With bands like Zealotry, Chthe’ilist, Execration, and Blood Incantation gaining great popularity and influence it’s a good time to go beyond the known and unknown in the genre, something that Nucleus has had a solid track record with.

It would be a mistake to say that science fiction ever needed a comeback in this genre but in recent years the genre’s love of increasingly cryptic themes and bizarre unearthly experimentation have opened the door for it to take a far more prominent role. It has been present in death metal as well though frequently in the shadow of more fantastical forms of lyricism, whether in the genre’s inhuman artistry and its dehumanizing lyricism with bands as varied as Nocturnus, Atheist, Demilich, Septic Flesh, Pestilence, Gorguts, Dragon (Poland), and Crystal Age. The worlds beyond our atmosphere, alien travelers, bizarre deep space phenomena, eldritch horrors from beyond the stars, even post-apocalyptic wastelands – death metal is often associated with visceral pulpy slasher horror and hyper-intense satanic panic as well as a good deal of cryptic occultism but as long as there has been the genre of horror in literature and film, an element of science fiction was present.

Seal the cryo-pods and grab the plasma rifle, something nasty just got on board the ship.

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