Publisher | Bazillion Points Books • Hoster | ROOTS on SiriusXM Liquid Metal • Author | Sound of the Beast • Played bluegrass at CBGB • Why u gotta be so heavy?
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CREEM pops off on MY WAR ON WILSHIRE: "A legendary moment for Black Flag...arguably at the peak of its powers. MY WAR ON WILSHIRE captures this moment in detail with tons of photos and in person accounts."
bazillionpoints.com/mywar
#blackflag #mywar #hardcorepunk #creem
Halloween 1983, James Hetfield & Cliff Burton at Keystone Palo Alto 🎃 foto Brian Lew from MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW ⚡ Brian: "Metallica played 4 songs live for the first time ever and James also dedicated Whiplash to Sam Kress and I. An epic Halloween night."
#murderinthefrontrow
Stargazers! Happy Halloween 1976 ⚡🦇🔮 Where is your star? Is it far?
#ronniejamesdio #rogerglover #ritchieblackmore #stargazer #dio
Fiends of the world! 🌎🦇 Blackwell's UK has most of our books on sale w/FREE worldwide shipping, for example the brand new MY WAR ON WILSHIRE Black Flag 1983 color photo hardcover for £17 ppd to Australia. Our current direct rates aren't bad, either, check it out 📚
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SAMHAIN "Blood Show" evidence from Eerie Von's MISERY OBSCURA Misfits / Samhain / Danzig collection 🧛 Page 85: "Ever since pouring blood over our heads for the cover of Initium, we talked about recreating that look onstage in a live setting..."
#eerievon #miseryobscura #samhain
The ultimate Halloween mood music is Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" slowed down 800%. Majestic! Foreboding! Terrifying!
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Now in 1982, WE GOT POWER! in full force as David Markey's SLOG MOVIE premieres w/ Black Flag, Circle Jerks at P.U.N.X. hardcore overload weekend ♦ It’s a skance, man!" Party or go home... these are the times captured in the book
#circlejerks #blackflag #circleone #ch3
Larry Lalonde, the teen shredder behind all the spikes, leather, and fake blood captured in his Possessed (and Blind Illusion) days in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW 🦇 Fly into the pentagram with this immortal tome!
#larrylalonde #primus #possessed #sevenchurches #thrashmetal
Angry Anderson's obit in the NYTimes today:
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Thanks Berlin Film Awards for putting Best Music Doc laurels on ROME AS YOU ARE, covering Nirvana's times in Italy and using EXPERIENCING NIRVANA by Bruce Pavitt as a starting point 🏟️ Come check out this unknown Aberdeen band's 1989 trip to Italy, Switz, France, and England...
Final days of 57% OFF Geddy Lee's acclaimed My Effin' Life ⚡ RUSH over and grab a limited hardcover from us for last-minute Priest of Syrinx costume inspo! 🔮
#rush #rushband #rush2112 #geddylee #templesofsyrinx
Not wading into the pointless debate that raised this (probably equally pointless) question, but can't resist a good chicken / egg puzzle. If anything, metal (as in Sabbath) influenced hardcore far more in the early days. Since at least 1986, been a cultural division, not musical
It's been less than a year since an "Arab" won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and not for harvesting nose crystals like ARFK
Aw, Dee never randomly hammered nails into picnic tables... but Peter Steele DID serve the NYC Pahks Depahtment with distinction between Carnivore & Type O!
Today in 1985: Pure headbanger perfection: TO MEGA THERION by Celtic Frost 🐐 This is how heavy metal is done. Crude, groaning, lurching riffs that suddenly sprint forward to a spiritual confrontation. Arcane, esoteric, violent, and magnificent. Thank you, Tom Gabriel Fischer 🗡
"The Passion of Kerry King" of SLAYER at Ruthie's Inn circa 1984, shot by Harald Oimoen from MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW: Shots From the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter 🧨
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"Fukking awesome"—Kerry King
#kerryking #slayer #slayerband #hellawaits #thrash
40 years ago this month, @Slayer released REIGN IN BLOOD
