This episode contains the second part of an interview I conducted with former Helloween lead singer Michael Kiske, sorry for the delay. As mentioned during a previous post, he just recently put out an album with Amanda Somerville called Kiske Somerville, and is currently working on an album with the band Unisonic. You’ve read a lot of things our there regarding his thoughts on metal music, well if you’re a fan, you need to listen to both interviews to see what he really things of metal, his fans, his future with Unisonic, and his former band mates, etc.

During the episode you’ll hear tracks off of the album with Amanda Somerville, and a bunch of classic Helloween that features Michael on lead vocals.

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There where 200 metal, hard rock, punk or hardcore albums where voted on, there were well over 300 voted on, but that’s where we cut the list off. We’ll wrap things up this Thursday on Mars Attacks Radio with a countdown of the top 30 albums selected by you the listeners. A podcast version of the show will follow on Friday.

Without further ado here are the 100 to 200 most voted metal albums:

100 Killing Joke – Absolute Dissent
101 East Of The Wall – Ressentiment
102 Howl – Full Of Hell
103 Negura Bunget – Virstele Pamintului
104 Scorpions – Sting In The Tail
105 Animal As Leaders – Wave Of Babies
106 Danzig – Deth Red Sabaoth
107 Disturbed – Asylum
108 Ozzy Osbourne – Scream
109 Darkthrone – The Guessing Game
110 Mantric – The Descent
111 Sabbath Assembly – Restored To One
112 Spiritual Beggars – Return To Zero
113 Ufomammut – Eve
114 1349 – Demonoir
115 Firewind – Days Of Defiance
116 Star One – Victims Of The Modern Age
117 Envy – Recitation
118 Baptized In Blood – Baptized In Blood
119 Coffinworm – When All Became None
120 Defeated Sanity – Chapters Of Repugnance
121 Harvey Milk A Small – Turn Of Human Kindness
122 Kill The Client – Set For Extinction
123 Soulfly – Omen
124 Coheed And Cambria – Year Of The Black Rainbow
125 Hail The Villain – Population Declining
126 Immortal – All Shall Fall
127 Terror – Keepers Of The Faith
128 Unleashed – As Yggdrasil Trembles
129 Danko Jones – Below The Bealt
130 Helmet – Seeing Eye Dog
131 Slough Feg – The Animal Spirits
132 Boris & Ian Astbury – BXI
133 Halford – Made Of Metal
134 Korn – III
135 Thou – Summit
136 Unearthly Trance – V
137 Knut – Wonder
138 Airbourne – No Guts, No Glory
139 Aeon – Path Of Frie
140 All That Remains – For We Are Many
141 Fintroll – Nifelvind
142 Heaven Shall Burn – Invictus
143 Karnivool – Sound Awake
144 Woe – Quietly Undramatically
145 Avantasia – The Wicked Symphony
146 Dommin – Love Is Gone
147 Sister Sin – Ture Sound Of The Underground
148 Charred Walls Of The Damned – Charred Walls Of The Damned
149 Joe Satriani – Black Swans And Wormhole Wizards
150 The Birthday Massacre – Pins And Needles
151 Bad Religion – The Dissent Of Men
152 Barren Earth – Curse Of The Red River
153 Dawnbringer – Nucleus
154 Magrudergrind – Crusher
155 Pendulum – Immersion
156 Salem – King Night
157 Celeste – Morte(s) Nee(s)
158 Gamma Ray – To The Metal
159 Priestess – Prior To The Fire
160 Protest The Hero – Fortress
161 Stargazer – A Great Workd Of Ages
162 Withered – Dualitas
163 Disprirt – Rehearsal At Oboroten
164 Satanic Warmaster – Nachzehrer
165 Castevet – Mounds Of Ash
166 Drudkh – Handful Of Stars
167 God Dethroned – Under The Sign Of The Iron Cross
168 Apocalyptica – 7th Symphony
169 Constants – If Tomorrow The War
170 Demiurg – Signed By Evil
171 Karma To Burn – Appalachian Incantation
172 Monster Magnet – Mastermind
173 Power Glove – Saturday Morning Apocalypse
174 Rock Bottom – Born To Hate
175 Suicidal Tendencies – No Mercey Fool! The Suicidal Family
176 Cradle Of Filth – Darkly, Darkly Venus Aversa
177 Mutiny Within – Mutiny Within
178 Paul Gilbert – Fuzz Universe
179 Spock’s Beard – SBX
180 Trash Talk – Eyes & Nines
181 Weapon – From The Devil’s Tomb
182 36 Crazy Fists – Collisions And Castaways
183 A Day To Remember – What Separates Me From You
184 Circa Survive – Blue Sky Noise
185 Enforcer – Diamonds
186 Far – At Night We Live
187 Kamelot – Poetry For The Poisoned
188 The Vision Bleak – Set Sail To Mystery
189 Volbeat – Beyond Hell Above Heaven
190 Bloody Sign – Chaos Echoes
191 Gypsyhawk – Patience And Perseverance
192 Hardcore Superstar – Split Your Lip
193 Jorn – Dio
194 More Than A Thousand – Volume IV: Make Friends And Enemies
195 Philm – Amoniac
196 Seventh Wonder – The Great Escape
197 The Creepshow – They All Fall Down
198 The Grotesquery – Tales Of The Coffin Born
199 The Left Rights – Bad Choices Made Easy
200 The Red Shore – The Avarice Of Man

This episode contains the first part of an interview I conducted with former Helloween lead singer Michael Kiske. He just recently put out an album with Amanda Somerville called Kiske Somerville, and I was lucky enough to interview him regarding the album, his past with Helloween, and his current band Unisonic. This is a must listen to interview if you are a fan of Helloween as he discusses how and why he was fired from the band, why he thinks the band was never able to recapture what they did on the original two Keeper of the Seven Keys albums, and why Ingo

We also touch on a plethora of other topics, just take a look at the tags to get a rough idea of what we discussed. Part 2 should be up next week.

During the episode you’ll hear tracks off of the album with Amanda Somerville, some of his solo work (including a track that features Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith and ex Helloween guitarist Kai Hansen), a Helloween track that was retooled for a solo acoustic album, and of course some classic Helloween that features Michael on lead vocals.

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This episode features an interview with Bruce Kulick. This episode can actually be considered the pilot for Ten, a show in which artists will pick ten songs that they feel define their legacy, or an episode can be based on a specific top, or in the case of this episode discuss a new album at great length. What we did with Bruce is discuss five tracks off of BK3 (sort of, more on this in a sec), and five classic Kiss tracks. I say sort of, because during the heat of the interview we only discussed four tracks off of BK3, but what I did was take a piece from the previous interview I did with him, and splice it into the episode. This way there are five tracks from BK3 discussed! I could give all types of excuses, but I dropped the ball. Oh well, I think the episode came out pretty good, regardless. Hope you the listeners feel the same!

Songs discussed are as follows:

Hand Of The King
Ain’t Gonna Die
I’m The Animal
Between The Lines
No Friend Of Mine
I Walk Alone
Tears Are Falling
Crazy Crazy Nights
Forever
Unholy

You’ll also hear Master & Slave and Dogs Of Morrison played in the background during the episode.

Items touched upon during the episode:

Grand Funk Railroad, Gene Simmons, Family Jewels, Nick Simmons, Eric Singer, Tobias Sammet, Brent Fritz, Union, Edguy, Avantasia, John Corabi, Steve Lukather, Kenny Aronoff, Steak House Studios, A&M Studios, Van Halen, Toby Wright, Paul Stanley, Animalize, Ron Nevison, Michael Bolton, Led Zepplin, Vinnie Vincent, Motown, Steve Vai, Jeremy Rubolino, Keith Moon, Queen, Pink Floyd, Adam Mitchell, Doug Fieger.

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This episode features an interview with Bruce Kulick. This episode can actually be considered the pilot for Ten, a show in which artists will pick ten songs that they feel define their legacy, or an episode can be based on a specific top, or in the case of this episode discuss a new album at great length. What we did with Bruce is discuss five tracks off of BK3 (sort of, more on this in a sec), and five classic Kiss tracks. I say sort of, because during the heat of the interview we only discussed four tracks off of BK3, but what I did was take a piece from the previous interview I did with him, and splice it into the episode. This way there are five tracks from BK3 discussed! I could give all types of excuses, but I dropped the ball. Oh well, I think the episode came out pretty good, regardless. Hope you the listeners feel the same!

Songs discussed are as follows:

Hand Of The King
Ain’t Gonna Die
I’m The Animal
Between The Lines
No Friend Of Mine
I Walk Alone
Tears Are Falling
Crazy Crazy Nights
Forever
Unholy

Items touched upon during the episode:

Grand Funk Railroad, Gene Simmons, Family Jewels, Nick Simmons, Eric Singer, Tobias Sammet, Brent Fritz, Union, Edguy, Avantasia, John Corabi, Steve Lukather, Kenny Aronoff, Steak House Studios, A&M Studios, Van Halen, Toby Wright, Paul Stanley, Animalize, Ron Nevison, Michael Bolton, Led Zepplin, Vinnie Vincent, Motown, Steve Vai, Jeremy Rubolino, Keith Moon, Queen, Pink Floyd, Adam Mitchell, Doug Fieger.

We also play King of the Mountain in the back ground, and wrap things up with Master & Slave off of Carnival of Souls.