Bazillion Points Blog

Honor the night when all become metal fiends with seasonal incantations by King Diamond, Blind Guardian, Cradle of Filth, the Misfits, Type O Negative, Necrophagia, the Black Dahlia Murder, Acid Witch, Halloween, and others.

As the spirit of the Halloween season thickens, join host Ian Christe for an hourlong heavy metal homage to great horror films including Evil Dead, Maniac, Friday the 13th, Asphyx, The Slayer, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, City of the Living Dead, Blood Feast, Black Sabbath, and others.

The concert will take place at the Kino Roland, a unique and somewhat notorious cinema venue that will be converted into a small club for Triptykon's performance.

The always-on-point tag-team of Painkiller Records and 540 Records rescued this classic bit of rage from the digital-only wasteland, remastered it from the original tapes and placed it on a nice, thick slice of proper vinyl.

Strange Boys, a remastered collection of the first five albums by Finnish glam-trash punk-metal legends Hanoi Rocks, will strut with style into stores on...

Publishers Weekly: "Mudrian, editor-in-chief of Decibel magazine, condenses painstaking and lengthy interviews to create this informative history of death metal."

New tracks by Asphyx, Rotten Sound, Obituary, and Anaal Nathrakh, plus innovative and lethal death and grind by Asphalt Graves, Blood Incantation, Usurpress, Nails, Gruesome, Hannes Grossmann, and more.

The lasting impact of mostly Sub Pop Records grunge acts like Tad, Nirvana, Earth, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden merits a look at the thick sound of distortion and flannel.

Though Sir Christopher Lee crossed over to the realms beyond in 2015 at age 93, his on-camera legacy lives forever—just like Dracula, his most...

Get to work! Twenty-eight minutes and fifty-eight seconds of metallic perfection awaits to rip yourself apart. Congratulations to Tom Araya, Kerry King, Dave Lombardo,...

Slaying season has come once more to Seattle. Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, the Emerald City doom circle fronted by "heavier-than-God" Sub Pop-era grunge legend...

Canadian heavy/doom metal riff masters Cauchemar—the band fronted by Annick Giroux, author of Hellbent for Cooking: The Heavy Metal Cookbook—announces its upcoming European tour. Encompassing...

We slice cut by cut through Reign in Blood in all its violent glory.

Fans swarmed the reunion gigs in Denver and Chicago with maniacal passion and, by all accounts, the band seemed bolstered by the love and delivered the ghoulish goods.

As Nicke Andersson points out: “It’s about damn time!”

Thirty years have now passed, and so many questions continue to gnaw about what could have been.

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.

We have published two books by Sub Pop Records founder Bruce Pavitt that offer over six hundred pages of lavish insight into how Nevermind happened.

Though the success launched a legend, the outcome was never guaranteed.

This month’s best metal, punk, and other hard-rock-related movies, with gratuitous guidance from Mike “McBeardo” McPadden of HEAVY METAL MOVIES