BLOODY ROOTS Weekly Metal History Show :: Sirius XM Liquid Metal

09/04/2025

Ozzy-san! 👹 Mr. Ichiro Oz of Hayakawa Publishing, esteemed editor of the Japanese translation of Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, by Bazillion Points publisher Ian Christe ⚡️ The original Japanese jacket of this hardcover is a masterpiece! 💀

🧙‍♂️ https://www.soundofthebeast.com

08/04/2025

Feeling adrift and ripped apart by demons?? Dude, that's what SLAYER's for! Get yer guts back and find your footing w/ ROOTS of SLAYER's HELL AWAITS in twenty mins. 👹 Forty years ago today, Slayer unveiled their masterpiece, and we go track by track on ROOTS, including live cuts and tributes by Cradle of Filth, 16, Sinister, Sadistic Intent, and At the Gates. Spread your wings—and Know yourrr Rrrroooots!

https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/.../roots-of-slayer.../

05/04/2025

You have waited long enough! HELL no longer AWAITS ⚡ JOIN US this week in honor of SLAYER's evil April 1985 masterpiece Hell Awaits. 👹 Check out young Slayer charting out metal’s future, including live cuts and tributes by Cradle of Filth, 16, Sinister, Sadistic Intent, and At the Gates. Join us! Spread your wings—and Know your Rrrroooots!

https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2025/04/05/roots-of-slayer-hell-awaits-death-thrash-metal-playlist-siriusxm/

29/03/2025

Be forewarned! 💀 ROOTS scrapes the sarcophagus for what you're looking for—an hour of stone-cold Pentagram hits, plus Place of Skulls and The Limit, and tributes by Ogre, Bewitcher, Reverend Bizarre, Darkest Hour, and Gatecreeper... review your choices, and Know Your Roooots! 👹

https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2025/03/29/roots-of-pentagram-bobby-liebling-doom-metal-playlist-siriusxm/

23/03/2025

Join us for the dirty, sawing, glorious rasping of ROOTS of SWEDISH DEATH METAL CHAINSAW GUITAR w/ Entombed, Dismember, At the Gates, Interment, Repugnant, Bloodbath, Lik, Fuming Mouth, and morrrrrrrre. Yank the chain—know your RRROOOTS! ⛓🪚

https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2025/03/23/swedish-death-metal-chainsaw-guitar-hm2-siriusxm/

17/03/2025

Dashboard photos of ROOTS playing in people's cars FTW ⚡

Okay deze heeft niks te maken met Peter Vink maar toch wil ik het jullie niet onthouden. Onderweg naar huis op Liquid Metal.
Neerlands trots. Hou die royalties check in de gaten theGathering.
Anneke Van Giersbergen De Loodzware Jongens Dutch Metalheads Metalfan.nl Mike Arntz Rob Trommelen, Aardschok, Ian Christe BLOODY ROOTS Weekly Metal History Show :: Sirius XM Liquid Metal

17/03/2025

Just wrapped today's ROOTS, come back Tues or Thurs for more or grab it on-demand.... we're intensifying respect for Women in Hardcore Punk w/two dozen tracks by Plasmatics, Vice Squad, Sacrilege U.K. (singer Lynda “Tam” Simpson pictured), Oathbreaker, Crisis, Nausea, Damad, Eaten Alive, L7, Walls of Jericho, Gouge Away, Buggin, Sharptooth, and more! Know yourrrrr Roots!

https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2025/03/17/roots-of-women-in-hardcore-punk-siriusxm-playlist/

12/02/2025

This is a ghoul's night out! 👻 Some cold, stiff goth and metal marriages this Valentine's week by Celtic Frost, Tiamat, Type O Negative, Lacuna Coil, Tribulation (pictured), Mortiis, Moonspell, Unto Others, Verona on Venus, Fields of the Nephilim, and more... feel the chill, and know your Roots!

https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2025/02/12/roots-of-cold-goth-infused-metal-siriusxm-playlist/

06/02/2025

Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1985 ⚡the year thrash metal hit FULL FORCE w/ Megadeth, Destruction, Celtic Frost, Razor, Anthrax, Slayer, Dark Angel, Exodus!!!, Overkill, Possessed, S.O.D., and more...

https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2025/02/02/roots-of-1985-thrash-metal-in-full-force/

02/02/2025

Nineteen eighty-five was the kind of year when rules were obliterated and new legends were forged. Join ROOOTS for an onslaught of 1985 thrash metal by Megadeth, Destruction, Celtic Frost, Razor, Anthrax, Slayer, Dark Angel, Exodus!!!, Overkill, Possessed, S.O.D., and more! Holy hell, know your ROOOTS:

https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2025/02/02/roots-of-1985-thrash-metal-in-full-force/

19/01/2025

Few cities have been as consistently crucial to the evolution of metal as Los Angeles. From shredders to grindcore to crossover to Slayer.... we salute wave after wave this week on ROOOOTS w/Dark Angel, Fear Factory, the Faceless, Night Demon, Van Halen, Terrorizer, Saint Vitus, Megadeth, Slayer, +++more:

https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2025/01/18/roots-of-los-angeles-metal-siriusxm/

14/01/2025

New DOWN coming in 2025? Ian Christe has the back story this week: ROOTS of 1990s STONER METAL w/resinated resonance from Down, C.O.C., The Obsessed (pictured), Cathedral, Kyuss, Sleep, Earthride, Goatsnake, Spiritual Beggars, Acid King, Nebula... No seeds, no stems, only RRRROOOTS!

Times + tracks: https://roots.bazillionpoints.com/

04/01/2025

"Who’s this?" Meet some future favorite bands on ROOTS this week w/ a recap of notable metal debuts from 2024. Slayer guitarist Kerry King's solo band joins a pack of well-prepared ragers including Dissimulator, Neckbreakker, Lord Goblin, Castle Rat, Night Shall Drape Us, Slimelord, and I Am the Intimidator! Welcome the new bloods, and know your Roots!

https://roots.bazillionpoints.com/

28/12/2024

Celebrating the good stuff today on ROOTS of 1984: The Peak of Classic Heavy Metal, today 6PM ET on SiriusXM w/Motörhead, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Trouble, Metal Church, Manowar, Armored Saint, Helstar, Mercyful Fate... catch the moment right before thrash metal took over!

https:/roots.bazillionpoints.com/

21/12/2024

Deep, epic 2024 metal instrumentals tonight at 6PM ET by High on Fire, Deceased, 200 Stab Wounds, Blood Incantation (w/Tangerine Dream), Darkthrone, Inter Arma, Passage d’Hiver, and more. Thank you for listening through the year… Heavy holidays, and Know your Roots!

https://roots.bazillionpoints.com/

14/12/2024

Twenty-three years after the tragic passing of Chuck Schuldiner of DEATH, we catch up with an all-star array of players from all seven Death studio albums. Hear recent ragers by Autopsy, Testament, Cynic, Expulsion, Obituary, Charred Walls of the Damned, Massacre, King Diamond, and more.

Let the metal flow—and Know your ROOOTS!

https://roots.bazillionpoints.com/

14/12/2024

ABBATHENAR!! ⚡ Did somebody say "Happy Abbathday" to Athenar? Well, something like that... Give this hooded menace a cheer if you see him stalking the streets ov Cleveland today, and give the gift of Athenar and the MIDNIGHT photo book on any occasion coming up where mysterious packages are exchanged... ⚛⛏⛓

https://www.bazillionpoints.com/midnight ✔

foto: Hannah Verbeuren from MIDNIGHT

13/12/2024

Last Licks! ❄ The pungent Lake Erie Black-on-Green version of the MIDNIGHT book's "Goat Trap" bonus 7" is 90% gone ☣ Grab one before it slips thru your hands like... water from a lake! ⤵

▶ Give the gift of leather, lust, and sleaze:

https://www.bazillionpoints.com/midnight

Praise for MIDNIGHT: A Thousand Nights in S***m, by Hannah Verbeuren:

“Stunning…captures the band’s mystique”—Jeff Niesel, Cleveland Scene

“An intensive, exciting band biography in the form of a photo book.”—OX zine Germany

“Gorgeous…a deep dive into the gritty, electrifying world that shock rock black metal mavericks Midnight have created”—Decibel

“Hannah Verbeuren’s photojournalistic odyssey of and about Ohio’s own king cult band, Midnight, will hit home with even the hardest of souls. The visual essence is raw and sensual—Midnight is so down and dirty! This is a definite must for hardcore, hard rock, punk, and metal fans.”—Jeff Becerra, Possessed