TheBlast.FM Founder Recovering From Stroke Colin “Cruz” Strombeck suffered a stroke on Tuesday October 13, 2026. His speech has been affected as well as his right arm and hand. He is improving in the hospital and will soon be moved to rehab center for up to 12 weeks of speech, occupational and physical therapy. We […]
Everything on the internet always works perfectly right? Ha ha ha ha ha. Like right now. Our 128 kbps and 64 kbps streams, hosted in San Diego are down. A tech support request is awaiting help. BUT…our 48 kbps stream is UP, as it is hosted in New York. So Blast away on the […]
TheBlast.FM stations are migrating to new streaming addresses. The new addresses are on our websites, in the HTML5 players, and in the apps. They were added just ahead of Midnight USA/Canada Central Time last night. As of this writing, about 40% of our current-listening audience is on the old stream addresses. You may need to […]
Barren Cross is “definitely” going to record new music. That’s the word from from bass player Jim LaVerde, second from left, in this photo of the band, all together. When The Blastozoic Era program director Colin “Cruz” Strombeck spotted this photo on LaVerde’s Facebook page last night, he was the first to ask, “Is there going […]
For those of you Blasting on older Roku devices, you may have noticed that TheBlast.FM app is no longer supported on those units. Roku has updated some of its standards, which makes TheBlast.FM app no longer usable on those old Roku units. Our Roku app developer says There is no way to make the […]
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 […]
