Stigma! Snugglin' up w/classic fotos of Exodus, Megadeth, Slayer... ✖ Check his words of wisdom in the NYHC book, tales of SF beer vats in CITY BABY, and don't ignore his blurb on Nancy Barile's I'M NOT HOLDING YOUR COAT !
Today in 1984 🏴🏴🏴🏴 Creepy crawl our site for MY WAR ON WILSHIRE preorder signups, plus snatch WE GOT POWER! w/loads of fotos + essays by Dez, Henry, Chuck, & Keith 🕷
Creem skimmed MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW! ✨🚙 When the original Creem collapsed in a heap of Tom Petty Yugos and Glenn Frey DeLoreans in the 1980s, Harald Oimoen was outside Ruthie's Inn in Berkeley snapping shots like this. 👍
Thx antichrist expert Peter Thiel for the surprise SOUND OF THE BEAST shout-out on South Park this week 👹 We're Bazillion Points, and we know about the antichrist...!
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
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.
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!!
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🧙♀️
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
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:
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. 🌪
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:
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...
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 🎃
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:
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" 👕🤯
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! 🥀
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 🦜
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"
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:
