by Samhain, and tributes by Marduk, Cloak, Exhumed, Tombs, In Solitude, the Gates of Slumber, Cradle of Filth
Nancy Barile Boston Public Library

Boston Public Library 11/26: Nancy Barile’s I’M NOT HOLDING YOUR COAT

Nancy Barile invited to the Book Talk series at Boston Public Library on the theme of “Revolutionary Music.”

HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Today the Texas Chain Saw Massacre Turns 50

Texas isn’t just weird. It’s also scary. And it will kill you in horrible, creative ways.

ROOTS of METAL SONGS of PEACE | on SiriusXM

An unlikely chorus of calls for peace from Sodom, Bolt Thrower, Prong, Metallica, Slayer, Sepultura, Pentagram, Trivium, Rotten Sound, many others

ROOTS of MATH METAL | on SiriusXM

Candiria, Dillinger Escape Plan, Blotted Science, Mastodon, Sliang Laos, Breadwinner, Botch, Necrophagist, and other metal mathematicians

ROOTS of California Death Metal | on SiriusXM

We follow death metal's path across California with tracks by Possessed, Autopsy, Terrorizer, plus Fear Factory, Impaled, Exhumed, Cattle Decapitation

ROOTS of Iron Maiden’s Powerslave | on SiriusXM

Celebrate 40 years of Iron Maiden's Powerslave w/rarities, live material, and tributes by Arch Enemy, Rhapsody of Fire, Testament, and Anaal Nathrakh on ROOTS!

ROOTS Back-to-School Book Club Reads Stephen King | on SiriusXM

A fiendish flurry of Stephen King-inspired songs by Testament, Anthrax, Metallica, the Ramones, Gehenna, Blind Guardian, more
Slayer - Show No Mercy

ROOTS: SLAYER’s Show No Mercy Turns 40 | on SiriusXM

SLAYER's debut track-by-track, including tributes by Dissection, Entombed, the Chasm, Wolf, Necrophobic, Gruesome, Noisem, and more. Evil!

ROOTS Metal Creator Series: Midnight & Cirith Ungol | on SiriusXM

Unravel the raw mystery of MIDNIGHT and bid farewell to unique pioneers CIRITH UNGOL