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Mean Deviation: Opeth’s Boffo Billboard Feature, Beers, and Big Tour

Chief — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:47:56 +0000

All the way back in 2006, Swedish Death Metal author Daniel Ekeroth author wrote about Opeth: “Their commercial and critical success has been beyond imagination.” A decade hence, with their twelfth studio album, Sorceress, poised for release on September 30, Opeth stands at an enviable peak almost as cosmic as their prog-infused metal music (or really metal-infused prog, a this point).

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MEAN DEVIATION: ProgPower USA Poised to Wash, Rinse, and Blow Minds

Chief — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:46:12 +0000

Rabid readers of MEAN DEVIATION: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal rejoice! ProgPower USA XVII rests fully amped and aimed high at the outer regions of consciousness in anticipation of the festival’s September 7 launch. Once again, our planet’s premiere practitioners of progressive rock and power metal will converge on Center Stage Atlanta in Georgia for four nights of mind-expanding music…

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Bloody Roots of Analog Synths in Metal on Sirius XM

Chief — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 17:29:41 +0000

BLOODY ROOTS OF ANALOG SYNTHS IN METAL Week of August 27, 2016 Sat 8/27, 6PM ET Sun 8/28, 1PM ET Mon 8/29, 9AM ET Tues 8/30, 4PM ET Thurs 9/1, 9PM ET This week no stiff digital synthesizers shall be allowed! …but mindbending old school analog synths are welcome as Ian Christe (“Sound of the Beast”/Bazillion Points) explores the ominous drones, piercing squelches, and shimmering waves of…

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HEAVY METAL MOVIES / MELLOTRONS: Maestro Fabio Frizzi Performs Zombie Film Scores and The Beyond in North America

Chief — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:38:52 +0000

Italian horror film composer extraordinaire Fabio Frizzi and his seven-member Frizzi 2 Fulci band will soon be performing “Zombie Apocalypse” hits from his soundtracks to Zombie (1979), City of the Living Dead (1980), and others; or at select dates his entire score for master splatter director Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond (1981). Frizzi 2 Fulci has played Fabio’s scores for Fulci films elsewhere in…

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MELLODRAMA: Electro-Harmonix Announces Mellotron Guitar Pedal

Chief — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:04:15 +0000

Always surprising and inspiring effects peddlers Electro-Harmonix have just announced the release of the M9 Tape Replay Machine effects pedal, “a dedicated Mellotron-inspired pedal, reproducing all the classic Mellotron sounds such as cello, orquestra, strings, and, of course, flutes, besides many other classic sounds.” The company has dabbled in this sound before by including a Mellotron flute…

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Summer Scratch & Dent Special: 48-Hour SALE on Bazillion Points Books Display Copies

Chief — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 20:18:14 +0000

Bazillion Points has consolidated warehouses, and in the process we discovered several boxes of bookstore display copies. These are essentially unread, excellent condition books with slight marks on the covers or bent corners from bookshop browsing. Current titles available for as little as $5.00 (updated hourly, contact us with your requests): Heavy Metal Movies Sub Pop USA Metalion: The…

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Sat 6/28 + Sun 6/29, Brooklyn: Bazillion Points Selling Books at St. Vitus Martyrdoom Flea Market

Chief — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:57:35 +0000

Hey, New York City, the battle tank of doom has arrived! During next weekend’s Martyrdoom III Festival, June 28 and June 29, Bazillion Points will set up shop at the Metal Flea Market at St Vitus Bar on 1120 Manhattan Avenue in Brooklyn. Come expand your arcane library while drinking golden beer. We will offer specials, and you can check out our new titles first-hand, like Heavy Metal Movies…

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The Mellotron’s Homespun Stepchild: The Birotron

Chief — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:05:21 +0000

As explained in Mellodrama: The Mellotron Movie, during the peak period of Mellotron mania in the early 1970s, a slew of creative musicians and entrepreneurs took it upon themselves to build their own versions of the ingenious magnetic tape sampler. Here’s one of the more famous homespun machines, also probably the rarest. Backed financially by Rick Wakeman of Yes, Dave Biro’s Birotron was an…

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Mellodrama: The Mellotron Music, Soundtrack CD

Chief — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:47:13 +0000

The creative forces behind Mellodrama: The Mellotron Movie have united again and produced a sweet soundtrack CD featuring songs based on Mellotron, Chamberlin, and Optigan organs. The sweepy, sleepy tracks date as far back as original recordings of Harry Chamberlin demonstrating his tape organ invention, along with music (as mostly heard in the documentary) ranging from whimsical to moody by…

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