Oxiplegatz - "Sidereal Journey" [1998]

Artist: Oxiplegatz

Title: Sidereal Journey

Genre: Progressive Metal, Industrial Black Metal

Country: Sweden

Release date: 1998

Track List:

1. A Black Hole Is Swallowing the Sun...
2. They Learned of Its Existence...
3. For Persistence...
4. Bringer of Obliteration...
5. Into Nowhere...
6. For Persistence...
7. So It's Our Final Hour... 
8. The Light from the Perishing Sun...
9. Ahead - The Universe! 
10. No Longer Will We Be the Meek Ones...
11. How Could We Ever Know...
12. Head for That Star...
13. As One Surveys This Ocean...
14. The Iondrive a Silent Vibration...
15. Several Planet in Orbit...
16. Enemies!?
17. Once More Proven - We Are Not Alone
18. Lightspeed - Plunge into Hyperspace
19. No Clue to Where This Jump Is Taking Them... 
20. Breathless...
21. Turning Up the Power, Accelerating Again...
22. This Time Passage Was Violent...
23. Rings, Spread like Rippled Water...
24. They Stare Unblinking...
25. Eternal Night...
26. How Many Worlds...
27. These Beings Failed and Perished... 
28. Ahead Once More... 
29. This Journey Has Taken Us... 
30. The Moon Was Land in Orbit... 
31. Can This Be What We Hore For...
32. Terraform - Alter the Environment... 
33. And So One Day the Sleepers Waken... 

The third and the final release from Oxiplegatz contains 33 tracks, all under 3 minutes long (the average track length is less than 1:30). Like all Oxiplegatz releases, it's a sci-fi themed concept album with dual vocals (male and female, although the female vocals are far from predominant). Reminds me of "The Invasion Discography" by Giganic Brain, even if the sound is very different.

By now, Alf Svensson doesn't seem to be active in the music scene at all - as far as I know, first he decided to focus on his tattoo shop, and now he's an art designer in a video game development company. Anyway, his work in Oxiplegatz is remarkable and definitely deserves more recognition than it got at its time.