Manta - Into the night

Deep beneath the icy surface of the planetoid’s frigid oceans slumbered an extraterrestrial behemoth, the progenitor from which a range of species sown across the galaxy’s furthest reaches had been sown. Its hulking cartilaginous form had spent eons there in the darkness where no light could fall, warmed and nourished by the geothermal vents that spewed forth the vital gasses of the planetoid’s molten core. Securing the domains of its progeny across galactic space had been a monumental endeavour even for a primordial creature such as itself, and thus in stasis it had lain for millennia, an ancestor forgotten and a creator unknown.

The creature had been roused by the tectonic shifting of the planetoid’s crust, a clocklike pattern that operated on a scale of ages incomprehensible to any mortal being. A full cycle had passed in the shifting of the continental plates upon which it lay, and the great MANTA was stirred by their rumbling alarm. As it awoke, the first flap of its outstretched fins formed a vortex of whirling water amidst the oceanic depths, and far above the oceanic surface ice began to crack under this distant pressure before shattering into shimmering shards that glistened in the blue light of the planetoids nearby neutron star. From the gaping maw of this vortex, the great MANTA emerged, its undulating wings whipping the winds into a monstrous gale as it took to the skies. With an otherworldly shriek, the ancient beast shot forth into the skies above, dissappearing INTO THE NIGHT of the endless space from whence it had came.

MANTA flies to the fore of the EATBRAIN horde with four tracks featuring aqueous basslines and rhythms that surge with interstellar force as he dives INTO THE NIGHT for his latest release on the EATBRAIN label.

Written by Gwen Kubik