Batista, Marcelo R.
United Forces: An Archive of Brazil's Raw Metal Attack, 1986-1991
Bazillion Points
***In 1986, São Paulo teenager Marcelo R. Batista channeled his love of pure, wild heavy metal into the self-produced fanzine United Forces. Over the next five years, his homemade publication captured the explosion happening before his eyes thanks to riotous Brazilian metal upstarts including Sepultura, Sarcofago, Vulcano, Holocausto, Mystifier, Sextrash, Ratos de Porão, Skullkrusher, Necrobutcher, and hundreds of others. Simultaneously, he exposed readers to future legends from abroad, including Napalm Death, Carcass, Morbid Angel, and Darkthrone. United Forces presents the story in vivid color, along with Batista’s own headbanger tale—from humble origins collecting scrap metal to buy Motörhead albums to DIY operator funneling his country’s metal passion to receptive listeners in Europe and North America. The changes in Brazil during the 1980s and early 1990s serve as background for a full-bore metal revolution, as Batista’s story brings to life the crucial South-of-the-equator 1980sscene that inspired all the forthcoming underground extremes to come. “Most of the bands that appeared in the fanzine were Brazilian and most are those are from what is known as the ‘Golden Period’ of the Brazilian metal scene: Mutilator, Dorsal Atlântica, Sepultura, Vulcano, Anthares, Sarcófago, Genocidio, and Holocausto. But I guess the most important thing United Forces did was support those bands that had no record deals or had just started, including Extreme Violence, Megaterio, Skullkrusher, Sorcery, Necromancia, and others. For me, it was when I discovered something; the feeling of knowing about a band, a ‘zine, a scene from a city or from a country that...
BK $49.75
07/28/2023
***Between 1978 and 1983, Great Britain spawned a DIY uprising of over 500 heavy metal bands. Many soon became the household names of the 1980s metal invasion…many others did not. For the first time, author Michael Hann captures the whole nose-to-tail story of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in all its power and glory, exploring the bands, clubs, radio, magazines, festivals, and the majesty and misfires of the NWOBHM in over 100 interviews with members of Venom, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, Diamond Head, Angel Witch, Samson, UFO, Tygers of Pan Tang, Vardis, Judas Priest, Saxon, Whitesnake, Girlschool, Witchfynde, Demon, Thin Lizzy, Rainbow, Gillan, Led Zeppelin, and more. 432 lavishly illustrated pages plus 16pp glossy color section.
BK $31.95
11/18/2022
Barile, Nancy
I'm Not Holding Your Coat - My Bruises-And-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion
Bazillion Points
***BACK IN STOCK!!! From disenchanted Catholic schoolgirl and glam maniac to instigator on the 1980s hardcore punk scene, NANCY BARILE discovered freedom at a time when punk music was new and dangerous. She made her place behind the boards and right in the front row as insurgents such as SSD, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys and Black Flag wrote new rules and made history. She survived punk riots and urban decay, ran the streets with outcasts, and ultimately found true love as she fought for fairness and found her purpose.A unique insider perspective and life lessons from this national award-winning teacher on the dynamics of the DIY punk scene. Features over 50 live and candid photos of Bad Brains, Minor Threat, SSD, Andy Warhold and... Nils Lofgren. Includes an intro with IAN MACKAYE discussing the crucial role of women in early hardcore punk. 192 heavily illustrated pages. Softcover book.
BK $14.50
01/15/2021
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Arriving in 1978, hitched to the back of the Sex Pistols tour bus, punk soon became as mythic in Texas as the state’s devotion to football, cattle, and prayer. Confrontational renegades like the Huns, the Big Boys, and the Dicks led a defiant new era of blood, sweat, and cross-dressing cowboys. Austin son PAT BLASHILL grabbed a camera and began shooting local punk bands, uncovering a story of desperation and creative deliverance, set in trailer parks, low-rent shared living, and wild, Texas bucket-of-beer bars. Joining Blashill’s more than 200 deep black and white photos here are essays by director RICHARD LINKATER (Slacker/School of Rock); singer DAVID YOW (Scratch Acid/Jesus Lizard); drummer TERESA TAYLOR (Butthole Surfers); and local luminaries ADRIANE "ASH" SHOWN and DONNA RICH. True mavericks banded together to make a stand, and…Texas Is the Reason. Featuring the BIG BOYS, DICKS, BUTTHOLE SURFERS, POISON 13, THE HICKOIDS, OFFENDERS, SCRATCH ACID, DANIEL JOHNSTON, DOCTOR'S ORERS, and GLASS EYE. Deluxe 240-page hardcover book.
BK $35.50
06/19/2020
***Born in the drive-in theater backseats of the 1970s, the demonic FUN of Teen Movie Hell IGNITED the 1980s VCR, cable TV, and multiplex booms that BURNED WELL into the 1990s. Between George Lucas’s American Graffiti (1973) and Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused (1993), lust-driven laff riots on the order of Animal House, Porky’s, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and Revenge of the Nerds boomed at the box office and celebrated adolescent misbehavior run amok. Author Mike “McBeardo” McPadden (Heavy Metal Movies) passes righteous judgment, one boobs-and-boner opus at a time, plus penetrating insight from Eddie Deezen (Grease, Zapped!), Samm Deighan, Kat Ellinger, Wendy McClure, Katie Rife, Heather Drain, Lisa Carver, Rachel McPadden, Liz Mason, Christina Ward, and Kier-La Janisse. Tap the keg, tailor your toga, and belly flop into an exploitation odyssey of bikini Beaches, Summer camps, study halls, wayward teachers, cool camp counselors, wet T-shirts, custome vans, sexu ESP, shower peepholes, and other overlooked penal code violations! 360-page softcover book.
BK $31.95
04/16/2019
***Born in the drive-in theater backseats of the 1970s, the demonic FUN of Teen Movie Hell IGNITED the 1980s VCR, cable TV, and multiplex booms that BURNED WELL into the 1990s. Between George Lucas’s American Graffiti (1973) and Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused (1993), lust-driven laff riots on the order of Animal House, Porky’s, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and Revenge of the Nerds boomed at the box office and celebrated adolescent misbehavior run amok. Author Mike “McBeardo” McPadden (Heavy Metal Movies) passes righteous judgment, one boobs-and-boner opus at a time, plus penetrating insight from Eddie Deezen (Grease, Zapped!), Samm Deighan, Kat Ellinger, Wendy McClure, Katie Rife, Heather Drain, Lisa Carver, Rachel McPadden, Liz Mason, Christina Ward, and Kier-La Janisse. Tap the keg, tailor your toga, and belly flop into an exploitation odyssey of bikini Beaches, Summer camps, study halls, wayward teachers, cool camp counselors, wet T-shirts, custome vans, sexu ESP, shower peepholes, and other overlooked penal code violations! 360-page softcover book.
BK $31.95
03/29/2019
***Starting in 1981 via MINOR THREAT's revolutionary call to arms, the clean and positive straight edge hardcore punk movement took hold and prospered during the 1980s, earning a position as one of the most durable yet chronically misunderstood music subcultures. Straight edge created its own sound and visual style, went on to embrace vegetarianism, and later saw the rise of a militant fringe. As the “don’t drink, don’t smoke” message spread from Washington, D.C., to Boston, California, New York City, and, eventually, the world, adherents struggled to define the fundamental ideals and limits of what may be the ultimate youth movement. TONY RETTMAN traces the story of straight edge from adolescent origins to enduring counterculture via fresh first-hand accounts from the clear and alert members of Minor Threat, SS DECONTROL, YOUTH OF TODAY, DYS, SLAPSHOT, UNIFORM CHOICE, 7 SECONDS, STALAG 13, JUSTICE LEAGUE, CHAIN OF STRENGTH, NO FOR AN ANSWER, INSTED, GORILLA BISCUITS, JUDGE, BOLD, PROJECT X, LARM, BROTHERHOOD, SHELTER, H2O, HALF OFF, RESURRECTION, RAID, STRIFE, EARTH CRISIS, VEGAN REICH, MINDSET, STOP AND THINK, MOUTHPIECE, FLOORPUNCH, TEN YARD FIGHT, MENTAL, FUCKED UP, TRIAL, HAVE HEART, CLEAR, THE GEEKS, and many others. 384-page softcover book with 16-page color insert. 6.75” x 9.5” (170mm x 240mm); 2.75 lb. (1.2 kg)
BK $29.95
11/03/2017
***BACK IN STOCK!!! EERIE VON's treasure trove of MISFITS / SAHMHAIN / DANZIG images features hundreds of live and candid shots from a peerless POV. Fly-on-the-wall photos from the best seats in the house document everything from the Misfits’ humble beginnings in Lodi, New Jersey, to the heights of Danzig’s stadium-rock glory. Few dared tread where Eerie walked during his years as unofficial Misfits photographer and bassist of Samhain and Danzig... and he was the only one wearing a camera. 180-page full-color deluxe hardcover.
BK $29.50
11/29/2016
***BACK IN STOCK!!! In 1986, the idea that death metal and grindcore would ever impact popular culture was unimaginable. Initially circulated through a scattered tape-trading network of underground thrillseekers, bands rose from every corner of the globe and death metal and grindcore spread faster than a pandemic plague of undead flesheaters. By 1994, the genre’s most prominent labels had sold millions of albums. Choosing Death examines the rise, fall, and resurrection through the eyes and ringing ears of the artists and entrepreneurs behind the movement. Features forewards by JOHN PEEL and SCOTT CARLSON (Repulsion). 384-page heavily-illustrated dexluxe softcover books with 16-page color section.
BK $30.50
11/29/2016
Lomas, Ross
City Baby: Surviving in Leather, Bristles, Studs, Punk Rock, and G.B.H.
Bazillion Points
***Teenage punk rock milkman ROSS LOMAS strapped on a bass and joined G.B.H onstage in 1981. Leading the charge of U.K. hardcore punk, G.B.H lit up British pubs, European squats, and American highways with a wall of sound and mile-high spikes. Living by his own rules, for better or for worse, Ross Lomas riots with violent skinheads, metal hippies, rip-off managers, Neil Sedaka, and the Argentine cavalry, and tries to make sense of adulthood. Ross and his G.B.H family don’t escape unscathed, but they never surrender. Grab a seat in the van, and prepare for a thirty-year odyssey, filled, beer by beer, with sick boys, maniacs, big women, fireworks, kindly old war veterans, baby carriages, and friendship. Heavily illustrated 304-page high quality paperback.
BK $14.00
11/17/2015
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Based on original interviews with over 100 key historical figures, the dense 384-page volume features hundreds of images and over fifty chapters covering the bands, venues, labels, hangouts, and larger-than-life characters that built hardcore punk rock in New York City. As Freddy Cricien of Madball writes in his foreword: "These years were formative ones. For those that lived it, you will be transported back in time and you can revel in the nostalgia. To those that didn't live it, go ahead and transport yourself to that period and be grateful that you've discovered this special scene. Read on and take everything in—but don't feel like you missed out! This book is a way to get caught up on history, and also a bridge to a whole world that is as relevant today as its ever been." The gripping and sometimes hilarious narrative is woven together like the fabric of New York itself from over 100 original interviews with members of Absolution, Adrenalin O.D., Agnostic Front, Antidote, Bad Brains, Bloodclot, Bold, Born Against, Breakdown, Cause for Alarm, Cavity Creeps, Citizens Arrest, Cro-Mags, Crumbsuckers, Death Before Dishonor, Even Worse, False Prophets, Gorilla Biscuits, H20, Heart Attack, Inhuman, Into Another, Irate, Judge, Kraut, Leeway, Life’s Blood, Major Conflict, Murphy’s Law, Nausea, Nihilistics, Nuclear Assault, Numskulls, Outburst, Pro-Pain, Quicksand, Raw Deal, Reagan Youth, Rorschach, S.O.D., Sacrilege, Savage Circle, Sheer Terror, Shelter, Shok, Sick of it All, Side by Side, Skinhead Youth, Straight Ahead, the Abused, the Cryptcrashers, the Mad, the Misfits,...
BK $29.65
12/23/2014
***PRICE CORRECTION!!! Bazillion Points Books is proud to release SUB POP USA: The Subterranean Pop Music Anthology 1980–1988, by BRUCE PAVITT—an unprecedented, 400-page cross-genre survey of American independent music during the 1980s. Combining all nine issues of Pavitt's Subterranean Pop zine and six years of monthly SeattleRocket newspaper columns, the book chronicles the rise of regional American indie pop, punk, hardcore, art/noise, metal, spoken word, hip hop, and rock’n roll—over 1,000 bands all told—alongside Pavitt's own path as DJ, zine editor, record store owner, music booster, and ultimately founder of Sub Pop Records. In addition to unseen photographs by Charles Peterson and Michael Lavine, and early artwork by Charles Burns, Jad Fair, and Lynda Barry, the book includes indie perspective and regional background via original essays by Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening/K Records/Dub Narcotic Sound System); Ann Powers (NPR Music; Los Angeles Times); Larry Reid (Fantagraphics); Gerard Cosloy (Conflict, Matador Records); and Charles R. Cross (the Rocket, Heavier Than Heaven).
BK $32.25
11/18/2014
***A hardcover reissue release of the crucial tenth issue of Norway’s infamous Slayer Mag, overflowing with key MAYHEM, BURZUM, DARKTHRONE, THORNS, EMPEROR, SATYRICON, BATHORY, DISSECTION, ENSLAVED, and many more candid black metal interviews from the turbulent 1992 through 1994 period. The material anthologized in METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries is presented here in its complete, original form. JON “METALION” KRISTIANSEN, deemed to be “the godfather of Norwegian black metal” by Enslaved, created this deep and passionate record of the intertwined sensational actions, rivalries, violence, and totally new and unique underground black metal music. The interviews, basically unguarded conversations among friends, today comprise the most complete and unfiltered document for understanding the mindset and personalities involved in Norway’s violent attacks, murders, and church arsons happening at the time. 82-pages.
BK $18.95
06/24/2014
***CHECK STOCK!!! Rated a “must” buy by Entertainment Weekly. Positively the most horrifying book ever written! Lavishly illustrated and featuring more than two-times-666 of the most metallic movie moments of all time. The ultimate guidebook to the complete molten musical cinema experience. Wherever metal has ventured, heavy movies have followed, blazing ferocious new trails of searing celluloid. The unadulterated journey spans concert movies and trippy midnight flicks from the dawn of heaviosity, inspirational depictions of ancient times and future apocalypses, and today’s raw hand-held digital video productions. Heavy Metal Movies rounds up, reviews, and canonizes all known incidents of heavy metal in motion pictures, including performance films, feature documentaries, occult rock ‘n’ roll horror, primal headbanger characters, soundtrack standouts, namesake inspirations, lyrical references, aesthetic archetypes, and much more. As brash, irreverent, and visceral as both the music and the movies themselves, Heavy Metal Movies is the ultimate guidebook to the complete molten musical cinema experience. 568 pages. (STREET DATE - 6/10/2014)
BK $32.95
06/10/2014
***Positively the most horrifying book ever written! Lavishly illustrated and featuring more than two-times-666 of the most metallic movie moments of all time. The ultimate guidebook to the complete molten musical cinema experience. Wherever metal has ventured, heavy movies have followed, blazing ferocious new trails of searing celluloid. The unadulterated journey spans concert movies and trippy midnight flicks from the dawn of heaviosity, inspirational depictions of ancient times and future apocalypses, and today’s raw hand-held digital video productions. Heavy Metal Movies rounds up, reviews, and canonizes all known incidents of heavy metal in motion pictures, including performance films, feature documentaries, occult rock ‘n’ roll horror, primal headbanger characters, soundtrack standouts, namesake inspirations, lyrical references, aesthetic archetypes, and much more. As brash, irreverent, and visceral as both the music and the movies themselves, Heavy Metal Movies is the ultimate guidebook to the complete molten musical cinema experience. 568 pages. (STREET DATE - 6/10/2014)
BK $32.95
06/10/2014
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989, is a photo journal and a grunge rock micro-history; an inside look into a crucial eight-day period in the touring life of NIRVANA, and two other Seattle bands, as seen through the eyes of BRUCE PAVITT, the co-founder of Sub Pop Records, the Seattle label that first signed Nirvana in 1988. The dramatic eight days covered in this book, from November 27 through December 4, 1989, represented a turning point for Nirvana. In this brief period, the young band went from breaking up in Rome to winning over the influential British music press at Sub Pop’s LameFest UK showcase in London, setting the stage for their looming leap in popularity. On November 27, 1989, when Bruce Pavitt and his Sub Pop partner JONATHAN PONEMAN arrived to meet Nirvana in Rome, the band was almost finished with a grueling six week tour of Europe. Although determined to promote their grungy, riff-heavy debut album, Bleach, Nirvana’s travels with fellow Sub Pop act TAD had left them exhausted. Pavitt and Poneman did their best to revive the spirits of a frustrated and downcast KURT COBAIN. Despite a threatened leap from a 14-foot speaker tower, soon followed by the theft of his passport and wallet, Cobain managed to continue to London, where Nirvana played the biggest and most important show of its career to date. Nirvana’s breakthrough night at the 2,000-capacity Astoria Theatre in London featured three Seattle Sub Pop acts: Nirvana, Tad, and popular...
BK $23.75
12/10/2013
Dawes, Laina
What Are You Doing Here? - A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal
Bazillion Points
***Metal can save your life—or at least your sanity. What Are You Doing Here? investigates how black women musicians and fans navigate the metal, hardcore, and punk music genres that are regularly thought of as inclusive spaces and centered on a community spirit, but fail to block out the race and gender issues that exist in the outside world. LAINA DAWES walks readers through her lifelong love of metal, her subsequent ostracism in the black community, and the very real racism and sexism she and others have encountered while in pursuit of metal’s community spirit. Yet she remains headstrong and devout in arguing that black women need the emotional catharsis that metal delivers. Her keen observations are buttressed by stories shared by dozens of other black women headbangers and punks. You will never look at heavy metal fans in the same light again. Combines elements of memoir and music writing with dozens of original original interviews with black women headbangers and punks, including TAMAR-KALI, MILITIA VOX, CYNTHIA DAGNAL-MYRON, MONIQUE CRAFT, SAMEERAH BLUE, ALEXIS BROWN, KEIDRA CHANEY, KARMA ELISE and others. Foreword by SKIN, frontwoman of SKUNK ANANSIE. 208 pages, softcover.
BK $15.50
12/25/2012
Markey, David & Jordon Schwartz
We Got Power - Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California
Bazillion Points
***BACK IN STOCK!!! As teenagers in 1981, DAVID MARKEY and his best friend JORDAN SCHWARTZ founded We Got Power, a fanzine dedicated to the first-generation hardcore punk music community in their native Los Angeles. Their text and cameras captured the early punk spirit of Black Flag, the Minutemen, Social Distortion, Red Cross/Redd Kross, Suicidal Tendencies, the Descendents, White Flag, the Last, the Gun Club, Saccharine Trust, Sin 34, Nip Drivers, Circle One, M.D.C., Big Boys, Youth Brigade, D.R.I., the Butthole Surfers, Firehose, and many others at the height of their precocious punk powers. In the process, the duo’s amazing photographs also captured the dilapidated suburbs, abandoned storefronts, and dereliction of the early Reagan era—a rubble-strewn social apocalypse that demanded a youth uprising! Never before seen except in crude fanzine form, these detailed and richly narrative photos are now collected to present an intimate portrayal of a uniquely fertile creative moment. A deluxe 304-page large format hardcover book featuring essays by DAVID MARKEY, JORDON SCHWARTZ, JENNIFER SCHWARTZ, HENRY ROLLINS, KEITH MORRIS, CHUCK DUKOWSKI, DEZ CADENA, LOUICHE MAYORGA, CAMERON JAMIE, PAT FEAR, STEVE HUMANN, TONY ADOLESCENT, JACK BREWER, JULA BELL, MIKE WATT, SEAN WHEELER, JOE CARDUCCI, DANIEL “SHREDDER” WEIZMANN, and JANET HOUSDEN. Presenting nearly 400 first-generation LA hardcore punk photographs, including complete color reprints of We Got Power fanzine 1981-1983 and beyond.
BK $37.95
10/16/2012
Oimoen, Harald & Brian Lew
Murder in the Front Row - Shots From The Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter
Bazillion Points
***BACK IN STOCK!!! A spectacular large-format 272-page view inside "the metal scene that banged those heads that did not bang" includes over 400 of some of the earliest color and black-and-white photos of METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH, EXODUS, POSSESSED, DEATH ANGEL, LEGACY/TESTAMENT, VIO-LENCE and many others. Photographers HARALD OIMOEN and BRIAN LEW were dodging bodies from the very start, in front of the stage, backstage, and on the stage itself. They captured the public victories and private parties of a scene where fans and musical idols were equally hellbent on faster, heavier music and endless outrageous fun. Oimoen and Lew fought on the frontline of a war for individuality, snapping frame by frame as thrash metal was born, along with stagediving, crowd-walking, and countless other magical moments filled with key local personalities. Includes passionate personal accounts by Bay Area veterans Harald Oimoen, Brian Lew, RON QUINTANA of Metal Mania, GARY HOLT of Exodus, ALEX SKOLNICK of Testament, and ROBB FLYNN of MACHINE HEAD. From DIY origins to world domination, the Bay Area thrash metal scene screams to life in these fearless pages. 272 page hardcover.
BK $34.95
12/27/2011
***One day in 1975, 19-year-old Aussie rocker MARK EVANS walked into a local bar to check out a band. His life would never be the same… Within days, he played his first show as bass player of AC/DC. A week later he was on national TV, alongside devious schoolboy ANGUS YOUNG and the wild singer BON SCOTT—dressed as a pigtailed, cigarette-smoking schoolgirl and waving a mallet. In the next few years Mark toured internationally, and appeared on the groundbreaking and platinum-selling AC/DC releases High Voltage, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Let There Be Rock, and the ‘74 Jailbreak EP. Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside of AC/DC brings the gripping, laugh-out-loud tale of a band that lived fast and played harder than anyone else. The first bio by a band insider during the early years, the book details the struggles and personalities behind the rise of hard rock’s most successful group; with guest spots by rock n’ roll icons like George Harrison, Gene Simmons, Phil Lynott, and members of Metallica. In his honest and revealing memoir, mark evans contends with life’s many turns: A rough-as-nails upbringing, lucky breaks, soaring highs, and terrible personal loss and tragedy. It was a long way to the top…and he was just getting started. 288-page illustrated trade paperback, with 16-page color photo insert.
BK $18.65
12/13/2011
***AVAILABLE AGAIN!!! Bazillion Points Books unleashes METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries, a mammoth 744-page hardcover journey into black metal, death metal, and beyond by Norway's metal godfather JON KRISTIANSEN. Part anthology, part memoir, and years in the making, METALION includes over 600 reproduction pages from every issue of Slayer Mag, spanning from the early 1980s through 2010. In addition, author Jon Kristiansen recounts his life's story, from alienated outsider to central figure in Norwegian black metal to world-weary metal survivor. The book also features over 100 rare photographs, including two color sections and a portrait gallery of photographs taken by Kristiansen himself. The astonishing combination of archival material includes scores of key historic interviews with the most revered figures in extreme metal, including Mayhem, Emperor, Slayer, Kreator, Nihilist, Celtic Frost, Bathory, Cathedral, Entombed, Morbid, Napalm Death, Metallica, Opeth, Cradle of Filth, Sadistik Execution, Usurper, Nifelheim, Darkthrone, Sodom, Destruction, Morbid Angel, Deicide, Exodus, Dissection, Candlemass, Carcass, Sepultura, Gorgoroth, Death, Watain, Sadus, Satyricon, Enslaved, Pentagram, Jarboe, Immortal, Possessed, Overkill, Ulver, Dark Angel, and countless others.
BK $43.25
06/21/2011
***In 1911, Sweden established the world’s first government board of film censors, provoking a century-long war against filmmakers that outlived two world wars, communism, and the sexual revolution. In 2011, the censors finally surrendered—and Swedish Sensationfilms declares victory with a fiery retrospective of over 200 often banned and cut films by directors from Ingmar Bergman to Boarne Vibenius, produced during the golden age of Swedish sin. From the backyard of the Swedish film industry, these daring sensationsfilms form a canon dealing with shocking and taboo subjects—street punks, sadistic mobsters, space aliens, unruly housewives, ruthless drug pushers, bloodthirsty ninjas, teen temptresses, lingonberry cowboys, bearded Danish perverts, horny glam rockers, and drunken vikings—all simply too strange and too Swedish to ignore. Born in Uppsala, Sweden, DANIEL EKEROTH is a writer and editor for the Stockholm Intl. Film Festival. He is the author of the acclaimed book Swedish Death Metal and is known as a musician from the bands TYRANT, INSISION, DELLAMORTE, and ONKEL KANKEL. He lives peacefully in Stockholm.
BK $17.75
03/22/2011
***BACK IN STOCK!!!! Bazillion Points Books announces the June 2010 release of Touch And Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ‘79–’83, a collection of wild-eyed artifacts from the very dawn of hardcore punk, penned in poison ink by legendary frontman TESCO VEE of the MEATMEN and his partner-in-crime DAVE STIMSON, and edited by former THE FIX singer STEVE MILLER. The landmark collection of all twenty-two issues of Touch And Go magazine also includes extra archival material and new introductions by authors Tesco Vee (the Meatmen) and Dave Stimson; punk icons HENRY ROLLINS (S.O.A./BLACK FLAG), KEITH MORRIS (Black Flag/CIRCLE JERKS), COREY RUSK (NECROS/Touch and Go Records), JOHN BRANNON (NEGATIVE APPROACH), IAN MACKAYE (MINOR THREAT), and Steve Miller (The Fix); plus literary appreciation by PETER DAVIS (Your Flesh), HENRY OWINGS (Chunklet), and BYRON COLEY (Forced Exposure). Created during the key years of the American hardcore punk music underground, these acidic essays, impassioned record reviews, eyewitness gig reports, unrehearsed interviews, and incendiary artworks preserve the original thoughts and attitudes of DIY culture. Today, punk music is mainstream youth music—this is how it all happened, and this is who did it. The book's pages are plastered with early gig flyers, inspirational artwork, eyewitness action photos, and candid vintage interviews with now-legendary squads like the Fix, Necros, Minor Threat, Youth Brigade, Iron Cross, Misfits, Negative Approach, JFA, Battalion of Saints, Crucifucks, SSD, 7 Seconds, Faith, the Effigies, Bad Religion, the Minutemen, Scream, Die Kreuzen, Crucifix, Void, Poison Idea, and others—plus hundreds of reviews of historic...
BK $28.45
07/06/2010
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Bazillion Points Books announces the June 2010 release of Touch And Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ‘79–’83, a collection of wild-eyed artifacts from the very dawn of hardcore punk, penned in poison ink by legendary frontman TESCO VEE of the MEATMEN and his partner-in-crime DAVE STIMSON, and edited by former THE FIX singer STEVE MILLER. The landmark collection of all twenty-two issues of Touch And Go magazine also includes extra archival material and new introductions by authors Tesco Vee (the Meatmen) and Dave Stimson; punk icons HENRY ROLLINS (S.O.A./BLACK FLAG), KEITH MORRIS (Black Flag/CIRCLE JERKS), COREY RUSK (NECROS/Touch and Go Records), JOHN BRANNON (NEGATIVE APPROACH), IAN MACKAYE (MINOR THREAT), and Steve Miller (The Fix); plus literary appreciation by PETER DAVIS (Your Flesh), HENRY OWINGS (Chunklet), and BYRON COLEY (Forced Exposure). Created during the key years of the American hardcore punk music underground, these acidic essays, impassioned record reviews, eyewitness gig reports, unrehearsed interviews, and incendiary artworks preserve the original thoughts and attitudes of DIY culture. Today, punk music is mainstream youth music—this is how it all happened, and this is who did it. The book's pages are plastered with early gig flyers, inspirational artwork, eyewitness action photos, and candid vintage interviews with now-legendary squads like the Fix, Necros, Minor Threat, Youth Brigade, Iron Cross, Misfits, Negative Approach, JFA, Battalion of Saints, Crucifucks, SSD, 7 Seconds, Faith, the Effigies, Bad Religion, the Minutemen, Scream, Die Kreuzen, Crucifix, Void, Poison Idea, and others—plus hundreds...
BK $28.45
07/06/2010
Fischer, Tom Gabriel With Martin Eric Ain
Only Death Is Real - An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost 1981-1985
Bazillion Points
***BACK IN STOCK!!! This formidable oversized hardcover runs 288 pages (including a 32-page color section), and combines hundreds of unseen early HELLHAMER and CELTIC FROST photos with a vast treasure trove of artwork and memorabilia. A substantial written component by TOM GABRIEL FISCHER (aka TOM G. WARRIOR). Fischer details his upbringing on the outskirts of Zurich, Switzerland, and the hardships and triumphs he faced bringing the visions of his groundbreaking bands Hellhammer and eventually Celtic Frost to reality. In addition, the book includes an introduction by NOCTURNO CULTO of Norwegian black metal act DARKTHRONE, and a foreword by noted metal author JOEL MCIVER. There is no question that this book goes farther than any other source in exploring the origins of underground heavy metal. The wealth of visual information is astounding, both in terms of documenting early 1980s headbangers and exposing the still-relevant imagery of the first Hellhammer and Celtic Frost photo sessions. On top of that, the written chapters combine Tom Fischer’s often shocking stories with lengthy quotes from MARTIN ERIC and the other main Hellhammer members, explaining in intimately human terms how extreme metal was born. Stunning.
BK $43.50
03/23/2010
***Mellodrama, a documentary by DIANNA DILWORTH, explores the rising and falling fortunes of the Chamberlin and its better-known successor the Mellotron—the first musical keyboards to play the pre-recorded sounds of other instruments. From a California workshop to Royal Albert Hall, Mellodrama tells the story of an ingenious contraption called the Mellotron. Essentially the first sampling instrument, its haunting sound has changed the production and texture of popular music—from the Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever” and the Moody Blues’ “Nights in White Satin” to Radiohead’s OK Computer and Kanye West’s “Gold Digger.” Features members of The Beach Boys, The Moody Blues, The Zombies. King Crimson, Yes, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, Genesis, Refugee, Opeth, Latin Playboys, Goblin, Maroon 5, Moog Cookbook, Änglagård, Optiganally Yours, Bigelf, and others.
DVD $21.95
02/02/2010
***BACK IN STOCK!!! DANIEL EKEROTH’s (INSISION, TYRANT, DELLAMORTE, DISKONTO) exhaustive, 450-page history of Swedish Death Metal. Ekeroth captures the epic tale with enlightening detail, beginning with Sweden’s violent loss of innocence in the 1980s, through metal’s virtual chokehold on the country during the 1990s, into the lasting legacy and influence in the turbulent 2000s of the Sunlight guitar tone, the “Gothenburg Sound,” and the countless offshoots of Sweden’s most lethal cultural export.
BK $31.35
09/01/2008