The album is a darkly satirical look at humanity’s relationship with the cosmos. Looking into the near future where human beings mine asteroids for precious metals with all the attendant exploitation present in terra-based industries today. We start from the sun and move outwards.

Heavy Metal on venus is a dark warning on the consequences of climate change on earth, presenting a literal hellscape of molten metal raining on the scorched plains.

Next we view Earth through alien eyes recieving from the scrambled & babbling radio signals we’ve been emitting for over a century, before moving on through the solar system taking in comets, asteroids and moons of Saturn and Jupiter.

The album then leaves the solar system with Voyager 2, takes us to the deepest darkest interstellar voids before leaving us standing on the shore of an alien planet buzzing with life.

I wanted to base each piece on my emotional reaction to the location in question, which turns out to be a mixture of awe and even fear. These are after all, huge natural forces the scope of which is so much larger that our tiny lives. So when I think about places like the bootes void, millions of light years of nothing, I try to imagine what it would be like to be in the middle of that, just for a split second. A place so alien, dark and cold that it defies any human experience. It is that strangeness and mystery that I wanted to capture in my music. We are made of the same stuff as all of these structures. The universe exists within and without us.

I'm influenced by so many great musicians who've addressed this subject matter in the past. Eno & Tangerine Dream spring instantly to mind. But also nineties ambient like the sadly missed Pete Namlook, Monolake, modern classical composers like Max RIchter, Philip Glass and even drone rockers like Sun o:))). I was watching Star Trek alongside producing these and that is also a huge influence. I hope you enjoy listening to these songs.

Full purchase comes with a 20 page colour digital booklet