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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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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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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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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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Ace Frehley in 1979, photo by Richard Creamer ♦️
October 16, 2025 at 10:46 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
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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
September 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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The Black Sabbath Bridge in Birmingham today... 💐💦💦💦
July 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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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...
June 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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“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
December 30, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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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
December 14, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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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
December 14, 2024 at 4:39 PM