Episode 72 marks the return of Mitch LaFon to the show. You usually hear bands cover Kiss, but during this episode we discuss tracks that Kiss has covered throughout their career.

Please remember to contribute what you can to Mitch’s Kiss Tribute album, not only will you be receiving cool music in return, but you will be helping a great cause. You can find out more here.

The episode you’ll hear snippets of songs Kiss has covered over the years.

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The latest episode of Talking Metal is another joint release with Mars Attacks, and features yours truly along side Mark Strigl.

During the episode we discuss such topics as Symbolic, Mustasch, Mitch Lafon, Kiss, Black Sabbath and podcasting.

For more info on Mitch Lafon’s Kiss tribute album click here.

Help support TM by buying one of their T-shirts, I actually own two, the classic white with black trim, and the all black one which can be purchased from here.

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This episode features an exclusive interview with Mitch Lafon, regarding the pledge campaign he has started on Pledgemusic.com. This campaign was started in honor of his late father-in-law, who passed away a short time ago. It is Mitch’s way of giving back to the facility that took care of his father-in-law in his last days. At the same time, this campaign features some very well known artists paying tribute to Kiss, on the band’s 40th anniversary. To find out more about the campaign go here.

The episode features music from artists whose music is being featured in the campaign, such as Bumblefoot, L.A. Guns, Slaves On Dope, Kill Devil Hill, Killer Dwarfs, Union and Doro.

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For those keeping score Mars Attacks Podcast was asked to form part of the Cast Iron Ring a few months back. The various hosts of the shows associated to “The Ring” tend to talk quite a bit behind the scenes about each others show, guests etc. So when we started discussing things like the iPhone app, we started kicking around the idea of doing a joint podcast with various hosts. We sort of took advantage of the fact that Kiss was releasing their new album Monster, and decided to do a show centered around a band. A band that the four hosts featured have followed for pretty much their entire lives. The host in question are John from Iron City Rocks, Roch from Radioactive Metal, Scott from Focus On Metal, and yours truly Victor from Mars Attacks Podcast. Hopefully this will be the first of many Cast Iron Ring Podcasts. Hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed putting the episode together.

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This is a joint episode between Talking Metal and Mars Attacks. For those of you keeping score we did the first and only live Mars Attacks Radio episode with John and Mark from Talking Metal. The episodes where then subsequently released by both podcasts. Mark has also lent his comments to the Mars Attacks Classic Albums Column. If everything goes as planned we’ll do more of these in the future.

Subjects covered during this episode include the Kiss Revenge Special that made up episodes 66 & 67 of the Mars Attacks Podcast. The mid-90s album by the band Psycho Circus, and the soon to be released Led Zeppelin DVD Celebration Day.

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This episode concludes our two part interview which Mitch Lafon, who earlier this year did a five part interview regarding the 20th anniversary of the Kiss album Revenge. If you have not read all five parts you can read interviews Mitch conducted with Eric Singer, Bruce Kulick, Dick Wagner, Kevin Valentine, and Tommy Thayer. Bruce Kulick also remembers the album on site as well, you can read those comments here.

In this episode we flip things around, and discuss with Mitch what stood out to me after reading his interviews. The show also features select tracks from the album.

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This episode kicks off a two part interview which Mitch Lafon, who earlier this year did a five part interview regarding the 20th anniversary of the Kiss album Revenge. If you have not read all five parts you can read interviews Mitch conducted with Eric Singer, Bruce Kulick, Dick Wagner, Kevin Valentine, and Tommy Thayer. Bruce Kulick also remembers the album on site as well, you can read those comments here.

In this episode Mitch discusses things that stood out to him regarding his five part interview. Part two will feature things that stood out to me after reading his interviews. The show also features select tracks from the album.

Would like to thank Decibel Geek podcast once again for posting my 9/11 story, if you haven’t read it, you can find it here.

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Alice In Chains – We Die Young
Pantera – I’ll Cast A Shadow
Ozzy Osbourne – Diary Of A Madman
Black Sabbath – Devil & Daughter,
Dio – Hunter Of The Heart,
Kiss – Under The Gun,
Slipknot – Butcher’s Hook,
Doro with Peter Steele – Decent,
Avenged Sevenfold – Bat Country,
Drowning Pool – Sinner,
Metallica – Escape,
Rush – Finding My Way,
Warrior Soul – Rocket 88,

Kiss – Deuce
Kiss – All Hell’s Breakin’ Loose
Kiss – Say Yeah
Kiss – Ladies Room
Kiss – Hard Times
Kiss – Strange Ways
Peter Criss – Bad Attitude
Ace Frehley – Sister
Paul Stanley – Lift
Bruce Kulick (Featuring Gene Simmons) – I Ain’t Gonna Die
Kiss – Is That You
Kiss – King Of The Night Time World
Kiss – Master & Slave
Kiss – Danger
Kiss – Two Timer
Kiss – Plaster Caster
Kiss – Within
Kiss – Lonely Is The Hunter
Kiss – Spit
Kiss – I
Kiss – Betrayed

Godhead – Elenor Rigby (The Beatles)
Social Distortion – Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones)
H2O – Like A Virgin (Madonna)
Heaven Below – Heartbreaker (Pat Benatar)
Helloween – I Stole Your Love (Kiss)
ZO2 – All Hell’s Breaking Loose
Aerosmith – Helter Skelter (The Beatles)
Korn – Another Brick In The Wall Part 1, 2, 3
Anthrax – Exit (U2)
Metallica – Last Caress / Green Hell (Misfits)
Pantera – Cat Scratch Fever (Ted Nugent)
Megadeth – Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
Overkill – Death Tone (Manowar)
Testament – Rapid Fire (Judas Priest)