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What Are YOU Doing Here?, MDF Edition

June 1, 2013

During Pantera shows in the late 1990s, Phil Anselmo routinely went on an anti-hip hop tirade

WOMBBATH Is the Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week

May 31, 2013

They might have erred in choosing a band name that summons images of a cuddly Australian marsupial

Sirius XM Bloody Roots of Powerviolence

May 31, 2013

If you blinked, you might have missed the split-second contortions of the powerviolence scene

HEAVY METAL MOVIES Hails 666 of the Most Metallic Movie Moments Ever (Times Two!)

May 23, 2013

Heavy Metal Movies is the ultimate guidebook to the complete molten musical cinema experience.

Obsessed by Cookery! Annick “Morbid Chef” Giroux at MDF XI 2013

May 23, 2013

Annick "Morbid Chef" will be dealing in cruel aprons this Friday 5/24 around the Bazillion Points book table at Maryland Deathfest

Bazillion Points Authors and Contributors Remember Jeff Hanneman in DECIBEL Tribute Issue

May 22, 2013

Alex Skolnick, Harald Oimoen, Brian Lew, Tomas Lindberg, Gary Holt, Erik Danielsson, Dan Lilker, and Ian Christe pay tribute to Slayer's Jeff Hanneman

Bazillion Points at MDF XI in Baltimore This Weekend

May 22, 2013

Our booth will be stuffed full of books and strange rarities, so keep your eyes peeled for us when roaming the sweaty vendor room. Buying us a beer is optional but encouraged!

EMBALMED: Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week

May 21, 2013

The ghouls who cut their teeth in Embalmed later made history in Dark Funeral, Defleshed, Sarcasm, Skitsystem, Diskonto, and Uncurbed.

SiriusXM Bloody Roots of Maryland Deathfest XI 2013

May 20, 2013

Bloody Roots slices open the MDF 2013 schedule, analyzing the living metal history of festival favorites like Bolt Thrower, Down, Sacred Reich, Carcass, Terveet Kadet, Broken Hope, The Obsessed, and more.

SiriusXM Bloody Roots of Metal Genre-Jumpers

May 18, 2013

Small surprise that some of the most creative minds in heavy music have hopped from heavy metal to grindcore to industrial to death metal to funk and back again.

It’s Elementary: Lucy Liu Snuggling w/Touch and Go Book

May 13, 2013

Hoping to see Negative Approach on air soon, and looking forward to Lucy Liu's unrequited crush on Tesco Vee.

WE GOT POWER! Contribs FLAG Will Reignite Black Flag’s Legacy via North America Tour

May 13, 2013

WE GOT POWER! essay writers Keith Morris, Dez Cadena, and Chuck Dukowski have formed FLAG, and will reignite Black Flag's songs for more than a dozen North American dates in 2013

AGONY: Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week

May 13, 2013

At their best moments, Agony actually echoed the mighty Slayer, and they were surely one of Sweden’s best thrash metal bands.

Black Flag, Redd Kross, Adolescents Vets Read From WE GOT POWER! at Book Soup...

May 10, 2013

Bazillion Points and Book Soup L.A. are pleased to announce a live and loud punk rock reading by several contributors to WE GOT POWER! on 6/1, including veterans of Black Flag, Redd Kross, the Adolescents, Saccharine Trust, and more!

SiriusXM Bloody Roots Salutes the Old Bridge Metal Militia

May 6, 2013

One of the most notorious and fanatical old-school metal scenes in the U.S. is the Old Bridge, NJ, headbanger tribe led by Megaforce Records founders Jon and Marsha Zazula.

DARKIFIED: Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week

May 6, 2013

Meet DARKIFIED, the band that even the teenagers in Entombed considered too young!

SiriusXM Bloody Roots Remembers Jeff Hanneman of Slayer

May 3, 2013

This week Bloody Roots recaps many of Hanneman's most searing contributions to metal, including songwriting demos, punk solo project recordings, and live Slayer material.