Black Flag playing a weed rally at FBI HQ on the Fourth of July, 1983, playing unreleased MY WAR songs and Greg Ginn in a Grateful Dead T-shirt ⚡🥀 Take a short, strange trip in MY WAR ON WILSHIRE, by Michael Pearson: www.bazillionpoints.com/mywar #mywar #blackflag #slipitin #gregginn

MY WAR on WILSHIRE, by Michael Pearson 💥 These little beauties are BOUND HARD! Now they are ocean bound for us, and we'll ship them immediately on arrival 🕷️ Crawl into the space of BLACK FLAG in 1983 like never before... www.bazillionpoints.com/mywar #blackflag #hardcorepunk #henryrollins #mywar

Bill Stevenson brings the Bill-age! 🏴🏴🏴🏴 Break a sweat and preorder MY WAR ON WILSHIRE photo books for full night and day Black Flag workouts in July 1983: www.bazillionpoints.com/mywar #billstevenson #gregginn #blackflag #henryrollins #chuckdukowski #saintvitus #sstrecords #hardcorepunk #mywar

Caught in the wild: 575-page early hardcore punk primer TOUCH AND GO, by Tesco Vee + D.S. 🦂 Have you offended anyone with yours? #touchandgo #necros #violentapathy #boredyouth #negativeapproach #xband #gunclub #circlejerks #blackflag #discharge #venom #minorthreat #punkzine #punkflyer #punkvinyl

This week in 1987, James Hetfield peeks from behind a pillar at the Stone SF to catch a glimpse of Overkill, the Necros, and Megadeth ⛓ That's Phil Demmel (Vio-lence / Machine Head) at far right in back 👀 foto: Harald O., from MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW 💥 #jameshetfield #metallica1987 #garagedays

O mighty Ishtar! 🧞‍♀️ Herschell Gordon Lewis would be 100 today! 🍅 We hope some town in Florida has a blood-soaked parade for the gore impresario... we spilled the red & black ink for him in HEAVY METAL MOVIES ⛓🎥 #herschellgordonlewis #hglewis #bloodfeast #thewizardofgore

Congrats to 18-year-old Jacob Jansson, youngest-ever Sweden's Masterchef winner, showing great taste on daytime TV by repping SWEDISH DEATH METAL author Daniel Ekeroth's band TYRANT 👹💫 #jacobjansson #swedishdeathmetal #masterchef #tyrantband #vinterland #deathmetal #metalcooking #swedishhardcore

Three key voices who helped make DENIM AND LEATHER: The Rise and Fall of the NWOBHM so special—Biff Byford of Saxon, megafan Lars Ulrich, and Brian Tatler of Diamond Head 💎 ⛓️ www.bazillionpoints.com/NWOBHM ⛓️ #nwobhm #britishmetal #saxon #biffbyford #diamondhead

Brad Hamilton, moving up in the world today in TEEN MOVIE HELL: A Crucible of Coming-of-Age Comedies from Animal House to Zapped!, by Mike "McBeardo" McBeardo 👙📽🍟 Read the book & learn to knock! #teenmoviehell #fasttimes #fasttimesatridgemonthigh #minimumwage #teenlabor #fastfood #teenmoviehell

"Keep the metal going over there!!!"—Evil Chuck letter to Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen in 1984, three yrs before Mayhem's Deathcrush put Norway on the death metal map 🌑 Sign up on our site for upcoming METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries reprint info 📕 #evilchuck #chuckschuldiner #mantas #deathband

Kim Thayil in @guardian today talking Bruce Pavitt, Subterranean Pop, early Sub Pop, and the deaths of Cornell + Cobain 🔥🗼🌸 Enjoy the complete Pavitt zines & birth of "Hunted Down" and Sub Pop in SUB POP USA ⚡ #kimthayill #soundgarden #chriscornell #kurtcobain #subpopusa #subpop #hairmetal

40 yrs ago today! 🚗⛓🦓 Tonight at AFI Silver Spring, Jeff Krulik and John Heyn screen all their HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT raw footage to honor this milestone 👾 Then bring the parking home w/the HEAVY METAL MOVIES book! 📖 #heavymetalparkinglot #zebraman #judaspriest #dokken #madonna #heavymetalmovies

Early AT THE GATES live shot from CHOOSING DEATH by Albert Mudrian ☠️ Vocalist Tomas Lindberg: "“I think the pressure was really hard on us... We were still pretty young, so we had a problem with the situation" ☠️ ☠️ www.bazillionpoints.com/books/preord... 📷 courtesy At the Gates #atthegates

Brazil made the world's first national extreme music scene 🐛 UNITED FORCES: An Archive of Brazil's Raw Metal Attack, 1986—1991, by Marcelo R. Batista, packs in the struggles of Mutilator, Dorsal Atlântica, Sepultura, Vulcano, Anthares, Sarcófago... 🌴 www.bazillionpoints.com/brazil 🌴

They didn't need money, they had heart 🫀 NYHC: New York Hardcore, 1980-1990, by Tony Rettman ✖️ LES legends told by Bad Brains, Reagan Youth, Agnostic Front, Cause for Alarm, Cro-Mags, Crumbsuckers, Murphy’s Law, Youth of Today, Judge, Sick of It All, and many, many more... #nyhc #newyorkhardcore

THRASHERS! ⚡ METALLICA + EXODUS cram their gangs into an Uli Jon Roth show at Wolfgang's S.F., May 16, 1985 🦂 foto Harald Oimoen from MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW: 🧱 www.murderinthefrontrow.com #metallica #killemall #ridethelightning #jameshetfield #cliffburton #kirkhammett #larsulrich #robmckillop

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

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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