Bazillion Points Blog
Hear ye, hear ye! Celebrating the tradition of freely-traded heavy metal demo cassettes, BazillionPoints.info [formerly Bang! Bang! Blog] is preserving the pioneer spirit of the underground, one magnetic particle at a time. Much of heavy metal’s past is rotting away on cassette demo tapes, and we’re here to help.
Bang! Bang! is the weblog of Ian Christe, publisher of Bazillion Points Books, and author of the books Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal and Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga. Please buy these books in multiple languages for everyone you know who cares about metal, who should care about metal, or who just needs a good education. Thanks!
The demo archives in this blog are transfered from the original cassette sources unless admitted otherwise. Mostly they sound pretty good, but sometimes you can hear the tapes already starting to rot. The MP3s are packaged with the original artwork in .RAR file format — too many freeware .RAR expanders for Mac and PC exist to list here, just check Google.
If you want to see your great vintage metal demo cassette posted, get in touch. If you see your demo here and you want it removed because you’re still selling it — get in touch even faster.
Beast wishes!
IAN CHRISTE
ian soundofthebeast com
