Bazillion Points Blog

Witness the wisdom and experience of a life spent in metal via the complete 72-minute high-def concert stream above.

Four years ago, David Markey and Jordan Schwartz threw the loudest book release party in known recent history.

Few dared tread where Eerie walked during those years...and he was the only one with a camera.

Norwegian extreme metal horde Enslaved initially came together in 1991, immediately forging a new epoch in frost-and-fire and vision-inducing black metal.

The best of recent incantations by Castle, Lucifer (pictured), Wooden Stake, Holy Grove, Serpentcult, Cauchemar, Mansion, and more.

Until the authorities start burning books, MY DAMAGE is available everywhere books are sold.

Read up before applying for your dream job!

Rabid readers of MEAN DEVIATION: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal rejoice!

Never to be confused with Regurgitate from Avesta—who raucously rage in their own right—the Stockholm-based Regurgitate is a powerhouse/clearinghouse of Swedish death metal talents...

Ominous drones, piercing squelches, and shimmering waves of circuitry in tracks by Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Sigh, Amorphis, Ufommamut, Zemial, Hammers of Misfortune, Ihsahn, John Carpenter, and others.

The occasion is the band’s 30-Year Anniversary Tour, a literally moving celebration of SOIA’s 1986 launch and its ongoing ups and downs

Merciless will set sail on the Close-Up Boat along with fellow brigands Entombed, Unleashed, Grave, Necrophobic, Centinex, Interment, God Macabre, and General Surgery

Riding high with on Anarchytechture, the industrial/punk/metal/futurist modern rock band's first album in four years, Skunk Anansie is slated to storm the main stage at...

"Whenever I see something on the Internets ranting about Spotify destroying the 'music industry' or something like that, I'll be conflicted and confused."

But as Metallica made its pivot, what else was going on in the world of heavy metal in 1991?

Strap in for this month's best metal, punk, and other hard-rock-related movies currently streaming online, actively screening in theaters, and/or newly arrived on Blu-ray, with gratuitous guidance from Mike “McBeardo” McPadden

The mighty Darkthrone, the most free-spirited and still-mysterious of Norway's prime-era black metal bands, will return on October 14 with ARCTIC THUNDER.

Rolling Stone has issued its picks for The Top 25 Punk Rock Movies of All Time, and pogoing in at a solid #17 is 1991: The Year Punk Broke, by WE GOT POWER! coauthor David Markey

Brian joins host Steffan Chirazi over some fine English tea to discuss his participation in recent reissues of the classic Metallica LPs Kill ’Em All and Ride the Lightning

VH1 Classic and its signature series That Metal Show died on August 1st so that Headbangers Ball and Beavis and Butt-head could live again....