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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 3h

"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

bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 1d

MIDNIGHT last night in Los Angeles 🔔 ⚡

📸 Rodney Dunsmore

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 1d

Your lightning's all I need ⚡ ...don't pull the plug on me, no no 🥀

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 1d

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

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 2d

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

bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 3d

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 🗡️

bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 9d

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

bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 10d

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

bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 10d

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

bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 11d

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

bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 13d

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

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 17d

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 🎃

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 18d

Why did TOUCH AND GO mag start a record label in 1981❓ Tesco Vee: "Because my pals in the Necros needed to get a platter out!" ⚡ Necros - "Sex Drive" 7" sold for $3,800 way back in 2018... Check out the origins of hardcore punk here:

www.bazillionpoints.com/books/touch-...

#hardcore #punk

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 19d

Have you seen ALONE IN THE T-SHIRT ZONE (1986)? 👕 From Mike “McBeardo” McPadden's TEEN MOVIE HELL: "An attempt to cross Eraserhead with youth raunch comedies by way of mid-80s new wave chic—and failing at every point along the way" 👕🤯

www.bazillionpoints.com/books/pre-or...

#newwave #vhs #comedy

Teen Movie Hell by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden

“They all served a purpose, even the raunchy ones were fun sometimes.”—E. G. Daily

www.bazillionpoints.com

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 21d

Today in 1986, the icy cold claimed 24-year-old Cliff Burton of Metallica 🦣 Celebrate him today with the records, his amazing isolated bass tracks, and photos in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW 💥 For whom the bell bottoms toll, Rage in Peace! 🥀

www.murderinthefrontrow.com

📷 Harald Oimoen

#cliffburton

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 22d

Brazilian metal masters delve into UNITED FORCES today in 2023 as the Guardian talks Brazilian metal uprising w/ Marcelo R. Batista, Max & Iggor Cavalera, Zhema Rodero of Vulcano, João Eduardo de Faria of Cogumelo Records, and Rodrigo Magalhães of Holocausto 🦜

www.bazillionpoints.com/brazil

bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you John Morrison WXPN-FM for including Nancy Barile's I'M NOT HOLDING YOUR COAT on your Philly Top 5 list this month ! 🧥 "Full of detail and heart... highly recommended"

www.bazillionpoints.com/books/im-not...

#punkauthor #punkrock #hardcorepunk #oldschoolpunk
#phillypunk #punkhistory

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 26d

The Terrebonne Parish Librarians Assn., aka ACID BATH, swimming in the S.F. thrash waters w/ MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW ⚡

🦣 www.murderinthefrontrow.com

#acidbath #sammyduet #daxriggs #mikesanchez #audrepitre #goatwhore #sludgemetal #thrashmetal #cajunhell #fabulousdisaster #murderinthefrontrow

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 26d

Good news travels in a glint of steel and a flash of light!... ⚡ Help us find good homes for the last few copies of Rob Halford's Heavy Metal Scriptures book in hardcover:

🏛 www.bazillionpoints.com/halford

#halford #halfordbook #robhalford #judaspriest #painkiller #hellbentforleather #heavymetal

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 29d

Last nite in 1982, METALLICA in S.F., first trip outside L.A. 🍻 MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW coauthor Brian Lew was there—you can be, too:

🎥 www.murderinthefrontrow.com 🧨

#nolifetilleather #jameshetfield #larsulrich #davemustaine #hetfield #mustaine #lars #mechanix #noremorse #phantomlord #thrashmetal

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · Sep 18

Today in 1970, Black Sabbath released PARANOID 👩‍🚀 The Swiss territory couldn't wait for sleeves, so they made their own jackets w/bilingual liner notes. Sabbath wrote most of the record trapped in a Zurich cold-water hotel residency the previous winter ❄️ "Now in darkness, world stops turning..."

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · Sep 17

We have a few discount copies of Rob Halford's metal sermon in hardcover at 50% OFF 🌪🎁 Stop scrolling and touch a book here:

www.bazillionpoints.com/halford

#halford #robhalford #judaspriest #painkiller #breakingthelaw #heavymetal #britishmetal #britishsteel #hellbentforleather

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · Sep 16

R.I.P. Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg at 52 years old ♠ One of metal's greatest frontmen for decades ♠ Our deepest condolences to his family, his many friends and band mates, his students, and his legions ♠ "GO!" 💦💦💦💦

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · Sep 15

Last night in 2011, Slayer + Metallica + Megadeth + Anthrax brought down the House That Ruth Built for 50,000 fans ⚾⚡ Slayer played "Chemical Warfare" ☢ Swing for the fence w/ MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW

www.murderinthefrontrow.com

#thrashmetal #slayer #metallica #megadeth #murderinthefrontrow

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