Bazillion Points Blog

New magazine alert! Murder in the Front Row contributor and Testament guitar hero Alex Skolnick has joined forces with two friends-of-Bazillion, Lamb of God...

What happens when former members of legendary Swedish hardcore bands Asocial and Svart Parad form a metal band named after a Manowar song?

Back in 1992, when Metallica's Black Album and Nirvana's Nevermind were still new albums, and AxCx, Mayhem, and Eyehategod all had zero full-length releases,...

This beer doesn't exist. But if you want a picture of Entombed with beer, just search Google for the word "Entombed" As Entombed A.D. crushes...

On the eve of the Decibel Tour 2016 launch, headliner Abbath iced the U.S. highways by releasing his slick new video for "Winterbane," a...

Dark Phantom is a polished Kirkuk, Iraq, -based melodic death metal band whose entire existence mirrors the recent history of Middle Eastern turmoil.

Every song on the magnificent Sad Wings is represented, including later interpretations by Halford, Mercyful Fate, Skyclad, Overkill, and Reverend Bizarre.

Mellodrama documentary director Dianna Dilworth continues work on her forthcoming exhaustive hardcover MELLODRAMA: The Mellotron Story

Saint Vitus in Brooklyn has just announced Tuesday, April 26, as the date for the “Path of Descent” art show, featuring work by two dozen...

Tonight, March 24, 2016, starts as a night for remembering—and will go down as a night to remember! The NYHC Chronicles presents a free show at 7:00 PM...

Sweden lately seems to be on a real roll—specifically a kanelbullar, its dark, sticky native version of a cinnamon roll. This time, Pulverised Records...

Bloody Roots Thirty-Year Thrashback to 1986 on Sirius XM Week of February 27, 2016 Sat 3/19, 6PM ET Sun 3/20, 1PM ET Mon 3/21, 9AM ET Tues 3/22, 4PM...

The scent of death is truly in the air in Sweden these days, as all of the oldest local death metal bands come crawling...

Mike “McBeardo” McPadden appears on the latest episode of highly- and widely-recommended podcast Awkward Moments with Collin Bullock.

"As longtime and proud losers ourselves, we’re exceedingly happy to be able, in some small way, to help further the education of art-enthused misfits from the NW."

Our comrades at Jackpot Records in Portland have seen fit to prepare Green River's dirty, caustic 1984 demos for vinyl release to indie record...

Several months after the final European show by Nuclear Assault, and the bitter pain of loss still haunts the denim hordes. Danny Lilker's post-apocalyptic...

While remnants and replicas of hardcore punk haunt CBGBs continue to spread freely across the globe, Jen Carlson at Gothamist has lent her keen investigative...

The tireless Freddy Alva has produced a documentary about his own classic New Breed cassette—an heavy-hitting product of its environment that holds up extremely well.

BLOODY ROOTS OF GRINDCORE Week of March 12, 2016 Sat 3/12, 6PM ET Sun 3/13, 1PM ET Mon 3/14, 9AM ET Tues 3/15, 4PM ET Thurs 3/17, 9PM ET From the pre-grind...