The 80’s Christian metal/hard rock juggernauts Bloodgood announced this morning that they are writing a new album! Les Carlsen, Michael Bloodgood, David Zaffiro and Paul Jackson are writing the album on Zoom from four different states.
The last time they put out a studio album was 2013 (Dangerously Close).
The Blastozoic Era recently added their song The Word, the bonus cut from the 2021 reissue of that album.
Colin Cruz, host of The Blastozoic Era, recently interviewed Michael Drive (aka Mike Lee) of the bands Gale Force and M24, and of course he is most well known as the lead singer of top 80’s Christian metal band Barren Cross.
The first few segments of the interview air on Tuesday September 21, 2021 in the 3 pm hour, USA/Canada Central Time, and focus on the band Barren Cross. More segments will air on this weekly show over the next few weeks.
The show is rebroadcast on Saturday nights on Sunny Radio, 93.3 FM and 1520 AM Sioux Falls and on http://www.SunnyRadio.com at 6 pm (USA/Canada Central Time).
A car accident near the San Diego data center where our main streams are hosted caused a block-wide power outage, knocking our main streams off the air.
Use this stream address in Winamp or VLC Media Player to get Blasted in the meantime:
This stream is now in our Android, iOS, and Roku apps in the third position, notated as 128k!!!
So the others may have dead air, but this is hosted on the other side of the USA and has live streaming audio.
Miss Angie is back!
By Colin Cruz
Miss Angie hit the scene as a teenage rocker on Myrrh Records in 1997, with the smash rock hits Lift My Eyes Up, Satisfied, and Hands. I loved playing those songs on my weekly FM Christian rock show back then. The title track from her debut disc, pictured above, 100 Million Eyeballs, was released to Christian CHR/Top 40 radio at the same time as the debut rock single Lift My Eyes Up, and of course, 100 Million Eyeballs was way too cool for most Christian CHR stations, but I was happy to be able to play it on a Christian Hot CHR station that used to exist in Albuquerque when I was there in 1998-2001.
In 1999, her sophomore disc Triumphantine came out, featuring the rock hit I Love Light.
In 2011, under the radar, she dropped an album called Time And Space.
And now in 2021, she releases her new EP called Desert Flags. The Blastozoic Era has added the song Joy Rider to The Middle Blastozoic Era show playlist.
I think most Stryper fans know deep in their hearts that despite some solid recent albums, Stryper will never be able to top their 1986 album To Hell With The Devil. But they will soon release an album that may very well be their best album since… To Hell With The Devil.
The band recently recorded the whole album all over again at Spirithouse Studios in Massachussets.
Rights and use issues surround some of their earlier works and this will certainly give the band some more freedoms and probably open up some more income streams from airplay and other usage of the new versions of the songs.
~Colin Cruz, The Blastozoic Era Program Director
