This album by Captain Dreadbone describes a tragedy.

Across the rim of the galaxy, two brothers walk opposite sides of the law — one bound by duty, the other by desire.
Blood and Stardust follows their trail through five chapters: the hunt through the void, a near-fatal standoff, a return from the brink, the final duel beneath Io’s cold suns, and a quiet reckoning in a cell among the stars.


Lyrics

The void was quiet as prayer that night,
Engines low, ghosts hummin’ in the hull.
He’d been runnin’ since the war went cold,
Still smelled the smoke on his soul.

The stars looked on, but they don’t speak,
They just watch men fade to myth.
He left his name carved on a dying moon,
And the lawman followed it.

In the Gunsmoke Nebula, no one gets clean,
Just ash and plasma where hope used to be.
He rides the silence, I ride the flame,
Two ghosts circlin’ the same bad dream.

Heard his ship on the scanner’s breath,
Like a heartbeat caught in rust.
Every man out here’s chasin’ death,
‘Cause it’s the only one to trust.

I ain’t prayin’ for the light to come,
I ain’t waitin’ for a sign.
When the stars go dim, and the guns burn hot,
You find your truth in the line.

In the Gunsmoke Nebula, the air don’t forgive,
Just the hum of reactors remindin’ you live.
He rides the silence, I ride the flame,
Two ghosts circlin’ the same bad dream.

Driftin’ past bones of forgotten fleets,
Where time’s got teeth and memory bleeds.
Every trigger pull’s a prayer unanswered,
Every flash a dying creed.

In the Gunsmoke Nebula, the light fades slow,
No angels wait where the dead men go.
He rides the silence, I ride the flame,
‘Til the smoke clears—and we’re one and the same.

Blood & Stardust

Gunsmoke Nebula

2. Gunsmoke Nebula

This music was conceived of by an undead pirate captain, created by skeletons, edited by zombies, marketed by vampires, filtered through AI, and has no soul left to siphon.