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Publisher | Bazillion Points Books • Hoster | ROOTS on SiriusXM Liquid Metal • Author | Sound of the Beast • Played bluegrass at CBGB • Why u gotta be so heavy?

Lost in the Stacks
Joined April 2008
Halloween 1983, James Hetfield & Cliff Burton at Keystone Palo Alto 🎃 foto Brian Lew from MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW ⚡ Brian: "Metallica played 4 songs live for the first time ever and James also dedicated Whiplash to Sam Kress and I. An epic Halloween night." #murderinthefrontrow
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Stargazers! Happy Halloween 1976 ⚡🦇🔮 Where is your star? Is it far? #ronniejamesdio #rogerglover #ritchieblackmore #stargazer #dio
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Fiends of the world! 🌎🦇 Blackwell's UK has most of our books on sale w/FREE worldwide shipping, for example the brand new MY WAR ON WILSHIRE Black Flag 1983 color photo hardcover for £17 ppd to Australia. Our current direct rates aren't bad, either, check it out 📚 #blackflag
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SAMHAIN "Blood Show" evidence from Eerie Von's MISERY OBSCURA Misfits / Samhain / Danzig collection 🧛 Page 85: "Ever since pouring blood over our heads for the cover of Initium, we talked about recreating that look onstage in a live setting..." #eerievon #miseryobscura #samhain
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Now in 1982, WE GOT POWER! in full force as David Markey's SLOG MOVIE premieres w/ Black Flag, Circle Jerks at P.U.N.X. hardcore overload weekend ♦ It’s a skance, man!" Party or go home... these are the times captured in the book #circlejerks #blackflag #circleone #ch3
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Larry Lalonde, the teen shredder behind all the spikes, leather, and fake blood captured in his Possessed (and Blind Illusion) days in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW 🦇 Fly into the pentagram with this immortal tome! #larrylalonde #primus #possessed #sevenchurches #thrashmetal
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Thanks Berlin Film Awards for putting Best Music Doc laurels on ROME AS YOU ARE, covering Nirvana's times in Italy and using EXPERIENCING NIRVANA by Bruce Pavitt as a starting point 🏟️ Come check out this unknown Aberdeen band's 1989 trip to Italy, Switz, France, and England...
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Final days of 57% OFF Geddy Lee's acclaimed My Effin' Life ⚡ RUSH over and grab a limited hardcover from us for last-minute Priest of Syrinx costume inspo! 🔮 #rush #rushband #rush2112 #geddylee #templesofsyrinx
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Today in 1985: Pure headbanger perfection: TO MEGA THERION by Celtic Frost 🐐 This is how heavy metal is done. Crude, groaning, lurching riffs that suddenly sprint forward to a spiritual confrontation. Arcane, esoteric, violent, and magnificent. Thank you, Tom Gabriel Fischer 🗡
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"The Passion of Kerry King" of SLAYER at Ruthie's Inn circa 1984, shot by Harald Oimoen from MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW: Shots From the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter 🧨 🔨 murderinthefrontrow.com🔨 "Fukking awesome"—Kerry King #kerryking #slayer #slayerband #hellawaits #thrash
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Side view of the amazing OFFENDERS mayhem captured by Pat Blashill in TEXAS IS THE REASON: The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk 📿 via @patblashill "East Mall UT Austin campus, fall 1984 by Roseana Auten. A couple of Austin punks put this show together by posing as a campus org. Fun!"
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Haunted punk ghouls VOX POP before they became 45 GRAVE 💀 L-R: Dinah Cancer, Del Hopkins, and Don Bolles, Cathay de Grande, January 20, 1982 📷 Jordan Schwartz, from WE GOT POWER!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California 🌴🌚 Do you wanna party with me, punker?
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