Bazillion Points Blog

Heed the call of the horns of Enslaved, Bathory, Manowar, Windir, Ensiferum, Tyr, Helheim, Amon Amarth, Viking Throne, and others.

"Among the pioneering masterpieces of Swedish death metal."

Basically, the next person who tells you heavy metal takes itself too seriously needs to go jump in a lake.

This week host Ian Christe welcomes French-Canadian death metal mastermind Luc Lemay of Gorguts.

This Friday, a supreme chronicle of hardcore cassette culture finds Asbury Park, New Jersey, as The ShowRoom hosts a screening of the New Breed...

On this week's heavy metal metal history lesson, we revisit the somber, crushing tones of massive Goth-influence metal.

Above: "Carducci: The Man, The Shirt" SST Records ad from WE GOT POWER! #3, May 1982 WE GOT POWER! essayist (and Rock and the Pop...

The saturated red and black clip is loaded to the max with skulls, dive-bombs, nuclear explosions, spikes, and, of course, swilling beer.

NYHC bands like Agnostic Front, Nihilistics, Cause for Alarm, Cro-Mags, Reagan Youth, and many others banded together to create a hard, physical sound and culture that thrives to this day.

BLOODY ROOTS SALUTES FORTY YEARS OF TWISTED FUCKING SISTER on SIRIUS XM Week of May 21, 2016 Sat 5/21, 6PM ET Sun 5/22, 1PM ET Mon 5/23, 9AM ET Tues...

Comedian Fred Armisen has ventured back into Bazillion Points territory, this time posting a portrait of WE GOT POWER! author Jordan Schwartz and mainstay...

BLOODY ROOTS OF ARIZONA DRY HATE: AZ THRASH METAL DEMOS 1985-1992 Week of May 14, 2016 Sat 5/14, 6PM ET Sun 5/15, 1PM ET Mon 5/16, 9AM ET Tues...

Bloody Roots of Crushing Psychedelic Doom Metal on Sirius XM Week of May 7, 2016 Sat 5/7, 6PM ET Sun 5/8, 1PM ET Mon 5/9, 9AM ET Tues 5/10,...

BLOODY ROOTS OF DEATH's SCREAM BLOODY GORE on Sirius XM Week of April 30, 2016 Sat 4/30, 6PM ET Sun 5/1, 1PM ET Mon 5/2, 9AM ET Tues 5/3,...

BLOODY ROOTS OF TRADITIONAL METAL TODAY on Sirius XM Week of April 23, 2016 Sat 4/23, 6PM ET Sun 4/24, 1PM ET Mon 4/25, 9AM ET Tues 4/26, 4PM...

G.B.H is not the only hardcore punk band fundraising for good causes these days. NYHC stalwarts Sheer Terror and Cro-Mags have just announced a...

For you connoisseurs of carnal leftovers, this week's addition to the critically-acclaimed SDM Band of the Week series hails from the beautiful city of Uppsala....

Great news for Youth Crew believers on the East Coast—wind up your Swatch X watches and find your Side by Side shirts, because Youth of...

Cvlt Nation has pointed us towards some fantastic early footage of author Ross Lomas' band G.B.H performing a gig with Clay Records labelmates Discharge and...

Our beloved NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990, by Tony Rettman author Tony Rettman was recently interviewed by Alternative Press about hardcore punk in 2016,...