Mellodrama: The Mellotron Music, Soundtrack CD
The creative forces behind Mellodrama: The Mellotron Movie have united again and produced a sweet soundtrack CD featuring songs based on Mellotron, Chamberlin, and Optigan organs. The sweepy, sleepy...
View ArticleThe Mellotron’s Homespun Stepchild: The Birotron
As explained in Mellodrama: The Mellotron Movie, during the peak period of Mellotron mania in the early 1970s, a slew of creative musicians and entrepreneurs took it upon themselves to build their own...
View ArticleSat 6/28 + Sun 6/29, Brooklyn: Bazillion Points Selling Books at St. Vitus...
Hey, New York City, the battle tank of doom has arrived! During next weekend’s Martyrdoom III Festival, June 28 and June 29, Bazillion Points will set up shop at the Metal Flea Market at St Vitus Bar...
View ArticleSummer Scratch & Dent Special: 48-Hour SALE on Bazillion Points Books Display...
Bazillion Points has consolidated warehouses, and in the process we discovered several boxes of bookstore display copies. These are essentially unread, excellent condition books with slight marks on...
View ArticleMELLODRAMA: Electro-Harmonix Announces Mellotron Guitar Pedal
Always surprising and inspiring effects peddlers Electro-Harmonix have just announced the release of the M9 Tape Replay Machine effects pedal, “a dedicated Mellotron-inspired pedal, reproducing all the...
View ArticleHEAVY METAL MOVIES / MELLOTRONS: Maestro Fabio Frizzi Performs Zombie Film...
Italian horror film composer extraordinaire Fabio Frizzi and his seven-member Frizzi 2 Fulci band will soon be performing “Zombie Apocalypse” hits from his soundtracks to Zombie (1979), City of the...
View ArticleBloody Roots of Analog Synths in Metal on Sirius XM
BLOODY ROOTS OF ANALOG SYNTHS IN METAL Week of August 27, 2016 Sat 8/27, 6PM ET Sun 8/28, 1PM ET Mon 8/29, 9AM ET Tues 8/30, 4PM ET Thurs 9/1, 9PM ET This week no stiff digital synthesizers shall be...
View ArticleMEAN DEVIATION: ProgPower USA Poised to Wash, Rinse, and Blow Minds
Rabid readers of MEAN DEVIATION: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal rejoice! ProgPower USA XVII rests fully amped and aimed high at the outer regions of consciousness in anticipation of the...
View ArticleMean Deviation: Opeth’s Boffo Billboard Feature, Beers, and Big Tour
All the way back in 2006, Swedish Death Metal author Daniel Ekeroth author wrote about Opeth: “Their commercial and critical success has been beyond imagination.” A decade hence, with their twelfth...
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