Encelado - ain't no party like a technical death metal party in space

Encelado

Pillars of Creation

Regenerate Records

29 April 2025

Houston, we have no problem. When the vastness of space informs the lyrics of your wrist-breaking, arthritis-tendonitis technical death metal, then we get a particular soundtrack to the journey to the stars. Star Wars! Star Trek! Twinkle Twinkle Little Star! They all need this music. In point of fact, I have to get on this case, as they say in Japanese, trés muito prontíssimo, and make some phone calls to a couple of high-ranking officials at NASA.

NASA needs this music! Make this music the soundtrack to space exploration voyages. In addition, Elon Musk and I have discussed this music for the upcoming voyages to colonize Mars. All in all, Elon Musk agrees that space travel and technical death metal make for a fruitful partnership. After all, with lyrics expressing the anxiety of adaptability to the rigors of life for the fragile-body humans in the face of planets, stars, constellations and galaxies, how can you not: "In the vast expanse of cosmos, where darkness engulfs light, we drown in the darkness of our souls, a symphony of chaos and control." Neat, right?!

Therefore, here's a nifty EP of technical death metal to get the blood pumping. Is this catchy? No. is this melodic? No. Will you be able to hum the songs? No. Well, hey, it's music that sounds like warp-speed acrobatics with instruments and low, gruff inscrutable growling. The fun is in the intensity-speed of the cluster. After a few listens it begins to make more sense, and it begins to sound more coherent. Then, the flashes of melody, the gleams of memorability began to fit together like a puzzle. Frankly, only the musician themselves remember the songs very well because they are the one who built the songs from scratch, from smaller ideas, a riff here and there. The rest of us? We are just here for the dizzy heights of the ride to boldly go where no one has gone before.