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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 ...

ROOTS Pays Tribute to Steve Albini | on SiriusXM

Above: Steve Albini circa 1987, photo by John Bohnen

ROOTS Pays Tribute to Steve Albini | on SiriusXM
Week of May 4, 2024

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The greater music world suffered a monumental loss this week with the passing of Steve Albini, musician, writer, provocateur, and analog recording evangelist. In celebration of his life we offer tracks by his bands Big Black and Rapeman, covers of Big Black songs by Lamb of God and Fear Fa...

ROOTS of Metal Bass Evolution | on SiriusXM

PHOTO: Cliff Burton, Metallica, Day on the Green 1985, Oakland CA, by Harald Oimoen from MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW: Shots From the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter.

ROOTS of Metal Bass Evolution | on SiriusXM
Week of May 4, 2024

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This week we chart the thunderous evolution of metal bass rumble from Black Sabbath to current Quebec tech-death euphoria, with 4-, 5-, 6-, and 7-string low-end contributions by Iron Maiden,...

ROOTS Salutes Metal Doomfather Ozzy Osbourne | on SiriusXM

ROOTS Salutes Metal Doomfather Ozzy Osbourne | on SiriusXM
Week of April 27, 2024

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As Ozzy Osbourne prepares for his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, Roots shows how much he matters to metal with a playlist of the heaviest tracks from Ozzy’s fifty-plus years of recordings. Selections by Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne solo, plus collaborations with Rick Wakeman, Tony Iommi, Rob Zombi...

ROOTS of Sticky Green Marijuana Metal | on SiriusXM

ROOTS of Sticky Green Marijuana Metal | on SiriusXM
Week of April 20, 2024

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This week, we, uh, whuh? Oh yeah, right! We look down into the haze of 50 years of metal songs about weed, pot, and marijuana, tracing the history from illegal defiance and paranoia to today’s giggly legalization-era party tracks and parodies. Hit after hit by Sleep, May Blitz, Weedeater, Bongzilla, Down, A...

ROOTS of Metal Re-Recordings | on SiriusXM

ROOTS of Metal Re-Recordings | on SiriusXM
Week of April 13, 2024

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Metal bands re-record classic material for many reasons, and today we explore the creative, practical, and business rationales for bands revisiting tracks they first made as teenagers. Exodus, Destruction, Sodom, Suixidal, Anthrax, Testament, Sepultura, Dimmu Borger, and others features. Know your Roots!

Revisit th...

ROOTS of Post-2010 Death Metal Apostles | on SiriusXM

ROOTS of Post-2020 Death Metal Apostles | on SiriusXM
Week of March 23, 2024

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We ravage some fresh graves this week with a survey of post-2010 newcomers extending death metal’s incredible lifespan. Join us for a joyously rotten hour of brutality and outrage from Tomb Mold, Horrendous, Gruesome, Gatecreeper (pictured), Undeath, Blood Incantation, Frozen Soul, 200 Stab Wounds, Sanguisuggabog, and more. Know your...

ROOTS of NYDM | New York Death Metal | on SiriusXM

Bloody Roots of NYDM: New York Death Metal | on SiriusXM
Week of March 16, 2024

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Scrape the sidewalks with NYDM / New York Death Metal this week and take a crawling tour of the neck-snapping, real-life brutality and expertise of Suffocation, Immolation, Incantation, Mortician, plus Pyrexia, Malignancy, Demolition Hammer, Internal Bleeding, newcomers Hypoxia, and more. Yo! Know Your Roots!

Bust into death meta...

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

ROOTS Metal Creator Series: Midnight & Cirith Ungol
Week of March 9, 2024

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Midnight photo by Hannah Verbeuren, from MIDNIGHT: A Thousand Nights in Sodom

Our metal creator series continues with profiles of Cleveland’s raw metal animals MIDNIGHT, and California fantasy metal pioneers CIRITH UNGOL. Join us as we unravel the twenty-year mysteries of Midnight, including music from the ne...