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November 16, 2024
ROOTS of 30 Years of Emperor’s IN THE NIGHTSIDE ECLIPSE | on SiriusXM
ROOTS of 30 Years of Emperor’s IN THE NIGHTSIDE ECLIPSE | on SiriusXM Week of November 16, 2024 Sat 11/16, 6PM ET Sun 11/17, 1PM ET Mon 11/18, 9AM ET Tues 11/19, 4PM ET Thurs 11/21, 9PM ET + On-command in SiriusXM app Thirty years ago in February 1994, Emperor released In the Nightside Eclipse. Since recording the album in July 1993, everything had already gone to hell.
November 10, 2024
ROOTS of 40 Years of Celtic Frost’s MORBID TALES | on SiriusXM
ROOTS of 40 Years of Celtic Frost’s MORBID TALES | on SiriusXM Week of November 9, 2024 Sat 11/9, 6PM ET Sun 11/10, 1PM ET Mon 11/11, 9AM ET Tues 11/12, 4PM ET Thurs 11/14, 9PM ET Forty years ago in Nov. 1984, CELTIC FROST issued its stunningly dark and heavy debut, MORBID TALES. Join host Ian Christe as we go track-by-track on this crucial groundbreaking collection…
October 26, 2024
Roots of Metal’s Worst Nightmare | Halloween on SiriusXM
Roots of Metal’s Worst Nightmare | Halloween on SiriusXM Week of October 26, 2024 Sat 10/26, 6PM ET Sun 10/27, 1PM ET Mon 10/28, 9AM ET Tues 10/29, 4PM ET Thurs 10/31, 9PM ET Trick or treat! Host Ian Christe confronts the reality of metal’s worst nightmare this week on Roots, your weekly heavy metal history lesson… Read more about the terrors that inspire heavy metal in HEAVY METAL…
October 19, 2024
Roots of Metal Ghost Stories | Halloween on SiriusXM
ROOTS of METAL GHOST STORIES | HALLOWEEN on SIRIUSXM Week of October 19, 2024 Sat 10/19, 6PM ET Sun 10/20, 1PM ET Mon 10/21, 9AM ET Tues 10/22, 4PM ET Thurs 10/24, 9PM ET As Halloween settles upon the land, host Ian Christe invokes the ghosts, spirits, specters, and phantoms that animate and glue together the spooky soul of heavy metal. Terror tracks by King Diamond, Opeth, Iron Maiden…
October 13, 2024
ROOTS of REAL-WORLD MONSTERS | on SiriusXM
ROOTS of REAL-WORLD MONSTERS | on SiriusXM Week of October 12, 2024 Sat 10/12, 6PM ET Sun 10/13, 1PM ET Mon 10/14, 9AM ET Tues 10/15, 4PM ET Thurs 10/17, 9PM ET This Halloween season we go beyond our usual servings of ghost, zombie, vampire, and werewolf themes to deliver a chilling rogue’s gallery of real-world human savagery in metal songs. Listen as Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Venom…
October 4, 2024
ROOTS of GLENN DANZIG’s SAMHAIN | on SiriusXM
ROOTS of GLENN DANZIG’s SAMHAIN | on SiriusXM Week of October 5, 2024 Sat 10/5, 6PM ET Sun 10/6, 1PM ET Mon 10/7, 9AM ET Tues 10/8, 4PM ET Thurs 10/10, 9PM ET As night falls on summer’s end, we celebrate 40 years since the arrival of the dark debut by Glenn Danzig’s post-Misfits band Samhain. Formed with future Danzig bassist Eerie Von during the fading days of the Misfits…
Boston Public Library 11/26: Nancy Barile’s I’M NOT HOLDING YOUR COAT
Hey Boston, save the date! Nancy Barile, author of I’M NOT HOLDING YOUR COAT: My Bruises-and-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion has been invited to the Book Talk series at Boston Public Library on the theme of “Revolutionary Music.” The event is tentatively set to kick off on November 26, 2024 around 6 p.m. “I can’t tell you what a thrill it will be to speak in this historic and hallowed building…
Boston Public Library 11/26: Nancy Barile’s I’M NOT HOLDING YOUR COAT Book Talk
Hey Boston, save the date! Nancy Barile, author of I’M NOT HOLDING YOUR COAT: My Bruises-and-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion has been invited to the Book Talk series at Boston Public Library on the theme of “Revolutionary Music.” The event is tentatively set to kick off on November 26, 2024 around 6 p.m. “I can’t tell you what a thrill it will be to speak in this historic and hallowed building…
October 1, 2024
HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Today the Texas Chain Saw Massacre Turns 50
Fifty years of skin masks and chain oil later, today is a BIG anniversary from Mike “McBeardo” McPadden’s mighty HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Guitar Barbarians, Mutant Bimbos, & Cult Zombies Amok in the 666 Most Ear- and Eye-Ripping Big-Scream Films Ever!. Tobe Hooper’s original unrelenting, taboo-busting masterpiece premiered exactly fifty years ago today, on October 1, 1974. Rooted in pitch-black…
September 30, 2024
ROOTS of METAL SONGS of PEACE | on SiriusXM
ROOTS of METAL SONGS of PEACE | on SiriusXM Week of September 28, 2024 Sat 9/28, 6PM ET Sun 9/29, 1PM ET Mon 9/30, 9AM ET Tues 10/1, 4PM ET Thurs 10/3, 9PM ET This week, metal bands from Black Sabbath to Jinjer take a hard, disapproving look at humanity’s propensity to wage war. Join us for an unlikely chorus of calls for peace from Sodom, Bolt Thrower, Prong, Metallica, Slayer, Sepultura…