DEMO ARCHIVE – Bazillion Points Blog https://blog.bazillionpoints.com The blog is faster than the books... Wed, 07 May 2025 13:38:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/cropped-BAZILLION_POINTS_B_GREEN_144.png.jpeg DEMO ARCHIVE – Bazillion Points Blog https://blog.bazillionpoints.com 32 32 Savage Death: Mass Appeal for ‘Mass Genocide’ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2010/05/17/savage-death-mass-appeal-for-mass-genocide/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2010/05/17/savage-death-mass-appeal-for-mass-genocide/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 18:21:08 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=1334 We’re certainly open to taking requests around here; today we hope you take them, too. Just received a plea for Savage Death’s 1995 “Mass Genocide” demo from Filippo at Area Death Productions in China: Unfortunately, I don’t have a copy on hand, so if you’re holding an original or a decent original dub of this demo, get in touch with ADP and discuss the huge rewards you will reap.

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2010/05/17/savage-death-mass-appeal-for-mass-genocide/feed/ 1 JESTER BEAST: Sound of the Jester Beast https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2010/05/14/sound-of-the-jester-beast/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2010/05/14/sound-of-the-jester-beast/#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 03:13:16 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=1325 Long time no demo! Bazillion Points Books has demanded a gargantuan share of my time for the past two years, but in truth the demo flow here has slacked due to interior forces—I admit I’ve been flicking out links and observations faster via Facebook and Twitter, and exterior forces—the proliferation of demo blogs since Bazillion Points began in a magnetic tape near-vacuum several years ago. Well…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2010/05/14/sound-of-the-jester-beast/feed/ 1 OXENKILLER: Satan’s Knife Has Never Been Ashamed https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/11/21/oxenkiller-satans-knife-has-never-been-ashamed/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/11/21/oxenkiller-satans-knife-has-never-been-ashamed/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:32:25 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=1266 For all of you who freaked out over the Hell’s post a few weeks back, this is a special demo post dedicated to Annick Giroux, whose awesome Morbid Tales ‘zine has uncovered the mysteries of so many francophone metal acts of the 1980s, and who is about to enter metal history this Tuesday with the release of HELLBENT FOR COOKING: The Heavy Metal Cookbook on Bazillion Points Books.

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/11/21/oxenkiller-satans-knife-has-never-been-ashamed/feed/ 3 DESEXULT: Speak Danish And F.O.A.D. https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/10/29/desexult-speak-danish-and-f-o-a-d/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/10/29/desexult-speak-danish-and-f-o-a-d/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:27:37 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=1250 By popular demand (of a few dedicated misanthropes), here’s a follow-up to the Samhain [Denmark] demo posting of a couple years ago. Within a year of releasing that “The Courier” demo, it dawned on the young Danes that the Samhain name was taken, and they switched to the snappy moniker Desexult and began besieging the world in demo tapes in earnest. This classic tape sounds excellent…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/10/29/desexult-speak-danish-and-f-o-a-d/feed/ 4 MURDERCAR: The Last Days of Thrash https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/08/24/murdercar-the-last-days-of-thrash/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/08/24/murdercar-the-last-days-of-thrash/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:38:39 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=1203 Driving around North Jersey today in the swampy August heat, delivering Bazillion Points books to various importer-exporter shipping-receiving wholesale-resale warehouses, I got to see a lot of amazing landscapes—if your idea of amazing landscapes, like mine, involve gargantuan rotting 1800s iron factories swarmed over by trees and weeds and turkey vultures. Anyway, in the car I listened to The…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/08/24/murdercar-the-last-days-of-thrash/feed/ 9 HELL’S: The Satanic Kids Are All Rite https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/06/18/hells-the-satanic-kids-are-all-rite/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/06/18/hells-the-satanic-kids-are-all-rite/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:11:19 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=1170 Sweet, sweet Napoli—home of pizza, Italian organized crime, and back in 1986 a devilish quintet of molten Italian metal mongers called Hell’s. Their sole symbol of existence is a well-done three song demo that would have made an excellent NWOBHM 7″. The whole shebang is charming, from the hand-drawn machine screws on the front cover to the entirely unnecessary copyright symbol to the way the…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/06/18/hells-the-satanic-kids-are-all-rite/feed/ 1 ENFORCER: Lost and Found in Chicago https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/06/16/enforcer-lost-and-found-in-chicago/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/06/16/enforcer-lost-and-found-in-chicago/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:49:37 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=1164 I’ll admit it, the demo queue is very, very long around here—I’m always glad to knock one off the stack when a high-quality reissue comes along. Considering the abundance of metal bands named Enforcer these days (nine at last count), this high-quality mid-80s Chicago band is never more than one blink of mistaken identity away from my mind. Turns out I’m not the only one…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/06/16/enforcer-lost-and-found-in-chicago/feed/ 2 POST MORTEM: Die, Funeral, Dead, R.I.P. https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/05/24/post-mortem-dead-dying-death-rip/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/05/24/post-mortem-dead-dying-death-rip/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 23:35:41 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=1143 Though local wags in Boston dubbed these zoned-out punk metal thrashers “Post Boredom,” this band deserves credit for digging its shallow trench for over ten years before calling it quits in the mid-1990s. At the start, they were just ugly misfits who evolved from punk to metal and played a lot of shows, both with name-brand metal and hardcore bands. By the time anybody noticed…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/05/24/post-mortem-dead-dying-death-rip/feed/ 4 TRANSGRESSION: “I Like To Smoke and I Like To Drink, but I Like a Brain To Think” https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/04/06/transgression-i-like-to-smoke-and-i-like-to-drink-but-i-like-a-brain-to-think/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/04/06/transgression-i-like-to-smoke-and-i-like-to-drink-but-i-like-a-brain-to-think/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:53:46 +0000 http://bazillionpoints.info/?p=1051 When I was 14 I had it all — a weekly metal radio show on a college radio station that reached Rochester, Syracuse, and Ithaca (don’t discount Ithaca, S.O.D. were recording there!); an excellent wheelchair weed connection; a Colecovision; every Venom and Exciter album; a hard-rehearsing band that played Van Halen, Sabbath, and Dio covers; a New York State Regents diploma in view…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/04/06/transgression-i-like-to-smoke-and-i-like-to-drink-but-i-like-a-brain-to-think/feed/ 4 AT THE GATES: Sirius Bloody Roots Interview, July 2008 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/03/19/at-the-gates-sirius-bloody-roots-interview-july-2008/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2009/03/19/at-the-gates-sirius-bloody-roots-interview-july-2008/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:04:40 +0000 http://bazillionpoints.info/?p=1039 Here’s a rip from the Sirius live stream of my slickly-produced July 19, 2008 interview with singer Tomas Lindberg and guitarist Martin Larsson of AT THE GATES. This has been floating around the black market for a while, so I might as well give it a legit home. Plus it’s a good blast from the recent past while my Bloody Roots radio show graciously steps aside for the surprise “Mandatory Metallica”…

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