Author: Pariah Burke

Hi, I’m Pariah Burke, your host for Hard, Heavy, & Hair. When I’m not kicking out the jams, I do professional voiceover work and teach and consult on such professional creative and publishing subjects as InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, epublishing, self-publishing, digital asset management, font license compliance, and more. You can find out about all of that over at my main website, http://iampariah.com. There you can also see my many published books, Pluralsight video courses, and articles on the same topics.

Show 502 – Ghost Notes

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  • The mystery of Silo and its music being wiped from every corner of the Internet… except mine. Hear Silo, now exclusively on Hard, Heavy & Hair
  • You’ll hear another band–this one a supergroup with A-list Rock musicians–whose music can no longer be bought or streamed anywhere!
  • That other all-woman Metal band of the 80s
  • New Ray of Light, Rock-Out, Robin McCauley, the Funeral Portrait
  • Triple-Shot of Motley members gone solo
  • Rock Queen of the Week is Gigi Hangach of Phantom Blue
  • Rare Hare from Pretty Maids, Badlands, Slaughter, Great White
  • The only women to be signed to Shrapnel Records
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Badlands, Black Sabbath, Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Creye, Def Leppard, Five Finger Death Punch, Great White, Guns N’ Roses, Mick Mars, Phantom Blue, Pop Evil, Pretty Maids, Ray Of Light, Robin McAuley, ROCK-OUT, Silo, Sixx-A.M., Slaughter, Small Faces, The Funeral Portrait, Three Days Grace, Vince Neil, Warrant, White Lion

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Show 501 – Valentine’s Day Top 14 Countdown

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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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Show 500 – The 500th Show

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  • The momentous 500th show!
  • Medley of 8 heavy covers of Led Zepplin’s “Immigrant Song”
  • New H.E.A.T., Crazy Lixx, Killswitch Engage, and the Funeral Portrait
  • Debut of the Hard, Heavy & Hair Show Theme Song
  • Pariah’s favorites: favorite female singer, favorite male singer, and favorite Black Sabbath riff
  • Now heard on all 7 continents on Earth!
  • Triple-Shot of Dorothy Martin guest vocals
  • Rock Queen of the Week is Issa
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Baton Rouge, Black Sabbath, Britny Fox, Cinderella, Crazy Lixx, Dangerous Toys, Dead Daisies, Dokken, Dorothy, Electric Boys, Fozzy, From Ashes To New, H.E.A.T, Issa, Killswitch Engage, KISS, L.A. Guns, Linkin Park, Nita Strauss, Pariah Burke, Scott Stapp, Skindred, Stryper, Tempt, Texas Hippie Coalition, The Funeral Portrait, The PariahRocks Players

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Show 499 – Electric Thunder

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  • New Shinedown, Dorothy, and Juliet’s Not Dead
  • John Sykes Triple-Shot Tribute
  • Rock Queen of the Week is Dorothy with help from Slash
  • A unique Cover Song of the Week that isn’t a cover… but is… but isn’t… but…
  • Rare Hair from Babylon A.D., Giant, Whitesnake, Thunder, and more!
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Babylon A.D., Bad Wolves, Blue Murder, Crobot, Def Leppard, Dorothy, Faith No More, Five Finger Death Punch, Giant, Juliet’s Not Dead, KISS, Lynch Mob, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne, Papa Roach, Shinedown, Sixx-A.M., The Pretty Reckless, Theory of a Deadman, Thin Lizzy, Thunder, Whitesnake

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Show 498 – Queen of Crows

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  • A song that has slipped the F-word over and over onto radio stations all around the world for 16 years!
  • Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the original 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
  • 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

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Show 497 – Allegory

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  • The greatest air drum song ever
  • Triple-Shot of Cities of Allegory
  • Dispelling the legends around an iconic 80s Pop Rock song
  • Rock Queen of the Week is Ella Tepponen of Ginger Evil
  • Rock goes from Miami to Fort Lauderdale
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Asking Alexandria, Def Leppard, Dorothy, Faith No More, Foreigner, Ginger Evil, Guns N’ Roses, In This Moment, Junkyard Drive, Kik Tracee, King Zebra, Korn, Love-Hate, Mötley Crüe, Murder Bay, Nine Inch Nails, Nonpoint, Phil Collins, Royale Lynn, Scorpions, Sebastian Bach, Shaman’s Harvest, Slaughter, Sunbomb, Tesla

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Show 496 – Gods & Monsters

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  • Ronnie James Dio interview about Heavy Metal horns the Maloik
  • Triple-Shot of the Fretless Monster
  • Electric Boys and Hookers & Blow pay musical tribute to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
  • Rock Queen of the Week is Carla Harvey (of the Butcher Babies)
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hair From Alice Cooper, Autograph, Billy Morrison, Blue Murder, Bruce Dickinson, Butcher Babies, Carla Harvey, Dokken, Electric Boys, Europe, Godsmack, Guns N’ Roses, Hookers & Blow, Joel Hoekstra’s 13, KISS, Lipz, Little Caesar, Ozzy Osbourne, Poison, Rainbow, Ron Keel, Shinedown, Society Of Villains, Spidergawd, Steve Stevens, Tesla, The Firm, Tony Franklin, W.A.S.P., Wage War

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Show 495 – Rock of Ages

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  • Music by The Monkees of Metal bands
  • A Cover Song of the Week the original songwriter likes better than the original song he recorded!
  • The scorching 1-minute, 42-second guitar intro radio doesn’t play any more
  • Appreciating drummer Roxy Petrucci of Vixen in the Rock Queen of the Week
  • The BulletBoys remind us of something that is always good and pure and wholesome
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Angel, Bad Wolves, Breaking Benjamin, BulletBoys, Chez Kane, Damnocracy, Def Leppard, Disturbed, Drowning Pool, Europe, Ghost, Halestorm, Judas Priest, Killswitch Engage, KISS, Nine Inch Nails, Nita Strauss, Salty Dog, Shaman’s Harvest, Spın̈al Tap, Steel Dragon, The Dead Daisies, The Kinks, Van Halen, Velvet Revolver, Vixen, Whitesnake

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Show 494 – Gone Bad

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  • Explore the 7 Deadly Sins of Hard Rock and Metal
  • Medley of “Sympathy for the Devil” heavy covers from Ozzy, Motorhead, Jane’s Addiction, Widespread Panic, Guns N’ Roses, The King, and more!
  • What do Bon Jovi, Hinder, and Slipknot have in common? Find out in this week’s Triple-Shot
  • Rock Queen of the Week is Maria Brink (of In This Moment)
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Black ‘n Blue, Bon Jovi, Devil’s Train, Devour the Day, Disturbed, Dorothy, Five Finger Death Punch, George Thorogood & The Destroyers, Gotthard, Gunshine, Halestorm, Hinder, In This Moment, Lynch Mob, Megadeth, Michael Jackson, Mötley Crüe, Motörhead, Nazareth, Pariah Burke, Ronnie Romero, Shaman’s Harvest, Skid Row, Slipknot, The HU, Tuff

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