STCBM037: Bouncing Dot

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

The Algorithm - Bouncing Dot (from Polymorphic Code)
Panic Room - Screens (from Skin)
Sieges Even - Lighthouse (from The Art of Navigating By the Stars)
Konchordat - Save Me From The Rain (from Rise To The Order)
IQ - Sacred Sound (from Dark Matter)
Ray Wilson - Propaganda Man (from Propaganda Man)
Knifeworld - Secret Words (from Bottled Out of Eden)
Galahad - Termination (from Empires Never Last)
The Pineapple Thief - Snowdrops (from Little Man)

The Eighties at 8: 
Asia - Sole Survivor (from Asia)
It Bites - You’ll Never Go to Heaven (from The Big Lad in the Windmill)

Kula Shaker - Sound of Drums (from Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts)
Also Eden - For Bumble (from About Time)

Hope you enjoyed it…
(repeats on Progzilla.com Friday at 1.30pm)

STCBM036: Crossfire

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Grey Lady Down - Crossfire (from Star-Crossed)
The Room - As Crazy As It Seems (from Beyond the Gates of Bedlam)
Jadis - Hear Us (from Somersault)
Lonely Robot - Airlock (from Please Come Home)
Kino - Perfect Tense (from Kino)
Times Up - When Kings Fall (from Sea of Schemes)
Martin Orford - Take It To the Sun (from The Old Road)
Von Hertzen Brothers - Prospect For Escape (from Nine Lives)
Messenger - Piscean Tide (from Illusory Blues)

The Eighties at 8: 
Ultravox - We Stand Alone (from Rage in Eden)
Pink Floyd - Two Suns in the Sunset (from The Final Cut)

Nine Stones Close - One Eye on the Sunrise (from One Eye on the Sunrise)
Muse - United States Of Eurasia / Collateral Damage (from The Resistance)

Hope you enjoyed it…
(repeats on Progzilla.com Friday at 1.30pm)

STCBM035: Easter

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Marillion - Easter (from Season’s End)
Pallas - Violet Sky (from XXV)
Cynic - True Hallucination Speak (from Kindly Bent to Free Us)
Lacuna Coil - Our Truth (from Karmacode)
Tom Slatter - Mother's Been Talking To Ghosts Again (from Three Rows of Teeth)
Gazpacho - Black Lily (from March of Ghosts)
Subsignal - The Stillness Beneath The Snow (from Paraíso)
Red Bazar - Queen of the Night Part 1 (from Tales From The Bookcase)
The Reasoning - The Thirteenth Hour (from Adverse Camber)
RPWL - Silenced (from The RPWL Experience)

The Eighties at 8: 
Pendragon - Alaska (from The Jewel)
Rainbow - Eyes of Fire (from Straight Between the Eyes)

Pure Reason Revolution - Blitzkrieg (from Hammer and Anvil)
Mystery - The Mourning Man (from Destiny?)

Hope you enjoyed it…
(repeats on Progzilla.com Friday at 1.30pm)

STCBM034: New Day Rising

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Von Hertzen Brothers - New Day Rising (from New Day Rising)
DeeExpus - Me and My Downfall (from King of Number 33)
Anathema - A Simple Mistake (from We're Here Because We're Here)
Antimatter - Black Eyed Man (from The Judas Table)
Twisted - Stranger in a Strange Land (from Peace Through Superior Firepower)
Also Eden - 1949 (from Think of the Children)
Steve Rothery - Morpheus (from The Ghosts of Pripyat)
Paul Cusick - Everblue (from Focal Point)

The Eighties at 8:
Peter Gabriel - Intruder (from Peter Gabriel III)
Jethro Tull - Broadsword (from The Broadsword & The Beast)

Full Nothing - Where the River Flows to Die (from Full Nothing)
Kalle Vilpuu - The Aliens (have Landed) (from Silver Lining)
Queensrÿche - Silent Lucidity (from Empire)
Pendragon - The King Of The Castle (from The Masquerade Overture)

Hope you enjoyed it…
(repeats on Progzilla.com Friday at 1.30pm)

STCBM033: Welcome Back My Friends...

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 1st Impression, Pt 2 (from Brain Salad Surgery)
Fractal Mirror - Floods (from Slow Burn 1)
Agent Fresco - Eyes of a Cloud Catcher (from A Long Time Dreaming)
Flicker Rate - Elusive Rain (from Flicker Rate EP)
The Fierce & the Dead - Chief (rehearsal recording) (from Magnet vinyl EP)
Arcane - Little Burden (from Known/Learned)
Mike Kershaw - Shades of Quiet Terror (from Reason to Believe)
Dec Burke - Destroy All Monsters (from Destroy All Monsters)
Cosmograf - Stuck in the Wood (from Capacitor)
The Mute Gods - Feed the Troll (from Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me)

The Eighties at 8:
Marillion - Script For a Jester’s Tear (from Script For a Jester’s Tear)
Pink Floyd - When The Tigers Broke Free (single version) (from When The Tigers Broke Free)

Steven Wilson - Drive Home (from The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories))
The Enid - Mocking Bird (from First Light)
Amorphis - Under the Red Cloud (from Under the Red Cloud)

Hope you enjoyed it…
(repeats on Progzilla Radio Friday at 1.30pm)

STCBM032: International Women's Day Special

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Touchstone - Joker in the Pack (from Wintercoast)
Panic Room - Freedom to Breathe (from Satellite)
Caamora - Invisible (from Walk on Water)
Colourflow - Empire (2014 remix) (from First Light)
Crimson Sky - Crimson Sky (from Dawn)
The Reasoning - Script Switch Trigger (from Adverse Camber)
Karnataka - Moment in Time (from The Gathering Light)
Cailyn - Miranda (from Voyager)
Chantel McGregor - Home (from Lose Control)
Nightwish - Nemo (from Once)

The Eighties at 8:
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting (from Hounds of Love)
All About Eve - In the Meadow (from All About Eve)

Maschine - Venga (from Rubidium)
Mostly Autumn - Another Life (from Passengers)
Breathing Space - Drowning (from Below the Radar)

Hope you enjoyed it…

(repeats on Progzilla Radio Friday at 1.30pm)

STCBM031: Superimposter

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Oceansize - Superimposter (from Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up)
British Theatre - As The Leaves Are To The Limbs (from Dyed in the Wool Ghost)
Bruce Soord - A Thousand Daggers (from Bruce Soord)
The Pineapple Thief - 3000 Days (from Someone Here Is Missing)
Coheed & Cambria - Here to Mars (from The Color Before The Sun)
Stolen Earth - Into the Virgin Snow (from A Far Cry from Home)
Stiltskin - 14th March 1962 (from Unfulfillment)
RPWL - Roses (from World Through My Eyes)
Mystery - If You See Her (from Delusion Rain)
The Dreaming Tree - Whisper Song (from Progress Has No Patience)

The Eighties at 8:
Genesis - Dodo/Lurker (from Abacab)
XTC - Generals and Majors (from Black Sea)

Comedy of Errors - The Answer (from Fanfare & Fantasy)
Magnum - No God or Saviour (from Sacred Blood "Divine" Lies)

Hope you enjoyed it…

(repeats on Progzilla Radio on Friday at 1.30pm)

STCBM030: Lost

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Riverside - Lost (Why Should I Be Frightened of a Hat?) (from Love, Fear And The Time Machine)
Gandalf's Fist - Orphans of the Sky (from A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer)
"Eh! Geoff Mann Band” - What’s In a Name? (from Ministry of the Interior)
Day Six - 7th Sign (from The Grand Design)
Amplifier - The Consultancy (from Amplifier)
Angra - Carolina IV (from Holy Land)
God is an Astronaut - Golden Sky (from Age of the Fifth Sun)
Devin Townsend Project - Seams (from Ghost)
The Reasoning - 21 Grams (from And Another Thing…)

The Eighties at 8:
Yes - Leave It (from 91025)
Twelfth Night - Fact and Fiction (from Fact and Fiction)

Jethro Tull - Hunt by Numbers (from J-Tull Dot Com)
Howard Sinclair - Meaningless Mondays (from The Delicious Company of Freaks)
Airbag - No Escape (from Identity)
Spock’s Beard - Shining Star (from Feel Euphoria)
Damian Wilson - When I Leave This Land (from Cosmas)

Hope you enjoyed it…

(the Podcast of this edition of Sounds That Can Be Made can be played/downloaded here)

X Marks the Spot!

It's ben a little while since I've seen some proper metal being played so I had been looking forward to seeing both Symphony X and supporting band Myrath for some time now. Having had to do a mad dash to pick Saul up from Uni in Cheltenham before the gig started, we missed most of the opening act, Melted Space, do to the slowness in the Bierkeller staff getting people through the doors. What we heard was a bit bizarre with one song sung by two female vocalists and the last by one clean male and one death metal. Still from the bit I heard it might be worth checking them out.

Symphony X at The Bierkeller (photo copyright Bristol 24/7)

I've been a fan of Myrath for a few years now, my love of Oriental Progressive Metal having moved beyond just Orphaned Land to a few other bands now.  Unfortunately their new album Legacy hadn't been released in the UK yet so I was unfamiliar with the songs off their fourth album and the sound sucked badly, so much the keyboard (which adds so much of the oriental sounds of the band) was largely inaudible. A real shame as they are a good band and I got the impression Symphony X fans unfamiliar with them were not impressed.

I guess Symphony X had their own guy on the mixing desk as the sound soon improved by factor of about 1000 during their first couple of numbers. I was surprised, but not unhappy, they played all of their latest album Underworld, but it is a great album so no worries there. This was the first time I have seen the band and must say that lead singer Russell Allen is a metal god! Aside from his superb singing, his ability to work an audience was fantastic. You have to wonder why Dream Theater didn't poach him years ago!

Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me so I borrowed the above picture from Bristol 24/7 and recommend  you read their much better review of the night here!

STCBM029: Without You

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Arena - The Bishop of Lufford (from The Unquiet Sky)
Symphony X - Without You (from Underworld)
Myrath - Tales of the Sands (from Tales of the Sands)
Riverside - Towards the Blue Horizon (from Love, Fear and the Time Machine)
Anathema - Ariel (from Distant Satellites)
3 - You Are the Alien (from You Are the Alien)
PreHistoric Animals - One Day Came a Ghost (from One Day Came a Ghost)
Tom Slatter - Some Of The Creatures Have Broken The Locks On The Door To Lab 558 (from Fit the Fourth)
Pendragon - For When the Zombies Come (from Men Who Climb Mountains)

Hope you enjoyed it…
(repeats on Progzilla.com Friday at 2pm)