Edition 438 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast.

Playlist:

Course of Fate – Sky Is Falling
Humming Whale – Ocular
Evan Ryan Canady – Trials and Tribulations
Illusia – What If
Amata – Dystopia 23:58 “Dark World P.2”

Now To Then: Defecto
Eternal Descent
The Shape of Things to Come
Rings of Saturn
The Sacrificed/Ode to the Damned
The Sands of Time

Zero Hour – Agenda 21
Redemption – Scarred
Pagan’s Mind – God’s Equation
Anubis Gate – From Afar
In The Presence of Wolves – M.U.A. (Manipulation Under Anesthesia)
Fair to Midland – Upgrade^Brigade
Opeth – The Baying of the Hounds

Edition 437 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast.

Playlist:

2015: Symphony X – To Hell And Back
2016: Fates Warning – The Light and Shade of Things
2017: Odd Logic – Maiden Child 
2018: Ostura – Darker Shade of Black
2019: Wilderun – The Unimaginable Zero Summer
2020: Haken – Carousel
2021: Turbulence – Inside the Cage
2022: Atomic Symphony – Oath Taker
2023: Nospūn – The Death of Simpson
2024: Vanden Plas – Sanctimonarium
2025: Thought Chamber – Rainless

Edition 436 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast.

Playlist:

Amorphis – Bones
Amorphis – The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu
Amorphis – Black Embrace
Amorphis – Black Winter Day
Amorphis – Moon And Sun Part II: North’s Son
Amorphis – My Kantele
Amorphis – The Brother-Slayer/The Lost Son (The Brother-Slayer Part II)
Amorphis – Divinity
Amorphis – Alone
Amorphis – Day Of Your Beliefs
Amorphis – House Of Sleep
Amorphis – The White Swan
Amorphis – Sampo
Amorphis – Sky Is Mine (live)
Amorphis – Song of the Sage
Amorphis – Hopeless Days
Amorphis – Enemy At The Gates
Amorphis – The Wanderer (live)
Amorphis – The Golden Elk
Amorphis – Skyforger Intro & Silver Bride (live)
Amorphis – War
Amorphis – Into Hiding (live)
Amorphis – The Circle

Edition 435 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast.

Playlist:

The Nudge Unit – Unit One
Defecto – Sacred Alignment
Headless – Weightless
In Mourning – The Sojourner
Anemoya – Pathological Liar

Now To Then:
Jelusick – Apolitical Ecstasy
Whom Gods Destroy – In The Name Of War
Jelusick – Chaos Master
Michael Romeo – Maschinenmensch
Stone Leaders – Unearthly Designs
Stone Leaders – Box of Time
Animal Drive – Judgement Day (Whitesnake cover)
Animal Drive – Goddamn Marathon
Dino Jelusić – Vjetar Na Vratima

Sad Serenity – Boomerang
MirrorMaze – Walkabout
Psion – Tyranny
Horāsan – Goryo
Haken – Eternal Rain

Edition 434 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast.

Playlist:

Between The Buried And Me – Memory Palace
Between The Buried And Me – Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)
Between The Buried And Me – The Coma Machine/Dim Ignition/Famine Wolf (live)
Between The Buried And Me – Blot
Between The Buried And Me – The Proverbial Bellow
Between The Buried And Me – The Tank (The Dear Hunter cover)
Between The Buried And Me – Sfumato/Human Is Hell (Another One With Love)
Between The Buried And Me – Fossil Genera (A Feed From Cloud Mountain) (live)
Between The Buried And Me – Psychomanteum
Between The Buried And Me – Aspirations (live)
Between The Buried And Me – Selkies: The Endless Obsession (live)

Edition 433 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast.

Playlist:

Between The Buried And Me – Absent Thereafter
Between The Buried And Me – Shevanel Cut A Flip
Between The Buried And Me – Mordecai
Between The Buried And Me – Selkies: The Endless Obsession
Between The Buried And Me – Blackened (Metallica cover)
Between The Buried And Me – White Walls
Between The Buried And Me – Informal Gluttony (live)
Between The Buried And Me – Swim To The Moon
Between The Buried And Me – Lunar Wilderness
Between The Buried And Me – Bloom/Melting City
Between The Buried And Me – Silent Flight Parliament/Goodbye to Everything Reprise (live)

Edition 432 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast.

Playlist:

Fates Warning – Exodus
Fates Warning – The Ivory Gate of Dreams
Fates Warning – Nothing Left to Say
Fates Warning – Epitaph

Queensrÿche – Roads To Madness
Queensrÿche – The Lady Wore Black
Queensrÿche – Suite Sister Mary
Queensrÿche – Neue Regel

Savatage – City Beneath The Surface
Savatage – Hounds
Savatage – Prelude To Madness/Hall Of The Mountain King
Savatage – I Believe

80’s Bonus: Dream Theater – The Killing Hand

Edition 431 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast.

Playlist:

Rimmar – 8th Sin
Dissona – Weaponized
Firmament – Liquid Lush
Vanitas – Behind the Mask
Hookjaw – Ashes Of My Pain

Now To Then: Scardust
Touch of Life (pts. I-III)
Game of Now
Over
Sands of Time (pts. I-V)
Shards (pts. I-III)

LizZard – The Orbiter
Countless Skies – Moon
Temic – Skeletons
Speaking to Stones – Echoes
Mastodon – Teardrinker (acoustic version)

Edition 430 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast.

Playlist:

Teramaze – Suspended, In Love
Amorphis – Dancing Shadow
BASK – The Traveler
Technologist – Reborn
Thought Chamber – Rainless

Now To Then: In The Woods…
A Misrepresentation Of I
A Wonderful Crisis
Empty Streets
Towards The Black Surreal
White Rabbit (live)
Cell
299 796 km/s
HEart of the Ages

Sunbeam Overdrive – Crimson Stains
Symbiosis – Bleak Void of Emptiness
Skyharbor – Kaikoma
Blind Man’s Daughter – Kyhell
Aeon Zen – Disconnected

Edition 429 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast.

Playlist:

Quantum Entanglement – Statistical Ensemble
Ihlo – Replica
Black Orchid Empire – Blood God
Cerebellion – The Fight
Ken Wilcox – The Ballad of Cicadas

Now To Then: Green Carnation
The Shores of Melancholia
Leaves of Yesteryear
The Burden Is Mine… Alone
The Quiet Offspring
Writings On the Wall 
Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness Part I
My Dark Reflections Of Life And Death

Tony Macalpine – The Raven
Fates Warning – Nothing Left To Say
Kyrbgrinder – People Of The Free World (Paranoid American)