Your guide to crucial thrash metal moments in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW ⛓🗡 Signed by both authors, FREE w/every MURDER order...

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#killemall #jeffhanneman #bondedbyblood #thrashmetal #murderinthefrontrow

Heavy night in Murder City Eskiltuna in 1991 w/Bolt Thrower, Unleashed, At the Gates (ex-Grotesque), and Krypt of Kerberos ⚡💀 Few survived.

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#swedishdeathmetal #deathmetal #boltthrower #unleashed #atthegates #tompalindberg #kryptofkerberos #metal

Why was Kerry King soundchecking at Keystone Berkeley tonight in 1984? 🔪💀🗡 Slay your senses with MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW:

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#kerryking #slayer #slayerband #megadeth #bcrich #bcrichmockingbird #paidassassin #davemustaine #murderinthefrontrow

If you like movies a lot, and wonder what else is out there... feast on the smörgåsbord of SWEDISH SENSATIONSFILMS: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema, by Daniel Ekeroth ... you'll flip!

Spring break forever! ...and McBeardo, too 🏄🏿‍♀️🐕🌭 cover by the great thrashmaster Andrei Bouzikov ☢

#teenmoviehell #animalhouse #porkys #meatballs #americangraffiti #egdaily #valleygirl #lastamericanvirgin #betteroffdead #hardbodies #mcbeardo

Crucial shot of REST IN PIECES blowing apart CBGB, from Tony Rettman's NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990 🐲 foto by the fearless Ken Salerno

#restinpieces #undermyskin #onestepahead #cbgb #cbgbs #kensalerno #sickofitall #roadracer #myrage #nyhc #nyhcbook #newyorkhardcore #hardcore #hardcorepunk

Per Yngve "Dead" Ohlin passed today in 1991 🥀💀 Read his otherworldly interviews in Slayer Mag in memoriam, including this eerie one from the Mayhem days in Slayer Mag Vol. X:

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#peryngveohlin #peryngveohlindead #mayhemband #morbidband #blackmetal #deathmetal

Brutal Brazil! ☢️🗡 Raw materials from Megathrash, Holocausto, Mayhem BR, Mutilator, Loucyfer, and Brutal Distortion that go into the MASSIVE 500-page UNITED FORCES: An Archive of Brazil's Raw Metal Attack, by Marcelo R. Batista 🌴

🦜 www.bazillionpoints.com/brazil 🦜

#brazilianmetal #deaththrash

SCRATCH ACID, Spring 1986, a beauty from TEXAS IS THE REASON: The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk, by Pat Blashill ✨ bazillionpoints.com/texas

CW from left: book essay writer David Yow, David Wm. Sims, Brett Bradford, Rey Washam ✂️

#scratchacid #davidyow #davidwmsims #reywasham #jesuslizard

W👀W ☠️ Megadeth tapped MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW coauthor Brian Lew for an essay and raided his and Harald Oimoen's photos from the book for this bodacious new sculptural KILLING IS MY BUSINESS box set 🗡

#megadeth #killingismybusiness #mustaine #davemustaine #daveellefson #chrispoland #garsamuelson

Let the rhythm hit 'em! 🥁💥 Bill Stevenson + Chuck Dukowski of Black Flag holding it down at FBI HQ, July 4, 1983... 🏴 Preorder MY WAR ON WILSHIRE by Michael Pearson:

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#blackflag #mywar #billstevenson #chuckdukowski #slipitin #gregginn #henryrollins

Do you reek of putrefaction? 🧟‍♀️ Crimped & cauterized, Jeff Walker + Michael Amott of CARCASS star in CHOOSING DEATH: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore, by Decibel mag editor Albert Mudrian 🫀

#carcass #jeffwalker #michaelammott #billsteer #earacherecords #deathmetal #grindcore

Hey Japan! ⚡🎌👺 Bruce Pavitt has landed to talk independent music, DJ & sign books:

🗼 TOKYO Thurs Mar 26, Nonlecture Shibuya w/Mino-San (thx @presspop !)

🗼 KYOTO Sun Mar 29, DJ Set Wax Works, Ace Hotel Kyoto

#brucepavitt #subpop #subpoprecords #nirvana #soundgarden #mudhoney #tad #greenriver

Now we have GARY HOLT books to go along w/his writing + 100+ early Exodus/Slayer photos in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW 🩸 Read & Bleed!

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#garyholt #exodusband #slayerband #slayer #bondedbyblood #repentless #hellawaits #slayteam #thrash #thrashmetal

Stand back!

Brian "No" Posehn will open MURDER to show you a dozen Exodus photos, then use the book to crush you like a mosquito if you show up at a Titannica gig wearing a satin Warrant sash ⚡

#brianposehn #noposers #bondedbyblood #titannica #satinjacket #thrashmetal #thrash #murderinthefrontrow

Dogs of Texas Punk! 🐕🐾 Here's the Butthole Surfers' soulful dog Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad—how many hallucinatory nights did Gibby, Paul, Jeff, Teresa, and King spend staring into this soulful face?

🌵 www.bazillionpoints.com/texas

#buttholesurfers #gibbyhaynes #markfarner #punkdog

NEW BOOK ! ⚡🏴🏴🏴🏴🧨 Celebrate July 4th this year with MY WAR ON WILSHIRE: Black Flag vs. the Federal Building...and the Vex, color photos of punk fireworks by Michael Pearson. Preorder for June delivery:

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#blackflag #chuckdukowski #billstevenson #gregginn #henryrollins

Last night in 1985, Metallica RTL tour zaps the Kabuki Theater, SF 👺 Same venue where Metallica first met Slayer (see the book), and the MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW movie premiered decades later.... fotos Harald Oimoen, from:

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#metallica #ridethelightning #thrashmetal

We join the free world in wishing speedy recovery to JELLO BIAFRA, free-speech fanatic, frenetic frontman, & extraordinary hardcore punk impresario 🧠🍨💥 Dangerous brain alerts from the TOUCH AND GO, MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW, and WE GOT POWER! books ⚡

#jellobiafra #frankenchrist #deadkennedys

MASTER of PUPPETS turns 40 today 👑 Relive the rise of Metallica w/over 100 photos 1982-1986 in MURDER in the FRONT ROW 💥 40% OFF this week + ltd. hella cool index insert 🧨🧨🧨 www.murderinthefrontrow.com

#masterofpuppets #ridethelightning #nolifetilleather #metallica1985 #thrashmetal #thrash

Talking 40 yrs of MASTER OF PUPPETS on SiriusXM 📡 "Metallica cracked open the steel ceiling and revealed the true force of underground music and everything that came with it. No costumes, no hairspray, no MTV period. This was the right record at the right moment."👹 Read SOUND of the BEAST 👹

SEPULTURA's Schizophrenia, the 1st Brazilian metal LP to crack the U.S. 🗡️ Uncover 1987's explosion of intense Brazilian bands in UNITED FORCES: An Archive of Brazil’s Raw Metal Attack, by Marcel R. Batista 🌴

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Obrigado @__wulls__ !

#sepultura #sepulturaschizophrenia

Manowar tattoo alert! ❌ Ken Salerno's shot of CIV crowdsurfing at a Bold show is the cover of the STRAIGHT EDGE book by Tony Rettman, w/foreword by CIV... hiding a Sign of the Hammer easter egg in plain sight 🔨

#civ #straightedge #bold #sxe #gorillabiscuits #youthoftoday #minorthreat #uniformchoice

THE FIX / NECROS 7" release party 1981 was worth a buck, those two records cost thousands today 👊 Scour the rise of hardcore punk, blow by blow, in TOUCH AND GO: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79--83, by Tesco Vee + DS:

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#thefix #necros #touchandgo

Farewell to Ozzy 🦇 We are blessed with hardcover copies of LAST RITES, O.O.'s posthumous soul-searching memoir of his final years. Yours at 56.66% off the cover price—we love you all:

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#ozzyosbourne #ozzy #blacksabbath #heavymetal #ripozzy

"Love the broken smile, one of a kind" 🦷 Mark Evans's DIRTY DEEDS: My Life Inside/Outside of AC/DC is the only book by a member of 1970s AC/DC 🦂 Remembering Bon Scott today 🌹

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#bonscott #acdc #markevans #philrudd #angusyoung #malcolmyoung #dirtydeeds

Today in 1984, MEGADETH's first show ☢ Brian Lew was there from soundcheck on, see the vitriol, grenades, and mercenary guitarist Kerry King in the MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW book, now includes a signed index insert⚡

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#davemustaine #megadeath #killingismybusiness

Feb 10 is forever Cliff Burton Day ⚡ The major rager turned 21 in 1983, and weeks later played his first show w/METALLICA. Brian Lew shot this at the Stone SF that night: www.murderinthefrontrow.com

#cliffburton #cliffburtonrules #metallica #killemall #ridethelightning #thrashmetal

Today in 1970, ye olde record shoppes received delivery by mule wagon of heavy boxes labeled: "BLACK SABBATH LPVertigo 847903 Keep sealed until 13 Feb....." 🐀🐀🐀

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#blacksabbath #tonyiommi #ozzyosbourne #feb13 #heavymetal #hm #ukhm #heavyrock #geezerbutler #billward