Sonic Youth + Green River fry Seattle today in 1986 🌀 Bruce Pavitt's SUB POP USA is a treasure trove of 1980s indie metal, punk, pop, rap, rock & out sounds 🚀 #subpop #subpopusa #greenriver #sonicyouth #mudhoney #pearljam #skinyard #motherlovebone

Happy EIGHTY to BON SCOTT!! 🥀 7.9.1946 - 2.19.1980 #bonscott #bonscottforever #ronaldbelfordscott #acdc #malcolmyoung #markevans #philrudd #angusyoung #highvoltage #jailbreak #dirtydeeds #rocknroll #rocknrollsinger

Daniel Ekeroth | Swedish Death Metal + Ian Christe | Sound of the Beast + Albert Mudrian | Choosing Death running wild tonight in 2008 at the first AT THE GATES shows in ten years. Irving Plaza, NYC. Read or rot! 📚 📖🖋

BLACK FLAG cleaned up for the trades this month in 1983 🛁 By the time this hit the stands, Chuck Dukowski was gone 🌪 Catch this lineup in action TWICE and preorder MY WAR ON WILSHIRE... Black Flag, July 1983 www.bazillionpoints.com/mywar #blackflag #mywar #henryrollins #gregginn #billstevenson

First-ever interview w/Mike Muir's @s@suicidaltendencies was in WE GOT POWER! zine in 1982, a year before the debut LP 💀 Full zine reprints in the WGP! book 📖 L.A. hardcore punk and more, as it happened.... read & believe 🌴 #mikemuir #cyco #blackflag #circlejerks #vandals

Independence Day! 🏴🏴🏴🏴 Black Flag bringing their war to FBI HQ in 1983, the founding fathers of hardcore punk fighting reality...or anything else! 🧨 The spirit of '83 burns on in MY WAR ON WILSHIRE: www.bazillionpoints.com/mywar #blackflag #mywar #henryrollins #gregginn #chuckdukowski

The Spirit of 1976 🇺🇸👹😺⭐👽 After the fireworks tonight, check our stash of KISS photo books + other declarations of musical independence ⚡ www.bazillionpoints.com/kiss/ #kiss #kiss1976 #kissband #paulstanley #petercriss #genesimmons #acefrehley #hardrock #kissmeetsthephantom #destroyer #kissdolls

When he's done with Angus, 1970s-years AC/DC bassist Mark Evans will chew your ear off w/ his raucous memoir DIRTY DEEDS: My Life Inside⚡Outside AC/DC 🍎 We also have Brian Johnson's book, get 'em both—the ABCs of AC/DC! #ACDC #dirtydeeds #highvoltage #tnt #jailbreak #letthereberock #riffraff

Before America 250, you have to get thru Return of the Living Dead 42!! 🧟‍♀️☣🧟‍♂️ One of 800+ rippers in Mike McPadden's massive HEAVY METAL MOVIES book ⛓👙 #heavymetalmovies #mcbeardo #returnofthelivingdead #sendmoreparamedics #thor #conan #madmax #texaschainsawmassacre #krull #labyrinth #dragonslayer

100 degrees in a hood and black leather 🗡 Suit up for summer sweats w/MIDNIGHT by Hannah Verbeuren & the bonus "Goat Trap" pic disc 🎨 merci Bob Jr Girard ! #midnight #athenar #hannahverbeuren #goattrap #metalphotography #bulletbelt #heavymetal #metal #blackmetal #metalpunk #metalvinyl

Books Are Heavy: A Conversation with Ian Christe about Bazillion Points by Daniel Makagon razorcake.org/books-are-he...

Beast at the Beach, today in 1975 vs. 2026 🦈🏄🏽👹 R.I.P. Alex M. Kintner.—long live Heavy Metal ⚡ Take our books to the shore, the mountains, or your backyard! #sharkattack #amityisland #sharkweek #whenanimalsattack #greatwhiteshark #jaws #heavymetalmovies #soundofthebeast

Pat Blashill: "I wanted to make sure that people understood that punk didn’t come out of nowhere in Texas..." 🌪 www.bazillionpoints.com/texas #texasisthereason #hardcorepunk #bazillionpoints #patblashill #theoffenders #scratchacid #buttholesurfers #richardlinklater

XX-pressway to yr skvll! 💀 Archive visit to Brooklyn by Ian MacKaye + Thurston Moore, wielding his copy of Swedish Death Metal. Photo: David Shankbone ϯ #ianmackaye #youthagainstfacism #teenidles #dischordrecords #minorthreat #thurstonmoore #sonicyouth #ecstaticpeace #swedishdeathmetal

Glenn Danzig gives Brian Lew's thrash crucible MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW two sharply filed talons up ⚡🦇🗡 Heavy reading for the ghoul who has everything: www.murderinthefrontrow.com 🧨 #glenndanzig #danzig #samhain #misfits #themisfits #ghoulsnightout #teenagersfrommars #fiendclub

Cheers to fastest World Cup victors HERESY & CONCRETE SOX !! ⚡⚽🧦 "It was all over in a blurrr..." 🇬🇧 #heresyuk #concretesox #moshmusic #earache #ukhardcore #speedcore #napalmdeath #anglicanscrapeattic #worldcup2026 #ukworldcupclash

Three years ago, TEXAS IS THE REASON in the paper for a horrible reason as contributor Teresa Taylor passed away at 60 🍑🏄🏿‍♀️ Check her playlist in the book & on our youtube chanel.... R.I.P. to a wild Surfer 💐 #teresataylor #buttholesurfers #slacker #texaspunk #austin #patblashill

IRON CROSS and PUSHEAD interviews on p443 of the massive TOUCH AND GO book. Pushead: "Sometimes you can't openly voice an opinion or idea without some wide mouth telling you you don't know what you're talking about.💡 #touchandgo #hardcorepunk #punkhistory #pushead #ironcross #minorthreat #blackflag

Fun "big label" 12" record alert! Got one? ♠ Ride along w/ way more details on Motörhead / Girlschool relations in Michael Hann's DENIM AND LEATHER: www.bazillionpoints.com/nwobhm #motorhead #aceofspades #girlschool #nwobhm #saxon #bomber #hitandrun #defleppard #ironmaiden #heavymetal

The cult is alive! ⭐ RUSH over and snatch Geddy Lee's hefty autobiography from us, there's more to his story than you can imagine.... 💫 #rush #rush2112 #2112 #canadianrock #geddylee #alexlifeson #neilpeart

"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

Do you know what to do for deathly dads? 👹 Make your own Father's Day w/a Bazillion Points wishlist, or get a WOW with the DEATH & DEATH set, almost 1,000 pages of chainsaws & cult charm 💀 #swedishdeathmetal #choosingdeath #morbidangel #entombed #deicide #atthegates #deathband #deathmetal

Have an evil 6-6-26 —S-L-A-Y-E-R commands it! 👹 Tom Araya, Dave Lombardo, Jeff Hanneman, Kerry King shots from 1985 in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW 🗡 #slayer #slayerband #hellawaits #hauntingthechapel #reigninblood #shownomercy #666 #tomaraya #jeffhanneman #kerryking #davelombardo #murderinthefrontrow

Happy candles day to Lee Dorrian 🎂 He made metal way faster w/Napalm Death, way slower w/Cathedral, way better w/ Rise Above Recs, then helped make the book CHOOSING DEATH by Albert Mudrian possible ⚡ Time to crank Granicus! #leedorrian #napalmdeath #cathedral #doom

Harald Oimoen (age 23) intros SLAYER in Berkeley, 1984, between shooting rolls of film now preserved in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW 👹 Harlots of hell, spread the pages of his ungodly thrash metal origin story 👁️ www.murderinthefrontrow.com 📷 Joel Wing #murderinthefrontrow #slayer #thrashmetal

SLAYER's Kerry King reflects on Harald Oimoen snapping his photo in 1984! 😎 MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW is stuffed with micro details, break out yr magnifying glass and dive beyond ultra-high def into the Bay Area thrash metal wormhole 🕵️ 👺 www.murderinthefrontrow.com #kerryking #shownomercy

Kiss books 55% OFF while they last ⭐👹🐱🛸 Since Gene & Peter hailed from our part of Brooklyn, we're giving this local band a shot w/ KISS AT 50 💋 💋 bazillionpoints.com/kiss #kissband #kissarmy #genesimmons #paulstanley #acefrehley #petercriss #vinnievincent #destroyer #kissphotos

Kiss books 55% OFF are the best! ⭐👹🐱🛸 KISS AT 50 is 192 oversize hardcover pages of glitz, blood, fire, sparks, Ace, killer shots, memorabilia, records commentary, and Vinnie Vincent! 💋 Pile up on sale Judas Priest, AC/DC, Sabbath books b4 Father's Day: bazillionpoints.com/kiss #kissband #kissarmy

Gary Holt - EXODUS: “When one of the clubs you started this out at reopens, you play there. You return to the scene of past crimes. You once again darken their doorstep and crush everything and everyone to the ground. The Mabuhay Gardens. OUR Mab.” www.murderinthefrontrow.com #thrashmetal

MURDER is not a Big 4 of thrash metal photo book... it's much more 4️⃣➕ Neil Turbin + Dan Spitz of ANTHRAX, first SF show, July 1984 📸 for the kids by Harald Oimoen from... 💥 www.murderinthefrontrow.com 💥 #anthrax #fistfulofmetal #neilturbin #danspitz #overkill #thrashmetal #big4 #bayareathrash

Current mood: Rollins + Dukowski, simmering before BLACK FLAG rages on July 4, 1983 🌚 Join our waiting party & preorder MY WAR ON WILSHIRE, by Michael Pearson, Black Flag's desperate assault on FBI HQ & The Vex 🗡 www.bazillionpoints.com/mywar #blackflag #hardcorepunk #mywar

Mark Adams (R.I.P.) / SAINT VITUS & Chuck Dukowski / BLACK FLAG this century, lots of shots of both bass legends in our upcoming MY WAR ON WILSHIRE...PLUS pics of Jordan Schwartz / WE GOT POWER! who took this shot, Greg Ginn in a DIFF Grateful Dead tee 💀🥀 www.bazillionpoints.com/mywar

This week in '79, the dam began to burst as Geoff Barton named the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in the pages of SOUNDS ⚒️ Pick up DENIM AND LEATHER by Michael Hann: 🗡️ bazillionpoints.com/NWOBHM #ironmaiden #dennisstratton #pauldianno #invaders #phantomoftheopera #killers #neatrecords

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert

SOUND OF THE BEAST Croatia! 🇭🇷👹👄 The publisher bundled the book w/T-shirts of this lurid cover design and sold them in supermarkets— they were all gone in hours. 🛒 #soundofthebeast #heavymetal #thrashmetal #powermetal #speedmetal #doommetal #blackmetal #deathmetal #grindcore #ianchriste

Shining star alert! 🎥 Nora Louise Kuzma—Traci Lords—sticks her thumb in HEAVY METAL MOVIES, marking her Princess of Mars and Shock 'Em Dead entries. 💫 #tracilords #noralouise #shockemdead #blade #lasermoon #crybaby #fullblast #fastfood #devilmaycall #sharkansas #johnwaters #leestrasberg #moviestar

Cleveland spawn Hannah Verbeuren & Athenar struttin' like satanic royalty to promote MIDNIGHT: A Thousand Nights in Sodom 🔔🌚⚔ Elevation of desecration! Hardcovers w/bonus pic disc available only from us. 📸 Gabriel Connor #midnightband #satanicroyalty #blackrocknroll #athenar #hannahverbeuren

Athenar + MIDNIGHT photo book author Hannah Verbeuren 🔔 Hannah: "I vividly recall the first time I saw Midnight live, I felt lucky they were from my Cleveland home turf. But where else could they have spawned?" 🌑 📷 @dirkverbeuren - thx! #midnight #midnightviolators #hannahverbeuren

Fiend power! 🦇⚡️🧛‍♂️ Jerry Only of the Misfits, from MISERY OBSCURA: The Photography of Eerie Von, available from us with a BONUS signed lobby card 🎟 #miseryobscura #eerievon #themisfits #samhain #danzig #glenndanzig #jerryonly #horrorpunk #hardcorepunk #earthad #walkamongus #lodinj #punkphotography

Last night in 1982, Gary Holt of the S.F. metal gang/band EXODUS, crashing out killers like "Death Row" and "Whipping Queen" during the Kirk Hammett era of the band ⛓👺🗡 Grab onto the MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW book 🪓 🦂 www.murderinthefrontrow.com #garyholt #exodusband #hellsbreath #deathrow #impaler

Niclas Engelin (In Flames / The Halo Effect) finding SWEDISH DEATH METAL readers in Indonesia 💀 rp @niclas_engelin : Thanks for a wonderful gig here in Jakarta 🙏🤘 like signing this Swedish Death Metal book by #danielekeroth over here is just freakin’ awesome, you rule!! #deathmetal #support #fans

You saw the show? Smell the postcards! Then read the book + hear the bonus 7" 🗡🌑🐦‍🔥 Have a hood w/ Hannah Verbeuren's MIDNIGHT 💥 www.bazillionpoints.com/midnight #midnight #midnightband #hannahverbeuren #satanicroyalty #goattrap

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

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

Stars, stripes, and four black bars 🏴🗡 BLACK FLAG on July 4, 1983, in MY WAR ON WILSHIRE, by Michael Pearson 💥 Preorder and feel the power of independence: www.bazillionpoints.com/mywar #blackflag #wurm #stvitus #gregginn #henryrollins #chuckdukowski #billstevenson #hardcore #hardcorepunk

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

Plz show to your local librarian! 📖⚡ Kirkus Reviews is a tough crowd, but if you've read I'M NOT HOLDING YOUR COAT you know Nancy Barile has been in some scrapes in the past 🕶️ Take high praise for this punk memoir to heart 🫀 #nancybarile #ssd #minorthreat #blackflag #badbrains #punk #punkgirl

When Roger Miret and Agnostic Front hit Southeast Asia, Singapore was ready for them, NYHC books in hand! 👊🏽🧱🥾 Recognize the power of the written word... #agnosticfront #rogermiret #victiminpain #causeforalarm #nyhc #newyorkhardcore #hardcorepunk #unitedblood #cbgb #warzone #murphyslaw #cromags

Coupla sweet heretics, Nergal / Behemoth & E. / Watain, hand you the keys to the thrash metal kingdom 👺⚡ 🗝 www.murderinthefrontrow.com #hellawaits #hauntingthechapel #sevenchurches #jumpinthefire #cliffburton #paulbaloff #thrashmetal #nergal #watain #murderinthefrontrow

British royalty? 👑 Def Leppard, Angel Witch, Tygers, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Diamond Head tell their stories in DENIM AND LEATHER: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, by Michael Hann⚡️ 👑 www.bazillionpoints.com/nwobhm #defleppard #angelwitch #britishsteel #tygersofpantang