Root Tour Dates and Upcoming Concerts

There are three bands with the name Root. Root is a Czech black metal legend from city of Brno founded in 1987 by Big Boss and Blackie. Root was one of the original pre-second-wave black metal bands, following in the footsteps of Bathory and Venom, while taking the genre in a more refined, less savage direction. Their style has since progressed towards a more epic, dark heavy metal sound with a clean-sung vocal approach, but their music can still be recognized as black metal at its core due to the unchanged ideology of the band. After the album Madness of the Graves (2003), Blackie left Root to concentrate on his band Cales. Blackie also plays in the band Entrails, a melodic black metal band. Discography: Reap of Hell Demo, 1988 War of Rats Demo, 1988 Death Metal Session II. Video/VHS, 1988 Messengers From Darkness Demo, 1989 The Trial Demo, 1989 7 Černých Jezdců / 666 Single, 1990 Zjevení / The Revelation Full-length, 1990 Hell Symphony Full-length, 1991 The Temple In the Underworld Full-length, 1992 Kärgeräs Full-length, 1996 The Book Full-length, 1999 Black Seal Full-length, 2001 Dema Best of/Compilation, 2003 Atomizer/Root Split Split, 2003 Madness of the Graves Full-length, 2003 The Devil's Diary Video/VHS, 2004 Live in Falkenberg Live album, 2005 Dema Box Set Boxed set, 2006 Casilda EP, 2006 Daemon Viam Invenient Full-length, 2007 More info is at their homepage. Root is also the name of a polish grunge band to which you can find more info here: www.rootband.band.pl and an Australian country rock band