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One way to pry my cold dead eyes off ILX is to give me a radio show, and Sirius done just that -- thank you, satellite scientists and inventors, for all your hard work. The show's called Bloody Roots, it airs Sundays at 2PM EST, and every week mines a different rich vein of the body metallic.

So that's the skinny, now here's the playlist for the "Dawn of the Metalheads - 1970-1974" show (July 11/04):

Black Sabbath - "Walpurgis"
Gun - "Race With the Devil"
Budgie - "In the Grip of a Tyrefitter's Hand"
Bloodrock - "Jessica"
Flower Travellin' Band - "Satori, pt. 1"
Deep Purple - "Fireball"
Necromandus - "Nightjar"
Buffalo - "Dead Forever"
Alice Cooper - "Long Way to Go"
Judas Priest - "Winter"
Lucifer's Friend - "Baby You're a Liar"
Scorpions - "Speedy's Coming"
Cathedral - "Fire"

There's a web stream, if you don't have a satellite receiver helmet or whatever.

Hope I whipped this post together before ILX goes on summer strike for two weeks...

July 18th will be a NWOBHM show. Ta ta, and hail Satan.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

this looks rad.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

that gun song rules.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 1 July 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, that's great. i was going to try to do a 3-hour, highly subjective history of metal show a while back but lacked the ability to find a satisfying beginning or ending.

almost reason enough to get that satellite radio, i reckon.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Pffew!

Well, I've been spending a lot more time putting the show together each week than I have combing the ilx continuum. Hey, I get to see my name in small glowing orange lights on the dashboard of rental cars, plus free pretzels! Top that offer, grime pundits!

Ten weeks on, and here's what be happening:

BLOODY ROOTS
AUGUST 29, 2004

LET THERE BE DOOM!
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SAINT VITUS - "Born Too Late" from HEAVIER THAN THOU
WITCHFINDER GENERAL - "R.I.P." from DEATH PENALTY
CANDLEMASS - "Bewitched" from NIGHTFALL
CATHEDRAL - "All Your Sins" from IN MEMORIAM
SLEEP - "Dragonaut" from HOLY MOUNTAIN
THEE OBSESSED - "Streetside" from THE CHURCH WITHIN
MELVINS - "Ligature" from BULLHEAD
TROUBLE - "Psalm 9" from PSALM 9
EYEHATEGOD - "Sister Fucker (Part II)" from TAKE AS NEEDED FOR PAIN
KHANATE - "Skin Coat" from KHANATE

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BLOODY ROOTS
September 5, 2004

SICKO GORE-GRIND HOUR
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CARCASS - "Corporal Jigsaw Quandary" from CHOICE CUTS
EXHUMED - "Death Walks Behind You" from ANATOMY IS DESTINY
ABORTED - "The Saw & The Carnage Done" from GOREMAGEDDON
REPULSION - "Decomposed" from HORRIFIED
PIG DESTROYER - "Cheerleader Corpses"/"Scatology Homework" from PROWLER IN THE YARD
NECROPHAGIST - "Foul Body Autopsy" from ONSET OF PUTREFACTION
MORTICIAN - "Bloodshed" from CHAINSAW DISMEMBERMENT
AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED - "Vexed" from HONKY REDUCTION
IMPALED - "Until Death..." from CHOICE CUTS [diff'rent record, yo!]
DISGORGE - "Track 2" from FORENSICK
GOREROTTED - "Fuck Your Arse With Broken Glass" from ONLY TOOLS AND CORPSES
INCISION - "Rewind Into Chaos" from BENEATH THE FOLDS OF FLESH
NECROPHAGIA - "Blood Freak" from HOLOCAUSTO DE LA MORTE
CANNIBAL CORPSE - "Disfigured" from VILE

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BLOODY ROOTS
September 12, 2004

MELODIC SWEDISH DEATH METAL
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AT THE GATES - "Under a Serpent Sun" from SLAUGHTER OF THE SOUL
DISMEMBER - "Massive Killing Capacity" from MASSIVE KILLING CAPACITY
ENTOMBED - "Full of Hell" from WOLVERINE BLUES
THE HAUNTED - "Bury Your Dead" from THE HAUNTED MADE ME DO IT
CARNAL FORGE - "Waiting for Sundown" from AREN'T YOU DEAD YET?
DARK TRANQUILLITY - "Midway Through Infinity" from THE GALLERY
TIAMAT - "The Ar" from WILDHONEY
HYPOCRISY - "Dead Sky Dawning" from THE ARRIVAL
GRAVE - "Winternight" from HATING LIFE
MESHUGGAH - "Perpetual Black Second" from NOTHING
UNLEASHED - "Don't Want to Be Born" from HELL'S UNLEASHED
DERANGED - "Roadside Rendez-vous" from PLAINFIELD CEMETERY
ARCH ENEMY - "Silent Wars" from ANTHEMS OF REBELLION
IN FLAMES - "Another Day in Quicksand" from CLAYMAN

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Besides another 20 untapped genre boxes from Sound of the Beast, I've got lists for a Japanese and a Middle Eastern metal show started, but it turns out it's hard to scrounge up a theme a week. Eventually, I'll be begging for help -- or turning to far-fetched themes like an hour of Priest songs written by unsung hero Ian Hill. Or a multi-part Canadian metal special, handled province by province...

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

where's the webstream hosted at?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Here it is:

http://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/CachedPage&c=ChannelAsset&cid=994446661795

But now that I know, I'll warn you -- it involves jumping through some hoops.

Gun's "Race With the Devil" is great -- there are Girlschool and Judas Priest versions, too.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

EXHUMED - "Death Walks Behind You" from ANATOMY IS DESTINY

i was so disappointed this wasn't an atomic rooster cover.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 27 August 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't see this thread the first time - show looks great, Ian!

What's that Cathedral up there on the first playlist? Was there a 70s Cathedral?

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks -- no, it's the modern-day google-eyed Cathedral, but that's a Crazy World of Arthur Brown cover, so...

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 27 August 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

No Byzantum? You are pretender then!

― Vas Djifrens (latebloomer), Friday, 27 August 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

September 19th was Japanese Metal, but I lost the playlist. Sigh, Flower Travellin' Band, Grind Buto, Boris, Boredoms, Impiety (I cheated), and Loudness for sure.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 28 November 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Now found -- September 12, 2004

JAPANESE METAL
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FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND - "Satori Pt. 1" from SATORI
SIGH - "Corpsecry Angelfall" from IMAGINARY SOUNDSCAPE
APOLOGIST - "Nosferatu" from IMMORTAL/BERZERK
SxOxBx - "Inner Hypocrisy" from GATE OF DOOM
DEFILED - "Uncovered Plots" from UGLINESS REVEALED
BORIS - "Hama" from AMPLIFIER WORSHIP
IMPIETY - "Abominate Fornicate Desecrate" from KAOS KOMMAND 696
BOREDOMS - "Bubblebop Shot" from SOUL DISCHARGE
CORRUPTED - "Bajo de Cero" from NADIE
KAGEROH - "Visual Kei"
LOUDNESS - "Crazy Nights" from THUNDER IN THE EAST

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 28 November 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

BLOODY ROOTS
September 26, 2004

Bloody Roots Presents: Fenriz' Best of Old School Black Metal
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MERCYFUL FATE - "Evil"
BURZUM - "Ea, Lord of the Deeps"
SODOM - "Burst Command Til War"
BATHORY - "Dies Irae"
MAYHEM - "Freezing Moon"
AURA NOIR - "Blood Unity"
VENOM - "Warhead"
SARCOFAGO - "Satanic Lust"
CELTIC FROST - "Dawn of Megiddo"
DESTRUCTION - "Curse the Gods"
DARKTHRONE - "Rawness Obsolete" from SARDONIC WRATH

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BLOODY ROOTS
October 3, 2004

METALEROS LATINOS
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ASESINO - "Rey De La Selva"
TERRORIZER - "Dead Shall Rise" from WORLD DOWNFALL
THREE SOULS IN MY MIND - "Diablo" from QUE RICO DIABLO...
PUYA - "???"
SARCOFAGO - "Rotting" from ROTTING
PURULENT - "My Quartered Stepmother" from GARAVITO'S PEDOPHILIA TALES
RAVAGER - "Maze of Extermination" from STORM OF SIN
BRUJERIA - "Hechando Chingasos" from RAZA ODIADA
TRANSMETAL - "Sombras Del Purgatorio" from LAS ALAS DEL EMPERADOR
RATOS DE PORAO - "Estaca Zero a Esquerda" from GUERRA CIVIL CANIBAL
SEPULTURA - "Altered State" from ARISE
MASACRE - "Exodo" from MUERTE VERDADERDE MEURTE
SADISTIC INTENT - "Conflict Within" from RESURRECTION (1993)
ANGRA - "Wasted Years" from UNPLUGGED LIVE 1997

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BLOODY ROOTS
October 10, 2004

OLD SCHOOL POWER METAL
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Iron Maiden - "Where Eagles Dare" from PIECE OF MIND
Accept - "Fast as a Shark" from RESTLESS & WILD
Raven - "Mind Over Metal" from ALL FOR ONE
Anthrax - "Across the River / Howling Furies" from FISTFUL OF METAL
Armored Saint - "March of the Saint" from MARCH OF THE SAINT
Manowar - "Sign of the Hammer" from SIGN OF THE HAMMER
Jag Panzer - "Licensed to Kill" from AMPLE DESTRUCTION
Warlord - "Child of the Damned" from DELIVER US
Anvil - "Forged in Fire" from FORGED IN FIRE
Savatage - "Power of the Night" from POWER OF THE NIGHT
Cirith Ungol - "Blood and Iron" from ONE FOOT IN HELL
Hammers of Misfortune - "The August Engine Pt. 1" from THE AUGUST ENGINE
Witchkiller - "Day of the Saxons" from DAY OF THE SAXONS

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BLOODY ROOTS
October 17, 2004

NEW SCHOOL POWER METAL

[This time I really did lose the playlist: Hammerfall, Lost Horizon, Rhapsody, Iced Earth, Nevermore...]

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BLOODY ROOTS
October 24, 2004

NAPALM DEATH STUDIO SPECIAL: Leaders Not Followers 2 w/Die Kruezen, Accused, Hirax...

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BLOODY ROOTS
October 31, 2004

METAL FROM THE PROMISED LAND: The Israeli Underground
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MELECHESH - "Apkallu Counsel" from SPHINX
SALEM - "Flames"
DamNNation - "The Fix"
NAIL WITHIN - "Bleed Forever" from NAIL WITHIN
NATURE'S ELEMENTS - "Werewolf"
ORPHANED LAND - "A Call to Awake" from MABOOL
PEOPLE - "Charlie-5" from PEOPLE EP
ARALLU - "Religions Are Dead!" from SATANIC WAR IN JERUSALEM
WINTERHORDE - "Winterhorde (live)"
RABIES CASTE - "The Bleeding Mermaid" from LET THE SOUL OUT AND CUT THE VEIN
SEEK IRONY - "I Am"
EMOK - "Kasbah"

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 28 November 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, offtopic but since you played it - how is that later SxOxB stuff? i have some of their early, more hardcore, stuff and i love it...

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Sunday, 28 November 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The last couple SxOxB albums I've heard, WHAT'S THE TRUTH? and GATE OF DOOM, are both 10-12 years old, and suffer from the burdens of that era. In trying to compete with death metal, they lost a lot of the early insanity. That was a common problem -- their soul brothers in Napalm Death went through the same rough patch around that time. Still, there's a lot of simple raging depressive grind underneath the metal trappings, so they're worth a listen for what shines through. I pull them out every couple years, and with a little adjustment to my ears it all works out fine.

After Tottsuan died in the mid-90s, they found a new singer and supposedly recorded a synth album!!

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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