#starrunner

Star Runner released on April 1st 2026!

No April Fools': My second album is flowing somewhere in the stream of today's music, and to me it's another one of my life's work. It is of course a sequel to Forerunner, preserving most of the original sound, and it consists of both new ideas and ideas that didn't make it on Forerunner (obviously, because of overwork). And even here, some excesses remained that might have to be shifted to a future third album. Both albums are cracking the 2 hours mark, ensuring that you have plenty of stuff to listen to, if you're ever in discovery mode.

What i think makes this album special is that it is very clearly structured and that it presents all the verses and choruses that haunted me in my head way before i did the album. I like to put it into the NWOBHM category, maybe because this is the genre where i feel at home the most... even though i'm austrian. After dabbling for 20 years in home recording, i'm happy to have reached that momentum where i can listen to my own songs without regrets. Production-wise i think it turned out as it should be.

It's good to be in some avant-garde corner, as this is where i've found the most interesting music. This album is not some experimental diddle like i used to do years ago, but finally stabilized. I think it is safe, it won't eat you. There's no showoff of magic guitar skills or an attempt to be hard and wild. I think it can stand with the big dogs, so i encourage everyone to have some fun with it. Hopefully it does it's thing - otherwise i will shift even more of my madness into the third album. I'm a bit afraid of not gaining enough traction (as many serious artists are), but hey, we know that the world is irredeemably fucked. Let's imagine it's the 80's and i just published this. :)

Live shows: i don't do live shows at this stage, as i feel overwhelmed even thinking about it, and it would take a lot of discipline and personal life shifts. I can imagine it would be great though, but my songs were mostly made for the speaker-listening experience at home (they're also long!). It's the results that matter. So if you have time to ever get across this: Thank you.