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Ian Christe on Dave Pybus’ Life Is a Hideous Thing Podcast

Bazillion Points publisher Ian Christe is this week’s guest on Dave Pybus’ Life Is a Hideous Thing podcast. Pybus is the former bassist of Cradle of Filth, Anathema, and Darkened, and an early member of the Peaceville Records posse. Topics discussed include the dirty details of the authorly life, the new state of Bazillion Points, beer, Star Wars, and whether or not dabbling in videogames is okay for grownups.

LISTEN HERE! http://davepybus.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/life-is-hideous-thing-episod...

Bloody Roots of Female-Fronted Black Metal on Sirius XM

BLOODY ROOTS OF FEMALE-FRONTED BLACK METAL ON SIRIUS XM
Week of October 3, 2015

Sat 10/3, 6PM ET
Sun 10/4, 1PM ET
Mon 10/5, 9AM ET
Tues 10/6, 4PM ET
Thurs 10/8, 9PM ET

This week’s metal history lesson shines a beacon in the black metal underworld to locate the formidable terror of female-fronted bands. Adorior (UK), Astarte (Greece), Demonic Christ (US), Ludicra (SF), Myrkur (Norway), Cadaveria (Italy), Amesoeurs (France), and more range from over-the-top aggressive to subdued and sublime. K...

METALION: New Ball-Rattling SUNN 0))) Album Kannon Due in December

photo by Peter Beste

METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries foreword contributor and general Bazillion Points ambassador Stephen O’Malley is about to put forth a new studio release by his highly influential, ball-rattling band SUNN 0))). Kannon will be available on gatefold LP, CD, and digital formats worldwide on December 4, with a limited number of clear vinyl available on “Black Friday RSD,” Friday, November 27. There’s also talk of bringing back some of the Darkthrone and Bathory darkness that...

TOUCH AND GO: Found 1981 Footage of THE FIX From Fresno Gig Supporting Dead Kennedys

We’ve been awash in short 8mm film snippets lately capturing Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, and Jimi Hendrix in the 1970s. Now comes the Fix, the very first Touch and Go Records band, whosevocalist Steve Miller edited our bookTOUCH AND GO: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ’79–’83, by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson.

About a year ago, this footage of these Michiganhardcore forerunners was found in an attic somewhere, digitized and uploaded to that treacherous treasure trove known as YouTu...

NYHC: Classic BEYOND “Dew It” Demo 1988 Coming on Vinyl w/WNYU Live Session

Revelation Records releases the seminal NYHC demo for its first time on vinyl this week; includes full WNYU live recordingplus liner notes by NYHC author Tony Rettman

The late-’80s period of NYHC yielded manydemo tapes that are now precious as gold. None surpassed the out-of-nowhere jolt to the moshing masses provided by Long Island’s Beyond andtheir “Dew It!”demo in the early part of 1988. Combining a love for the D.C. sound of Minor Threat and Dag Nasty with a covert sprinkling of musicalc...

TOUCH AND GO: The Return of Battalion of Saints

Pioneering early-’80s San Diego hardcore band Battalion of Saints (just featured last week on our publisher Ian Christe’s Sirius XM show) are back and ready to rage with a three-song 7″ EP coming from Southern Lord on October 30th.

This caustic and abrasive Southern California band landed the beginning of the American hardcore movement. Their self-released 1982 debut EP, Fighting Boys, is a prime example of the homespun fury exploding from all ends of the country at the time. The follow-up,...

NYHC: Vinnie Stigma Turns 60 at St. Vitus in Brooklyn on Dec. 3rd

The godfather of NYHC will spend his birthday in Brooklyn this December, and you’re invited. On December 3, Agnostic Front founder Vinnie Stigma will celebrate his 60th birthday in style at St. Vitus Bar on 1120 Manhattan Ave at the far northern tip of Greenpoint.

Ever the working class hero, Stigma will be busy playing at his birthday bash, as Agnostic Front headlines a bill with fellow NYHC legends Antidote and Boston oi band Hammer and the Nails. Come down and party with the man himself,...

Bloody Roots of Recent Corpse-Crunching Death Metal From All Over the Place on Sirius XM

Hail of Bullets, photo by Caroline Trailer

Bloody Roots of Recent Corpse-Crunching Death Metal From All Over the Place on Sirius XM
Week of September 26, 2015

Sat 9/26, 6PM ET
Sun 9/27, 1PM ET
Mon 9/28, 9AM ET
Tues 9/29, 4PM ET
Thurs 10/1, 9PM ET

This week host Ian Christe (“Sound of the Beast”/Bazillion Points) sticks his well-traveled spade into the freshly-tossed earth of graves worldwide, traveling to Sweden, Spain, Australia, Germany, Holland, the United States, and back to Sweden fo...

Stand Back for the Earliest Stage Footage of JUDAS PRIEST, Captured on 8mm Film at Reading 1975

The precious flowing treasures of the past keep streaming into our faces. Now 8mm film footage of Judas Priest performing at Reading Festival on August 22, 1975, has come to YouTube.I think at this point, Al Atkins had been singer of Judas Priest longer than Rob Halford!

The performances of “Victim of Changes” and “Island of Domination” aren’t earth-shatteringly great, but seeing them performed in this raw public environment sure is! This is totally unstructured heaviness, far from the well-...

WE GOT POWER!: The Dead Kennedys’ In God We Trust Inc Released Today in 1981

Above: Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra photo fromWE GOT POWER: Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California in his role as the President of the U.S. in David Markey’s film Lovedolls Superstar.

Thirty four years ago today, the Dead Kennedys released their In God We Trust, Inc. 12″ EP, a landmark release on the fertile early landscape of American hardcore punk.

Inspired by scenes the bandwitnessed around on the east coast duringtheir Spring 1981 tour—specifically in Washington, DC—...