Bazillion Points Blog

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.

Our track-by-track replay of Black Sabbath's Master of Reality, w/ rehearsal and live material plus tributes by Sleep, Cathedral, and White Zombie.

Savage Blood, Brave the Cold, I the Intruder, Make Them Die Slowly, Scolopendra, Godthrym, Hypernaut, Sacred Outcry, and others

Our extended welcome to 2020 debuts by Schizophrenia, Symbolik, Glacier, Meurtrieres, Cult of Lilith, Sweven, Konvent, Faidra, and others.

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

Chaotic, kinetic early '80s metallic hardcore by Discharge, D.R.I., Negative Approach, Raw Power, Die Kreuzen, G.B.H., Broken Bones, and more

Delayed 1986 debuts by Repulsion, Necrophagia, Death, Master, Sepultura, Morbid Angel, Slaughter (Canada), and more. What happened?

Shred your head w/ Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, Racer X, Joe Satriani, Morbid Angel, Carcass, Pantera, Dragonforce, Les Paul, Archspire & more

In memory of Lemmy Kilmister, "Fast" Eddie Clarke, and Philthy "Animal" Taylor of the golden era Motörhead band

The inspirational origins of Slayer, Sabbath, Judas Priest, Maiden, Sepultura, Napalm Death, Pantera, Behemoth, Lamb of God, Gojira & more

Fill your ears with the oozing jalapeño honey of Black Sabbath, Melvins, Celtic Frost, Obituary, Neurosis, Autopsy and Eyehategod

Beatdowns from this polished era of DIY hardcore expression w/ Strife, Rorschach, Converge, Earth Crisis, Madball, Candiria, Integrity, Hatebreed, Skitsystem, and more

Metal defenders decrying pollution, waste, and environmental abuse, w/Carcass, Gojira, Exodus, Kreator, Metallica, Lamb of God...

Gruesome classic 1990 records by Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Napalm Death, Obituary, Nocturnus, Paradise Lost, and Entombed

This week's ferocious metal history foray revives the passion and fury of Brazil's over-the-top frenzied headbanger invasion

Christian bands, anti-Christian blasphemers, and nondenominational metal bands that pull fire and brimstone from Bible stories