Station Obscura follows the interstellar wanderings of one astronaut-scientist Dr. Steve Apollo as he meanders the expanse of the universe, capturing stories he picks up with his frequency interceptor. Each season Dr. Apollo and the Station Obscura Earth team releases the latest three-episode story acquired by the Doctor from a new voice in our galaxy. Become a Station Obscura writer! Visit stationobscura.com for more info.
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Rising out of the dark ages of nu-metal, The SIDESHOW led the charge for the New Wave of heavy music at 98.1 WQAQ, initiating a loud rock revival at the prestigious, student-run radio station. What Brian began in 2002 would grow into something bigger than he ever imagined. Garnering critical acclaim with the addition of Nick in 2003, The SIDESHOW would evolve and continue even after its creators g...raduated. Brian and Nick passed the torch to the ROCK(jock), who further revolutionized the p ...
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SWM & TTFN As we announce at the top of this annual Shit We Missed episode, this will be the last show for a while. Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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We Did a Top 15 List This Year Because We Make Up Our Own Rules That’s right. We changed our Best Of list this yer. Not only did we Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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How Are We at the End of the Year Already?! Somehow, this year flew by and dragged on at the same time. Was 2021 an Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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A Grande Finale… …for our 2021 album reviews! That’s right! This is the last regular show for this year. We go out with a (head)bang Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Gobble Gobble Motherf%&ker! Here in the US it, it is almost Thanksgiving, and though, generally speaking, the world may continue to be a dumpster fire, Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Bringing the Heat We have some bangers for your this week, including two that will definitely be in our top three albums for the year. Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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What Could Be Construed as a Melody We got a couple of big ones again this week, and – as we note in the show Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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An Episode that Ties Itself Together The title will make sense as you listen. Oh, and what you get by listening are not only reviews Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Ten. FREAKing. Years. That’s right. 10 years of bringing you the best – and worst – in music to make your ears bleed. 450 episodes Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Kaiju Metal is a Thing? We have one band that seems to think so, even if we don’t agree with some of their sonic interpretation. Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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It Can’t Rain All the Time… …but it has been raining a lot as hurricane season is underway in the US. Your hosts recently got Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Late for the Kill… Yeah, this is coming out really late. We know. Once again, life got in the way. Actually, it’s still in the Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Let the Jaws Hit the Floor It has been while but we finally have an album that made our jaws dropped. Knocked our socks off. Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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How about maybe we don’t? With some big names in this week’s episode, you’d think – or at least hope – there’s some good Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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The Dynamics Taking inspiration from the episode number, we checked out four new albums this time! Though all these releases are different styles of Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Getting Back to “Normal” Concerts are starting to come back!! Some of them are going to be earth-shattering!! Exciting times! Exclamation points! Wanna know what else is Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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You Can’t Say We Didn’t Show Up Sorry for the long wait!! Sometimes life gets in the way. We’re here now, though, and we have Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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45 Seconds from Awesome We have a good dose of heavy for you this episode, including the highly anticipated new album from Gojira. Unlike most Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Chill Pill We calm it down this week, reviewing some albums much less intense than last week’s choices. In that, we have a new band, Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Vast Forest of Impaled Cadavers We have some dark stuff for you this week, including the the fifteenth album from the titans of Death Metal, Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Trip Like I Do In addition tor reviewing three new releases, we also kick off the show discussing some show and tour announcements! Yeah, you Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Dabbling in Body Horror We tried really hard to do an episode themed around bands with body horror names. However, despite our efforts, we only Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Rip Off, Rage, and Ruin I’m drawing a blank on some clever copy to put here. So, just start listening to the show and we Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Technical, Groovy, and Grimy We went extra heavy this week. Why the extra br00tal? No particular reason – these are just the albums that fit Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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The Complexity of Simplicity Sorry this is late, but here is our first full episode on 2021 releases! As you can see, we have our Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 433: Frozen Soul, Harakiri for the Sky 2021 Album Reviews + Black Royal and Dool Sh!t We Missed
Off to a Groovy Start As we work our way deeper into 2021, we transition with a hybrid episode of sorts. We have two brand Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Our 20 Favorite Albums of One of Our Least Favorite Years This is it! It is finally the end of 2020, and at the 11th hour, Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Beginning the End of this Clusterf#%k of a Year We’re almost there, folks! We know the world is not going to magically change come January Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 429: Dark Tranquillity, Killer Be Killed, Within the Ruins 2020 Album Reviews + Crew Nation Donor Pick
Well, This Is A First There’s nothing particularly special about this episode aside from it being the last regular episode for this shitty year…and a Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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What Do You Call a Man with No Arms and No Legs in the Ocean? There’s a couple of big releases this show, and we Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Third Time’s a Charm? We inadvertently chose to review three albums this week that would be our third time reviewing the three bands. It’s safe Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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We Have Company In addition to our Crew Nation donor, we have another very special guest join us this week. Long-time listeners haven’t heard this Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 425: Napalm Death, Skeletal Remains, Fires in the Distance, Madrost 2020 Album Reviews + Crew Nation Donor Pick
Animal-like Behavior This time around, we have a variety of heavy. Grindcore, Industrial, Death Metal, Melodic Death, Doom, Thrash, Progressive…and that is across just four Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Creamy Center Death appears to be the name of the game this episode. We have it in a few forms, namely Progressive, Old School, and Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Get to know the creator and writer of What Lies Beyond, Zak Adams. Zak talks with Station Obscura editor Devon Hoar and tech man Greg about his writing path, favorite movies, inspirations, and tips for other writers. stationobscura.com Adams is the creator and writer of What Lies Beyond, a Station Obscura story. He grew up in Charlotte, VT, and stu…
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The finale: The safety of our astronaut uncertain, his fate in the hands of Dr. Eliza Rodriguez. She stands before the executive board of the Cage Corporation - a collection of the most powerful business people and innovative scientific thinkers on planet earth. They hang on her every word as she delivers her plea for a 34 million mile mission to r…
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Opethian Transitions: Part Deux Unlike the last episode, this one doesn’t actually have anything to do with Opeth. However, our transitions of styles from review-to-review Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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On the surface of Mars, Dr. Parry is nearing his destination. For a full cast list or to become a Station Obscura writer, visit stationobscura.com
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What Lies Beyond follows doctors Eliza Rodriguez and John Parry as they navigate the cosmos on behalf of the illustrious Cage Corporation to assess the readiness of the world’s most intelligent, most human AI robot. Released over three weeks, we’ll accompany these scientists as they risk finding out what lies beyond. stationobscura.com…
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Episode 422: Misery Signals, Orbit Culture, Terminal Nation 2020 Album Reviews + Crew Nation Donor Pick
Opethian Transitions In this episode we come up with ideas on how to be better at social media, review some rad music, and have a Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 421: Bury Tomorrow, Black Crown Initiate, Night In Gales 2020 Album Reviews + Crew Nation Donor Pick
High Fidelity We have some quality releases this week. Like, at least two of these releases will likely be in our end of the year Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em So, in case you haven’t noticed, we themed this episode! Enjoy it, because it probably isn’t gonna happen again Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Station Obscura's first story, What Lies Beyond, premieres August 2020. Are you ready to find out what lies beyond? Drs. Eliza Rodriguez and John Parry have been tasked by Cage Corporation to assess the readiness of the world's most intelligent, most human AI robot. Following their story to Mars and making contact with the AI, writer Zak Adams has …
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Episode 419: Protest the Hero, Vampire, Let Us Prey 2020 Album Reviews + Inside Out Music Showcase
In Which We Try to Make Things a Little Less Shitty If you think about it, we help in our own way by entertaining and Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Notes! Actually, yes we do. Well, at least Brian needs notes. Regardless, we have some good recommendations this week, some Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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There Be Quibbles Ahead We have a solid set of releases for you this episode! They aren’t perfect – which is obviously what we discuss Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 416: Paradise Lost, Antichrist Demoncore, Aether Realm 2020 Album Reviews + Southern Lord Showcase
Meow We have starkly diverse line-up of reviews this episode. I mean, we usually have a mix of styles, but there were some sharp transitions Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 415: Katatonia, Barishi, Werewolves, Umbrae Vitae 2020 Album Reviews + The Artisan Era Showcase
Choose a Side We have some really good discussions this week, and a bunch of differing opinions. To the latter, Nick and Brian only completely Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 414: The Black Dahlia Murder, Benighted, Wvrm, Abysmal Dawn 2020 Album Reviews + The Artisan Era Showcase
Nick Doesn’t Care The title sums up one host’s feelings for 3/4 of these albums. Can you guess which is the one he really likes? Continue readingBy The Sideshow Podcast
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