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Independence Day! 📷📷📷📷 Black Flag bringing their war to FBI HQ in 1983, the founding fathers of hardcore punk fighting reality...or anything else! 📷 The spirit of '83 burns on in MY WAR ON WILSHIRE: bazillionpoints.com/mywar #blackflag #mywar #henryrollins #gregginn

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

Stargazers! Happy Halloween 1976 ⚡🦇🔮 Where is your star? Is it far? #ronniejamesdio #rogerglover #ritchieblackmore #stargazer #dio

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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 🗡

"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

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, Roseana Auten. A couple of Austin punks put this show together by posing as a campus org. Fun!"

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?

HEAVY METAL MOVIES season is here, so summon a copy of HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Guitar Barbarians, Mutant Bimbos & Cult Zombies Amok in the 666 Most Ear- and Eye-Ripping Big-Scream Films Ever!, by Mike "McBeardo" McPadden 🎬 Feast your eyes on Trick or Treat (1986) 🃏🍬👺

The Misfits, cave creeper photos, August 1981 by Eerie Von from his book MISERY OBSCURA 💀 Eerie: "Why did Googy wear white pants? Why did I let him sit in front? What a rookie mistake! I was sixteen, what did I know? Oh yeah—I got some good ones... 🕷 #miseryobscura #eerievon

How to hold I'M NOT HOLDING YOUR COAT by Nancy Barile 🧞‍♂️ Thanx again @terminalgagger ! "Absolutely killer book...really enjoyed reading this. A very well-written, honest and exciting account of the pioneering days of Hardcore Punk in Philadelphia / the East Coast" #hardcorepunk

Author photo for a creature who writes like he looks ♠️ Even the "Entombed cross" isn't big enough to hold all the demo tapes and bands chronicled in SWEDISH DEATH METAL by Daniel Ekeroth 🗿🔥🇸🇪 💀 swedishdeathmetal.com 💀 #entombed #merciless #dismember #grave #corpse

Paul Di'Anno and IRON MAIDEN, Gramercy Park NYC, first U.S. visit, July 1981 👧🏼 foto: George Bodnar, from DENIM AND LEATHER: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, by Michael Hann ⛓️🚕 Preserving these moments is our mission 💥 #ironmaiden #pauldianno

In memory of Martin Eric Ain, 18 July 1967 - 21 October 2017 🥀 Tom Gabriel Fischer: "Martin was truly unique character; all of us here know this." Photo: Martin Eric Ain in the Altbach creek in Birchwil, Switzerland. Photographed by Martin Kyburz, July 1984. #MartinEricAin

"Goat Trap" & chill... 🎁👹 MIDNIGHT photo book / record sets shipping for story time before tour... 🔔 bazillionpoints.com/midnight 🔔 #midnight #athenar #goattrap #speedanddarkness #acefrehley #venom #bathory #girlschool #heavymetal #metal #blackmetal #rocknroll #punkmetal