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ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · 2d

Infectious Ace! "Am I nervous? I make other people nervous....heh heh heh heh heh...."

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ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · 2d

Ace Frehley in 1979, photo by Richard Creamer ♦️

ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · 2d

If you aren't wearing a lace-up vest or croptop, why are you even at this party?

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

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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ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · 6d

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

ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · 18d

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

ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · 21d

Like if you saw CARCASS in a wrestling ring in Mexico in 1992 🫀🤼‍♂️ If you didn't, buy a copy of CHOOSING DEATH: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore, by Albert Mudrian, w/forewords by BBC DJ John Peel & Repulsion's Scott Carlson ⚡

#carcass #deathmetal #grindcore #napalmdeath #metal

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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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ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · Aug 6

What beautiful creatures... Midnight, I mean

bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · Aug 6

Endangered Species Alert! 🚨 Last copies of the MIDNIGHT - "Goat Trap" black oil-on-green Lake Erie water bonus 7" version now shipping w/Hannah Verbeuren's visual violation hardcover MIDNIGHT photo book ⛓ Deadline for extinction is Aug 15! 🔪

www.bazillionpoints.com/midnight

ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · Jul 30

The Black Sabbath Bridge in Birmingham today... 💐💦💦💦

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · Jul 30

Murderer's Row from MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW 🔪 Bonded by bloodbrother bands SLAYER + EXODUS in Aug 1984, L-R: Hanneman, Hunolt, Lombardo, King, Holt, Araya... plus a guy in the back ⚡ 📷 by Harald Oimoen from "the yearbook of the Bay Area thrash metal scene," natch! 🔨

🧨 www.murderinthefrontrow.com

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ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · Jul 27

Don Dokken: "The cool thing about Ozzy, he was very well read. He loved to read. He was always reading something, and he'd ask me what I'm reading. He loved his books."

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ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · Jul 22

Ozzy journeys to the center of eternity...

bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · Jul 22

I've got to travel forever, it's all within my mind, an endless path to endeavor...

Forever is a long, long time 🦇💦

#ozzy #ozzyosbourne #blizzardofozz #blacksabbath

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ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · Jun 22

The head, the tail, the whole damn thing 🦈 ROOTS Shark Attack! 50 Years of JAWS today devours raging chum w/ Wehrmacht, Loincloth, Darkthrone, Municipal Waste, the Acacia Strain, Warhead, Accept, Wolf, Gallows, Overkill, + the Jaws-themed band Squalus.
blog.bazillionpoints.com/.../roots-sh...

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · Apr 17

Today in 1980 in SOUND OF THE BEAST history, Black Sabbath played its first concert w/new singer Ronnie James Dio in Aurich, West Germany 🤘 Local paper review: "Attack on Hearing and Musical Taste" 🧐

www.soundofthebeast.com

#ronniejamesdio #blacksabbath

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ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · Mar 25

I only communicate my secret military strikes via the thanks lists of death metal LPs.

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · Mar 25

Forty yrs is a drop in the bucket of eternity... from the ONLY DEATH IS REAL files via @celticfrostofficial 💀 Outtake from the very first photo shoot of Celtic Frost after US drummer Reed St. Mark joined

Photo by Martin Kyburz, March 1985.

www.bazillionpoints.com/.../only-dea...

#CelticFrost

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Russ Bengtson @russbengtson.bsky.social · Apr 7

finally reading the bazillion points NYHC book (which I forgot I had on kindle) and it's so good. need to order the physical just for the images.

www.bazillionpoints.com/books/nyhc-n...

NYHC New York Hardcore Oral History by Tony Rettman

www.bazillionpoints.com

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · Jan 20

Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Dec 30

I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.

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ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · Dec 30

“And have a great 1984!” 🎉 Jeff Nelson + Ian MacKaye's 1983 holiday card to Nancy Barile 🐑 Her book I'M NOT HOLDING YOUR COAT w/ a long new conversation w/MacKaye at Dischord House 🎉 via @nancybarile

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

#punk #hardcorepunk #bostonhardcore @bazillionpoints

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ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · Dec 14

ABBATHENAR!! ⚡ Did someone say "Happy Abbathday" to Athenar? Well, something like that... Give this hooded menace a cheer if you see him stalking the streets ov Cleveland today, & give the gift of Athenar and the MIDNIGHT photo book on any gifted occasion coming up
www.bazillionpoints.com/midnight

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ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · Dec 14

If you are a record store, open up & say ahhhh so we can feed you books before putting 2024 to rest ⚰ Lay out a hellacious holiday spread like this for the villagers. A feast fit for a beast... we ship boxes hourly from the Midwest ⛓

⚔ https://www.bazillionpoints.com

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ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · Dec 13

The pungent Lake Erie Black-on-Green version of the MIDNIGHT book's "Goat Trap" bonus 7" is 90% gone ☣ Grab one before it slips thru your hands like... water from a lake! “An intensive, exciting band biography in the form of a photo book.”—OX zine Germany

https://www.bazillionpoints.com/midnight

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ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · Dec 13

Circle of the Writer-Tyrants! ⚡ BAZILLION POINTS authors, 12 of the heaviest fists ever to raise a pen (L-R): Tom Gabriel Fischer ⚡ Daniel Ekeroth ⚡ Ian Christe ⚡ Brian Lew ⚡ Robert Plante ⚡ Albert Mudrian ⚡ Thank you to all ravenous readers! ⚡
www.bazillionpoints.com/

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