Bazillion Points Blog

Clean vocals, galloping rhythms, and twin guitar ecstasy as delivered with conviction by Sorcerer, High Spirits, Night Demon, Visigoth, Eternal Champion, Argus, Metalian, A Sound of Thunder, Witchtower, and more!

Delve into new Possessed tracks, rarities, and tributes by heavy-hitting peers and proteges including Amon Amarth, Marduk, Cannibal Corpse, Death, and Cavalera Conspiracy.

A prime example of the grimy, dawn-of-the-decade moment when the Ramones somehow constituted “surf rock” along the coastlines of Long Island and the boardwalks of New Jersey

We'll go song by song, reveling in album tracks, Mayhem rarities, and tributes by colleagues and proteges including Emperor, Gehenna, Dark Funeral, Gorgoroth, Immortal, and Anaal Nathrakh.

Parris Mayhew, Cro-Mags: "The only New York hardcore band that ever really blew me away was the Crumbsuckers."

The song swells and pulsates and melts in the manner of what Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay do onboard the Pink Line.

Check out early entries from ten years back by Austere and Woods of Desolation, plus current offerings by the mournful and majestic Aquilus, Somnium Vox, Thrall, and more.

Their self-released eight-song 1983 7-inch EP is classic ripping hardcore punk, faster and more metallic than most NYHC bands at that time. 

Welcome, cable TV, VCR, and drive-in cinema fanatics, to a boombox-blasting, battery-sapping countdown of teen comedy soundtrack cuts assembled by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author...

We look at the development and diversions explored in metal's lost years by Kreator, Rob Halford, Dio, Saxon, Iron Maiden, Napalm Death, Testament, Death, and more.

Welcome, cable TV, VCR, and drive-in cinema fanatics, to a boombox-blasting, battery-sapping countdown of teen comedy soundtrack cuts assembled by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author...

Too much punky business! Let's get down to action with our weekly barrage of Lower East Side New York City hardcore punk antics, pulled...

Kiss originals reveal the heavier side of the legendary band, plus tributes by legions of bands for whom Kiss was their first hard rock love.

A boombox-blasting, battery-sapping Top 20 countdown of teen comedy soundtrack cuts assembled by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden

Tracks by Riot, Accept, Acid, Venom, Exciter, the Rods, Mercyful Fate, Jag Panzer, Satan, Raven, Anvil, Savatage, Manowar and more.

Are orchestral collaborations overindulgent, or the ultimate expression of metal majesty?

Roots of Grunge Rock and Metal | on Sirius XM Week of April 6, 2019 Sat 4/6, 6PM ET Sun 4/7, 1PM ET Mon 4/8, 9AM ET Tues 4/9,...

Rare, live, and alternate takes by Motörhead, plus tributes by the Plasmatics, Metallica, Overkill, Deceased, MX Machine, Bebe Buell, Superchrist, Vader, and more.

We yank out the vast infection of related bands including Impaled, Ghoul, Dekapitator, Gruesome, Pounder, Intronaut, Cretin, Mortuous, Expulsion, Gravehill, and more.

Sax-soaked madness from pioneers Painkiller, Flying Luttenbachers, Ephel Death, and Yakuza, plus modern masters Shining (NO), Ihsahn, Convulsif, and Leftyfish.