To Discover: Celestial Burst
Celesital Burst - "The Maze": When Prog Meets the Soul Of a Lost Woman
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So. You ever get the feeling you’re walking through a dream that’s not yours? That every turn leads to another corridor, same walls, same silence? The Maze by Celestial Burst doesn’t just ask the question, it drowns in it.
This isn’t your dad’s prog rock. No, this is something darker, more intimate. A French duo (Alexis Lustenberger and Kenza Laala) with a taste for Floydian dread, Opeth’s emotional weight, and a touch of Porcupine Tree’s melancholic poetry. Their debut EP feels less like a release and more like an excavation of trauma, identity, and the quiet scream behind a fake smile.
“Obedience” opens with dead eyes and a boat that never leaves the tide. By track two, “The Maze,” we’re deep in existential vertigo. The voice, haunting, layered, almost spectral, asks: Am I out? Or am I still inside? And then… Anneke van Giersbergen drops in like a lighthouse beam. Not a guest. A revelation. Her presence transforms the track from a spiral into a prayer.
There’s beauty in the chaos here. “First Flight” is a confession to a father who may or may not be real, a cry for wind, for tears, for anything that feels. “Anna” is pure tenderness, a mother-child duet that lands like a knife wrapped in velvet. And yes, the final repetition of “Out!!!” isn’t overkill, it’s catharsis. You feel it in your ribs.
Some might call it pretentious. I call it honest. It’s not about spectacle, it’s about soul. The production? Crisp but warm. The songwriting? Unapologetically long, yet never dragging. The themes, alienation, memory, rebirth, are universal, dressed in the language of post-rock melancholy.
If you’ve been craving prog that means something, not just technical fireworks, then The Maze is your next stop. Not because it’s loud. But because it’s finally quiet in all the right ways.
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