This has been a long time coming. We've been bursting at the seams with seldom played, old Blast music and pre-Blast-aged music we used to Blast out regularly. The older these songs get, the less they play: from Skillet, Project 86, and Pillar songs from earlier in this century… back to the previous century… to even […]
The Wedding's video for "In The End" is a lot of fun and full of high energy. Headbanging, stage-diving, cymbals on fire, and the guys taking a motorcycle ride in the desert. Here is the link: http://www.vevo.com/watch/the-wedding/in-the-end/USUV71301347?source=instantsearch The song has been through some heavy-duty Blasting. It is in heavy rotation on The Blast.
Look at all those Blast stream choices! The Blast's iPhone app has finally been updated, joining The Blast's Android app in having 8 live streams and the post-rapture backup stream (too many streams to fit on the screen). There were all sorts of delays: the hacking of Apple's developer website; The Blast being approved as a […]
Stryper has a big lead in a poll over on Noisecreep.com about the most anticipated album of November 2013. Nothin' to see here, kids: they just happen to be way out in front of releases from Scott Stapp, Dream Theater, David Lee Roth, Black Sabbath, Rush, Deicide, Daughtry, and Five Finger Death Punch in the […]
Tuesday night at the Dove Awards, Skillet and Red were winners in the categories Blasters care most about: Rock song of the year and Rock album of the year, respectively. Red's album “Release The Panic” won the Dove Award for best Rock album last night, beating out Thousand Foot Krutch's "The End Is Where We Begin", […]
Nine Lashes is the band in the new Christian movie called "Grace Unplugged", which is about an 18 year old Christian girl who gets the musical break of a lifetime and has her faith tested in the "real world." The movie is playing in theaters all over the USA now. The Blast did a world […]
Update: The Blast is interviewing Righteous Vendetta lead singer Ryan Hayes, just after 3 pm Eastern/Noon Pacific, Tuesday, release day of this new album "The Fire Inside." Album reivew written by Colin Cruz, The Blast Program Director: From the first moments of the opening track “Defiance”, I sensed I was about to hear a really […]
For Today just announced that their song "Flesh And Blood" is now featured in the video game "Pinball Rocks," which is available on iOS and Android. The Blast has been playing that song full format (any hour of any day, not just on the Blastmetal show, in other words) for a few weeks now (good […]
Impending Doom has signed with eOne Music and they will release a new full length album called "Death Will Reign" on November 5, 2013. The band and the label say this will be the band's most ferocious material to date. "We wanted this album to sound very natural and unpolished," explains longtime bassist David Sittig, a […]
The Blast has won a national/international radio award on Tuesday night in Orlando, Florida, at the RAIN Internet Radio Awards. The Blast won in the category of "Best Single Stream Webcaster." The Blast founder Colin "Cruz" Strombeck is in Orlando to receive the award and says "When we were announced as the winner, I […]
