Frenzied souls who’d deign devotion to the Old Ones in hopes of traversing the limitless dark sans corpus now possess Heredia, Costa Rica-based progressive blackened death metal trio VOIDSTAR NOCTURNAL as vessel and vehicle for their summon on this eclectic yet blistering debut full-length album. Their folly will leave them bleeding, severed from the hive never to reclaim their bodies as ‘Nexus Teleport Fracture‘ narrates disembodiment and eventual witness of the final silence within its experimental sojourn. Their work is surreal, nigh psychedelic in its reach but not without rooting in the practicum of the rehearsal room as thier live-in-studio approach bestows organic grounding to what is otherwise a mutiny beyond the increasingly normative traditions of progressive death metal.

Voidstar Nocturnal formed circa 2023 between folks you’ll recognize from current/former configurations of black/death metal band Deiphago, death metal crew Corpse Garden, black/speed metal band Culto Negro and several other groups as their tentacular reach extends within the last few decades of their local extreme metal scenery. In that configuration they’d begin to work on a form of experimental death metal inspired by science fiction and more freely formed, live-jammed muse. You’ll get the full mouthful of grit and chaotically glinting obsidian per their debut demo (‘Fragments of the Infinite‘, 2025) where largely instrumental intent and raw sound give us the practical blueprint for several pieces found on this debut LP. The live-in-studio modus is a huge point of respect from my perspective, a point of realism and performance which experimental extreme metal practicum benefits from and in that case recalls the way Khthoniik Cerviiks tend to demo before each release, albeit in a different style.

Beyond having refined a few recognizable pieces considerably the big change felt here on ‘Nexus Teleport Fracture‘ comes with the addition of session/guest vocalist/co-lyricist Roy Zumbado Cognuchz (TŴR) who’d featured in related band Advent of Bedlam for over a decade prior. His contributions afford their efforts an esoteric metaphysically charged science fictive narrative performed via imposing, blood-coughing presence. That additional conductorial hand lends their work a slithering quality to start, slinking into the Killing Joke-worthy opening bap of “1-137” ’til a sort of psychedelic predatorial crawl manifests within the piece, the first ~2.5 minutes carrying a hint of the avant-garde trompe laced through their tempo map throughout. We could look to bands like Siderean or Portal for context of what comes next on this opening piece, a will to bend both temporal and tangible aspects of the riff into surrealistic thread. Their blend of both mechanistic and freely trotted, fusion-bound fills on this piece approximate militant black/death metal abstraction in their own unusual medium, a feat which extends into the follow-up of “Saffron Neon” right after.

What earlier Oranssi Pazuzu was for spaced post-punk/psychedelia in a black metal context here Voidstar Nocturnal seems to be for experimental, semi-dissonant blackened death metal but not all of this comes fully integrated into monolithic acts. Electro-tipped instrumental “Holographic Neural Pathways” diverges from the tone set, offering a different shard of their work entirely as it wields Jesu-esque chordage which spills into an all out jam. As it ignites mid-album this piece not only allows a space for the mind to pool but begins to briefly pan their scenic grasp away from tumultuous barrage; Stylized performance speaks to a likely unique live experience but in context of the full listen it offers a much-needed break in the tension built; As we begin to hit the crest of Side A the level of flow and detail available to ‘Nexus Teleport Fracture‘ is impressive but identifying the signature or even just the tightest pocket of the band’s work is yet unclear and it takes Side B to generally reinforce the balance between cosmic horror, their greater jammed intent and the tension of blackened death.

In context of the full listen “Convergence of Aeons” is an interstitial movement, a syncopated black metal groove which tanks through its verses in slowed but frequently milling progression. Though this is an engrossing dirge of a piece it doesn’t exactingly line up with one of the more surprising moments on ‘Nexus Teleport Fracture‘ in the percussion lead “Black Gold Ecstasy and Lumen Deformans”, another adventurous jam which seems to indicate a narrative/scenic shift in Voidstar Nocturnal‘s travels. Side B soon proves itself both reinforcing in some of its motioning but largely ends up surprising with every turn, such as the psychedelic doomed riff which introduces ~13+ minute closer “The Tower Part I and II”. Said piece generally recombines the elemental strata of the band’s ouevre into one long performative piece which culminates in a point of terminus which is fittingly destructive, uncomfortable and almost ragged compared to earlier pieces. It leaves the full listen feeling disturbed, torn apart in the end, an unusually sour note of nihil.

As a feat of performance, a first larger work and an idea in process for a small handful of years ‘Nexus Teleport Fracture‘ offers an ideal debut statement wherein there is both room to expand and contract their larger concept into greater personalization in the future. It may very well prove too lax for dissonant black/death skulls or not prettied/harried enough for prog-death obsessives but the cosmic horrified space represented within lands as unique, dark yet virtuosic in its mind-altering advance. It isn’t as much of a riff album as it is a performance, it’d make sense to get Voidstar Nocturnal on stage Roadburn for example, but they could still hang in many a dark space with this material. A very high recommendation.

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