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artist: Voidstar Nocturnal
title: Nexus Teleport Fracture
year: 2026
genre: Black Metal
type: Album
label: Godz Ov War Productions
language: English
rel. date: 2026-03-13
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:45:11
size: 103.6 MiB / 8 tracks
rip date: 2026-07-24
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/v4zddqmtpmijk
tracklist:
01. Code Transmutation 2:48
02. 1/137 5:38
03. Saffron Neon 4:32
04. Holographic Neural Pathways 4:35
05. The Cypher of Sam─üdhi 4:49
06. Convergence of Aeons 3:50
07. Black Gold Ecstasy & Lumen Deformans 5:16
08. The Tower Part I & II 13:44
release notes:
Whilst your torso and head arrive at the intended location, your four
limbs have grimly jettisoned towards other unknown coordinates. Screaming
in horrendous agony as you realise that your miscalculation has triggered
this fatal teleportation error. Somewhere hidden within the astral realm,
the great multicoloured shape shifting baboon deity observes you with a
disgusted seething disdain. Accompanying your anguish in this new locale
are the discombobulating vibrations of this new album by Costa Rica's
Voidstar Nocturnal. This Progressive Blackened Death Metal trio is a
collective of insane musical scientists who bear in their possession a
debut album entitled 'Nexus Teleport Fracture'. The record brings with it
an obscuring disarray that is so chaotically imagined that it plunges
listeners into the band's own geometric fourth-dimensional interpretation
of a cosmic trippy hell.
Opening this morphing changeling is the instrumental 'Code Transmutation'
where a spacey Middle Eastern-tinged bass performance sits atop a bed of
dark synthwave electronics. It's an eerie psychedelic introduction into
the audible secret science of this record. The song '1/137' plays next.
It opens to a multi-layered polyrhythmic dance between dark toned guitars
and tribal drums. The growled vocals sit slightly hushed within the mix,
adding a layer of mystery to this rift-opening meditation. The track's
central section sees the band switch the tempo into fifth gear, the drums
here have a great tangible texture and their clarity within the
performance is stunning. I also love the tension that is offered by the
elastic range of guitar ideas and how well they coalesce with the
percussion. On 'Saffron Neon' this exercise in sophisticated tension
continues and of particular excellence, here is the nimble bass
performance by band member Kevin Moran. The instrumental track
'Holographic Neural Pathways' opens to more electronic instrumentation
with a Trance music inspired synth warble. A droning guitar accompanied
by scattered cymbal taps permeates the scene as the electronics die in
volume. The band awakens after this introduction and I love the Jazz
fusion swing and brisk chasing tempo of the drums.
Track seven 'Black Gold Ecstasy & Lumen Deformans' begins with an immense
tribalistic solo drum performance. This intriguing contribution feels
like suitable mystical fanfare for a dark magic clandestine ritual taking
place within a large temple courtyard... in space. The drums are later
accompanied by a gliding melodic bass pattern that merges somewhat
harmoniously with the percussion. The album's closer and ultimate course
arrives in the form of the fourteen minute mighty beast 'The Tower Part I
& II'. The track's opening two minutes feature a doomy and ever so
slightly Blues-tinged guitar riff and I love the Jazz Fusion tonality of
the bass during this section. Later on, the song moves through a lucid
floating phase of dark psychedelia, which is one moment in particular
that attests to Voidstar Nocturnal's biggest strength as a band; their
spectacular approach to atmosphere. After this gravity-less section a
loud simple guitar motif is played out with a fierce repetition, as the
track progresses, the full band manages to latch onto this motif and it
almost feels as if the band are spiraling with a disorientating
gravitational force. It is an incredible section, and, dare I say,
bordering on genius. This superbly executed transition then allows the
heavy chaotic strands of the band's core sound to re-emerge for the
song's final third. In this last section, Voidstar sounds more demonicly
malevolent than at any point on the album. The band again toys with
electronics and they eventually fade out in a converging percussive
storm. All in all, this grand finale is one of the most well considered
compositions that I've heard all year.
Nexus Teleport Fracture scratches a musical itch for me that I didn't
know I even had. It's an outlier for me amongst the great albums released
so far in 2026. The band's fusion of Progressive Extreme Metal,
Electronic Music and Jazz Fusion is an intelligently realised musical
vision. It takes a lot of real quality for me to be wowed by highly
progressive and indulgent extreme Metal, and Voidstar Nocturnal has done
just that. This is a record that is awash in magnificent production,
skilful instrumental performances and clever, attention seizing writing.
Repeated exposure to this LP will only serve to pull you further into the
portal of Voidstar's morphing celestial creation. Just as well, then,
that it's a realm I can't stop getting helplessly lost within.