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Weekend in the Windy City: Chicago’s Riot Fest Starts Tomorrow

For party-worn punkers and first-time fiends alike, the big event this weekend will be Chicago’s Riot Fest and Carnival. Dozens of key acts will be leaping into action, straight from the pages of a range of Bazillion Points books.

If the Original Misfits’ recent Denver Riot Fest rampage is any indication, Glenn Danzig, Jerry Only, and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein (plus Slayer veteran Dave Lombardo behind the drum kit) will be pummeling concertgoers anew, seemingly possessed by the same s...

EUCHARIST Is the Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week

Early innovators of the ’90s “Gothenburg sound” that fuses crushing death metal ferocity with muscularly musical melody, Eucharist wailed first in summer 1989 when the group’s shockingly young members discovered one another in the small city of Veddige. No exaggeration—consider that drummer Daniel Erlandsson—later of Arch Enemy, Carcass, In Flames, and Brujeria (among others) and brother of At the Gates drummer Adrian Erlandsson—was barely thirteen at the time.

Joining Erlandsson in Eucharis...

METALION: Fenriz of Darkthrone Sort-of Elected to Kolbotn Town Council on a Firm “Please Don’t Vote For Me” Platform

If he coughs uncontrollably, he must have been recording vocals on a song from Darkthrone’s upcoming ARCTIC THUNDER album. If he’s building a wall around anything, it’s his Cirith Ungol and Hanoi Rocks albums.

Yet because Norwegian voters know a good thing when they see it, the erstwhile Gylve Fenris Nagell— revered cofounder of Norwegian extreme metal legends Darkthrone, Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries contributor, radio personality, outdoorsman, and all-around tastemaker—is now a democrat...

WE GOT POWER!: David Markey’s Rare 1980 Film Short Depicts the Death of Summer, Birth of a Punker

David Markey, revered director of Desperate Teenage Lovedolls, 1991: The Year Punk Broke, and The Slog Movie, not to mention coauthor of WE GOT POWER!: Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California, recently made available one of his early filmmaking efforts, Summer Has Been Over for a Long Time.

The poignant three-and-a-half minute movie extracts and brings to life the youth beach continuum depicted in his highly-detailed photographs in WE GOT POWER! The Santa Monica idyll is fractur...

Bloody Roots of the Misfits on SiriusXM

BLOODY ROOTS OF THE MISFITS
Week of September 10, 2016

Sat 9/10, 6PM ET
Sun 9/11, 1PM ET
Mon 9/12, 9AM ET
Tues 9/13, 4PM ET
Thurs 9/15, 9PM ET

As this month brings the Glenn Danzig-fronted Misfits back to the live stage for the first time in decades, Bloody Roots plunges both hands deep into the gory vaults of this legendary New Jersey horror hardcore band. Prepare for a ghoul’s night out with hits from hell by the Misfits, plus related bands Samhain and Danzig. Crushing Misfits covers by Mar...

ONLY DEATH IS REAL: Are You Morbid? Witness Triptykon’s Total Metal Mastery at Wacken 2016

This past August on the dusky battlegrounds of Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany, ONLY DEATH IS REAL author Tom Gabriel Fischer’s band Triptykon demonstrated complete mastery of heavy music in all its facets before a crowd of tens of thousands. Witness the wisdom and experience of a life spent in metal via the complete 72-minute high-def concert stream above. Triptykon’s perfectly poised performance includes renditions of Celtic Frost classics “Procreation (of the Wicked),” “Dethroned Emper...

Sat 10/8, LA: WE GOT POWER! Photo Opening at Pop Obscure Records

Four years ago, David Markey and Jordan Schwartz threw the loudest book release party in known recent history, drawing thousands to an all-star free Adolescents/White Flag/Sacc. Trust show and exhibition of scores of photographs from their book WE GOT POWER!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California.

Now Los Angeles’s vinyl-only haven Pop Obscure will bring the iconic images from WE GOT POWER! to Downtown L.A. Come to the opening reception at 735 South Los Angeles Street on Saturd...

MISERY OBSCURA: Preorder Eerie Von’s Misfits | Samhain | Danzig Photo Collection in Revamped Hardcover

Bazillion Points is extremely chilled and thrilled to present the revamped and reanimat-edition of Eerie Von’s much-desired and highly praised MISERY OBSCURA: The Photography of Eerie Von (1981-2009). This 160p deluxe hardcover features hundreds of color and black and white photos of the Misfits and Eerie’s bands Samhain and Danzig across the 1980s and 1990s. Few dared tread where Eerie walked during those years…and he was the only one with a camera.

The book features forewords by Lyle Presl...

METALION: Enslaved’s Vikinglirg Veldi Reissue Kicks Off 25th Anniversary Tour

ABOVE: Original 1994 DSP mix of Enslaved’s debut, Vikinglirg Veldi

Norwegian extreme metal horde Enslaved initially came together in 1991, immediately forging a new epoch in frost-and-fire and vision-inducing black metal. Three years later, carrying the torch for their fallen mentor Euronymous of Mayhem, Enslaved set sail into recording history with an operatically entrancing debut, Vikinglirg Veldi, on the Deathlike Silence Productions label.

The early saga is savored from the absolute front...

Bloody Roots of Haunting Female-Fronted Heavy Occult Metal on SiriusXM

BLOODY ROOTS OF HAUNTINGFEMALE-FRONTED HEAVY OCCULT METAL
Week of September 3, 2016

Sat 9/3, 6PM ET
Sun 9/4, 1PM ET
Mon 9/5, 9AM ET
Tues 9/6, 4PM ET
Thurs 9/8, 9PM ET

This week’s metal history lesson explores the current inundation of female-fronted heavy doom bands trafficking in occult and black magic themes. Host Ian Christe (Bazillion Points, “Sound of the Beast”) summons the best of recent incantations by Castle, Lucifer (pictured), Wooden Stake, Holy Grove, Serpentcult, Cauchemar, Mansi...