{"id":105204,"date":"2025-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105204"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:50:56","slug":"album-review-starforce-beyond-the-eternal-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-starforce-beyond-the-eternal-night\/","title":{"rendered":"STARFORCE – Beyond The Eternal Night (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

STARFORCE
\nBeyond The Eternal Night<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Nice, if somewhat eye-frazzling cover art adorns this debut full-length from Mexican metallers StarForce. Since 2021 the band have issued two split projects, an EP (The Universe Is Mine<\/em>) and several singles, so it only seemed right that the next move should be an album.<\/p>\n

After a very sci-fi opening (\u2018Up To The Collapse In The Far Future\u2019) the combo strikes from the solar system with \u2018Andr\u00f3meda\u2019. The cosmic vibrations are obvious as Mely \u201cWild\u201d Solis leads us into a scintillating storm of sizzling axe work and her own scorching vocal tirades. From the off I\u2019m reminded of those Chastain albums of the 80s, like The Voice Of The Cult<\/em> (1988), where mesmeric guitar work would cavort with strong female vocals. Mely is quite the powerhouse, flaming towards the heavens like a screaming firework exploding at its peak.<\/p>\n

Everything about this opus is a sonic outpouring of molten metal that has no hesitancy in steering towards thrashy outbursts. \u2018Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll Slave\u2019 begins with such a grandiose crescendo of heavy sticks and bass, the guitars smouldering within the fiery rhythms as the listener is swept up in electric exuberance. Striding like a glistening warhorse unphased by enemy fire, StarForce continues to nod towards otherworldly forces as \u2018Space Warrior\u2019 gallops to the loping glory of Angel Pineda\u2019s bass. The axe duo of Kevin Valencia and Yeux Garcia propell this adventure into further metallic stratospheres, shredding and riffing with effortless fluidity.<\/p>\n

Songs like \u2018Prophecy\u2019 smoulder and simmer before launching into a blistering attack steered by the speed metal riffs and hammering drums of Rockdrigo Rodriguez. \u2018Sign Of An Angel\u2019 bristles with a thrash energy as again the bass provides a steely foundation, but if you think this track is fast and furious then dive in to the blistering \u2018R.T.K. (Sadistic Impulses)\u2019, a speed metal frenzy where Mely sounds her most aggressive, spitting and snarling over the axe blitzkrieg. \u201cLeather and chains, tonight we\u2019re gonna hit the stage,\u201d<\/em> sneers Mely on \u2018Stay Heavy!\u2019. \u201cDressed to kill, speed is all we need. Faster than bullet and heavier than metal, we\u2019re gonna lose control,\u201d<\/em> the singer snaps as if she\u2019s barking orders from 1985.<\/p>\n

Beyond The Eternal Night<\/em> may be a record tinged with nostalgic magic, but first and foremost it\u2019s an absolute monster of a heavy metal outing whereby all instruments fire on all cylinders. All hail to these Mexican metal maestro\u2019s for their maelstrom of malice.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

STARFORCE Beyond The Eternal Night Self-released (2025) Rating: 8.5\/10 Nice, if somewhat eye-frazzling cover art adorns this debut full-length from Mexican metallers StarForce. Since 2021 the band have issued two split projects, an EP (The Universe Is Mine) and several singles, so it only seemed right that the next move should be an album. After […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5951],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-starforce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105205,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105204\/revisions\/105205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}