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Sun, Dec. 2, L.A.: Tom Gabriel Fischer, Albert Mudrian, Brian Lew, Ian Christe at Decibel Metal + Beer Fest

Chief — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:29:01 +0000

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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ROOTS Presents 2017: The Year of Death Metal w/Decibel’s Albert Mudrian on Sirius XM

Chief — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 22:21:27 +0000

ROOTS Presents 2017: THE YEAR OF DEATH METAL w/special guest Albert Mudrian December 2, 2017 Sat 12/2, 6PM ET Sun 12/3, 1PM ET Mon 12/4, 9AM ET Tues 12/5, 4PM ET Thurs 12/7, 9PM ET Wrapping up a brutal 2017, host Ian Christe (Sound of the Beast, Bazillion Points) again welcomes Albert Mudrian (Choosing Death, Decibel), for a review of the outstanding year in death metal.

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ONLY DEATH IS REAL: View the Tom Gabriel Fischer and Ian Christe Zurich Footage

Chief — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:43:24 +0000

One year ago tonight rates as a very special date in Bazillion Points history. Barely ten miles from the subterranean bunker on the outskirts of Zurich, Switzerland, where Hellhammer pounded out its anarchic darkness beginning in 1981, Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, and Triptykon leader Tom Gabriel Warrior sat with our publisher Ian Christe for a wide-ranging, candid, and lengthy discussion.

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Roots Remembers Martin Eric Ain of Celtic Frost on Sirius XM

Chief — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 11:01:46 +0000

ROOTS REMEMBERS MARTIN ERIC AIN OF CELTIC FROST Week of October 28, 2017 Sat 10/28, 6PM ET Sun 10/29, 1PM ET Mon 10/30, 9AM ET Tues 10/31, 4PM ET Thurs 11/2, 9PM ET We honor the tragic loss of heavy metal titan Martin Eric Ain (7/18/67-10/21/17) of Hellhammer and Celtic Frost. R.I.P. to an unsurpassed creative force. PLAYLIST: CELTIC FROST – “Dethroned Emperor” from THE EMPEROR’S…

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Bloody Roots of Death Metal in 1991: The Choosing Death Essentials on SiriusXM

Chief — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:29:04 +0000

BLOODY ROOTS OF DEATH METAL IN 1991: THE CHOOSING DEATH ESSENTIALS w/guest Albert Mudrian, author of CHOOSING DEATH / editor of DECIBEL Sat 12/17, 6PM ET Sun 12/18, 1PM ET Mon 12/19, 9AM ET Tues 12/20, 4PM ET Thurs 12/22, 9PM ET This week, host Ian Christe (“Sound of the Beast,” Bazillion Points) welcomes guest Albert Mudrian, editor of Decibel and author of the newly revised and expanded…

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METALION: Norway’s Mayhem Blackens Yule w/“De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive”

Chief — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:56:02 +0000

Nearly seven years in the making, Mayhem’s 1994 masterpiece De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas is as much a historical marker as it is a black metal landmark. The unique brutal musical extremism and atmosphere is inseparable from a violent and chaotic history that includes shotgun suicide, knife murder, and church arson that ignited a ferocious and frozen revolution. The current incarnation of Mayhem…

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Fri 11/11, Zurich: Tom Gabriel Fischer Talk / Triptykon Live / Celtic Frost Doc. Screening

Chief — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 13:08:55 +0000

Red Bull Music Academy Presents A Conversation With Tom Gabriel Warrior & Triptykon Onstage In Zurich, Switzerland ONLY DEATH IS REAL author Tom Gabriel Fischer’s band Triptykon been invited by the Red Bull Music Academy to succeed a line of featured artists including luminaries such as Diamanda Galás or Stephen O’Malley. On November 11, 2016, the band will perform a special…

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Bazillion Points Revives Albert Mudrian’s CHOOSING DEATH; Death Metal & Grindcore History Exhumed in Revised & Expanded Death-luxe Edition This November

Chief — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:02:07 +0000

This November 2016, Bazillion Points Books expands its lethal library with a revised and expanded 400-page “death-luxe” edition of Decibel editor Albert Mudrian’s morbid modern classic CHOOSING DEATH: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore. CHOOSING DEATH will join Daniel Ekeroth’s SWEDISH DEATH METAL, Tony Rettman’s NYHC, and dozens of other essential volumes detailing extreme…

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ONLY DEATH IS REAL: Are You Morbid? Witness Triptykon’s Total Metal Mastery at Wacken 2016

Chief — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 14:01:26 +0000

This past August on the dusky battlegrounds of Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany, ONLY DEATH IS REAL author Tom Gabriel Fischer’s band Triptykon demonstrated complete mastery of heavy music in all its facets before a crowd of tens of thousands. Witness the wisdom and experience of a life spent in metal via the complete 72-minute high-def concert stream above. Triptykon’s perfectly poised…

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METALION/ONLY DEATH IS REAL: New Darkthrone Song “Tundra Leech” Summons Instant Winter

Chief — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 23:04:49 +0000

The mighty Darkthrone, the most free-spirited and still-mysterious of Norway’s prime-era black metal bands, will return on October 14 with ARCTIC THUNDER. Today the duo debuted the track “Tundra Leech,” a chalice filled with pounding, slow and ugly black metal with an underpinning of classic muscular heavy metal. Great stuff as always, and possibly a return to the dark, cold Darkthrone of the past…

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