DEATH/BLACK METAL – Bazillion Points Blog https://blog.bazillionpoints.com The blog is faster than the books... Sat, 03 May 2025 18:59:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/cropped-BAZILLION_POINTS_B_GREEN_144.png.jpeg DEATH/BLACK METAL – Bazillion Points Blog https://blog.bazillionpoints.com 32 32 ROOTS of 1990: Death Metal’s Big Breakout | on SiriusXM https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2025/05/03/roots-1990-death-metals-big-breakout-on-siriusxm-liquid-metal/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2025/05/03/roots-1990-death-metals-big-breakout-on-siriusxm-liquid-metal/#comments Sat, 03 May 2025 18:57:46 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=13223 ROOTS 1990: DEATH METAL’S BIG BREAKOUT Week of May 3, 2025 Sat 5/3, 6PM ET Sun 5/4, 1PM ET Mon 5/5, 9AM ET Tues 5/6, 4PM ET Thurs 5/8, 9PM ET Five years after thrash metal’s breakthrough year in 1985, death metal massively erupted into full public view in 1990 with a rash of gruesome instant classic records by Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Autopsy, Death, Bolt Thrower, Napalm Death…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2020/07/18/roots-of-1990-death-metals-big-breakout/feed/ 2 Roots Exalts 25 Years of Mayhem’s De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | on SiriusXM https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/05/25/roots-exalts-25-years-of-mayhems-de-mysteriis-dom-sathanas-on-siriusxm/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/05/25/roots-exalts-25-years-of-mayhems-de-mysteriis-dom-sathanas-on-siriusxm/#comments Sat, 25 May 2019 16:10:32 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=11056 Roots Exalts 25 Years of Mayhem’s De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | on SiriusXM Week of May 25, 2019 Sat 5/25, 6PM ET Sun 5/26, 1PM ET Mon 5/27, 9AM ET Tues 5/28, 4PM ET Thurs 5/30, 9PM ET This week we have the dark pleasure of celebrating a quarter-century of one of the most intriguing and ghoulish records in heavy metal history. Norwegian black metal band Mayhem existed for nearly ten years…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/05/25/roots-exalts-25-years-of-mayhems-de-mysteriis-dom-sathanas-on-siriusxm/feed/ 3 Roots of the Exhumed Family of U.S. Metal Freaks | on Sirius XM https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/03/23/roots-of-the-exhumed-family-of-u-s-metal-freaks-on-sirius-xm/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/03/23/roots-of-the-exhumed-family-of-u-s-metal-freaks-on-sirius-xm/#respond Sat, 23 Mar 2019 16:56:21 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=10943 ROOTS OF THE EXHUMED FAMILY OF U.S. METAL FREAKS on SiriusXM Week of March 23, 2019 Sat 3/23, 6PM ET Sun 3/24, 1PM ET Mon 3/25, 9AM ET Tues 3/26, 4PM ET Thurs 3/28, 9PM ET Twenty years after their sickening Gore Metal debut, we extract the bloody root of San Jose’s long-running Exhumed, and yank out the vast infectious network of related bands including Impaled, Ghoul, Dekapitator…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/03/23/roots-of-the-exhumed-family-of-u-s-metal-freaks-on-sirius-xm/feed/ 0 Roots Honors 25 Years of Emperor’s In the Nightside Eclipse | on SiriusXM https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/02/23/roots-honors-25-years-of-emperors-in-the-nightside-eclipse-on-siriusxm/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/02/23/roots-honors-25-years-of-emperors-in-the-nightside-eclipse-on-siriusxm/#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2019 11:39:35 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=10920 ROOTS HONORS 25 YEARS OF EMPEROR’S IN THE NIGHTSIDE ECLIPSE | on SiriusXM Week of February 23, 2019 Sat 2/23, 6PM ET Sun 2/24, 1PM ET Mon 2/25, 9AM ET Tues 2/26, 4PM ET Thurs 2/28, 9PM ET Twenty-five years ago this week, a group of Norwegian teenagers called Emperor released their triumphant In the Nightside Eclipse album. Engulfed in swirling confusion and controversy over a series of…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/02/23/roots-honors-25-years-of-emperors-in-the-nightside-eclipse-on-siriusxm/feed/ 1 Roots of Black Metal Rock ‘n’ Roll | on SiriusXM https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/01/26/roots-of-black-metal-rock-n-roll-on-siriusxm/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/01/26/roots-of-black-metal-rock-n-roll-on-siriusxm/#comments Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:53:09 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=10884 ROOTS OF BLACK METAL ROCK ‘N’ ROLL Week of January 26, 2019 Sat 1/26, 6PM ET Sun 1/27, 1PM ET Mon 1/28, 9AM ET Tues 1/29, 4PM ET Thurs 1/31, 9PM ET This week’s metal history lesson rocks out the black-hearted hatred with “black ‘n’ roll,” the fluid, feral variety of black metal that begins with early records by Venom and Bathory and courses through the years in the veins of Midnight…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/01/26/roots-of-black-metal-rock-n-roll-on-siriusxm/feed/ 3 Sun, Dec. 2, L.A.: Tom Gabriel Fischer, Albert Mudrian, Brian Lew, Ian Christe at Decibel Metal + Beer Fest https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2018/11/27/sun-dec-2-l-a-tom-gabriel-fischer-albert-mudrian-brian-lew-ian-christe-at-decibel-metal-beer-fest/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2018/11/27/sun-dec-2-l-a-tom-gabriel-fischer-albert-mudrian-brian-lew-ian-christe-at-decibel-metal-beer-fest/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:29:01 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=10828 BAZILLION POINTS Book Signing and Q&A Sunday, Dec. 2, 6 P.M., Decibel Metal + Beer Fest L.A. Wiltern Theatre, 3790 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles Bazillion Points and Decibel are righteously stoked to announce a Sunday signing and Q&A session at the Decibel Metal + Beer Fest in Los Angeles. Four authors of the heaviest books known to humanity will celebrate ten years of Bazillion Points and…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2018/08/18/bloody-roots-of-classic-norwegian-black-metal-on-sirius-xm-2/feed/ 7 ROOTS Salutes Death by Metal, the Chuck Schuldiner Documentary, on SiriusXM https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2018/07/07/roots-salutes-death-by-metal-the-chuck-schuldiner-documentary-on-siriusxm/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2018/07/07/roots-salutes-death-by-metal-the-chuck-schuldiner-documentary-on-siriusxm/#comments Sat, 07 Jul 2018 22:30:23 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=10654 ROOTS Salutes Death by Metal—the Chuck Schuldiner Documentary—on SiriusXM w/special guest Felipe Belalcazar week of July 7, 2018 Sat 7/7, 6PM ET Sun 7/8, 1PM ET Mon 7/9, 9AM ET Tues 7/10, 4PM ET Thurs 7/12, 9PM ET This week, host Ian Christe welcomes Felipe Belalcazar, director of the new documentary DEATH BY METAL, a loving look at the life and times of death metal icon Chuck Schuldiner…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2018/07/07/roots-salutes-death-by-metal-the-chuck-schuldiner-documentary-on-siriusxm/feed/ 5 Roots of the Exhumed Family of U.S. Metal Freaks on SiriusXM https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2018/06/15/roots-of-the-exhumed-family-of-u-s-metal-freaks-on-siriusxm/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2018/06/15/roots-of-the-exhumed-family-of-u-s-metal-freaks-on-siriusxm/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:20:40 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=10636 ROOTS OF THE EXHUMED FAMILY OF U.S. METAL FREAKS on SiriusXM Week of June 16, 2018 Sat 6/15, 6PM ET Sun 6/16, 1PM ET Mon 6/17, 9AM ET Tues 6/18, 4PM ET Thurs 6/20, 9PM ET Twenty years after their sickening Gore Metal debut, we extract the bloody root of San Jose’s long-running Exhumed, and yank out the vast infectious network of related bands including Impaled, Ghoul, Dekapitator…

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