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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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Sounds That Can Be Made #388 (Armistice Day special)

November 16, 2024

Edition 387 of Sounds That Can Be Made is now available as a podcast! Playlist: Marillion – Forgotten Sons (from Script for a Jester’s Tear)Faith No More – War Pigs (from The Real Thing)Sammy Hagar – Remember The Heroes (from Three Lock Box)Asia – Remembrance Day (from Aria)Freedom To Glide – Peace Without Victory (from The […]

Heavy Elements 403 (Forty Years of Prog Metal – part four)

November 16, 2024

Edition 403 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: 1994: Atomic Opera – New Dreams1993: Conception – Soliloquy1992: Dream Theater – Metropolis, Pt. 1: The Miracle And The Sleeper1991: Galactic Cowboys – Speak To Me1990: Mekong Delta – Dances of Death1989: Heir Apparent – One Small Voice1988: Fates Warning – The […]

Heavy Elements 402 (Forty Years of Prog Metal – part three)

November 16, 2024

Edition 402 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: 2004: Orphaned Land – Birth Of The Three (The Unification)2003: Deadsoul Tribe – In A Garden Made Of Stones2002: Threshold – Critical Mass (Part 1-3)2001: Evergrey – The Masterplan2000: Green Carnation – My Dark Reflections Of Life And Death1999: Tomorrow’s Eve – […]

Heavy Elements 401 (Forty Years of Prog Metal – part two)

November 16, 2024

Edition 401 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: 2014: Need – Orvam2013: Leprous – Foe2012: Ne Obliviscaris – Forget Not2011: Arch/Matheos – Stained Glass Sky2010: Vanden Plas – On My Way To Jerusalem2009: Amorphis – Sampo2008: Soul Secret – Tears of Kalliroe2007: Dreamscape – 5th Season2006: Tool – Vicarious2005: Opeth […]

Heavy Elements 400 (Forty Years of Prog Metal – part one)

November 16, 2024

Edition 400 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: 2024: Haishen – Goddess in the Machine2023: Nospūn – The Death of Simpson2022: Persefone – Consciousness (Pt.3)2021: Wheel – Hyperion2020: The Progressive Souls Collective – Destiny Inc.2019: Wilderun – When the Fire and the Rose Were One2018: Temples on Mars – Dining […]

Sounds That Can Be Made #387

November 15, 2024

Edition 387 of Sounds That Can Be Made is now available as a podcast! Playlist: Linkin Park – The Emptiness Machine (from From Zero)Frost* – School (Introducing The All Seeing Eye) (from Life In The Wires)Weather Systems – Synaesthesia (from Ocean Without A Shore)Hearts Of Black Science – Faces (from Signal)Huis – Chaos (from In the […]

Heavy Elements 399

October 1, 2024

Edition 399 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Vola – CannibalDevin Townsend – JainismOpeth – §3Leviathan – Echo ChamberAt Night I Fly – From the AshesNow To Then: LeprousMy SpecterThe Silent RevelationForeignerThe Weight of DisasterRewindThe ValleyMb. IndifferentiaWhiteThe Enigma Division – The EscapistThe Vicious Head Society – JudgementAmorphis – Death Of […]

Sounds That Can Be Made #386 (The Glenn Hughes Story part four 2009-24)

September 21, 2024

Edition 386 of Sounds That Can Be Made is now available as a podcast! Playlist: Black Country Communion – Black Country (from Black Country Communion) Black Country Communion – The Great Divide (from Black Country Communion) Joe Bonamassa – Heartbreaker (from Dust Bowl) Black Country Communion – Save Me (from 2) Black Country Communion – Cold […]

Sounds That Can Be Made #385 (The Glenn Hughes Story part three 1997-2008)

September 21, 2024

Edition 385 of Sounds That Can Be Made is now available as a podcast! Playlist: Glenn Hughes – You Kill Me (from The Way It Is)Glenn Hughes – Curse (from The Way It Is)Glenn Hughes – The State I’m In (from Return of Crystal Karma)Glenn Hughes – Gone (from Return of Crystal Karma)Voodoo Hill – Sensitive […]

Sounds That Can Be Made #384 (The Glenn Hughes Story part two 1980-96)

September 21, 2024

Edition 384 of Sounds That Can Be Made is now available as a podcast! Playlist: Hughes/Thrall – I Got Your Number (from Hughes/Thrall)Hughes/Thrall – Muscle And Blood (from Hughes/Thrall)Gary Moore – Nothing To Lose (from Run For Cover)Gary Moore – Reach For The Sky (from Run For Cover)Phenomena – Dance with the Devil (from Phenomena)Phenomena – […]