The Black Sabbath Bridge in Birmingham today... 💐💦💦💦

Murderer's Row from MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW 🔪 Bonded by bloodbrother bands SLAYER + EXODUS in Aug 1984, L-R: Hanneman, Hunolt, Lombardo, King, Holt, Araya... plus a guy in the back ⚡ 📷 by Harald Oimoen from "the yearbook of the Bay Area thrash metal scene," natch! 🔨

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Don Dokken: "The cool thing about Ozzy, he was very well read. He loved to read. He was always reading something, and he'd ask me what I'm reading. He loved his books."

Ozzy journeys to the center of eternity...

The head, the tail, the whole damn thing 🦈 ROOTS Shark Attack! 50 Years of JAWS today devours raging chum w/ Wehrmacht, Loincloth, Darkthrone, Municipal Waste, the Acacia Strain, Warhead, Accept, Wolf, Gallows, Overkill, + the Jaws-themed band Squalus.
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Today in 1980 in SOUND OF THE BEAST history, Black Sabbath played its first concert w/new singer Ronnie James Dio in Aurich, West Germany 🤘 Local paper review: "Attack on Hearing and Musical Taste" 🧐

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#ronniejamesdio #blacksabbath

I only communicate my secret military strikes via the thanks lists of death metal LPs.

Forty yrs is a drop in the bucket of eternity... from the ONLY DEATH IS REAL files via @celticfrostofficial 💀 Outtake from the very first photo shoot of Celtic Frost after US drummer Reed St. Mark joined

Photo by Martin Kyburz, March 1985.

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#CelticFrost

NYHC New York Hardcore Oral History by Tony Rettman

finally reading the bazillion points NYHC book (which I forgot I had on kindle) and it's so good. need to order the physical just for the images.

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Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.

I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.

“And have a great 1984!” 🎉 Jeff Nelson + Ian MacKaye's 1983 holiday card to Nancy Barile 🐑 Her book I'M NOT HOLDING YOUR COAT w/ a long new conversation w/MacKaye at Dischord House 🎉 via @nancybarile

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#punk #hardcorepunk #bostonhardcore @bazillionpoints

ABBATHENAR!! ⚡ Did someone say "Happy Abbathday" to Athenar? Well, something like that... Give this hooded menace a cheer if you see him stalking the streets ov Cleveland today, & give the gift of Athenar and the MIDNIGHT photo book on any gifted occasion coming up
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If you are a record store, open up & say ahhhh so we can feed you books before putting 2024 to rest ⚰ Lay out a hellacious holiday spread like this for the villagers. A feast fit for a beast... we ship boxes hourly from the Midwest ⛓


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The pungent Lake Erie Black-on-Green version of the MIDNIGHT book's "Goat Trap" bonus 7" is 90% gone ☣ Grab one before it slips thru your hands like... water from a lake! “An intensive, exciting band biography in the form of a photo book.”—OX zine Germany


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Circle of the Writer-Tyrants! ⚡ BAZILLION POINTS authors, 12 of the heaviest fists ever to raise a pen (L-R): Tom Gabriel Fischer ⚡ Daniel Ekeroth ⚡ Ian Christe ⚡ Brian Lew ⚡ Robert Plante ⚡ Albert Mudrian ⚡ Thank you to all ravenous readers! ⚡
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Hardcore punk as it happened from 1979-1983, by the people who made it happen ⚒ 22 handmade issues of TOUCH AND GO stuffed into a stiff 576pp package of real-time record reviews, early interviews w/ Misfits, Black Flag, Minor Threat, SSD, Necros, NxAx...
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NYHC book launch, 10 yrs ago tonight ✊ Check our YT channel for the full one-hour romp with: Tony Rettman (NYHC; Straight Edge), Richie Birkenhead (Youth of Today; Underdog; Into Another), Mike Judge (Death Before Dishonor; Judge), Paul Bearer (Sheer Terror)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkPub-990_k

Hey L.A.! ⛱ The Redd Kross doc Born Innocent opens tonight at Laemmle Monica Film Center in Santa Monica ❤️‍ Pop into Rip City Skates en route and pick up the WE GOT POWER! book, w/ Jeff & Steve McDonald debriefing + pics of them as kids playing the pier ✨
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Man-of-the-hour Chris Reifert of AUTOPSY mangling his copy of MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW (he's in the Slayer crowd at Aquatic Park, 1984) ⛏ While we reprint MURDER, check out Reifert's forewords for SWEDISH DEATH METAL and METALION, and his words in CHOOSING DEATH⚡ https://www.murderinthefrontrow.com

Season's beatings! ⚒ Megadeth drum dynamo Dirk Verbeuren sinks his teeth into MIDNIGHT: A Thousand Days in Sodom ⚛ Trust me when I tell you it's an absolute must-have for the rock 'n roll maniac in your life! A few copies w/ exclusive Midnight 'Goat Trap' 7" are still available, so hurry the f up!

GILBERT ‼ An imploring plea to read HEAVY METAL MOVIES by Mike "McBeardo" McPadden! ⛹️‍♀️ Gilbert on McBeardo's TEEN MOVIE HELL: “This book is good for people who like teen movies. Teen movies are good for people who like gratuitous nudity. I am those people!”
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Forty years ago today... R.I.P. "Razzle" Dingley of HANOI ROCKS ✨⚱ For tales of Razzle's world adventures, baseball bats, drinking with Indian lepers, lighting David Coverdale on fire, read Andy McCoy's book SHERIFF McCOY: The Outlaw Legend of Hanoi Rocks ⭐
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Mark Evans & Brian Johnson are the only AC/DC members who have written books about the band ⚡️ We're offering them as a pair for $24.95 + s/h ⚡️ Come read a few things about the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band ⚡️


#acdc #acdcforever #bonscott #angusyoung
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This week in 1984, Sepultura played their 1st show. Here's a shot of the 2nd show, from March 1985, the last w/ Wagner Antichrist on vocals ⚰⚰⚰ This era is massively captured in UNITED FORCES: An Archive of Brazil's Raw Metal Attack, by Marcelo R. Batista ⛱
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Put a book on it! ⚡ Book and record stores are crushing shelves this season w/ heavy reading from Bazillion Points ⚡ Support your local volume dealers... if they don't have the books, tag/link them here! ⚡ Or inhale that new book smell straight from the source:


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Happy Krampusnacht! ⚖ Look behind you. If the one with horns catches you tonight, well... you're so BAAAAAD! ☀ But why stop now? Party down with Krampus, Farmhand Rupert, Smutzli, and Père Fouettard until St Nicholas comes to feed you tomorrow... ⛄


#krampus #krampusnacht #farmhandrupert #smutzli

OX Zine Germany is right on time w/ MIDNIGHT, by Hannah Verbeuren ⏰ "Onstage, backstage, at the hotel pool (with a mask), enacting a pentagram with neked women... this book gets you close to an artistic figure without ever crossing the line into the private. https://www.bazillionpoints.com/midnight

Brian Lew, coauthor of MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW, with Tom Gabriel Fischer, author of ONLY DEATH IS REAL ⚡ Today in 2018 at Decibel Metal & Beer Fest L.A. ⚡ Get on board our books for some HEAVY reading this season ⚡ foto: Raymond Ahner
#celticfrost #hellhammer #murderinthefrontrow

Today in 1989, Kurt Cobain at Rough Trade London, photo from EXPERIENCING NIRVANA: Grunge in Europe, 1989, by Bruce Pavitt ⛴ The racks and walls behind him are insane with 1989 treasure, including the Grindcrusher comp, Ultramega OK, what else do you see?
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