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ROOTS of Heavy Straight Edge | on SiriusXM Liquid Metal

ROOTS of Heavy Straight Edge | on SiriusXM Liquid Metal Week of July 27, 2024 Sat 7/27, 6PM ET Sun 7/28, 1PM ET Mon 7/29, 9AM ET Tues 7/30, 4PM ET Thurs 8/1, 9PM ET + On Demand in the SiriusXM app This week’s heavy straight edge playlist proves sober metal and hardcore punk can pack a sobering punch. Join us for a straight edge primer that starts with Minor Threat, SSD, Slapshot…

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ROOTS of Ashes of the Leviathan: Lamb of God and Mastodon in 2004 | on SiriusXM

ROOTS of Ashes of the Leviathan: Lamb of God and Mastodon in 2004 | on SiriusXM Week of July 20, 2024 Sat 7/20, 6PM ET Sun 7/21, 1PM ET Mon 7/22, 9AM ET Tues 7/23, 4PM ET Thurs 7/25, 9PM ET +On command in the SiriusXM app On August 31, 2004 (a few weeks after the first Roots metal history show), American metal newcomers Lamb of God and Mastodon each released career-defining albums that…

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ROOTS: Hellfest 2024’s French Metal Revelations | on SiriusXM

ROOTS: Hellfest’s French Metal Revelations | on SiriusXM
Week of July 13, 2024

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This week Ian Christe stomps back from the massive metal vineyards of Hellfest 2024 in France with a report on the country’s select vintage of fiercely original and energized metal and hardcore scene. Celebrate Bastille Day with an onslaught of hardcore, thrash, black metal, deathcore, and truly avan...

MIDNIGHT Author Hannah Verbeuren: “In Cleveland There’s a Lot of Angst, So I Was Taking A Lot of Pictures of That”

STATIKNOIZE has just posted a pre-release interview with Hannah Verbeuren, the photographer behind our upcoming hardcover MIDNIGHT: A Thousand Nights in Sodom. The talk touches on the roots of Midnight, Hannah’s experiences on the road with metal bands, the crucial Ohio bands Boulder and Motörhead U.S.A., and the process of compiling her definitive document of the band’s many live, candid, and fantasy dimensions.

Some brief excerpts from THE FULL STATIKNOIZE INTERVIEW follow:

On the early days...

ROOTS of Native American Metal: July 4 Edition | on SiriusXM

Photo: Sage Bond | @sage_bond007

ROOTS of Native American Metal: July 4, 2024 Edition | on SiriusXM
Week of July 6, 2024

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We celebrate Native North American Metal this week with tracks by Hell Throne, Blood Wolf, Testament, Blackbraid, Nechochwen, the Yoties w/Sage Bond, Under Exile, Testify, Resistant Culture, I Don’t Konform, and more. Representing Navajo, Hopi, Pueblo, Mohawk, Al...

Roots of Family Metal Bands | on Sirius XM

Roots of Family Metal Bands | on Sirius XM
Week of June 15, 2024

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Happy Father’s Day! Metal history is all relative this week as Ian Christe spotlights heavy bands featuring brothers and sisters. Learn the names Cavalera, Schenker, Tardy, Adler, Abbott, Duplantier, Lander, Bjorler, and others as we hear tightly knit tracks by Gojira, Obituary, Sepultura, Anathema, Decapitated, De...

ROOTS of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS in METAL | on SiriusXM Liquid Metal

ROOTS of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS IN METAL | on SiriusXM Liquid Metal
Week of June 9, 2024

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Fifty years ago in January 1974, Gary Gygax boxed up the first Dungeons & Dragons sets for mail order from his basement in Lake Geneva, WI. In honor of the legendary role-playing game system, this week we map out a heavy sword-waving and spell-casting campaign of D&D-inspired metal by Visigoth, ...

ROOTS of Opera Singers in Metal | on SiriusXM

ROOTS of Opera Singers in Metal | on SiriusXM
Week of June 1, 2024

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This week we herald the unusual and powerful crossover of metal and opera, ranging from early experiments by Celtic Frost and Therion, to specific power metal and symphonic metal uses by Nightwish and Epica. Then comes the darkness: death metal and avant garde fusion by Septicflesh, Igorrr, Skalmold, and Fleshgod Apocalypse (pictured above). It ain...

ROOTS Honors MAYHEM’s De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas 1994-2024 | on SiriusXM

ROOTS Honors MAYHEM’s De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas 1994-2024 | on SiriusXM
Week of May 25, 2024

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This week Roots discovers the darkness of MAYHEM’s 1994 Norwegian black metal masterpiece DE MYSTERIIS DOM SATHANAS. We go track-by-track with album cuts, pre-release recordings featuring earlier singer Dead, live recordings, and tributes by Emperor, Immortal, Gorogoroth, Dark Funeral, doomslayers Crypt Sermon, and mo...

ROOTS of 1994: The Year in Groove Metal | on SiriusXM

Above: 3/4 of Burn Ey Eyes-era Machine Head, courtesy of Machine Head

ROOTS of 1994: The Year in Groove Metal | on SiriusXM #2
Week of May 18, 2024

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Thirty years ago, metal put its ear and found its bounce. Veterans including Obituary, Slayer, and Sepultura joined new faces Machine Head and Biohazard in forging frenetic groove metal engineered for macho moshpit mayhem. Bands including Meshuggah and Prong took ...