Bazillion Points Blog

The raw origins of Slayer, Sabbath, Judas Priest, Maiden, Sepultura, Napalm Death, Pantera, Behemoth, At the Gates, Lamb of God, Gojira & more

Blazing tracks from the likes of Discharge, D.R.I., C.O.C., the Accused, Hirax, S.O.D., Crumbsuckers, Cryptic Slaughter, Ludichri$t and Excel

The evolution of metal guitar harmony in Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, Iron Maiden, Testament, Slayer, Death, Dissection, At the Gates, Mastodon and more

Behold Gravesend, Malignant Altar, Sanguisugabogg, Pupil Slicer, Autarkh, Yoth Iria, The Limit, Todd La Torre solo, and more!

Who is this unknown 1980s power metal band? Plus music by Riot, Jag Panzer, Liege Lord, Overkill, Helstar, Omen, Heir Apparent, and more

Please welcome Demiser, Silver Talon, Morgal, Frozen Soul, Crypta, Go Ahead and Die, Fortress, Cryptosis, Diabolizer, and more

Tracks by Black Flag and Venom plus tributes by Lemmy, Slayer, Sodom, Cavalera Conspiracy, Corey Taylor, Evil Dead, Exhumed, Saint Vitus, and more!

Nineteen eighty-six should have been the year death metal broke open with debut LPs by Repulsion, Necrophagia, Death, Sepultura, Morbid Angel, Slaughter (Canada) & others

Music by Warpath, Belladonna, Nechochwen, Graves of the Monuments, Blue Hummingbird on the Left, Testament, Pan-Amerikan Native Front, and others

Family connections between Suicidal Tendencies and a related constellation of bands including No Mercy, Excel, Uncle Slam, Infectious Grooves, Cyko Miko, and even Slayer

The dark underworld of horror movie-inspired metal by Entombed, Ghost, Testament, Mortician, Ghoul, Possessed, Cathedral, Necrophagia, Hooded Menace, Rotting Christ, S.O.D., and other frights

A bruising era of DIY hardcore w/ Strife, Rorschach, Converge, Earth Crisis, Madball, Candiria, Integrity, Hatebreed, Skitsystem, and more

Grave-gargling Swedish death metal by Entombed, Dismember, Tiamat, Unleashed, Carbonized, Nirvana 2002, Therion, and Meshuggah

Trailblazers including Lita Ford, Girlschool, Hellion, Warlock, Detente, Holy Moses, Sacrilege UK, Nuclear Death, and the Plasmatics

If speed is not thrash metal, not fast heavy metal, not dirty power metal, than what is it???

In memory of Eric Wagner of Trouble and the Skull, a day of reckoning w/ Black Sabbath, Cathedral, Candlemass, the Obsessed, Reverend Bizarre

Metallica's Black Album via Mongolia, reggae royalty, German techno, the Middle East, a Danish church, plus Lemmy, Nightrage, ICS Vortex...

1981's genre-defining heavy metal records by Saxon, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Holocaust, Tank, Venom, Raven, Motörhead, Girlschool, and more

We celebrate the life of modern metal drummer and pathfinder Joey Jordison, aka #1 of Slipknot.

Japanese champions Flower Travellin' Band, Sigh, Dir En Grey, Loudness, S.O.B., Defiled, Babymetal, Doom, and more.