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)

Here is episode 71′s playlist

Kiss – Creatures Of The Night
Black Sabbath – Computer Gods
Iron Maiden – 22 Acacia Avenue
Judas Priest – Blood Stone
Megadeth – Symphony Of Destruction
Metallica – Through The Never
Fastway – Steal The Show
Badlands – Silver Horses
Warrior Soul – Rocket 88
Prong – Who’s Fist Is This Any Way?
Fear Factory – Smasher Devourer
Van Halen – Light Up The Sky

Tonight’s Mars Attacks Radio Show consists of covers by various Hard Rock, Alternative Rock and Metal band performing a series of cover tunes. You’ll hear songs originally performed by Depeche Mode, Soft Cells, Prince, Kiss, Twisted Sister, Overkill, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath, Killing Joke, Megadeth, ZZ Top, T-Rex, Nirvana and The Police.

Tune in tonight at 8PM EST / 5 PM Pacific only on Stream A of MarkStriglRadio.com, iTunes, and the Live 365 player to the right of the home page. You’ll also find the various times when the show will replay this week.

Korn – Trash
Limp Bizkit – Take A Look Around
Disturbed – Liberate
Godsmack – Whatever
Kiss – C’Mon And Love Me
Poison – Look What The Cat Dragged In
Buckcherry – Porno Star
Motley Crue – Public Enemy #1
Marilyn Manson – The Reflecting God
Guns ‘N Roses – Riad N’ The Bedouins
Seether – Pig
Five Finger Death Punch – Salvation
Otep – Breed
Metallica – Bleeding Me

Black ‘N Blue
Hell Yeah!

Anytime a band puts out an album I try and compare it to a band’s past work, and the best thing to have recently come out by a similar band. Without a shadow of a doubt (at least to me) Ratt’s Infestation is the best hard rock album of the past few years, the best album from a band of this type of hard rock/metal. The album sounds like a classic Ratt album, but is also up to date in sound, making it also sound very fresh. Bands from the 80s are sometimes put in a tough spot. Do they imitate their past glories to keep their core audience happy, or do they try putting out something more up to date in the hopes of capturing some new followers? Ratt was able to do both, could Black ‘N Blue do the same?

Black ‘N Blue’s biggest claim to fame at the moment is that current Kiss guitarist Tommy Thayer originally played in the band. Although they had a song or two that was played on rock radio, and played on some decent tours, they aren’t one of the most popular bands of that era. Perhaps this album demonstrates why? Or perhaps Thayer not being part of the mix has effected how the band writes?

The album is by no means bad, and I’m sure plenty of fans of this type of metal will tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about, but the album really lacks originality, or any sort of real catchiness. There are some solid songs on the album, but they all sound like other bands. For example Target sounds like Kiss, Fools Bleed like Aerosmith and, Hail Hail like AC/DC. Actually C’mon sounds as if it is left over track from the Kiss album Animalize.

Again the album isn’t bad, and I’m sure most fans of 80s hard rock and metal will enjoy it. Getting back to the Ratt album, that album didn’t bring anything new to the table, however it did add a chapter to the band’s history that can be argued about, and compared in a good light to their classic albums. You could definitely tell that was a Ratt album. There is nothing wrong with a band demonstrating their influences, but as far as Hell Yeah! is concerned, maybe one song that I can point to and say, oh yeah, now that’s Black ‘N Blue.

Rating: C+

During the latest episode of the Mars Attacks Podcast we have the extra special pleasure of interviewing Kirk Windstein of Crowbar, Down, and Kingdom of Sorrow. During the episode we discuss (among other things) Crowbar’s latest album Sever The Wicked Hand with Kirk, if he or the other members of Down have ever felt pressure to follow up the band’s classic debut Nola, as well as what he has taught or learned over the years while working with two of metal’s premier frontmen in Phil Anselmo, and Jamey Jasta.

Mix of new and classic cuts by Crowbar are played throughout the show.

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Def Leppard – Wasted
UFO – Rock Bottom
Iron Maiden – Running Free
Black Sabbath – Hard Road
Rainbow – Stargazer
Judas Priest – Stained Class
Kiss – 100,000 Years
AC/DC – If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)
Van Halen – I’m The One
Quiet Riot – Look In Any Window
Thin Lizzy – Bad Reputation

Today we reveal an assorted number of members of the musical community that aren’t known for being musicians, and are part of the “big project”. Well the first part isn’t entirely true.
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During this episode we have the pleasure if interviewing Jean Beuvoir lead singer/guitarist of Crown of Thorns. Jean has worked with some of the biggest artists of all time, Kiss, Ramones, The Plasmatics and Bruce Springsteen just to name a few. During this interview we discuss why he decided to put Crown Of Thorns back together, what it was like to work with all of the aforementioned artists, and what he’s been up to since the release of the last Crown Of Thorns album Faith. We also veer off of the musical path and talk a little bit about race relations, and how they may have or not have affected him as a person and a musician; as well as how things have changed over the years.

Throughout the episode you will hear the following tracks by Crown of Thorns:

Rock Ready
Cold Blooded Bitch
The Healer
Heartbeat

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During this episode of the podcast our guest is author, musician, and host of the show Glory Is Noise, Joel Gausten. Joel discusses his latest book From Sabbath To Satan, the aforementioned show which can be found on RadioFreeSatan.com, his work with the bands like The Undead, Electric Frankenstein and Pigface. He also describes what it was like being seventeen, in high school and being asked to help out Doyle and Jerry Only while they were trying to resurrect the Misfits. He dispels any rumors regarding his exact involvement in the band, and references a few projects that he is working on, including one for this very web site.

If you are interested in purchasing any of his books, go to GaustenBooks.com

The episode features the following songs:

Misfits – Mars Attacks
Killing Joke – The Great Cull
Prong – Prove You Wrong
Bill Ward – Bombers (Can Open Bomb Bays)

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