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Stace Blondel has become known for fronting some of Guernsey's most well recognised rock and metal bands.

Stace with Gordie in Thousand Points of Hate

Initially coming to notoriety with industrial metallers Mechanical Lobster in 2000 he has gone on to front extreme covers band Choke, Iron Maiden/Ozzy Osbourne tribute act The Crazy Iron Babies and modern metal band Thousand Points of Hate, while still fronting Mechanical Lobster on their occasional reformations.

Bearing in mind the number of metal related projects 'The Stace' (as he refers to himself) has been involved in we thought it an idea to find out what music inspired his unique style.

So we asked him what he would include on his ideal compilation CD (even if his choices may span several discs worth of space), and it's a mixed bag, from ambient dance to pounding thrash metal via punk rock cabaret...

Stace in the early days of Mechanical Lobster

Tracklisting

CD 1

1. Five to One – The Doors

2. Enjoy The Silence – Depeche Mode
3. Lord Only Knows – Beck
4. Cave Song – Hobo Sounds
5. Can't Take My Eyes Off You – Andy Williams
6. Starlight – Muse
7. Postmortem – Slayer
8. Birdsong – Tomahawk
9. Pyramid Song – Radiohead
10. Windowlicker – The Dillinger Escape Plan
11. Pac-Man – Power-Pill
12. Sinister Crayon – Butthole Surfers
13. Mrs O – Dresden Dolls
14. Slide Away – Oasis
15. Toxic – Britney Spears
16. Blackened – Metallica

CD 2

1. The Curse of Millhaven – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2. The Great Below – Nine Inch Nails
3. Gareth Brown Says – Mclusky
4. Tribulations – LCD Soundsystem
5. Torn Apart – Stabbing Westward/Josh Wink
6. The Nurse Who Loved Me – A Perfect Circle
7. Fade Together – Franz Ferdinand
8. Burning Wheel - Primal Scream
9. Throw Your Set in the Air - Cypress Hill
10. 4st 7lb - Manic Street Preachers
11. Go - Moby
12. The Last Remaining Light - Audioslave
13. Identify - Natalie Imbruglia
14. The Bottom Line - Depeche Mode
15. Sappy - Nirvana
16. Eye - Smashing Pumpkins

If your in a local band and want to let us know what music inspired you send your 'mixtape' track listing to us at guernsey@bbc.co.uk