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October 16, 2014
Members of AGNOSTIC FRONT/JUDGE/MADBALL Praise NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990, by Tony Rettman
New York hardcore punk legends Roger Miret of Agnostic Front, Mike Judge of Judge, and Freddy Cricien of Madball have voiced their approval after reading advance copies of Tony Rettman’s upcoming oral history NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990.
Based on original interviews with over 100 key historical figures, the dense 384pp volume features hundreds of images and over fifty chapters covering the bands, venues, labels, hangouts, and larger-than-life characters that built hardcore punk rock in N...
October 12, 2014
Bloody Roots Salute to King Diamond on Sirius XM
BLOODY ROOTS SALUTE TO KING DIAMOND
Week of October 11, 2014
Sat 10/11, 6PM ET
Sun 10/12, 1PM ET
Mon 10/13, 9AM ET
Tues 10/14, 4PM ET
Thurs 10/16, 9PM ET
This week’s metal history show honors the totally unique King Diamond, featuring highlights from thirty years of incredible metal in Black Rose, Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, and collaborating with musicians including Dave Grohl, Pantera, and others. Hail to the King! Know your Roots!
For further study on the early years of Mercyful Fate, check out...
October 3, 2014
Bloody Roots of UK Hardcore on Sirius XM
BLOODY ROOTS OF UK HARDCORE
Week of October 4, 2014
Sat 10/4, 6PM ET
Sun 10/5, 1PM ET
Mon 10/6, 9AM ET
Tues 10/7, 4PM ET
Thurs 10/9, 9PM ET
Barricade the windows and watch for falling bricks! This week Ian Christe (@ianchriste) leads a charge of leather, bristles, and spikes, filling the streets with the coarse, raw uprising of classic UK hardcore. Prepare for a total revolt with tracks by Discharge, GBH, Broken Bones, Concrete Sox, Disattack, Varukers, English Dogs, Conflict, Amebix, Heresy, Napalm...
October 1, 2014
Today in HEAVY METAL MOVIES: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Turns 40…”It Happened!”
Exactly as the title sounds, Mike “McBeardo” McPadden’s mighty HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Guitar Barbarians, Mutant Bimbos, & Cult Zombies Amok in the 666 Most Ear- and Eye-Ripping Big-Scream Films Ever! is a no-holds-barred collusion of speaker-shaking metal mayhem and big-screen carnage.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a BIG one. Tobe Hooper’s original unrelenting, taboo-busting masterpiece premiered exactly forty years ago today, on October 1, 1974. Rooted in pitch-black passions and brutally tran...
September 27, 2014
Bloody Roots of At the Gates on Sirius XM
Bloody Roots of At the Gates
Week of September 27, 2014
Sat 9/27, 6PM ET
Sun 9/28, 1PM ET
Mon 9/29, 9AM ET
Tues 9/30, 4PM ET
Thurs 10/2, 9PM ET
Nineteen years after the release of the masterpiece Slaughter of the Soul, we welcome the return and first new music of Gothenburg, Sweden’s, At the Gates. Host Ian Christe (Bazillion Points) delivers a melodic death metal history lesson, complete with music by Grotesque, Liers in Wait, Terror, Oxiplegatz, Disfear, Lock Up, Skitsystem, the Haunted, and brand...
September 17, 2014
Preorders Open for NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990, by Tony Rettman; Sample Chapter Available
Bazillion Points Books is now taking preorders for Tony Rettman’s upcoming NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990. These direct publisher orders will ship with a custom Sean Taggart flyer patch and limited metal button on Dec. 3, 2014.
Photos of page proofs and a sample chapter (“17. East Village Nights: A7 and 2+2″) are available at this location:
Based on original interviews with over 100 key historical figures, the dense 384pp volume features hundreds of images and over f...
September 15, 2014
Check Out This Gallery of Descendents Live Photos from 1982 as the Band Plays MILO GOES TO COLLEGE in Chicago and Denver This Month
On September 9/13 in Chicago and Saturday 9/20 in Denver, the Descendents were/will be joined by original bass bender Tony Lombardo for a complete revival of the band’s landmark 1982 album Milo Goes to College. Performing this record in its entirety, this is the first time Tony has played live with the band in thirty years.
In honor of these prophets of pop punk, here’s a full chapter excerpt from WE GOT POWER!: Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California, by David Markey and Jordan Sc...
September 13, 2014
Bloody Roots of Colombian Metal on Sirius XM
BLOODY ROOTS OF COLOMBIAN METAL
Week of September 13, 2014
Sat 9/13, 6PM ET
Sun 9/14, 1PM ET
Mon 9/15, 9AM ET
Tues 9/16, 4PM ET
Thurs 9/18, 9PM ET
Year by year, country by country, milestone by milestone, Bloody Roots examines the mysteries of the metal universe. This week, host Ian Christe (Bazillion Points Books) leads an excursion to the proud South American metal stronghold Colombia, highlighting a range of thrash, death metal, and other styles as delivered by Aggressive, Witchtrap, Ursus, Masac...
September 8, 2014
Tues 9/9, Reddit AMA: Bob Mould & We Got Power!’s David Markey
David Markey, coauthor of We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California, will join Bob Mould, the ex-Hüsker Dü punk icon, for a round of ask-me-anything on Reddit. The Qs and As go down fast and furious, Tuesday, Sept. 9, at 3:30PM ET.
Markey just wrapped up direction Mould’s new video for “The War”—see above. And the two men have known each other since the days chronicled in Markey’s overpowering book.
photo courtesy We Got Power Films
September 6, 2014
Bloody Roots of Sleep on Sirius XM
BLOODY ROOTS OF SLEEP
Week of September 6, 2014
Sat 9/6, 6PM ET
Sun 9/7, 2PM ET
Mon 9/8, 9AM ET
Tues 9/9, 4PM ET
Thurs 9/11, 9PM ET
Leaving a slow, sticky slime trail since crawling out of a Northern California cave in the early 1990s, stoner doom legends Sleep have recently regrouped after a ten-year absence. Host Ian Christe (Bazillion Points Books) traces the ultra-heavy journey from pre-Sleep band Asbestosdeath, to Earache Records upstarts, to major label pariahs, to offshoot bands Om and High o...
