Author: Pariah Burke

• New Spread Eagle, The Pretty Reckless, Godsmack, Dan Byrne, Michael Sweet (of Stryper)
• Celebrating 9 years of the Hard, Heavy & Hair Show!
• Interview with Taylor Momsen of the Pretty Reckless
• Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Aerosmith, All For Metal, Bam Bam Boys, Crazy Lixx, Dan Byrne, Diamante, Godsmack, Great White, Judas Priest, Leatherwolf, Michael Sweet, Ozzy Osbourne, Poison, Pretty Boy Floyd, Saxon, Sevendust, Spread Eagle, Tesla, The Frequency Conspiracy, The Pretty Reckless, Theory of a Deadman, Three Days Grace, Trixter, Warrant, Whitesnake, Wings of Steel, Y&T

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• New Rock and Metal in 3D from Des Rocs, Derek Davis, the Devil Wears Nada, and more!
• Frontmen take center stage including a Twisted Sister frontman twist
• The Cover Song of the Week mystery connects Sleaze Metal origins to Sidney Sweeney
• The Rock Queen of the Week tribute
• A Triple-Shot of late-80s Hair with a visual connection for real rock fans
• Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Chevelle, Contraband, Def Leppard, Derek Davis, Des Rocs, Dorothy, FireHouse, Godsmack, Great White, Killer Dwarfs, Kingdom Come, KISS, Lita Ford, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Shinedown, Skid Row, Skindred, Slaughter, Stephen Pearcy, The Devil Wears Nada, Thunder, Tora Tora, Twisted Sister, W.A.S.P.

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• New Temple Balls, Erik Grönwall, Creye, Ginger Evil, Von Groove, Gotham, Vendetta Bloom, and the Phil Koubek Project
• The other voice of Skid Row is back — and he’s not whispering
• Your Front Row Ticket to Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, and Tesla — live and loud
• A ’90s track left for dead… resurrected by David Lynch amid cinematic darkness
• Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Allele, Bangalore Choir, Chris Isaak, Creye, Def Leppard, Erik Grönwall, Ginger Evil, Gotham, Guns N’ Roses, KISS, Kix, L.A. Guns, Lita Ford, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Phil Koubek Project, Quiet Riot, Ratt, Scorpions, Seether, Static‐X, Temple Balls, Tense Machine, Tesla, Van Halen, Vendetta Bloom, Von Groove, Warrant

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• New Ice Nine Kills, Electric Boys, Stråle, Firesky, Afraid of My Brother, and Death Warmed Up
• A guitar-driven show built on tension… and release
• Swiss rockers weaponizing Canadian insomnia
• Cookies, cream, custard, and cupids crashing your speakers
• An all-woman metal band bringing the raunch and the riffs
• Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Adelitas Way, Aerosmith, Bachman–Turner Overdrive, Black Stone Cherry, Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Death Warmed Up, Def Leppard, Electric Boys, Faster Pussycat, Firesky, Halestorm, Helmet, Ice Nine Kills, Krokus, L.A. Guns, Led Zeppelin, Morano, Phantom Blue, Poison, Scared of My Brother, Skid Row, Slaughter, Steel Panther, Strale, Ted Nugent, Warrant

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• New Bad Marriage, Shiraz Lane, Hooked Like Helen, Kris Barras Band, Defiant—and no lie—unreleased Van Halen you’ve never heard before!
• Cheech & Chong once said to speed up Black Sabbath… So I did. Will you hear God?
• Cleveland rocks–and I’ve got the new track to prove it.
• Professor Pariah drops the needle on record player history–turntables, speeds, and some questionable science.
• And a heads-up for Van Halen fans: there’s a must-own box set coming, and you’re gonna want to preorder.
• Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From A Neverending John’s Dream, Asking Alexandria, Bad Marriage, Black Sabbath, Cinderella, Cyanide, Daughtry, Def Leppard, Defiant, Dokken, Electric Boys, Faster Pussycat, Femme Fatale, Hooked Like Helen, INXS, Kris Barras Band, Little Caesar, Mason Hill, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Shiraz Lane, Tesla, Triumph, Van Halen, Whitesnake

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A Hard, Heavy & Hairy Valentine’s: Counting down the 14 greatest mushy but metal, soft but hard, and all hair love songs of all time. And, in between those 14 most romantic hair band heart songs are anti-Valentine’s Day songs to honor those who are boycotting the holiday.

• Countdown: The 14 Greatest Hair Band Love Songs of All Time
• Plus ANTI-Valentine’s Day songs
• With Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Brocarde, BulletBoys, Extreme, FireHouse, Great White, Guns N’ Roses, Guns N’ Roses, Halestorm, Hinder, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Metallica, Mötley Crüe, My Darkest Days, Nelson, Scorpions, Seether, Skid Row, Steelheart, Stryper, Tesla, Warrant, White Lion

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• New Sevendust, Papa Roach, Creye
• Year of the Fire Horse
• Metal kickoff to the Winter Olympics
• New Hampshire versus Skeletor’s Ex
• Two Triple-Shot games!
• Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Black Sabbath, Black Star Riders, Bon Jovi, Creye, Def Leppard, Godsmack, Gojira, Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Our Last Night, Pantera, Papa Roach, Savatage, Sevendust, The Cult, The Four Horsemen, Van Halen, Vixen, Warrant, Whitesnake

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• Beaten by the U.S. Marines, jaw wired shut, he sang a 70s Rock masterpiece
• New Def Leppard, Black Label Society, Stråle, and Rob Zombie
• A 1970 guitar solo Jimi Hendrix called better than his playing
• What classic Rock song was written while staring at a hotel ceiling… at 3:34 A.M.?
• Snowing outside? Things get dangerously hot with a Triple-Shot that’ll crack the ice
• Japan got it first in ’95. In 2026, Pariah brings it back to the West
• 2 Rockin’ Frontwomen storm ’26 like a beachhead
• Bluesy ’90s badasses back—by bold request
• Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Aldo Nova, Babylon A.D., Black Label Society, Black Sabbath, Cassidy Paris, Chicago, Cinderella, Company of Wolves, Def Leppard, Def Leppard, FireHouse, Judas Priest, L.A. Guns, Linkin Park, Loudness, Megadeth, Metallica, Orianthi, Ozzy Osbourne, Poison, Rob Zombie, Skid Row, Stråle, Three Days Grace, Vince Neil

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• New Heavy Pettin, Faster Pussycat, the Pretty Reckless, Ignescent, Solence, and Metal Warrior with Keri Kelli
• Too dark for radio, too heavy to ignore
• Female-fronted firepower meets Sabbath’s heaviest hymn
• A Triple-Shot from the best friend Glam Metal has in the 2020s, the man single-handedly making it possible for today’s hardest working non-A-list rockers to finally make their nut
• The Metal masterpiece closing coda secretly honoring two roadies
• Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Ace Frehley, Baton Rouge, Black Sabbath, Crowne, Dokken, Eva Under Fire, Extreme, Faster Pussycat, Hardcore Superstar, Heavy Pettin, Ignescent, KISS, Lynch Mob, Metal Warrior, Papa Roach, Revilo, Scott Stapp, See This Through, Sister Sin, Skid Row, Solence, Steelheart, The Pretty Reckless, Warrant, Wildstreet, Y&T

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• New music from Norway, Finland, and Phoenix
• Guitar Gods and their guest solos
• A Grammy-winning song the singer-songwriter didn’t want to finish
• A batarang comes back after 30 years
• That “you covered WHAT?!” Metal band does it again
• The Hard, Heavy, and Hairy Original Soundtrack of the Epstein Files
• Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Blue Murder, Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Def Leppard, Fighter V, Fozzy, Great White, Grey Daze, Guns N’ Roses, Hokka, Killer Dwarfs, Lily Löwe, Lord Tracy, Megadeth, Motorhead, No Resolve, Poison, Seal, Shy, The 69 Eyes, The Defiants, Three Days Grace, Twisted Sister, Voices of Extreme, Warrant, Y&T

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• When rock stars go full-frontal
• Angelina Jolie’s uncle writes rock history
• The only Rock single to ever simultaneously chart for 2 different record labels!
• New The Erotics, Axminster, Absent Light Arena
• Rock Queen of the Week keeps kicking ass with heavy riffs even as she embraces her Cindy Lou Who side
• Rare Hare from Tuff, Jackyl, Sleeze Beez, Contraband, and Warrant
• Songwriting commissioned by the wife of Cleopatra’s lover, Mark Antony
• A hit single the songwriter laughed at for being too simple, but that paid him enough to lose $10 grand a day gambling for decades
• Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Absent Light Arena, AC/DC, Ace Frehley, Axminster, Bai Bang, BulletBoys, Contraband, Crobot, Guns N’ Roses, Ignescent, In This Moment, Jackyl, Lynch Mob, Mötley Crüe, My Darkest Days, Poison, Ratt, Shark Island, Sleep Token, Sleeze Beez, The Erotics, The Pretty Reckless, The Wild Ones, Tuff, Van Halen, Warrant, Winger

• Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Black Crowes, Blackbird Angels, BlackRain, Cinderella, Dokken, Doro, Grand Slam, Guns N’ Roses, Helix, Helmet, KISS, Motörhead, Nickoloff, Nine Inch Nails, Ozzy Osbourne, Pantera, Procol Harum, Ratt, Raven Age, Rough Cutt, Saliva, Skid Row, Sleeze Beez, Steel Panther, Stitched Up Heart, Zillion
• A song that has slipped the F-word over and over onto radio stations all around the world for 17 years!
• Celebrating the “The Crow” with Brandon Lee
• Queens! The Metal Queen, the Rock Queen, and a song the Queen (band) couldn’t beat!
• An immortal 60s song the Brits say is better than anything the Beatles or Rolling Stones ever released
• A Metal Queen who initially lost her realm, but vanquished her enemy in the end
• Rock Queen of the Week is Alecia “Mixi” Demner of Stitched Up Heart

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• Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Bon Jovi, Bullet to the Heart, Disturbed, Dokken, Electric Boys, Free, Godsmack, Gotham, Guns N’ Roses, Heavy Pettin, Jackyl, Jeet Kune Do, Lynch Mob, Madhouse, Mammoth, Manowar, Mötley Crüe, Papa Roach, Sabina Beyli, Saigon Kick, Skid Row, Steelheart, The Pretty Reckless, White Lion
• Kung Fu & Power Cords!
• US Metal band announces their end
• Bruce Lee inspires new Swedish bluesy Hard Rock project
• A Classic Rock staple goes Portuguese!
• Spokane, Washington AOR band erupting like Mount St. Helens 45 years late!
• Cindy Lou Who kicks ass in a time travel that makes the Grinch jealous
• New The Pretty Reckless, Electric Boys, Bullet to the Heart, Gotham, Jeet Kune Do, Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth, and more!

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• A Tribute to Ace Frehley showcasing some best work and rarities
• New Halestorm, Girish and the Chronicles, Fangslinger, Cassidy Paris, Eva Under Fire, Nightblaze
• A history lesson about Nashville hookers
• Early snow… for your sniffer
• David Letterman’s drummer before he was cool
• Garbage gets raw about getting screwed
• A rock band reminds music lovers to support musicians
• An Ace Frehley signature song he didn’t write
• The debut of a new American band poised to kick ass
• Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Accept, Ace Frehley, Architects, Bon Jovi, BulletBoys, Cassidy Paris, Cinderella, Def Leppard, Disturbed, Eva Under Fire, Fangslinger, Girish And The Chronicles, Great White, Halestorm, I Prevail, KISS, Nashville Pussy, Nightblaze, Rebels Opera, Sabaton, TNT, Whitesnake, Wildstreet

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• New Megadeth, Wicked Smile, Lynch Mob, Black Swan, and more!
• Another guitar god announces retirement
• Who the hell is Julian?!
• Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Black Crowes, Black Swan, Breaking Benjamin, BulletBoys, Danzig, Dee Snider, Diamante, Foxy Shazam, Halestorm, Hardcore Superstar, Helix, KISS, Lynch Mob, Megadeth, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Ratt, Santana, Skid Row, The 69 Eyes, The Doors, The Rasmus, The Ron Keel Band, Tora Tora, Wicked Smile
• Two legends. Two ghosts. One storm.
• A rock queen with a BA BS
• The killer’s still on the road…

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• Bang your severed head to 4 hours of spooky, wicked, vampiric, and ghastly Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, and Hairy Glam from the likes of Thin Lizzy, Alice, Dokken, Kix, Van Halen, Judas Priest, Godsmack, Rob Zombie, Kiss, L.A. Guns, the Pretty Reckless, A Joker Among Thieves, Battlesnake, Fastway, Ghost, Black Sabbath, Shark Island, Metallica, Sershen & Zeritskaya, and, of course, the original pre-COVID bat-chopper himself!
• The first songMetallica ever allowed to be in a movie
• The Alice Cooper original that’s also technically a cover
• The Aussie Metal band that says J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is their greatest influence
• A Swedish 80s Rock legend that started out on a TV music competition, and then got bigger than the show
• Triple-Shot of Horror Movie Metal
• A spooky Rock Queen of the Week

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• Just by listening to this show, you’re raising money to fight Parkinson’s. No catch. Just crank it loud.
• Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Bad Wolves, Black Stone Cherry, Cinderella, Danger Danger, Def Leppard, Dio, Five Finger Death Punch, GodSmack, Jani Lane, Judas Priest & Ozzy Osbourne, L.A. Guns, Megadeth, Metallica, Mike Tramp, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Pop Evil, Smash Into Pieces, Temple Balls, The Temptations, Twisted Sister, Vain, Velvet Rush
• Brand-new bangers from Judas Priest, Ozzy, Jani Lane, Mike Tramp, Bad Wolves, Smash Into Pieces, Temple Balls, and Velvet Rush–your next playlist just got shredded.
• Turning Jani Lane’s Alanis Morrisette-era 90s pop into modern Hard Rock worthy of Warrant
• 40th Anniversary of Twisted Sister’s frontman smacking down Congress and the PMRC
• That time Bruce Springsteen flipped off the President of the United States-—and took it to the Top 20
• White Lion gets claws-out heavy in the 21st Century—-Mike Tramp goes harder than ever.
• The origin story of a Classic Rock masterpiece you’ve heard a thousand times, but credited to the wrong artist every single one.

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• Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Airbourne, Bad Company, BulletBoys, Cats in Boots, Cinderella, Danger Danger, Def Leppard, Diemonds, Dirty Honey, Five Finger Death Punch, Fozzy, Gotthard, H.e.a.t., Hardline, Heart, KISS, Leatherwolf, Nightblaze, Ozzy Osbourne, Poison, Roxy Blue, Shaman’s Harvest, Shiraz Lane, The Rasmus, Warrant
• Melodic Hard Rock Positivity
• Brand new music: a parting gift from a melodic Hard Rock band making their final bow
• New Gotthard, Dirty Honey, Nightblaze, The Rasmus, and more
• The first band signed to Led Zeppelin’s music label
• Rock Queen of the Week is the rock sister act
• A Cover Song of the Week from the first unsigned band to hit Number 1 on the Billboard Rock chart
• Safe for Work! Listen Now and Rock Your Office!

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