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TEEN MUSIC HELL: Jeff Alan Band from LOSIN’ IT (1983) | The Official Teen Movie Hell Mixtape

Chief — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 20:34:14 +0000

Welcome to a Walkman-melting, battery-sapping countdown of teen comedy soundtrack cuts assembled by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author of TEEN MOVIE HELL: A Crucible of Coming-of-Age Comedies from Animal House to Zapped! This is your Teen Movie Hell mixtape. Crank it carefully—and use it extremely unwisely! Track #8. THE JEFF ALAN BAND, “Losin’ It” from Losin’ It (1983) Just like the Tom Cruise…

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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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NYHC: Hotly Anticipated The New York Hardcore Chronicles Film Premieres May 19

Chief — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:43:01 +0000

Tickets for the May 19 world premiere of The New York Hardcore Chronicles Film are on sale now. This long-awaited documentary by Antidote singer Drew Stone will sell out by the end of the day, so make your move and score tickets here: http://www.thenewyorkhardcorechroniclesfilm.com The night will begin with a special red carpet event with DJ Frank Molina, so come early and be a part of a…

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Mon 3/6, Milwaukee, WI: Mike “McBeardo” McPadden Screams HEAVY METAL MOVIES at Lulu Lecture Series

Chief — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 14:56:40 +0000

Attention all of Milwaukee’s best! Join the Lulu Lecture Series for a heavy evening with HEAVY METAL MOVIES author Mike “McBeardo” McPadden. The illustrious Bazillion Points author will screen clips and discuss the most metal of heavy metal movies. Admission is free. (McPadden’s masterful book will be available for sale, and organizers will pass the hat for donations to their chosen non-profit…

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The Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week is SPORTLOV

Chief — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 13:32:30 +0000

This week, from among the hundreds of bands cataloged in the band appendix of Daniel Ekeroth’s SWEDISH DEATH METAL, one tightly packed assault sails from the crowd into our faces like a nuclear snowball: SPORTLOV. This valient Uppsala-born death/crust supergroup dominates all things grim and frostbitten—their name means “winter holidays”—and their weapons are skis, skates, and brutal snobullar as…

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CHOOSING DEATH: Non-Metalhead “Forced” To Listen To Death Metal For 8 Hours Straight in Savage Social Experiment

Chief — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 15:37:42 +0000

The merry mischief makers at Mashable recently released a video of an in-office social experiment based on the premise, “We’ve all heard about studies on classical music and its effects on the human brain—but what about death metal?” The clip showcases “Francesca,” not a fan of instrumental music, being set up at 9 a.m. to listen to eight hours nonstop of orchestral symphonies and sonatas.

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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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Metallica’s New Music Video is a Trailer for an Upcoming Black Metal Biopic

Chief — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 10:21:24 +0000

The latest concept video from Metallica’s metaled-up new album Hardwired…to Self-Destruct is basically a trailer for director Jonas Åkerlund’s upcoming biopic about Norway’s early-1990s black metal scene. The video presents actors miming a Hollywood version of a Mayhem show circa 1991, set to a mid-tempo, modern-day Metallica song. Parts of the scene are viewed through the perspective of camcorder…

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HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Farewell Herschell Gordon Lewis, the Godfather of Gore

Chief — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 23:27:07 +0000

Herschell Gordon Lewis, the “inventor of the color red”—and the filmmaker who invented the modern gore movie in 1963 with the landmark drive-in chunk-blower Blood Feast—has died at 87. Raise your horns and fill your barf bags in tribute. In addition to skin-splitting and ground-breaking splatter flick triumphs on the order of Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs (1964), Color Me Blood Red (1966)…

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HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Blu-Ray Brutality for Sept 2016 w/DePalma, Chopping Mall, Labyrinth, Bill & Ted, Werewolf, Highlander…

Chief — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:31:56 +0000

Strap in for this month’s best metal, punk, and other hard-rock-related movies newly arrived on Blu-ray, with gratuitous guidance from 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! De Palma (2016) Brian De Palma, the mad moviemaking visionary behind the heavily…

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