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Reminding you that King Diamond is (inverted but) 100% visible on NIRVANA's Bleach LP 👑 🤯👺 None of our books happened in a vacuum... Check Bruce Pavitt's EXPERIENCING NIRVANA: Grunge in Europe, 1989 ✈️

🏰 www.bazillionpoints.com/nirvana 🏰

#nirvana #bleach #kurtcobain #mercyfulfate #subpop
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Monster seen in natural habitat! 🧟‍♂️ Doyle caught at Tower Records on Sunset, 1981... the two old ladies flipping thru the Religious racks never knew what hit them 👹

More Misfits macabre-ness: www.bazillionpoints.com/books/preord...

#doyle #themisfits #misfits #horrorpunk #walkamongus #hardcorepunk
November 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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UNITED FORCES captures Brazil's extreme metal uprising 🪓 🇧🇷 💀 www.bazillionpoints/brazil

If you don't discover at least 50 deep underground hardcore & metal bands in Marcelo R. Batista's masterpiece, you already have cachaça in your blood!

“”Mammoth…documents it all” —The Guardian
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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METAL FORCES #1, Autumn 1983 ☠⛓⚔ UK pioneers of DIY metal publishing, how many zillions of tapes were ordered from bands through their Demo-lition section? ♠️

#metalforces #tapetrading #metaldemo #demotape #tapetrader #nwobhm #ironmaiden #saxon #heavymetal #hardrock #metal #maxelludxlii
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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V-E-N-O-fukkin-M, from DENIM AND LEATHER, by Michael Hann ⛓️

💥 www.bazillionpoints.com/nwobhm 💥

Cronos: "I was like, 'WE ARE FUCKING NOT HEAVY FUCKING METAL!' I said, 'We’re black metal, speed metal, power metal.'

🎚photo: Fin Costello

#cronos #mantas #abaddon #venom #blackmetal
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Life on the metal skids w/ bug-eyed EL DUCE in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW 🥃 "Spaghetti Mon. $3.00 All You Can Eat... Garlic Bread" 🍝 Fantastic 1980s S.F. slice-of-life photo by Harald Oimoen, save room for a $2 burger 🧑🏻‍🦲

❌murderinthefrontrow.com❌

#elduce #mentors #thementors #murderinthefrontrow
November 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Amazing glow-in-the-dark PENTAGRAM silkscreened gig poster from Johnny Brenda's in Philly, tonight in 2014 🕷🕸🧟‍♂️ "String included absolutely FREE!"

#pentagram #pentagramband #bobbyliebling #lastdayshere #thesubbasement #doommetal #doom #heavymetal #metal #soundofthebeast #silkscreen
October 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Stigma! Snugglin' up w/classic fotos of Exodus, Megadeth, Slayer... ✖ Check his words of wisdom in the NYHC book, tales of SF beer vats in CITY BABY, and don't ignore his blurb on Nancy Barile's I'M NOT HOLDING YOUR COAT !

#vinniestigma #agnosticfront #nyhc #thrashmetal #murderinthefrontrow
October 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Today in 1984 🏴🏴🏴🏴 Creepy crawl our site for MY WAR ON WILSHIRE preorder signups, plus snatch WE GOT POWER! w/loads of fotos + essays by Dez, Henry, Chuck, & Keith 🕷

#blackflag #creepycrawl #animosity #dezcadena #henryrollins #chuckdukowski #keithmorris #hardcorepunk #mywar #wegotpower
October 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Creem skimmed MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW! ✨🚙 When the original Creem collapsed in a heap of Tom Petty Yugos and Glenn Frey DeLoreans in the 1980s, Harald Oimoen was outside Ruthie's Inn in Berkeley snapping shots like this. 👍

🌪 www.murderinthefrontrow.com

#cliffburton #killemall #ridethelightning
October 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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In memory of Martin Eric Ain, 18 Jul 1967 - 21 Oct 2017 🥀

Tom Gabriel Fischer: "Martin was truly unique character; all of us here know this."

📷 Birchwil, Switzerland, shoot for Celtic Frost's Morbid Tales (Martin Kyburz, July 1984)

#MartinEricAin #Hellhammer #TriumphOfDeath #OnlyDeathIsReal
October 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Thx antichrist expert Peter Thiel for the surprise SOUND OF THE BEAST shout-out on South Park this week 👹 We're Bazillion Points, and we know about the antichrist...!

www.soundofthebeast.com

#southpark #soundofthebeast #theantichrist #slayer #metal #heavymetal #satanicpanic #devilmusic
October 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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"Can you hear me?" King Diamond of Mercyful Fate, summer 1983, weeks before the recording of MELISSA ⚡👹💎 pic by Ray Palmer

#kingdiamond #mercyfulfate #curseofthepharaohs #soundofthebeast
October 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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MIDNIGHT last night in Los Angeles 🔔 ⚡

📸 Rodney Dunsmore
October 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Your lightning's all I need ⚡ ...don't pull the plug on me, no no 🥀
October 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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SPACE ACE ⚡️🪐💥 Ace Frehley was the first guitar hero of every little 1970s kid, even before they understood that guitars had strings 👨🏼‍🚀 He was the flash of silver in Kiss's black bubblegum, the wild X factor w/ his head in the stars and his feet in mismatched sneakers ✨
#acefrehley #spaceace #kissarmy
October 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Upstate + Long Island NY lace-up classic US metal powwow in England in 1982 w/ Dee Snider and Cortland's Ronnie James Dio ⛓️ Two great frontmen who went to the UK to level up in America after years in the clubs. Both made their mark and were playing arenas in America within 18 months.
October 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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How Eerie can you be? 👹 Put a treat in the bag of a horror kid this Halloween morning… MISERY OBSCURA + bonus lobby card signed by Eerie Von now back on the block.... if you're well aware, then Share + Scare!!

www.bazillionpoints.com/books/preord...

☠️ Fiendish thanxxx @bloody_iscariot

#eerievon
October 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Witchfinder General in DENIM AND LEATHER by Michael Hann ♠️ The NWOBHM from snout to tail 🐗 as told by mems. of Iron Maiden, Def Lep, Venom, Raven, UFO, Whitesnake, Vardis, Saxon, Tygers, Witchfynde, Diamond Head & the mighty Witchfinder General🧙‍♀️

🛡️https://www.bazillionpoints.com/nwobhm 🗡️
October 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Glenn Danzig & pal say: "Please don't forget to feed the wastebaskets" 🗑💀 This season clean up yer candy wrappers & read MISERY OBSCURA for the Halloween in Lodi experience 🦇 Now w/signed lobby card

www.bazillionpoints.com/books/preord...

#miseryobscura #eerievon #misfits #themisfits #samhain
October 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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For SLAYER's Reign in Blood anniv, here's an extreme closeup of bottom left of Larry Carroll's profoundly disturbing orig painting ⚡Scores of equally detailed shots of Slayer at this time in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW:

👹 www.murderinthefrontrow.com

#reigninblood #tomaraya #jeffhanneman #kerryking
October 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Dez Cadena w/Steve McDonald ripping thru Blue Cheer's "Out of Focus" in the short-lived post-Black Flag lineup of Redd Kross ⛑ photo: Jordan Schwartz, from WE GOT POWER!, Hermosa Beach, 1982. The show ended in mayhem and the city shut down the venue. 🌪

#dezcadena #reddkross #blackflag #bluecheer
October 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Ghost encounters 👻 The Butthole Surfers at home, Austin, 1986, by Pat Blashill. The first photo of the Butthole Surfers most people ever saw. 🏄🏼‍♀️ Catch the spirits in TEXAS IS THE REASON:

www.bazillionpoints.com/texas

#buttholesurfers #texaspunk #patblashill #texasisthereason #texaspunkrock
October 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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OUTLANDER! 🌽 Boy preacher Isaac Croner refers you to HEAVY METAL MOVIES, aka the Gospel According to Mike "McBeardo" McPadden 🥀 Come walk behind our rows of books...

www.bazillionpoints.com/books/heavy-...

#outlander #childrenofthecorn #stephenking #mcbeardo #driveinmovies #heavymetalmovies
October 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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White Light, Black Metal Heat: Lou Reed & Sterling Morrison of the Velvet Underground gettin’ grim in 1965 ⚡ Just a reminder to pick up some October reading from us, we put corpse paint, blood & guts, death metal, and horror between two covers to inspire all tomorrow's Halloween parties 🎃
October 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM