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

22/11/2024

Author meeting: Roots host/ Bazillion Points publisher Ian Christe (SOUND of the BEAST) & Daniel Ekeroth (SWEDISH DEATH METAL, SWEDISH SENSATIONSFILMS, SWEDISH ???), Giger Bar, Chateau Gruyères, April 2022 ⛰

☠️ https://www.swedishdeathmetal.com ☠️

22/11/2024

"The world was shocked, that fateful day..." JFK assassinated, Nov 22, 1963 ❌ SAXON tells the tale in Nov 1980 w/ "Dallas 1PM" on the Strong Arm of the Law LP ⚔ Singer Biff Byford at center right, Monsters of Rock, Castle Donington, Aug 21, 1982 ⚒ Michael Hann expertly unravels the many threads of British heavy metal and the NWOBHM in DENIM AND LEATHER: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal ✈️ Give 'em the eagle, chaps!

⚓ https://www.bazillionpoints.com/nwobhm

21/11/2024

Party favors for the perverse! ✨ We made MIDNIGHT "Goat Trap" records this year to go with Hannah Verbeuren's black leather masterclass MIDNIGHT: A Thousand Days in S***m photo book ⚔ For the next few weeks, you can still spin in sin w/one of three versions: Picture disc; Lake Erie black oil on green water vinyl; or murky Cleveland twilight blue ☀ And congrats to Athenar, Vanik, and all involved for a banner year with this book release, endless tours on most continents, playing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the killer punk/metal perfection of the Hellish Expectations LP slashing up Record-of-the-Year lists including Decibel mag. It's been a long way to the top since the SOUND OF THE BEAST book release party in 2003... ⚡

♠ bazillionpoints.com/midnight ♠

21/11/2024

Everything you ever wanted to know about death metal, but were afraid to learn... ☣ Now's the time to GIFT or BE GIFTED! Get grandma up to speed on Glen Benton & Deicide, put Portal on Pappy's playlist, or send yer list to Satan, er, Santa! ☢ Albert Mudrian's CHOOSING DEATH: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore, by Albert Mudrian, w/ choice intros by BBC DJ John Peel and Scott Carlson of Repulsion ☠️ Available everywhere worldwide that sells books, but of course we'd love it if you bought yours straight from us

19/11/2024

Pat Blashill's 1980s TX punk almanac TEXAS IS THE REASON resting on a fresh bed of newspaper from the massive New York Times print edition photo gallery pulled from the book today in 2020 ⛏ Dress to mess w/1980s Texas, meet punks (and their pets) on their porches, make a stand, and take a tall jump in the swimming hole w/the Big Boys, the Dicks, Bu****le Surfers, Poison 13, the Hickoids, the Offenders, Scratch Acid, Daniel Johnston, Glass Eye, Roky Erickson, plus visitors Sonic Youth, Devo, Samhain, Soul Asylum, the Replacements, and the Dead Kennedys.

⚔ http://bazillionpoints.com/texas

18/11/2024

Nice profile on SUB POP USA contributor Charles Burns in today's New York Times ❤️‍ His immaculate artworks grace the covers of SUB POP zines #5, #7, and #9, all compiled in Bruce Pavitt's visionary manifesto of independent music, SUB POP USA: The Subterranean Pop Music Anthology, 1980-1988 ⛰

18/11/2024

Hey L.A.! Double REPULSION Alert! ⛵ Tonight 7PM American Cinematheque screens Catherine Deneuve in Roman Polanski's REPULSION (1965) in rare 35mm format at the Los Feliz on N Vermont ⌚ Better yet, Scott Carlson of groovy pioneer grinders REPULSION will introduce the film that gave his band its name ⚡

Check Scott's insights into early death metal in his foreword, alongside one by the late BBC DJ John Peel, to CHOOSING DEATH: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore, by Decibel mag editor Albert Mudrian

✂ Double Repulsion painting by Frida Farm

Via Cinematic Void: "Carol (Catherine Deneuve) is a beautiful, yet extremely withdrawn, young manicurist who shares a London apartment with her more worldly sister (Yvonne Furneaux). When her sister leaves on vacation with her married lover (Ian Hendry), Carol, left alone to reflection her own emotional and sexual frigidity, becomes progressively and dangerously dysfunctional. As the Pandora’s Box that is her psyche opens up, the apartment becomes a surreal and terrifying prison of her own imagining. Carol begins to hallucinate and becomes physically paralyzed. Her madness reaches a dizzying crescendo, climaxing in unspeakable acts of depravity."

17/11/2024

Who's going to 1980s Brazil this winter? ✈️ UNITED FORCES is 538 rich, immersive color pages of the Sepultura, Sarcofago, Vulcano, Ratos, Mutilator, Mystifier uprising from the metal mines ⛏ Take 30% off and take some time to explore ⏳

➡ bazillionpoints.com/brazil

“Brazil’s most influential publication”—Iron Fist

“UNITED FORCES recorded the adolescence of Brazilian metal…a broad view of the state of affairs three decades ago.”—Vice Brazil

”Mammoth…documents it all” —The Guardian

“A cool zine”—Iggor Cavalera

“Overflowing with the essence of the golden years of Brazilian metal”—Zhema Rodero, Vulcano

“A ground-level view of the underground in Brazil…including early coverage of bands like Darkthrone, Mystifier, Carcass, Sarcófago, and, of course, Sepultura.”—Decibel

“Amazing…a comprehensive portrait of a creative movement that barely managed to exist, given the authoritarian regime of the day”—Record Collector UK

17/11/2024

NOW we're printing w/ brass... ✊⚓❗ Bringing you books built to last... break our your steel-toed boots! ⛰

Come see: ⚡bazillionpoints.com

forces

16/11/2024

EMPEROR released In the Nightside Eclipse 30 yrs ago this year ☠️ Soon 3 mems of this Norwegian quartet went to prison, the 4th became a prize-winning music teacher ⭐ Our SiriusXM music history show goes track-by-track on this unlikely black metal masterpiece this week ⚓ Read METALION and SLAYER MAG VOL. X for the full story

⚡http://roots.bazillionpoints.com

15/11/2024

This wknd in 1995, AT THE GATES released Slaughter of the Soul ⚡️ Front man Tompa Lindberg has been a massive help, writing a foreword to METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries and participating in Albert Mudrian's essential CHOOSING DEATH death metal history... but the band's crawl to melodic death metal perfection from the bloody altars of Gothenbug belongs to Daniel Ekeroth's SWEDISH DEATH METAL:

Tompa: "Musical disagreements were definitely part of the split-up, but that could easily have been solved if we hadn't been so young and immature. All of us were too stubborn, and exhausted from endless touring... In the end, it was impossible to continue... We toured under hard conditions, and the whole death metal scene was trapped in a downward spiral. It was only years after our split-up that people started to refer to our last album as a masterpiece."

⚡️ https://www.swedishdeathmetal.com ⚡️

14/11/2024

November Fire arrives! 🔥🍂💀 Damien, Glenn Danzig, Eerie Von, and Steve Zing of SAMHAIN walk the checkered path at the Continental Club, Austin TX, Dec 1984 🦂🦂🦂 foto from TEXAS IS THE REASON: The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk 🌟

🌵bazillionpoints.com/texas

10/11/2024

Are you Morbid? The triumph 40 Years of MORBID TALES this week, a cornerstone of thrash, death, black, and all metal. Heavy metal majesty by Celtic Frost, plus Triptykon, Triumph of Death, High on Fire, Brutal Truth, Sepultura, Dimmu Borgir, Mayhem, and more…

https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2024/11/10/roots-40-years-celtic-frost-morbid-tales-siriusxm/

26/10/2024

Trick or treat! Are you ready to face metal's worst nightmare on ROOTS today?

***WARNING: Show contents may be too intense for musicians***

https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2024/10/26/roots-of-metal-worst-nightmare-playlist-siriusm/

21/10/2024

Paul Di'Anno was our Frank Sinatra 🥀 That's all there is to say

Live at the Rainbow - 1980Paul Di'Anno - VocalsSteve Harris - BassDave Murray - GuitarAdrian Smith - GuitarClive Burr - Drums

19/10/2024

This week on ROOTS, Ian Christe invokes the ghosts, spirits, specters, and phantoms that glue together the spooky soul of heavy metal. Terror tales by King Diamond, Opeth, Iron Maiden, Ghost, Entombed, Deceased, Testament, Mortician, Stench, the Devil’s Blood, Slayer, and others. Keep your head, and know your Rrrrroooots!

Playlist/times: https://roots.bazillionpoints.com/

05/10/2024

Between the Misfits and Danzig, Glenn Danzig and Eerie Von unlocked new depths of demonic horror in Samhain. This week on ROOTS, we descend with Samhain album tracks + tributes by Marduk, Cloak, Exhumed, Tombs, In Solitude, the Gates of Slumber, Cradle of Filth, and more. Join us as night falls on summer's end, and know your Roots!

🫀 https://roots.bazillionpoints.com 🫀

30/09/2024

Join us on ROOTS for an unlikely chorus of calls for peace from S***m, Bolt Thrower, Prong, Metallica, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Sepultura, Pentagram, Jinjer, Trivium, Rotten Sound, and many others. Peace, man—know your Roots!

https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2024/09/30/roots-metal-songs-of-peace-siriusxm-playlist/