Tag: Bazillion Points

Blasphemous Meals #3: Fish, Curry and Inebriated Protein

Last year, I received a wonderful gift from my parents – a cookbook that received rave reviews and coverage in various metal magazines, from a publishing company started by one of my favourite writers; Ian Christe’s Bazillion Points. Annick Giroux is a multi-talented metal chick, dividing her time between graphic design, DJing and cooking the…

May 17, 2011
Blasphemous Meals #2: Jailbreak Jambalaya and a Date With the Devil

“Hellbent for Cooking is a compilation of culinary classics of every culture from metal bands and artists around the world… I have decided to record my thoughts and experiences while cooking my way through Hellbent for Cooking, also providing my view on the bands that graciously donated their recipes.” Ola Mazzuca serves up some delicious…

March 18, 2011
STAFF PLAYLISTS: February 2011

Back by popular demand, here are the Staff Playlists for February 2011!

February 23, 2011
Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal by Jeff Wagner

Mean Deviation is an amazing compendium of everything weird in the world of metal—a book as grand and unlikely as the music it documents.

February 9, 2011
Introducing Blasphemous Meals: A heavy metal culinary lesson through Annick Giroux’s Hellbent For Cooking

“Hellbent for Cooking is a compilation of culinary classics of every culture from metal bands and artists around the world. It is a celebration of a simple yet exciting marriage between music and cuisine, where Giroux proves that the portrayal of metalheads being junkfood-lovers false. I have decided to record my thoughts and experiences while…

January 19, 2011
Book review – Only Death is Real: An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost 1981–1985

Like many pioneers, Hellhammer took their lumps from everyone, including its own members. They were hobbled by geography and underdeveloped talent, but they built a great mystique around themselves as they toiled to spread their malodorous gospel, only to be sent back to the drawing board after every recording session and demo release. This unlikely…

May 21, 2010
Bazillion Points: Publishing Paper On Metal

“I think quality and uniqueness are what makes books into big sellers. Reading books is a subversive and uncommercial action from the start. Books are the last bastion of quality and uniqueness in mass culture.” An interview with Ian Christe, founder and publisher of the Bazillion Points publishing company.

January 27, 2010