{"id":18768,"date":"2020-02-22T11:46:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T16:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=18768"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:47:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:47:49","slug":"album-review-stellar-death-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=18768","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Stellar Death &#8211; EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudden Death<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>EP<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>February 15, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2020 has been a great year so far for new music, and one of the acts I am really psyched about lately is Stellar Death. Stellar Death is an instrumental based project featuring Brave guitarists Matt Kozar and Scott Loose of Virginia based melodic prog rockers Brave. When listening to Stellar Death, I can hear many of Loose\u2019s and Kozar\u2019s influence. \u201cThe Astronomer\u201d opens with a beautiful Pink Floyd inspired intro and then steadily bleeds into a Dream Theater\/Fates Warning sound only to segue into a Queensryche-Esque interlude (think Rage for Order.)<\/p>\n<p>The two-song EP closes with the beautifully haunting \u201cEndless.\u201d Coming right off of the heals of something as powerfully dynamic as \u201cThe Astronomer,\u201d \u201cEndless\u201d is an ambient, ethereal composition that is one of those songs that when listening I almost felt like I could touch the notes as they made their way from the speakers and into my room. If \u201cThe Astronomer\u201d was the chaotic takeoff and exiting of the stratosphere, \u201cEndless\u201d was the subtle, floating return to reality that I wish would\u2019ve gone on much longer.<\/p>\n<p>Stellar Death has done a great job by not inundating listeners. With only two songs, this release is short, sweet, intriguing, and definitely, has me wanting more. I can totally hear where these guys want to go and where they want to take us. It\u2019s the beginning of what I believe to be a sonic journey of the senses and I can\u2019t wait for more.<\/p>\n<p>You can download the EP by going to <a href=\"https:\/\/stellardeath.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>https:\/\/stellardeath.bandcamp.com\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Astronomer\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hafRKolCupE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Endless\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ENff2NFsz8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudden Death EP February 15, 2020 2020 has been a great year so far for new music, and one of the acts I am really psyched about lately is Stellar Death. Stellar Death is an instrumental based project featuring Brave guitarists Matt Kozar and Scott Loose of Virginia based melodic prog rockers Brave. When listening to Stellar Death, I can hear many of Loose\u2019s and Kozar\u2019s influence. \u201cThe Astronomer\u201d opens with a beautiful Pink Floyd inspired intro and then steadily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":18769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[698,2087,2080,2230,2229,2085,2077,180,2078,2090,2084,2086,2079,2076,2196,2088,2089,1844,2081,2082,2287,2083],"class_list":["post-18768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-brave","tag-classic-rock","tag-classic-rock-blog","tag-folk-music-blog","tag-folk-rock-blog","tag-hard-rock","tag-hard-rock-blog","tag-heavy-metal","tag-heavy-metal-blog","tag-instrumental-bands","tag-mailchimp","tag-metal","tag-metal-blog","tag-music-blog","tag-occult-rock-blog","tag-prog-rock","tag-progressive-rock","tag-psych-rock","tag-psych-rock-blog","tag-psychedelic-rock-blog","tag-stellar-death","tag-wordpress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/82520806_140567840752775_7573232764074328064_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19592,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions\/19592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}