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August 30, 2014
Bloody Roots Tenth Anniversary Full Impact Metal Dance Party on Sirius XM
BLOODY ROOTS 10TH ANNIVERSARY FULL CONTACT METAL DANCE PARTY
Week of August 30, 2014
Sat 8/30, 6PM ET
Sun 8/31, 2PM ET
Mon 9/1, 5PM ET
Tues 9/2, 3PM ET
Thurs 9/4, 9PM ET
PHOTO: Toby Rage walking on heads while Death Angel knocks out headbangers and the infamous Bay Area pit, circa 1986. Photo by Harald Oimoen, from MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW.
Metal history without mercy! This week Ian Christe (“Sound of the Beast”/Bazillion Points) celebrates ten years of weekly heavy metal history lessons with a litan...
August 29, 2014
Sirius XM 8/29–9/6 THE ONSLAUGHT HAS BEGUN: Bloody Roots Tenth Anniversary Week
Friday, August 29th through Saturday, September 6th on Sirius XM
http://www.siriusxm.com/liquidmetal
“Sirius XM celebrates ten years of original weekly heavy metal history lessons with Sound of the Beast author/Bazillion Points publisher Ian Christe. Join us for the best of over 500 hourlong episodes digging into different styles, regions, events, and key figures in the ongoing metal revolution—the best in heavy metal, thrash, death metal, black metal, grindcore, and beyond! Featuring historic...
Buy Some Heavy Reading, Expand Your Eyeballs, Pocket Five Bucks For Next Time
We want to do our bit for literacy and education and all that great stuff this year, at least as far as it applies to black metal, Black Flag, grindcore, Slayer, Nirvana, death metal, thrash, AC/DC, hardcore punk, Darkthrone, Mellotrons, and the other intense areas of study in our vast and learned bookshelves.
SO, order some hot-damned books by our authorities this week, get some education and book-learning, and we’ll pack a glowing green $5 code in your box for your next Bazillion Points ord...
August 27, 2014
Thirty Years Ago, Slayer, Exodus, and Suicidal Tendencies Played on a Plywood Stage; “The Woodstock of Thrash Metal”
Harald Oimoen and Brian Lew packed a lot of power in their massive thrash metal photo book MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW: Shots From the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter. One of the most mind-blowing events pictured took place thirty years ago this month, and both denim-bedecked photographers were there. Part of Eastern Front’s four-day outdoor festival at Aquatic Park in Berkeley, “Day in the Dirt”—the “Woodstock of thrash metal”—took place on August 19, 1984, and featured a lineup that included Ex...
August 18, 2014
Sat 8/23, Brooklyn: LAINA DAWES Talks Black Women in Metal at Afropunk Fest 2014
Greenlight Bookstore and Bazillion Points Books present renowned music journalist Laina Dawes signing her landmark, thought-provoking debut What Are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal (ISBN 978-1935950059) at the Afropunk Fest 2014 in Commodore Barry Park, Brooklyn, at 4PM ET on Saturday, August 23. The signing is part of the Greenlight pop-up book fair, which will also feature signings and Q&As with Bryant Terry, author of Afro-Vegan, MK Asante, author of Buc...
August 15, 2014
Sirius XM Bloody Roots of Metal Supergroups
BLOODY ROOTS OF METAL SUPERGROUPS
Week of August 16, 2014
Sat 9/16, 6PM ET
Sun 9/17, 2PM ET
Tues 9/19, 3PM ET
Thurs 9/21, 9PM ET
When metal luminaries unite, do they create white-hot new stars, or are the results less than the sum of their parts? Check out today’s stellar playlist of metal “supergroups” featuring members of Cannibal Corpse, Fear Factory, Faith No More, Exciter, Mr. Big, Sepultura, Pantera, C.O.C., Eyehategod, Death, Kreator, Slayer, Opeth, Katatonia, Darkthrone, Satyricon, Krieg, M...
August 14, 2014
Traci Lords Gropes Some Heavy Summer Reading
John Waters’ new book Carsick is great and all, but his starlet Traci Lords has her hands full this summer with Heavy Metal Movies, by Mike McPadden… sorry, Waters!
August 6, 2014
Sirius XM Bloody Roots Metal Salute to the Ramones
BLOODY ROOTS METAL SALUTE TO THE RAMONES
Week of August 2, 2014
Sat 8/2, 6PM ET
Sun 8/3, 2PM ET
Tues 8/5, 3PM ET
Thurs 8/7, 9PM ET
This week’s metal history lesson examines the legacy and influence of great American punk rock band the Ramones on metal bands including Motörhead, Sodom, Melvins, Overkill, Static-X, Deceased, Children of Bodom, Metallica Wolf, and many more. In honor of the fallen original members Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, and Tommy Ramone… know your Roots!
For more info on the roots of...
July 30, 2014
Freddy Cricien of MADBALL Writes Foreword to NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990
Bazillion Points Books is proud to reveal that Freddy Cricien of MADBALL has contributed the foreword to November’s upcoming NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990, by Tony Rettman. Based on original interviews with over 100 key historical figures, the dense 450pp volume features over fifty chapters covering the bands, venues, labels, hangouts, and larger-than-life characters that built New York hardcore.
In his foreword, Cricien—who has led Madballsince the age of thirteen,...
July 26, 2014
MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW: Metallica’s Ride the Lightning Turns 30
Photos by Harald Oimoen
July 27 marks the 30th anniversary of Metallica’s Ride the Lightning. Along with original shots from the Slayer Hell Awaits album and the Exodus landmark Bonded by Blood, not to mention Possessed’s Seven Churches, the Bazillion Points photo bookMURDER IN THE FRONT ROW: Shots from the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter, byHarald Oimoen and Brian Lew, includes Cliff Burton’s portrait from the back of Metallica’s stunning second album.
Every photo in MURDER has a pretty good s...
