May 10, 1975, bassist Mark Evans played at the Caringbah YMCA dance with the band he just joined, AC/DC ⚡ Have you read his book DIRTY DEEDS: My Life Inside/Outside of AC/DC? #caringbah #acdc #acdc⚡️ #acdcfans #acdcforever #acdclive #markevans #angusyoung #malcolmyoung #bonscott

In memory of The Master, H.R. Giger, departed 12 years ago today 🫀⚙️🏺 repost @rumorbid : "Martin Eric Ain and me at the artist's fabled black living room at his house on the north side of Zurich, Switzerland, on 19 February 2006" ⚫️ foto Les Barany #CelticFrost #HRGiger #TomGabrielWarrior #MartinAin

JJ + Tony, THE OFFENDERS, live at UT Austin, 1983. 🐴 Hit the trail w/ TEXAS IS THE REASON by photog Pat Blashill, w/ essays by David Yow, Richard Linklater, and others. You know how they did it in NY & L.A., this is another breed of wild horse. #theoffenders #thedicks #scratchacid #buttholesurfers

Klassick Swedish Death Metal HM2 ritual post from @hm2cult , the elite chainsaw guitar neuromancer ⛓🗡 . . #swedishdeathmetal #hm2cult #bosshm2 #hm2 #hm2worship #osdm #swedishchainsaw #bosspedals #bosspedal #danielekeroth #entombed #dismember #bloodbath #carbonized #atthegates #bazillionpoints

Tony "Bones" Roberts of Discharge, West Runton Pavillion, from the first page of CHOOSING DEATH: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore, by Albert Mudrian. 📷 Steve "Disrupter" Hansell Discharge's Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing came out on Clay Records this week in 1982.

Ronnie James Dio, channeling his metal gifts, looking a lot like god in Michaelangelo's "Creation of Adam" in this classic photo by Deborah Laws from Sound of the Beast 👹 www.soundofthebeast.com #dio #ronniejamesdio #ronniedio #rainbowband #blacksabbath #dioband #metalsinger #soundofthebeast

Rejected! ✖ The Florida prison system censors flagged Tony Rettman's NYHC book for "promoting Skin Heads for the youth" on several pages 👩‍🦲 Guess they didn't read the text? Don't be like them, read before you stagedive 🦍 #nyhcbook #nyhc #newyorkhardcore #skinheads #hardcore #newyork #iagainsti

Cronos and Mantas in DENIM AND LEATHER w/the flame towers they brought from Newcastle—in checked airplane luggage! 🧳🔥 First VENOM U.S. show (Metallica supporting), Satan Island, April 22, 1983, photo by Danny Falcon 🦅 Join the legions... we're going wild!👺 💥 www.bazillionpoints.com/nwobhm 💥

EXODUS ❤️‍🔥 SLAYER ⚔ Rick Hunolt, Paul Baloff, and Rob McKillop rough up Jeff Hanneman & Tom Araya of their blood brother band, while Kerry King laughs at their pain. 🩸 👹 www.murderinthefrontrow.com #rickhunolt #exodusband #bondedbyblood #thrash #thrashmetal #kerryking #jeffhanneman #paulbaloff

Please come take away our last remaining JUDAS PRIEST photo books— 50% off at $19.95 and still with 100% of the Les Binks ⚡ www.bazillionpoints.com/judaspriest #lesbinks #robhalford #kkdowning #glenntipton #ianhill #judaspriest #heavymetal #britishmetal #metal #leatherjacket #mirrorshades

Eighty candles for multiple maniac JOHN WATERS today! 🎂💩🎥 "You can't order up your kids, you can't order up your parents, you just popped here and you're cast, and you have to make the best you can with that character." #JohnWaters #Divine #PinkFlamingos #PopeOfTrash

"Uuurgh" and "Aargh" channels w/NAPALM DEATH at Foel Studio, Wales, making The Code Is Red in 2004 👹 Good reminder to read Albert Mudrian's Napalm-rich death metal & grindcore history CHOOSING DEATH! #napalmdeath #foelstudios #mitchharris #shaneembury #barneygreenway #deathmetal #grindcore\

Hey maaan, for 4/20 here's Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke (1978) as bagged and rolled by Mike "McBeardo" McPadden in HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Guitar Barbarians, Mutant Bimbos & Cult Zombies Amok in the 666 Most Ear- and Eye-Ripping Big-Scream Films Ever! 🌲 Alice Bowie Band - "Earache My Eye"

Two of thee earliest MISFITS & NEGATIVE APPROACH interviews from TOUCH AND GO ⚡ Experience the rise of hardcore punk in real-time w/this mighty tome 🧷 #touchandgo #tescovee #themisfits #negativeapproach #minorthreat #blackflag #ssdecontrol #deadkennedys #circlejerks #discharge #ggallin #diekreuzen

HEAVY METAL MOVIES in the magnetic flesh! ⚡ Over 800+ of these gruesome gems in McBeardo's masterful guide to metal celluloid ⛓ Have you seen Intrepidos Punks, for example? #heavymetalmovies #mcbeardo #demons #rockandrule #darioargento #ghoulies #rocktober #trickortreat #blackroses #terrorvision

Factory update on our Black Flag on the Fourth of July book, MY WAR ON WILSHIRE, by Michael Pearson 💥🌞🏴 Lil' sucker looks good! Celebrate independence, preorder + share this, thanks! ⤵ bazillionpoints.com/mywar/ #blackflag #mywar #slipitin #lapunk #punk #henryrollins #gregginn #chuckdukowski

Some of the guts of UNITED FORCES, revealing the 1980s Brazilian roots of black + death metal in full bleeding color 🇧🇷 bazillionpoints.com/brazil 🇧🇷 #vulcano #sarcofago #sepultura #morbidvisions #mystifier #holocausto #thrashmetal #deathmetal #blackmetal #brazilianmetal #tapetrading #metaldemos

Last night in S.F. in 1985, SLAYER and METALLICA's awkward first meeting! 👹 Harald Oimoen caught the tension w/ a roll of shots backstage at Kabuki Theater in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW 🗡 www.murderinthefrontrow.com #davelombardo #larsulrich #jeffhanneman #jameshetfield

METALION X NIFELHEIM 🔥👹🗡🔥 Hell yezz, we are clear-cutting many Scandinavian forests to reprint this mighty book in 2026 🦇 Sign up at our site to be notified... #metalion #deathmetal #blackmetal #thrashmetal #metal

Ascend to the pentagram, the power of chainsaws compels you! 👺 Don't go to war with Satan without SWEDISH DEATH METAL, by Daniel Ekeroth 💀 💀https://www.swedishdeathmetal.com #swedishdeathmetal #deathmetal #metal #bathory #entombed #atthegates

Pat Blashill presents TEXAS IS THE REASON: The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk 📿 You can’t go wrong with a heap of Texas punk rebellion under your arm 💥 🏹 www.bazillionpoints.com/texas 🏹 #thedicks #bigboys #buttholesurfers #scratchacid #texaspunk

Brutal Jeff Hanneman from the back jacket of Slayer's HELL AWAITS 👹🔥🗡 Harald Oimoen's explosive photos in higher-than-high def in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW! www.murderinthefrontrow.com #jeffhanneman #slayerband #thrashmetal #hellawaits #murderinthefrontrow

Before Minor Threat on the steps of Dischord House came... Minor Threat on the steps of TOUCH AND GO house! ✖✖ L-R: Ian MacKaye, Gerta Vee, Tesco Vee, Jeff Nelson, Brian Baker, Lyle Preslar 🥩 Baker and Preslar soon joined Tesco's band, The Meatmen 🦇 Read TOUCH AND GO!

We're holding up the wall-of-wanteds at @amoebasf 🦠 Record stores take note! 📷 @sunnofficial #murderinthefrontrow #swedishdeathmetal #soundofthebeast #hexx #mastodon #bloodincantation #watain #sorcery #velnias #deathmetal #heavymetal #hardcorepunk #punkvinyl #metalvinyl #recordstores

Have a sleazy Easter season! 🐰 Preach the books that prophecy the musical resurrection of Lemmy and his dirty band of prophets... www.soundofthebeast.com 📷 Fin Costello #motorhead #motörhead #lemmy #lucasfox #larrywallis #wurzel #petegill #philcampbell #crucifixion #christalmighty

For the bassist in your life, for the homesick Canadian, for the priests of the Temple of Syrinx... we have discount copies of Geddy Lee's book up for grabs on our front page 🧙 #geddylee #rushband #2112 #movingpictures #yyz #canadianrock #alexlifeson #neilpeart #neilpeartdrums

Stand back!

Did you know Chuck Biscuits was supposed to play drums in Samhain? Brian Baker discusses forming the post-Misfits band w/ Glenn Danzig, plus many other subjects including Junkyard and Bad Religion, in a STRAIGHT EDGE book launch video: youtube.com/bazillionpoi...

Surprised that PayPal is in-"SENSETIVE" to quality control? As OG users since 2001, it hurts that none of the countless $1000s paid in fees on BOOK SALES (!) go to an *envelope copyeditor*. Isn't this like taking a vegan's money for decades, then mailing a ripe packet of headcheese? Oh ze pain...

Brian "No" Posehn will open MURDER to show you a dozen Exodus photos, then use the book to crush you like a mosquito if you show up at a Titannica gig wearing a satin Warrant sash ⚡ #brianposehn #noposers #bondedbyblood #titannica #satinjacket #thrashmetal #thrash #murderinthefrontrow

50 YRS of SAD WINGS! 🗽🦇 Take our last Judas Priest photo books for 50% OFF and Rob Halford's book: www.bazillionpoints.com/judaspriest #judaspriest #robhalford #ianhill #glentipton #kkdowning #alanmoore #genocide #tyrant #victimofchanges #ripper #heavymetal #sadwingsofdestiny

Now we have GARY HOLT books to go along w/his writing + 100+ early Exodus/Slayer photos in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW 🩸 Read & Bleed! www.bazillionpoints.com/garyholt #garyholt #exodusband #slayerband #slayer #bondedbyblood #repentless #hellawaits #slayteam #thrash #thrashmetal

Reader tribute to EXPERIENCING NIRVANA, by Bruce Pavitt 🏟 You can travel worldwide without ever leaving our pages, too: www.bazillionpoints.com/nirvana #nirvana #kurtcobain #subpop #grunge #swedishdeathmetal #bayareathrashmetal #texaspunk #lahardcore #nyhc #nwobhm #brazilianmetal #bazillionpoints

Last night in 1983: Cliff Burton & James Hetfield (& Dave, too) played live together for the first time at The Stone in San Francisco 🧨 Cliff had been in Metallica around 2 months. Photo: Brian Lew from MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW 🧨 murderinthefrontrow.com #metallica #cliffburton

You hear a lot about how dangerous life was for kids in the 1970s. Wild dogs, rusty playgrounds, no bike helmets, toxic model airplane glue, cobras, quicksand, drug pushers, endless divorces, cults, shoddy bike ramps.... but TV gave us SOLUTIONS !

The bell tolls & it's total fukkin MIDNIGHT everywhere! ⚡ Cleveland show w/Acid Bath 3/13, then Voivod UK tour, plus Satanic Royalty anniv tour rituals 🔔 Grab HV's hardcover photo book & a Goat Trap pic disc & you're good 2 go 🗡 www.bazillionpoints.com/midnight #midnight #hannahverbeuren #metal

When Tony Rettman's NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990 book helped inspired THE NEW YORKER to check out downtown happenings in this great homage 🔩🧱🗡️ Stage dive into our 'core curriculum! #tonyrettman #nyhc #newyorkhardcore #hardcorepunk #punk #agnosticfront #warzone #cromags #murphyslaw

We have a bunch of cool not-our-books right now by Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Johnson, Geddy Lee, Geezer Butler, Steve Jones 🦇 READ + BLEED, MOFOs! 💥 www.bazillionpoints.com #robhalford #judaspriest #blacksabbath #ozzyosbourne #geezerbutler #stevejones #sexpistols #punk

50 yrs ago on Feb 23, 1976, AC/DC shot the greatest music video of all time, playing on the back of a moving flatbed truck in Melbourne ⚡ Bassist Mark Evans (pictured) relives the band's the long way to the top in his book DIRTY DEEDS: My Life Inside / Outside AC/DC 🔥📕🔥 #markevans #dirtydeeds #acdc

From the heart of São Paulo: UNITED FORCES: An Archive of Brazil’s Raw Metal Attack, by Marcelo R. Batista 🌴🏡👹 A massive 550-page translation of his classic fanzine and life in 1980s Brazilian metal and hardcore 💥🌋📕 bazillionpoints.com/brazil #brazilianmetal #sepultura #sarcofago #vulcano

Dive into Texas punk in Pat Blashill's TEXAS IS THE REASON 🐂 Texas Monthly: "Blashill trained his eye on the simultaneous terror and thrill of live performances by the likes of the Dicks, Butthole Surfers, and Scratch Acid..." 🤠 www.bazillionpoints.com/texas #texasisthereason #texaspunk

Hi! 👶 Kurt Cobain should be 59 today, take care of yourself. 🐝 He’s 22 in Italy in this photo by Bruce Pavitt from EXPERIENCING NIRVANA: Grunge in Europe, 1989: www.bazillionpoints.com/nirvana #kurtcobain #nirvana #subpop #nirvanableach #experiencingnirvana #subpopusa

Happy days at a past NYHC / STRAIGHT EDGE event ⚡ DJ Rose (Earth Crisis / Path of Resistance) joins author Tony Rettman as they set the record str8 on hardcore history hijinks ✖✖✖ #djrose #tonyrettman #nyhc #newyorkhardcore #straightedge #straightedgebook #earthcrisis #pathofresistance

A glint of steel and a flash of light on every page!... ⚡ Our last copies of Rob Halford's Heavy Metal Scriptures book are 50% OFF, plus we have Judas Priest photo books: 🏛 www.bazillionpoints.com/halford #halford #halfordbook #robhalford #judaspriest #painkiller #hellbentforleather #heavymetal

Our hearts go out to all book lovers today ⚡💖📕 May your wet brains be seduced by the flutter of chapters and the scent of fresh paper on this Feast of Saint Valentine's 💐 Thank you for pumping blood with a lifelong love affair. www.bazillionpoints.com #booklovers #heavymetal #punk #bazillionpoints

Hey, it's 02.13... HBD Henry Rollins 🌞 Thanks for paving the way in punk publishing w/ 02.13.61 Books (and for writing pieces for our TOUCH AND GO and WE GOT POWER! releases!) 🏴 #henryrollins #rollins #rollinsband #henriettacollins #021361 #blackflag #mywar #polioflesh #getinthevan #weight

He's waiting by the pool... bare-chested, glass in hand, big boots... HOODED! 💖 Nail your heart to the wall Feb 14 w/ our romantic MIDNIGHT photo spectacular by Hannah Verbeuren ⚡ BONUS VINYL: www.bazillionpoints.com/midnight #midnight #satanicroyalty #midnightviolators #midnightvibes #heavymetal

The book demo & thee NYHC demo ⚡ Tony Rettman's NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990 tells the Cro-Mags tale, along w/ Agnostic Front, Warzone, Murphy's Law, Bad Brains, Kraut, Sick of it All, Sheer Terror, Youth of Today, Into Another... #nyhc #newyorkhardcore #cromags #ageofquarrel #agnosticfront

Now shipping books for the lovesick! 💖👹🫦 Give that kitty something special on Feb 14 🎁 Let the swooning sights and love stories of hardcore and metal inspire your romantic urges 🫀 XXOO! 🫀 #metal #heavymetal #punk #hardcorepunk #metalhistory #punkhistory #metalphotography #punkphotography

Happy birthday, thrash kid Mark Osegueda! 👼🏼 DEATH ANGEL photo w/2nd cousin Rob Cavestany by Harald Oimoen from MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW 🍰 #markosegueda #robcavestany #deathangel #thrashmetal #bayareathrashmetal #metal #metalvocalist #theultraviolence #kerryking