Bazillion Points Blog

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

Who is this unknown 1980s power metal band? Can you identify this song?

Hectic thrash and dark, brutal death collide in tracks by Sadus, Slaughter (CA), Massacra, Demolition Hammer, early Sepultura, Pestilence

Frantic high-velocity assaults by Megadeth, Overkill, Slayer, Destruction, Kreator, Celtic Frost, Agent Steel, Hirax, Possessed, and Anthrax

We pour out our dark hearts with the passion of Amorphis, Moonspell, Type O Negative, the Gathering, Opeth, Slayer, and others

Essential and genre-defining heavy metal classics by Saxon, Iron Maide, Tygers, Venom, Raven, Motörhead, Girlschool, Tank, and more

More 2020 metal debuts, inc. Savage Blood, Brave the Cold, Make Them Die Slowly, Scolopendra, Godthrym, Hypernaut, Sacred Outcry, and others

Show up and show your support for a global array of recent arrivals including Schizophrenia, Symbolik, Glacier, Meurtrieres, Cult of Lilith, Possessed Steel, Faidra, Sweven, Konvent, and others.

We lay prolific Finnish guitar phenomenon Alexi Laiho to rest this week at age 41.

Intense new atmospheric waves of expression by Solstafir, Ihsahn, Alcest, Deafheaven, Axioma, Altar of Plagues, Oranssi Pazuzu, and more

Ranging from the savage to the sublime, instrumental Mastodon, Kirk Windstein, Sweven, Dark Fortress, Cirith Ungol, Metallica, Triptykon, and more.

A power metal mystery! And tracks by like-minded pioneers Helstar, Liege Lord, Jag Panzer, Sacred Rite, Heir Apparent, Omen, Riot, and others

Influential 15-, 16-, and 17-year-olds from the metal bands Sepultura, Possessed, Scorpions, Def Leppard, Emperor, Bathory, and Alien Weaponry

State-of-the-art metal by Gojira, Mastodon, Lamb of God, Ghost, Power Trip, Baroness, Triptykon, Municipal Waste, Dragonforce, and more

This Thanksgiving week, we bring to the table a metal history lesson uniting fifty years of heavy metal with centuries of North American roots.

We go track by track into Slayer's Hell Awaits, including the originals plus tributes by Sinister, Fleshcrawl, Angelcorpse & Cradle of Filth

November 8 marks the 40th anniversary of Motörhead's Ace of Spades

Join us this Halloween week as we invoke the arcane and melodramatic aura of Italian horror metal bands on SiriusXM's Bloody Roots