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Spectral Empire are Kyle Martin and George Thompson -- two disco obsessives who have been recording in the darkness of their North London underground bunker over the past 12 months to bring the sound of darkness to the dancefloor. Their influences are telling: from the weird horror prog of Goblin and John Carpenter, to the Teutonic rhythm of Kraftwerk, to modern electronic pioneers such as Château Flight, Quiet Village and Zombi. The leitmotif? A strange proclivity for the cosmos.
Shrouded in a thick grey mist somewhere in the Pacific Ocean sits the U.S. aircraft carrier, The Alexandria — her generators drained, her engines deathly still. The shattered windows of the deserted control island stare blankly across a deck peppered with burn marks striped across smoldering planes and corpses.
Her starboard side is cracked and twisted into jaggedly sharp dents and blackened metallic bruises, evidence of a disastrous
rendezvous with an unidentified submarine now lying wrecked and silent on the sea bed below. The sub's nuclear payload seeps a poisonous miasma from the point of collision, drifting upwards with the sea's current, bathing the Alexandria in a concentrated dose of lethal radiation.
Below deck the crew is in Hell, monstrously mutated both physically and mentally from exposure to the sub's radioactive content. The scorched corridors and decimated mess halls act as a battleground for the maddened officers, their twisted forms withstanding the pain of the burning nuclear transformations, granting them the ability to fire beams of searing heat from their eyes and contorted fingers.
Back in Washington, The Alexandria's stationary radar position and complete lack of radio contact alerts the government. With an original scouting party butchered on arrival, now comes the first wave of a deadly military attack. As the mutinous battle spills out onto the top deck, the army desperately tries to reclaim The Alexandria before the hellish crew resigns it, and themselves, to a watery grave.
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Diary excerpt of Private M.A. Pennington, dated 24-08-198x
(found on unidentified burnt remains in the main hangar)
"Last night I finally made it to the second deck. My current position is in the Alexandria's parish.
I had hoped that it would remain untouched but even this holy place has been desecrated — to
my horror I found the remains of the pastor smeared across one of the pews.
It has taken me five days to get here from the engine rooms, traversing through the failed
barricades left by less fortunate survivors, hiding from the crew and what they have become. My
own blisters are growing in number and size, my vision is blurring, but I hope now I am above
the water level that I will have escaped the worst of it.
The crew are beyond help. My brief moments of rest are shattered by their strangled screams
echoing down the corridors as they fight one another with this terrible power they now possess.
Before breaking into the parish I was forced to use one of my last few bullets on Major Garcia,
shooting him in his left temple. His skin was ruptured and reddened and through his left
shoulder his bone was sticking straight out of a mound of welted flesh. His eyes were fixed
straight forward, bulging translucently pink and the texture seemed melted away, I assume as a
result of the beams. His front was soaked with the same black matter that I'm now repeatedly
coughing up.
Now that I'm above the sea level the natural light of day is beginning to creep in, so I will wait
until the cover of night to attempt reaching the elevator shaft to the hangar above. There I will be
able to commandeer an F-22. It's an ambitious escape, but I must break free of this living hell
before it's too late."
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Watch the prelude to the story here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJjhBHMG87M
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Tolouse Low Trax - Prokery -/ Visuals by Profilliby profilli2,150 views
Just watched again, Epic!
donpepperoni0 1 year ago