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Steve Blease

Umm... So, Steve Blease... Does he really exist? Why is there no photo of him? Is he just a computer virus that replaces melodic prog in our database with Opeth? Who knows? Who cares? Does anybody read these things?

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Heavy Elements 379 (International Women’s Day 2024 special)

April 19, 2024

Edition 379 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Voyager – Momentary Relapse of PainAtomic Symphony – Oath TakerCellar Darling – InsomniaOstura – Beyond (The New World)Beyond The Bridge – The ApparitionOceans of Slumber – No Color, No LightDreadnought – Worlds BreakBaroness – TourniquetUneXpect – Unsolved Ideas Of A Distorted GuestScardust […]

Sounds That Can Be Made #368 (More Gurt Big Live ‘Uns!)

April 18, 2024

Edition 368 of Sounds That Can Be Made is now available as a podcast! Playlist: Transatlantic – All Of The Above (live) (from Live in Europe)Arena – Moviedrome (live) (from Breakfast in Biarritz)Mystery – Through Different Eyes (live) (from Tales From the Netherlands)IQ – Without Walls (live) (from Scrape Across The SkyFrost* – Milliontown (live) (from […]

Heavy Elements 378

April 17, 2024

Edition 378 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Out of Darkness – Cosmic ConclusionWhom Gods Destroy – CrawlShadow Matter – DisconnectedMyrath – Candles CryNebularis – SubnauticaTriton Project – Lighthouse of The WorldNospūn – Within the Realm of Possibility ** Prog Limelight artist **Aviations – Coma ** Prog Limelight artist **Dante […]

Sounds That Can Be Made #367

April 16, 2024

Edition 367 of Sounds That Can Be Made is now available as a podcast! Playlist: Cozy Powell – 633 Squadron (from Octopuss)Blue Öyster Cult – ME 262 (from Secret Treaties)Iron Maiden – Where Eagles Dare (from Piece of Mind)Credo – Too Late…/…To Say Goodbye (from Rhetoric)Pendragon – Masters Of Illusion (from The Masquerade Overture)Panic Room – […]

Heavy Elements 377

April 15, 2024

Edition 377 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Throne of Thorns – Storm MakerInfinity’s Ashes – To Live in What ExistsMetro Society – Pieces of the PastVanden Plas – My Icarian FlightUnraveling – One By OneNow To Then: IhsahnAt The Heart Of All Things BrokenThe ObserverPharosNordLend Me The Eyes Of […]

Sounds That Can Be Made #366

April 14, 2024

Edition 366 of Sounds That Can Be Made is now available as a podcast! Playlist: Deep Purple – Smoke On The Water (Dweezil Zappa 2024 Remix) (from Machine Head (50th Anniversary boxset))David Bowie – Suffragette City (Ken Scott 2003 Remix) (from Five Years (1969–1973))Jethro Tull – Aqualung (Steven Wilson 2011 Stereo Remix) (from Aqualung (40th Anniversary […]

Heavy Elements 376

April 13, 2024

Edition 376 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Wade Black’s Astronomica – DestinyPersefone – Lingua IgnotaIhsahn – Hubris and Blue DevilsFading Echoes: Part V: Acceptance (feat. Zak Stevens)Shadowdance – ClimbNow To Then: Madder MortemTowersShadows Coming HomeWhite Snow, Red ShadowsThe Eighth WavePlague On This LandSilverspineTraitor’s MarkConvertionPoem – Eagerly AwaitKamelot – This […]

Sounds That Can Be Made #365

February 17, 2024

Edition 365 of Sounds That Can Be Made is now available as a podcast! Playlist: Thunder – Backstreet Symphony (from Backstreet Symphony) Little Angels – Young Gods (Stand Up, Stand Up) (from Young Gods) Queen – The Show Must Go On (from Innuendo) Porcupine Tree – Radioactive Toy (from On The Sunday of Life…) Pendragon – […]

Heavy Elements 375

February 13, 2024

Edition 375 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Chapel Of Disease – Echoes of Light Ivory Tower – 60 Seconds All Too Human – Tribute Whom Gods Destroy – Over Again Turbulence – Corrosion Now To Then: Manticora Mementopolis Slaughter in The Desert Room Growth Silence The Freedom Gypsies’ Dance, […]

Sounds That Can Be Made #364

February 10, 2024

Edition 364 of Sounds That Can Be Made is now available as a podcast! Playlist: Magnum – Where Are You Eden? (from The Serpent Rings) Twelfth Night – East of Eden (longer Steven Wilson mix) (from Smiling At Grief​.​.​.​. Revisited) Riversea – Eden (from Out Of An Ancient World) Spock’s Beard – Have We All Gone […]