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Bloody Roots of New Music by Norway’s Black Metal Elite on Sirius XM

Bloody Roots of New Music by Norway’s Black Metal Elite on Sirius XM
Week of April 9, 2016

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Nearly a quarter-century after the world was shaken by the fierce uprising of Norwegian black metal, Bloody Roots returns to the scene of the crimes and investigates the impressive current crop of new releases by members of Emperor, Immortal, Enslaved, Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum, Gorgoroth, Satyricon, Arcturus, and Ta...

NYHC: Author Tony Rettman’s ‘Ten Best Punk Documentaries’

Our co-conspirator and all-knowing hardcoreguru Tony Rettman, beloved author of NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990, has posted his definitive “Ten Best Punk Documentaries” atGreen Room Radio.

Takea trip over to Green Room Radio site to read Rettman’s take on films like 2005’s PUNK Attitude, UK/DK: A Film About Punks and Skinheads,David Markey’s The Slog Movie, the classic Decline of Western Civilization, and several other specimens of safety-pin cinema also featured in Heavy Metal Movies.Thetr...

DEATH: Gory Details on Scream Bloody Gore Remasters/Reissues

Finally, the wait is over!

As you might have noticed, Relapse Records and Chuck Schuldiner’s “estate” Perseverance Holdings, Ltd., have steadily remastered and reissued the majority of Death albums over the past few years. We were proud to be involved in the sprawlingLeprosyand pre-Death band Mantas Death by Metalreissues via essays by Bazillion Points publisher Ian Christe.

Now Relapse hasannounced the most-anticipated piece of the set, Death’s 1987 arrival Scream Bloody Gore, one of the mo...

HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Mike “McBeardo” McPadden Invades the Double-Page Spread Podcast

HEAVY METAL MOVIES author Mike “McBeardo” McPadden’s onslaught on podcasts continues, as he whips open the Double Page Spread show and dispenses with his one-in-a-million morass of vehement wisdom. The show description is right on:

Outspoken writer Mike ‘McBeardo’ McPadden has had a long and tawdry history with cinema, including writing for online phenomenon Mr. Skin as well as Hustler,VH1, and Esquire. He joins Wendi for an engrossing and fun talk about his life in New York during the grind...

MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW: Brian Lew Talks Early Metallica Reissues

This morning, Metallica uploadeda video of frontman James Hetfield inspecting a production model of the band’s upcomingKill ‘Em All (Deluxe Edition) box set. The entire process takes several minutes, because, once the lid is open, the 1982–1984 era artifacts just keep coming and coming.Notable to our eyes is a full-page reproduction of a page from Bruce Pavitt’s SUB POP USA book,proving once again that Metallica’s early supporters came from all corners (and reaffirming Pavitt’s golden ears).

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Bloody Roots of AC/DC’s Dirty Metal Deeds on Sirius XM

Bloody Roots ofAC/DC’s Dirty Metal Deedson SIRIUS XM

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In honor of ongoing exploits of the world’s greatest rock and roll band, this week’s metal history lesson plugs into theaggressive originsand electricinfluence of Australia’s hard rock heroes AC/DC. From Melbourne bars to stadiums worldwide, AC/DC has represented and inspired heavy metal for almost 40 years, and host Ian Christe (“Sound of the Beast...

Only Paper Is Real: New Print Magazine Coming from Alex Skolnick, Randy Blythe & Tom Bejgrowicz

New magazine alert! Murder in the Front Row contributor and Testament guitar hero Alex Skolnick has joined forces with two friends-of-Bazillion, Lamb of God singer Randy Blythe and Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside AC/DC art director Tom Bejgrowicz, to create UNBUILT,a biannual, limited-edition culture and lifestyle publication debuting this April.

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The first issue willfeature interviews with activist/artist Sue Coe; director Tom Berninger (Mistaken for Strange...

HATRED Is the Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week

What happens when former members of legendary Swedish hardcore bands Asocial and Svart Parad form a metal band named after a Manowar song? In the opinion of Daniel Ekeroth, Hatred rose from the crusted ground of Hedemora in 1987 and became “the best thrash metal band Sweden ever produced,” recordingthree essential demos between ’87and 1990.

Departing from the inspiration ofheavier NWOBHM bands, the debut “Winds of Doom” demo wasa guiding darknessfor the rise of Sweden’s fast-arrivingdeath met...

3/30–4/7, New York: IFC Center Screens WFMU Doc “Sex & Broadcasting”

Back in 1992, when Metallica’s Black Album and Nirvana’s Nevermind were still new albums, and AxCx, Mayhem, and Eyehategod all had zero full-length releases, Bazillion Points publisher Ian Christe moved to New York and right away started doing 3AM to 6AM shows on WFMU in East Orange, NJ. Sure, the old house was stuck on the corner of a rotting (now defunct) college campus, and late-night machine gun fire was common, but that place was a cathedral of music…and every druid who hosts a show on ‘...

SWEDISH DEATH METAL: Sweden Affirms Alex Hellid’s Right to Make ENTOMBED Beer

This beer doesn’t exist. But if you want a picture of Entombed with beer, just search Google for the word “Entombed”

As Entombed A.D. crushes forward on the strengths of new album DEAD DAWN, a new twist emerges in the bitter struggle between frontman L.G. Petrov and former guitarist Alex Hellid. Apparently, the Swedish Patent and Trademark Office was too enamored with the concept of Entombed-branded beer to put any restrictions on Hellid pursuing such enterprises. The ruling might seem a litt...