The Blastozoic Era is doing an all 80’s weekend (Saturday through Monday) in honor of the Immortal Rock Festival which is happening at the same time in Ohio. See the separate story for that here: https://www.theblast.fm/home/2022/07/17/theblast-fm-co-sponsors-immortal-christian-rock-festival/
Christian metal and hard rock legends are playing at the first annual Immortal Christian Rock Festival in Ohio in September: Barren Cross, Whitecross, (Classic) Petra (which means Greg X. Volz as lead singer), Daniel Band, Saint, Les Carlsen of Bloodgood and Fear Not all rock the house! Get tickets and more information here: https://www.bmieventcenter.com/christian-rock-festival/#ARTIST
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 […]
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 […]
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: http://208.85.240.85:80/128 This stream is now in our Android, iOS, and Roku apps […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Blastozoic Era goes all Christmas today for 2 hours, from 3 to 5 pm USA/Canadian Central Time.
Book Review: What Are You Known For? (Building Your Legacy One Brick At A Time) by Rick Cua By Colin “Cruz” Strombeck Fans of 1980’s Christian rock remember Rick Cua as the man who sang “Wear Your Colors”, which in my opinion, is one of the top 10 Christian rock songs of that decade. […]
Angie Turner Darr, aka “Miss Angie”… put out two albums on Myrrh Records (that we Blast several songs from on The Middle Blastozoic Era) in her teenage years back in the late 1990’s. And now she is recording another album. The producer is none other than Gabriel Wilson, lead singer of Rock n Roll Worship […]
