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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Is your week off to a start like Chuck Billy freaking on MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW on the USS Hornet aircraft carrier? 👑 🗡 You'll need the book w/signed index to get there: www.murderinthefrontrow.com #chuckbilly #testament #legacy #thrashmetal #exodus #thrash #bayareathrashmetal

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Today in 1983: Metallica's KILL 'EM ALL banged those heads that did not bang 🔨 Scan the scene w/scores of vivid 1983 live shots in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW⚡️ THRASH YOUR EYES 📖 www.murderinthefrontrow.com #metallica1983 #killemall #megaforce #hitthelights #fourhorsemen #jumpinthefire #phantomlord

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hardcore punk as it happened, by Tesco Vee + DS 🐬 TOUCH AND GO reviewed Flipper and D.C. kids Teen Idles: "I've gathered this band now has members in Minor Threat... In case you hadn't noticed, this band just put this year's best single." 🧱 #touchandgo #tescovee #flipper #teenidles #minorthreat

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

EXCITER's Dan Beehler sez: LONG LIVE THE LOUD!!! 🗡️ Catch the violence, force, and sleaze of MIDNIGHT in Hannah Verbeuren's MIDNIGHT photo book... heavy metal maniacs ring the bell! 🔔 Now w/FREE 7" pic disc: www.bazillionpoints.com/midnight 📷 @hannahvphotography

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Thrash fun this week in 1984: James Hetfield at Metallica's incognito Mabuhay Gardens club show as "The Four Horsemen" foto: Harald Oimoen: "This show was the worst-kept secret imaginable." 🐎🐎🐎🐎 SEE MORE: www.murderinthefrontrow.com 🔨⚡ #jameshetfield #earlymetallica #killemall #ridethelightning

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Death-luxe editions! ☠️📚 A deathtime of underground sounds, buy them apart or both in the hefty DEATH & DEATH set and save yer time and money 🗡 #DeathMetal #swedishdeathmetal #floridadeathmetal #dutchdeathmetal #nydeathmetal #germandeathmetal #polishdeathmetal #grindcore #swedishmetal #swedenmetal

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Martin Eric Ain, aka Slayed Necros, born on this day in 1967 🪦 Rest in Pandemonium 🌪️ We are currently reprinting ONLY DEATH IS REAL —the emperors shall return 👑 foto Martin Kyburz #martinain #martinericain #slayednecros #celticfrost #hellhammer #intocryptofrays #morbidtales #apocalypticraids

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

For #metalpunk bookmakers like us, Sabbath X Stooges Day is a jam! 🌪🗡 HBD June 17 to Geezer Butler (1949) + Ron Asheton R.I.P. (1948) ⛑ Photos both 1970, alright? #geezer #geezerbutler @Geezer Butler #ronasheton #thestooges #stooges #rawpower #paranoid #warpigs #iggy #heavymetal #metalpunk

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Thrash brick-olage by Dismembered Dave ☠️ Grab this essential metal time capsule with a ltd. bonus index card signed by the authors —BYOD: bring yer own demos! 🍕 www.murderinthefrontrow.com 🍕 #murderinthefrontrow #pleasuresoftheflesh #creepingdeath #ridethelightning #killemall #killasone

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Happy bday week to all-star slugger / NPR Tiny Desk smasher Mark “Barney Rubble” Greenway of NAPALM DEATH. From CHOOSING DEATH: “[when Mick Harris asked me to join Napalm Death], I was so excited I crashed my BMX into a post box.” Klassick! ⚾️ #barneygreenway #napalmdeath

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

DESASTER, TORMENTA, DELINQUENTES, SEPULCHRAL VOICE exploding w/ Brazilian metal spirit in the incredible 528pp hardcover UNITED FORCES by Marcelo R. Batista 🌴👹 bazillionpoints.com/brazil%E2%9A...

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Sonic Youth + Green River fry Seattle today in 1986 🌀 Bruce Pavitt's SUB POP USA is a treasure trove of 1980s indie metal, punk, pop, rap, rock & out sounds 🚀 #subpop #subpopusa #greenriver #sonicyouth #mudhoney #pearljam #skinyard #motherlovebone

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Daniel Ekeroth | Swedish Death Metal + Ian Christe | Sound of the Beast + Albert Mudrian | Choosing Death running wild tonight in 2008 at the first AT THE GATES shows in ten years. Irving Plaza, NYC. Read or rot! 📚 📖🖋

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

BLACK FLAG cleaned up for the trades this month in 1983 🛁 By the time this hit the stands, Chuck Dukowski was gone 🌪 Catch this lineup in action TWICE and preorder MY WAR ON WILSHIRE... Black Flag, July 1983 www.bazillionpoints.com/mywar #blackflag #mywar #henryrollins #gregginn #billstevenson

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

First-ever interview w/Mike Muir's @s@suicidaltendencies was in WE GOT POWER! zine in 1982, a year before the debut LP 💀 Full zine reprints in the WGP! book 📖 L.A. hardcore punk and more, as it happened.... read & believe 🌴 #mikemuir #cyco #blackflag #circlejerks #vandals

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

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: www.bazillionpoints.com/mywar #blackflag #mywar #henryrollins #gregginn #chuckdukowski

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The Spirit of 1976 🇺🇸👹😺⭐👽 After the fireworks tonight, check our stash of KISS photo books + other declarations of musical independence ⚡ www.bazillionpoints.com/kiss/ #kiss #kiss1976 #kissband #paulstanley #petercriss #genesimmons #acefrehley #hardrock #kissmeetsthephantom #destroyer #kissdolls

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

When he's done with Angus, 1970s-years AC/DC bassist Mark Evans will chew your ear off w/ his raucous memoir DIRTY DEEDS: My Life Inside⚡Outside AC/DC 🍎 We also have Brian Johnson's book, get 'em both—the ABCs of AC/DC! #ACDC #dirtydeeds #highvoltage #tnt #jailbreak #letthereberock #riffraff

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Before America 250, you have to get thru Return of the Living Dead 42!! 🧟‍♀️☣🧟‍♂️ One of 800+ rippers in Mike McPadden's massive HEAVY METAL MOVIES book ⛓👙 #heavymetalmovies #mcbeardo #returnofthelivingdead #sendmoreparamedics #thor #conan #madmax #texaschainsawmassacre #krull #labyrinth #dragonslayer

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

100 degrees in a hood and black leather 🗡 Suit up for summer sweats w/MIDNIGHT by Hannah Verbeuren & the bonus "Goat Trap" pic disc 🎨 merci Bob Jr Girard ! #midnight #athenar #hannahverbeuren #goattrap #metalphotography #bulletbelt #heavymetal #metal #blackmetal #metalpunk #metalvinyl

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Razorcake @razorcake.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Books Are Heavy: A Conversation with Ian Christe about Bazillion Points by Daniel Makagon razorcake.org/books-are-he...

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Beast at the Beach, today in 1975 vs. 2026 🦈🏄🏽👹 R.I.P. Alex M. Kintner.—long live Heavy Metal ⚡ Take our books to the shore, the mountains, or your backyard! #sharkattack #amityisland #sharkweek #whenanimalsattack #greatwhiteshark #jaws #heavymetalmovies #soundofthebeast

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Pat Blashill: "I wanted to make sure that people understood that punk didn’t come out of nowhere in Texas..." 🌪 www.bazillionpoints.com/texas #texasisthereason #hardcorepunk #bazillionpoints #patblashill #theoffenders #scratchacid #buttholesurfers #richardlinklater

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

XX-pressway to yr skvll! 💀 Archive visit to Brooklyn by Ian MacKaye + Thurston Moore, wielding his copy of Swedish Death Metal. Photo: David Shankbone ϯ #ianmackaye #youthagainstfacism #teenidles #dischordrecords #minorthreat #thurstonmoore #sonicyouth #ecstaticpeace #swedishdeathmetal

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Glenn Danzig gives Brian Lew's thrash crucible MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW two sharply filed talons up ⚡🦇🗡 Heavy reading for the ghoul who has everything: www.murderinthefrontrow.com 🧨 #glenndanzig #danzig #samhain #misfits #themisfits #ghoulsnightout #teenagersfrommars #fiendclub

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Three years ago, TEXAS IS THE REASON in the paper for a horrible reason as contributor Teresa Taylor passed away at 60 🍑🏄🏿‍♀️ Check her playlist in the book & on our youtube chanel.... R.I.P. to a wild Surfer 💐 #teresataylor #buttholesurfers #slacker #texaspunk #austin #patblashill

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

IRON CROSS and PUSHEAD interviews on p443 of the massive TOUCH AND GO book. Pushead: "Sometimes you can't openly voice an opinion or idea without some wide mouth telling you you don't know what you're talking about.💡 #touchandgo #hardcorepunk #punkhistory #pushead #ironcross #minorthreat #blackflag

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Fun "big label" 12" record alert! Got one? ♠ Ride along w/ way more details on Motörhead / Girlschool relations in Michael Hann's DENIM AND LEATHER: www.bazillionpoints.com/nwobhm #motorhead #aceofspades #girlschool #nwobhm #saxon #bomber #hitandrun #defleppard #ironmaiden #heavymetal

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The cult is alive! ⭐ RUSH over and snatch Geddy Lee's hefty autobiography from us, there's more to his story than you can imagine.... 💫 #rush #rush2112 #2112 #canadianrock #geddylee #alexlifeson #neilpeart

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ianchriste.bsky.social @ianchriste.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

"Keep the metal going over there!!!"—Evil Chuck letter to Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen in 1984, three yrs before Mayhem's Deathcrush put Norway on the death metal map 🌑 Sign up on our site for upcoming METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries reprint info 📕 #evilchuck #chuckschuldiner #mantas #deathband

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Do you know what to do for deathly dads? 👹 Make your own Father's Day w/a Bazillion Points wishlist, or get a WOW with the DEATH & DEATH set, almost 1,000 pages of chainsaws & cult charm 💀 #swedishdeathmetal #choosingdeath #morbidangel #entombed #deicide #atthegates #deathband #deathmetal

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Have an evil 6-6-26 —S-L-A-Y-E-R commands it! 👹 Tom Araya, Dave Lombardo, Jeff Hanneman, Kerry King shots from 1985 in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW 🗡 #slayer #slayerband #hellawaits #hauntingthechapel #reigninblood #shownomercy #666 #tomaraya #jeffhanneman #kerryking #davelombardo #murderinthefrontrow

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Happy candles day to Lee Dorrian 🎂 He made metal way faster w/Napalm Death, way slower w/Cathedral, way better w/ Rise Above Recs, then helped make the book CHOOSING DEATH by Albert Mudrian possible ⚡ Time to crank Granicus! #leedorrian #napalmdeath #cathedral #doom

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Harald Oimoen (age 23) intros SLAYER in Berkeley, 1984, between shooting rolls of film now preserved in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW 👹 Harlots of hell, spread the pages of his ungodly thrash metal origin story 👁️ www.murderinthefrontrow.com 📷 Joel Wing #murderinthefrontrow #slayer #thrashmetal

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

SLAYER's Kerry King reflects on Harald Oimoen snapping his photo in 1984! 😎 MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW is stuffed with micro details, break out yr magnifying glass and dive beyond ultra-high def into the Bay Area thrash metal wormhole 🕵️ 👺 www.murderinthefrontrow.com #kerryking #shownomercy

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Kiss books 55% OFF while they last ⭐👹🐱🛸 Since Gene & Peter hailed from our part of Brooklyn, we're giving this local band a shot w/ KISS AT 50 💋 💋 bazillionpoints.com/kiss #kissband #kissarmy #genesimmons #paulstanley #acefrehley #petercriss #vinnievincent #destroyer #kissphotos

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Kiss books 55% OFF are the best! ⭐👹🐱🛸 KISS AT 50 is 192 oversize hardcover pages of glitz, blood, fire, sparks, Ace, killer shots, memorabilia, records commentary, and Vinnie Vincent! 💋 Pile up on sale Judas Priest, AC/DC, Sabbath books b4 Father's Day: bazillionpoints.com/kiss #kissband #kissarmy

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KISS at 50: Deluxe Color Hardcover

Not Our Book!: This is a deluxe Motorbooks hardcover collection of excellent Kiss photos and memorabilia we are offering in limited quantities at deep discount with an overstock mark of the demon on…

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Gary Holt - EXODUS: “When one of the clubs you started this out at reopens, you play there. You return to the scene of past crimes. You once again darken their doorstep and crush everything and everyone to the ground. The Mabuhay Gardens. OUR Mab.” www.murderinthefrontrow.com #thrashmetal

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

MURDER is not a Big 4 of thrash metal photo book... it's much more 4️⃣➕ Neil Turbin + Dan Spitz of ANTHRAX, first SF show, July 1984 📸 for the kids by Harald Oimoen from... 💥 www.murderinthefrontrow.com 💥 #anthrax #fistfulofmetal #neilturbin #danspitz #overkill #thrashmetal #big4 #bayareathrash

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Current mood: Rollins + Dukowski, simmering before BLACK FLAG rages on July 4, 1983 🌚 Join our waiting party & preorder MY WAR ON WILSHIRE, by Michael Pearson, Black Flag's desperate assault on FBI HQ & The Vex 🗡 www.bazillionpoints.com/mywar #blackflag #hardcorepunk #mywar

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Mark Adams (R.I.P.) / SAINT VITUS & Chuck Dukowski / BLACK FLAG this century, lots of shots of both bass legends in our upcoming MY WAR ON WILSHIRE...PLUS pics of Jordan Schwartz / WE GOT POWER! who took this shot, Greg Ginn in a DIFF Grateful Dead tee 💀🥀 www.bazillionpoints.com/mywar

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This week in '79, the dam began to burst as Geoff Barton named the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in the pages of SOUNDS ⚒️ Pick up DENIM AND LEATHER by Michael Hann: 🗡️ bazillionpoints.com/NWOBHM #ironmaiden #dennisstratton #pauldianno #invaders #phantomoftheopera #killers #neatrecords

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Eye of Mysterioso @mysteriphoto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert

Kaleidoscopic image of Frank Herbert’s Dune

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

SOUND OF THE BEAST Croatia! 🇭🇷👹👄 The publisher bundled the book w/T-shirts of this lurid cover design and sold them in supermarkets— they were all gone in hours. 🛒 #soundofthebeast #heavymetal #thrashmetal #powermetal #speedmetal #doommetal #blackmetal #deathmetal #grindcore #ianchriste

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Shining star alert! 🎥 Nora Louise Kuzma—Traci Lords—sticks her thumb in HEAVY METAL MOVIES, marking her Princess of Mars and Shock 'Em Dead entries. 💫 #tracilords #noralouise #shockemdead #blade #lasermoon #crybaby #fullblast #fastfood #devilmaycall #sharkansas #johnwaters #leestrasberg #moviestar

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Cleveland spawn Hannah Verbeuren & Athenar struttin' like satanic royalty to promote MIDNIGHT: A Thousand Nights in Sodom 🔔🌚⚔ Elevation of desecration! Hardcovers w/bonus pic disc available only from us. 📸 Gabriel Connor #midnightband #satanicroyalty #blackrocknroll #athenar #hannahverbeuren

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Athenar + MIDNIGHT photo book author Hannah Verbeuren 🔔 Hannah: "I vividly recall the first time I saw Midnight live, I felt lucky they were from my Cleveland home turf. But where else could they have spawned?" 🌑 📷 @dirkverbeuren - thx! #midnight #midnightviolators #hannahverbeuren

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bazillionpoints.bsky.social @bazillionpoints.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Fiend power! 🦇⚡️🧛‍♂️ Jerry Only of the Misfits, from MISERY OBSCURA: The Photography of Eerie Von, available from us with a BONUS signed lobby card 🎟 #miseryobscura #eerievon #themisfits #samhain #danzig #glenndanzig #jerryonly #horrorpunk #hardcorepunk #earthad #walkamongus #lodinj #punkphotography

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