Bazillion Points Blog

Hailing from L.A., these dudes boast a running resumé that includes stints in Détente, Catalepsy, Machine Head, Sacred Reich, Juggernaut, SA Slayer, and Mercenary. That's Murdercar.

This is producer Russ Russell's wrist presiding over the mixing of Napalm Death's The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code album at Foel Studios in Wales.

Hats off to hometown hero Andy McCoy, who this past weekend presided over and performed at a ceremony for the unveiling of his very own statue.

In March 2009 my one-year-old son, Nathan Riddick, was diagnosed with a very rare genetic disorder called Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus (NDI).

Former HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST mainman Tom Gabriel Fischer and Bazillion Points Books have announced the forthcoming publication for 'Only Death Is Real: An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost."

Last weekend I was digging out Hanoi Rocks articles from old Kerrang!s to include as  backstory with Bazillion Points' upcoming press mailing  of...

Here's a video of Michael Jackson with his brothers on the Jacksons Victory tour in 1984, joined onstage by Eddie Van Halen to play...

389DkzjHpus I'm stunned at how well this video delineates our relationship, myself and each and every one of you anonymous blog surfers on an individual...

Sweet, sweet Napoli—home of pizza, Italian organized crime, and back in 1986 a devilish quintet of molten Italian metal mongers called Hell's. Their sole...

I'll admit it, the demo queue is very, very long around here—I'm always glad to knock one off the stack when a high-quality reissue...

Wow, Chthonic has a weird new look. Did the Taiwanese black metal band play a show with Australia's furnitureheads Portal or something? Just reminds...

The decadent autobiography of HANOI ROCKS co-founder Andy McCoy, "Sheriff McCoy: Legend of Hanoi Rocks", will soon be available in English for the first...

4sO7DulwSLU Considering that every film directed by Takeshi Miike is better than 98% of anything else, and that Deadly Outlaw Rekka is one of his...

emrBZZtGFgI What can I tell you about the eerie, hooded Australian phenomenon Portal? Their cosmic puddle of death metal sounds to me like Morbid Angel...

Though local wags in Boston dubbed these zoned-out punk metal thrashers "Post Boredom," this band deserves credit for digging its shallow trench for over...

I have a hard time convincing skeptics of the fury of Van Halen in its prime, and the band in its current non-incarnation isn't...

Nobody told me, but a few weeks ago Alan Rapp's Critical Terrain design blog posted eight minutes of an interview with Stephen O'Malley and...

Here's my rough attempt to capture the spectacle of 42,000 Iron Maiden fans streaming into Sarsfield stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, before losing their...

Feast your eyes on the Stew of True Doom, a molten metal masterpiece concocted by Karl Simon of the powerful Indy warlords The Gates...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8yVn2wyCdU I've already sold my ticket for next week's Throbbing Gristle show at the Masonic Temple in Brooklyn, their first ever in New York, because...