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HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Blu-Ray Brutality for December 2016 w/31, Mad Max, Henry, Phantasm…

Chief — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 22:51:36 +0000

Tis the season to brace yourself for another headbanging guide to metal, punk, hard rock, horror, cult, and other outrage-related new Blu-ray releases. Here to help is Mr. Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author of Heavy Metal Movies: Guitar Barbarians, Mutant Bimbos, and Cult Zombies Amok in the 666 Most Ear- and Eye-Ripping Big Scream Films Ever! 31 (2016) Rob Zombie’s latest splat-schtick…

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Weekend in the Windy City: Chicago’s Riot Fest Starts Tomorrow

Chief — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 21:45:05 +0000

For party-worn punkers and first-time fiends alike, the big event this weekend will be Chicago’s Riot Fest and Carnival. Dozens of key acts will be leaping into action, straight from the pages of a range of Bazillion Points books. If the Original Misfits’ recent Denver Riot Fest rampage is any indication, Glenn Danzig, Jerry Only, and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein (plus Slayer veteran Dave…

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WE GOT POWER!: Hurry Up and Nab Streamage of the New Descendents HyperCaffium Spazzinate LP

Chief — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 20:17:37 +0000

Today Southern California punk legends Descendents are unleashing Hypercaffium Spazzinate, their seventh long-player. This is the hugely influential group’s first album since 2004’s Cool to Be You, and their second for Epitaph Records following Everything Sucks all the way back in ye old 1996. NPR First Listen is streaming the entire album AT THIS LOCATION. Suffice to say…

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McBeardo Salutes Black Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf” at Forty-Five

Chief — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 18:37:43 +0000

Today marks the 45th anniversary of the release of Black Sabbath’s third album, Master of Reality. With that comes a congratulatory birthday for “Sweet Leaf,” the LP’s opening track, the anthem that coughed up the perpetually smoking groundwork for all the stoner rock that followed. Would it blow your mind to know the song was not originally about smoking pot at all? Whoa! Nonetheless…

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Philly, 4/16: The GRIMPOSIUM—Daylight Death Metal Fiesta With Bazillion Points Visual Art Talk

Chief — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:26:30 +0000

In celebration of Decibel Magazine editor-in-chief Albert Mudrian’s revised and expanded edition of Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore, Dying Fetus, Nails, Misery Index, Deceased, Noisem, Horrendous, Magrudergrind and Taphos Nomos will descend upon Philadelphia’s Union Transfer on Saturday, April 16, for the inaugural Choosing Death Fest. Earlier that day…

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The Adolescents, Saccharine Trust, White Flag, the Last, Dead Issue Will Play Sept. 8 for WE GOT POWER! Party; Likely Swan Song for Track 16 Gallery as Demolition Looms

Chief — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:14:05 +0000

Party with me, punker! From Sept. 8 through Oct. 6, Track 16 Gallery Santa Monica will present “WE GOT POWER!: We Survived the Pit,” an exhibition of early hardcore punk photographs by David Markey and Jordan Schwartz selected from the historic upcoming Bazillion Points Books hardcover WE GOT POWER!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California by Markey and Schwartz. http://www.

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SWEDISH DEATH METAL: Under the Sign of the Black Mark turns 25

Chief — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:21:32 +0000

The late great Sam Levenson once said, “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” Had we followed Sam’s advice we might have led a fuller life but most likely would have failed to notice that on this very day 25 years have passed since Bathory released their seminal third album Under the Sign of the Black Mark. Though we here at Bazillion Points listen to Bathory all the time…

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Jon Kristiansen at Oslo’s Popsenteret

Chief — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:07:28 +0000

Below is a picture of Bazillion Points author Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen—sporting an appropriate SLAYER MAG t-shirt and a Morbid hoodie—posing in the Slayer Mag corner of Neseblod’s black metal exhibition at Popsenteret in Oslo. Kristiansen unfortunately had to return to Sarpsborg but the exhibition will run until April 29th. Dette bør du ikke gå glipp av! …

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SLAYER MAG exhibition in Oslo

Chief — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:33:11 +0000

Today marks the premiere of the SLAYER MAG portion of Neseblod’s ongoing black metal exhibition at Oslo’s Popsenteret. Jon Kristiansen will personally be on location to present his classic zine as well as photos from his private collection. The exhibition runs until April 29th, but Kristiansen will be there from the 4th through the 7th. Those of us who won’t be able attend can always read said…

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Every Issue of Slayer Mag Plus Every Known Copy of METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries

Chief — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:52:23 +0000

Click image to enlarge. Here’s an image that—when viewed at full size—will consume all oxygen in any size space, leaving a dangerous sulfurous near-vacuum and causing dizziness in all but the most steeled of hearts. Like the headline sez: Every single issue of the legendary Slayer Mag, plus all six copies of Jon Kristiansen’s immense work METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries known to exist as of…

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