MELLODRAMA: The Mellotron Movie OUT TODAY

Feature-length documentary chronicles the "ancient samplers," the Chamberlin and the Mellotron keyboards, featuring members of the Moody Blues, the Beach Boys, Genesis, King Crimson, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, the Zombies, Latin Playboys, Yes, Maroon 5, Opeth, and many more.

Who Are You? #8 (picturesque edition)

Heh heh ha ha... I pretty much lost interest in the popular "Who Are You?" series of posts here after Adem Tepedelen started...

Hellhammer 01.01.10—And the Year of the Warrior Begins

Above: Hellhammer, Birchwil, Switzerland, January 1, 1983. (Andreas Schwarber) "Only Death Is Real" HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST Book Available for Pre-order Bazillion Points Books is very proud...

Year-End Surprise: MELLODRAMA, The Mellotron Movie DVD

“Surprisingly fascinating.” –Philadelphia Weekly “A study in the unpredictability of innovation.” – Rhizome “An insider’s view on the history of the Chamberlin and the Mellotron,...

HELLBENT for COOKING Release Party: Montreal, Dec. 5

Are you in Montreal this weekend? Are you near Canada? Are you even half-alive? "Morbid Chef" and hellfire commando DJ Annick Giroux is throwing...

OXENKILLER: Satan’s Knife Has Never Been Ashamed

Oxenkiller—or possibly Oxen Killer, to be perfectly honest—are as unknown, unsung, and as French as it gets. They tread an unreasonable line between gleeful and gloomy, and come across as the closest thing to Mercyful Fate I've ever heard apart from the real thing.

Metal, She Signified

As the latest in our ongoing series of people engaging in metal behavior before heavy metal was invented (see recent post of Velvet Underground in grim corpse paint in the mid-1960s), here's a gaggle of gals experimenting with cryptic hand gestures in North Berkeley

DESEXULT: Speak Danish And F.O.A.D.

By popular demand (of a few dedicated misanthropes), here's a follow-up to the Samhain [Denmark] demo posting of a couple years ago. Within a year of releasing that "The Courier" demo, it dawned on the young Danes that the Samhain name was taken, and they switched to the snappy moniker Desexult and began besieging the world in demo tapes in earnest.

UPDATE: Chuck Biscuits Appreciation Day 10/29

Sad news this morning is that drummer Chuck Biscuits died last weekend of throat cancer at the age of 44. He was a member of D.O.A., Danzig, Samhain, Social Distortion, and briefly the Circle Jerks. He also laid down the drum tracks for Run-DMC's Tougher Than Leather album.

Italian Sound of the Beast—”La storia definitiva dell’heavy metal” out now

My Italian publisher Arcana Edizioni has just released SOUND OF THE BEAST: La storia definitiva dell'heavy metal, available wherever Italian books are sold. Five...

The Proof Is in the Pudding [Hellbent for Cooking]

...and in this case the pudding is Chocolate Pudding "Devil" Style, from Italy's Death SS, on page 197. Coming November 24 from Bazillion Points...

HELLBENT FOR COOKING: The Heavy Metal Cookbook Is in the Oven

Bazillion Points Books just received the page proofs of Annick Giroux's "fantastic beyond belief" heavy metal cookbook HELLBENT FOR COOKING. This luxurious 224pp monster...

Velvet Underground in Corpse Paint, 1965

No, this isn't from a recent Immortal get-together. This is Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison of the Velvet Underground gettin' grim in the film...

New Van Halen Music?

Eddie Van Halen let one rip last night on some TV sitcom.

MURDERCAR: The Last Days of Thrash

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.

Napalm Death: More Uuurgh! More Aargh!

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.

Sheriff Andy McCoy’s Statue Unveiled

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.

Blood and Guts Donors Wanted

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

HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST Photo History Book Approaching

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."

Thor vs. Cronos of Venom: When Pantera Was a Buxom Babe

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