“Mech! What are you listening to? Mech! Hello? What on Earth are you listening to?” “Oh, sorry! Just gonna lower this a bit. But good ear, Captain! This is actually from Earth. From the before-times even.”
“Oh! Now that's something. What are they called then?”
“Ehm, about that… I was actually hoping you could help me with the pronunciation. With you being from there and all.”
“Let’s see then… Well, they’ve actually spelled it wrong, you know.”
“Trust me, I don’t.”
“It’s Skraeckoedlan. International spelling maybe? Anyways, it’s like Horror Lizard or Dinosaur. Pretty cool. Both the name and the music. Do you know anything about them?” “Not really. It’s basically all in Swedish.”
“Heavy riff quartet Skraeckoedlan are telling tales draped in metaphor. Fuzzy stories buried in melody are cloned into a one of a kind copy of an otherwise eradicated species. Previo…” “Are you just reading that from somewhere, Aijk?”
“Why, yes Captain. But not just anywhere. This is straight from the source.” “Spoken like the Science Officer you are. Well, the one you sometimes act like.” “Funny stuff. But yeah, this is their own words, from their own website. I'm rather proficient in using the old web, if I do say so myself.”
“Their own website? Now that’s fancy!”
“Quite knowledgeable about the before-times, are you, Mech?”
“Hey, at least I found them! Well, I mean, they’re a big band and all, I didn’t like… discover them. But they’re great, right Captain?”
“I think I’m starting to really like them, yeah. Mech, great music tip! You’ve earned yourself some time off. Not that any of you seem to be working much anyways. And it's not that I don’t believe you about them being big or anything. But I’m from where they are and I’ve never heard of them before. Aijk, could your proficient self enlighten us please?” “No, Mech’s right. they’re big. Huge even. It seems they started out in 2009, in this town called Norrköping. They had some success their first 15-ish years, with three albums called Äppelträdet, Sagor and Earth. And a lot of live shows. Oh, and look! They got crazy good-looking merch and artwork! But from what I can tell it really kicked off big time with their fourth album. Like, world-wide success and recognition and tours all over their globe. I know the world was way smaller back then, but still, that’s amazing!”
“And that’s when they got their own website?”
“Yes Mech. That’s when they got their own website.”
“Alright, as your Captain I order you all, myself included, to stop with whatever you are doing. We are listening to this fourth album of theirs right now. What’s it called, Aijk?” “One sec… here we go. It’s the… you’re not gonna believe this, Captain. It’s called The Vermillion Sky!”
“Holy Bumblebeast! No way? I guess some Northerners have better tastes than others then. Well come on, play it! And make it loud. Like Mech-loud.”
“Hold on, Captain. Looks like we have a message incoming.”
“...trol to… million…”