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Best record stores know our books are magnets for the best records 🧞‍♀️🧲 Pro tip!

via Wooden Tooth in Tucson: "Doing some holiday shopping? Consider pairing a good book with a classic record!!"

#swedishdeathmetal #entombed #lefthandpath #music #magic #metal
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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If anybody needs me, I'm riding up to Braemar to see the widow MacDougal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZk2...
1976: BIG JIM's Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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December 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Woargh, WELCOME TO HELL! 🔥👺🔥 bazillionpoints.com/nwobhm

Forty-four years of bulldozer bass, chainsaw guitar dives, and nuclear warheads.... thank you VENOM! ⛏️👹⛓️ "If this record is scratched, wapped, or defaced in any way, please throw it away and buy a new one!" 🌋

#soundofthebeast #venom #nwobhm
December 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Eerie Beast! 🪱 This could / should / WILL be you 💥

Thanxx Tonishea! "This is how I’ll be spending my Saturday morning!!"

#soundofthebeast #miseryobscura #heavymetal #metal #eerievon #samhain #misfits #danzig #horrorpunk #judaspriest #napalmdeath #slayer #bazillionpoints
November 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Revolutionary metal + hardcore punk books R US 💥 Rise up!

Read + bleed: bazillionpoints.com

#metal #hardcore #hardcorepunk #thrashmetal #heavymetal #deathmetal #swedishdeathmetal #blackflag #soundofthebeast #acdc #hanoirocks #geezerbutler #judaspriest #nwobhm #therevolutionwillnotbetelevised
November 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Tonight in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW history in 1982 ⛴️ Guitar team Dave Mustaine & underage James Hetfield of METALLICA toast the band's raging return to The Old Waldorf in S.F. 🐉

💥 murderinthefrontrow.com 💥

foto: Brian Lew!

#davemustaine #mustaine #jameshetfield #hetfield #murderinthefrontrow
November 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Found Vecna...ULP! 🥺👹🪱 Should have thought twice before daring to read page 116 out loud from CHOOSING DEATH: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore.... Somebody roll a d20 !! 🎲🎲

#choosingdeath #deathmetal #swampthing #vecna #strangerthings #bazillionpoints #heavymetalmovies
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Usually Bon Scott is always right about everything... but was it really *Tchaikovsky* who had the news about rock? 🧐
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Thanks Daniel Ekeroth for sending this shot of a half-empty snus cannister... AND an ad for my IAN Mag #5 in Tompa Lindberg's 1st issue of CASCADE zine. Good issue w/ interviews w/ Dream Death, WEHRMACHT, Necrophagia, Zoetrope & Billy Milano. I was probly 17, Tomas I guess 14/15:
November 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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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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ENTOMBED's 1st gig, tonight in 1989 w/Carnage, Therion, Afflicted Convulsion, Mezzrow, Atrocity, Sorceror ☠️ Found original flyer art at Total Metal Stockholm w/help from Peter Stjärnvind (Merciless, Entombed...) ☠️

💀 www.swedishdeathmetal.com

#deathmetal #metal #totalmetal #swedishdeathmetal
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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BLACK METAL! Unleashed in hell, today in 1982 🐐 The TOUCH AND GO book is your holy source for 100s of real, first-hand reviews from 1979-83 of Venom, Black Flag, Minor Threat, the Misfits, Negative Approach, the Fix, the Avengers, Necros, Discharge, Faith, Die Kreuzen, Crucifix, Poison Idea... 🤯
November 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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BLACK ROSES or TRICK OR TREAT ?

#heavymetalmoves
November 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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via www.murderinthefrontrow.com 🐦‍⬛

Last night in 1983 in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW, Metallica was all Flying Vs, Rick bass, vodka, and Halloween smoke at the Keystone Palo Alto 🧛‍♀️ They played "Creeping Death for the 1st time 🦂

#murderinthefrontrow #metallica1983 #jameshetfield
November 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Welcome to our haunted house of horrific heavy hardcovers... 🧟🕷👹 BYOFB = We supply the nightmares, Bring Yer Own Fake Blood! 💉 Heavy Halloween to all 👁

#possessed #deathmetal #thrashmetal #dismember #swedishdeathmetal #themisfits #misfits #horrorpunk #vulcano #brazilianmetal #heavymetalmovies
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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All eyes see the figure of the wizard! ⚡️🧙‍♂️📖 Beast Halloween wishes from Bazillion Points... may the magic of punk & metal books fill your bag 🌈

#halloween2025 #rainbowrising #stargazer #ronniedio #ronniejamesdio #dio #ritchieblackmore #rogerglover #deeppurple #heavymetal #soundofthebeast
October 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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More Stars & Cars! 💫 👍 TOUCH AND GO Hardcore Punk book honcho Tesco Vee can't wait for you to rub your greasy mitts up and down the stiff pages of his DIY HC masterpiece. 📚📚📚

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

#touchandgo #touchandgobook #hardcorepunk #punkhistory
October 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Chuck Schuldiner, 1970s ⚡ via DEATH Official 🥀

#chuckschuldiner #acefrehley #deathband #deathmetal #kissarmy #metalguitarist
October 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Revisiting Kurt Cobain / Nirvana European tour pics from 1989 ⚡ EXPERIENCING NIRVANA, by Sub Pop Records cofounder Bruce Pavitt... it all started here 🚢

www.bazillionpoints.com/nirvana

#experiencingnirvana #nirvana #kurtcobain #cobain #nirvanableach #subpop #subpoprecords #mudhoney #tad
October 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Infectious Ace! "Am I nervous? I make other people nervous....heh heh heh heh heh...."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHDr...
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October 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Ace Frehley in 1979, photo by Richard Creamer ♦️
October 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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If you aren't wearing a lace-up vest or croptop, why are you even at this party?
bazillionpoints.bsky.social bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · Oct 16
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 9:11 PM
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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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CHOOSING in the morning garden, DEATH in the afternoon... 🍂🌚🐍 Albert Mudrian's Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore springs eternal...

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

#morbidangel #napalmdeath #entombed #cannibalcorpse #nasum #carcassband #chuckschuldiner #deathband #deathmetal
October 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Yeah, MIDNIGHT fans, go stash your custom van in the back alley! ⚡ No sweat, we make house calls and deliver MIDNIGHT photo books & bonus picture discs, anyway...

🖕 www.bazillionpoints.com/midnight 🖕

#midnightband #athenar #hannahverbeuren #ohiometal #metal #leather #midnightviolators
September 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM