Ian Christe's Blog, page 55

Dirty Rotten Imbeciles: But Wait…There’s a New D.R.I. Record!

After twenty-one dirty, rotten, imbecilic years of silence, crossover thrash blasters D.R.I. return with the pointedly-titled But Wait… There’s More! EP. As nature intended, the record crams five tracks into just under ten minutes. This marks our MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW coauthor Harald Oimoen’s official recording debut after spending nearly two decades in the band.

Frontman Kurt Brecht describes them as: “More old-school hardcore, without the metal guitar sound.” That suits us fine—although a...

Bloody Roots of Metal’s mid-1990s Alternative Love Affair on Sirius XM

Bloody Roots of Metal’s mid-1990s Alternative Love Affair on Sirius XM
Week of July 16, 2016

Sat 7/16, 6PM ET
Sun 7/17, 1PM ET
Mon 7/18, 9AM ET
Tues 7/19, 4PM ET
Thurs 7/21, 9PM ET

Where were you in 1995, when metal bands starting wearing black fingernail polish and getting into moody, groovy alternative sounds? Join host Ian Christe (“Sound of the Beast”/Bazillion Points) for a 20-year recap of the mid-1990s adventures in alternative music with Sepultura, Prong, Machine Head, Anthrax, Forbid...

Bloody Roots Excavates Thirty Festering Years of REPULSION’s Horrified on Sirius XM

Bloody Roots Excavates Thirty Festering Years of REPULSION’s Horrified
Week of July 9, 2016

Sat 7/9, 6PM ET
Sun 7/10, 1PM ET
Mon 7/11, 9AM ET
Tues 7/12, 4PM ET
Thurs 7/14, 9PM ET

Grab a spade and a key to the cemetery gate, this week’s metal history show examines the June 1986 recording of REPULSION’s visionary debut LP, Horrified. Prepare for visions from the gruesome dawn of death metal and grindcore, complete with demo tracks by pre-Repulsion band Genocide; music from contemporaries Terror...

Bloody Roots of French Metal on Sirius XM

BLOODY ROOTS OF FRENCH METAL

Sat 7/2, 6PM ET
Sun 7/3, 1PM ET
Mon 7/4, 9AM ET
Tues 7/5, 4PM ET
Thurs 7/7, 9PM ET

Salut! This week’s metal history lesson supports France with a thirty-year salute to the dramatic, mind-bending metal of America’s oldest ally. Show includes classic NWOBHM-era cuts by Trust, H-Bomb, and Vulcain; lethal deathly thrash by Agressor and Massacra; industrial bleakness from Treponem Pal and Blut Aus Nord; overwhelming blackness by Aosoth and Deathspell Omega; and the mo...

Bloody Roots Lucky Year 13 Metal History Launch Party on Sirius XM

BLOODY ROOTS Lucky Year 13 Metal History Launch Party on SIRIUS XM
Week of June 25, 2016

Sat 6/25, 6PM ET
Sun 6/26, 1PM ET
Mon 6/27, 9AM ET
Tues 6/28, 4PM ET
Thurs 6/30, 9PM ET

Triskaidekaphobes beware! This week host Ian Christe (“Sound of the Beast”) kicks off the thirteenth season of Bloody Roots with celebration of all things metal and a refresher course on how weekly heavy metal history lessons came to live on Sirius XM. Rejoice in over 600 sessions, each highlighting another style of me...

Bloody Roots of Viking Metal on Sirius XM

BLOODYROOTSof Viking Metal on Sirius XM
Week of June 18, 2016

Sat 6/18, 6PM ET
Sun 6/19, 1PM ET
Mon 6/20, 9AM ET
Tues 6/21, 4PM ET
Thurs 6/23, 9PM ET

Since the dawn of the heavy metal era, bands clad in leather and steel have pillaged the myths and legends of ancient viking hordes for power, glory, and the spoils of war. Join Ian Christe (“Sound of the Beast”/Bazillion Points) and heed the call of the horns of Enslaved, Bathory, Manowar, Windir, Ensiferum, Tyr, Helheim, Amon Amarth, Viking Th...

UNLEASHED Is the Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week

Raise your silver hammers for Unleashed, the Swedish death metal monsterhouse formed by Johnny Hedlund in 1989 after Nihilist split up! Actually, Nihilist didn’t really split up, all the younger members only pretended to fold, they then promptly reunited as Entombed without telling Hedlund. Oof! But that’s all water under the Øresund Bridge, and we on the listening end of things benefited by the emergence of two essential bands.

Unleashed’s 1991 debut Where No Life Dwells is a smooth-rolling...

Long Before Amon Amarth, Faithful Breath Was Floating Around on a Homemade Viking Longship

If you prefer your 1980s heavy metal to be marinated in strong ale, clad in spandex and animal stripes, and, if possible, floating on a homemade viking longship complete with towering dragon heads, then cheers to you. German prog rockers turned debauched headbangers Faithful Breath spent the warmest day of summer 1985 in Bochum floating around in search of fun, playing oar guitars and banging on pontoons while shooting a video for the title track of their tenth (!) album, Skol.

Now that this...

Bloody Roots Welcomes Luc Lemay of GORGUTS on SiriusXM

Bloody Roots Welcomes Luc Lemay of GORGUTS on SiriusXM
Week of June 11, 2016

Sat 6/11, 6PM ET
Sun 6/12, 1PM ET
Mon 6/13, 9AM ET
Tues 6/14, 4PM ET
Thurs 6/16, 9PM ET

This week host Ian Christe (Bazillion Points, “Sound of the Beast”) welcomes French-Canadian death metal mastermind Luc Lemay of Gorguts. Prepare for a history lesson covering 25 years of state-of-the-art death metal madness, with discussions of early Suffocation, the Death to All tour, and extreme compositional technique, buildin...

Friday 6/10, Asbury Park, NJ: Tony Rettman Q&A at NEW BREED Comp Doc Screening

This Friday, a supreme chronicle of hardcore cassette culture finds Asbury Park, New Jersey, as The ShowRoom hosts a screening of the New Breed Documentary with a Q&A led by NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990 author Tony Rettman.

Action kicks off at 8PM, and the ShowRoom is located at 707 Cookman Ave. in Asbury Park

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The New Breed Documentary chronicles a cassette compilation put out by Freddy Alva and Chaka Malik in 1989. New York hardcore was undergoing a transition at...