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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 #170 (2018 Best of the Rest III)

January 23, 2019

Edition 170 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Redemption – Impermanent Long Distance Calling – Ascending Dvne – The Crimson Path Halo Tora – Heart of War Alkaloid – In Turmoil’s Swirling Reaches Kingcrow – Drenched LizZard – Gemini Divine Realm – Revival Angra – The Bottom of My Soul Conception […]

Sounds That Can Be Made #177 (2018 Retrospective)

January 23, 2019

Edition 177 of Sounds That Can Be Made is now available as a podcast! Playlist: Albion – You’ll Be Mine (from You’ll Be Mine) Lo Moon – All In (from Lo Moon) Mauricio Ibáñez – Land Of The Fools (from Off To A Better Place) The Dark Third – The Dreams of Lesser Men (from Even As […]

Sounds That Can Be Made #176 (21st Century Prog)

January 22, 2019

Edition 176 of Sounds That Can Be Made is now available as a podcast! Playlist: 2001: Marillion – This Is The 21st Century (from Anoraknophobia) 2002: Porcupine Tree – Trains (from In Absentia) 2003: Mostly Autumn – Passengers (from Passengers) 2004: Blackfield – Blackfield (from Blackfield) 2005: Spock’s Beard – The Ballet Of The Impact (from Octane) […]

Heavy Elements #169 (2018 Best of the Rest II)

January 16, 2019

Edition 169 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Poem – My Own Disorder Great Leap Skyward – Black Sea of Trees PreHistoric Animals – A ghost came one day Oceans of Slumber – A Path to Broken Stars Manticora – Echoes of a Silent Scream A Perfect Circle – The Doomed […]

Heavy Elements #168 (2018 Best of the Rest I)

January 13, 2019

Edition 168 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Wolfen Reloaded – Promised Land The Vostok – Soul Keeper Circles – Renegade Widek – The Mind’s Journey Skyharbor – Blind Side Voïvod – Orb Confusion Spiral Key – Hollywood Dreams TimeLost – Stage IV. Bargaining Prognosis – Waste Vola – Whaler Rainburn […]

Heavy Elements #167 (2018 Top Ten)

January 2, 2019

Edition 167 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: 10. Riverside – Wasteland (played The Struggle For Survival) 9. Temples on Mars – Temples on Mars (played Dining With The Devil) 8. Valis Ablaze – Boundless (played Paradox) 7. Barren Earth – A Complex of Cages (played Solitude Pith) 6. Michael Romeo […]

Sounds That Can Be Made #175 (The Dawn Records Story)

December 27, 2018

Edition 175 of Sounds That Can Be Made is now available as a podcast! Playlist: Quiet World – Loneliness And Grief (from The Road) Titus Groan – Hall Of Bright Carvings (from Titus Groan) Demon Fuzz – Hymn To Mother Earth (from Afreaka!) Atlantic Bridge – Something (from Atlantic Bridge) Trifle – Is It Loud? (from First […]

Heavy Elements #166 (Origins of Progressive Metal)

December 26, 2018

Edition 166 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: King Crimson – Red Black Sabbath – Spiral Architect Blue Öyster Cult – Flaming Telepaths Rush – By-Tor And The Snow Dog Kansas – Icarus (Born on Wings of Steel) Scorpions – Drifting Sun Judas Priest – Victim Of Changes Rainbow – Gates […]

Heavy Elements #165

December 20, 2018

Edition 165 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: PreHistoric Animals – Run Stranger, Run! Katatonia – Evidence Sebas Honing – Falling Down Canvas Solaris – Adaptive Optics Animals As Leaders – Ectogenesis Live at 11: Opeth live at Red Rocks Ampitheatre, Morrison, Colorado, USA on 11th May 2017 The Devil’s Orchard(live) […]

Sounds That Can Be Made #174

December 20, 2018

Edition 174 of Sounds That Can Be Made is now available as a podcast! Playlist: Gandalf’s Fist – Leader of Men (from Leader of Men) All Traps On Earth – Magmatic Warning (from A Drop Of Light) Vermillion Skye – Zebra Mentality (from Zebra Mentality) Connect 4: Guilt Machine – Over (from On This Perfect Day) Porcupine […]