Space Metal is an album by Star One

Star One

Star One is a Dutch progressive metal supergroup/side-project of Arjen Anthony Lucassen of Ayreon fame. Unlike Ayreon, the band did not follow one storyline; instead, each song was a different story with a sci-fi concept, most of the tracks based on existing movies and series.-Origins and first...

 released on the recording label Inside Out

InsideOut Music

Inside Out Music is a German independent record label based in Kleve, in the North Rhine-Westphalia region, and dedicated to the publication of progressive rock, progressive metal and related styles music albums.-History:...

 in 2002. It was issued in two versions, a standard version containing just the first CD and a limited edition version with more elaborate packaging and both CDs.

The album mixes progressive metal

Progressive metal

Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

 and space rock

Space rock

Space rock is a subgenre of rock music; the term originally referred to a group of early, mostly British, 1970s progressive and psychedelic rock bands such as Hawkwind and Pink Floyd, characterised by slow, lengthy instrumental passages dominated by electric organs, synthesizers, experimental...

, and many of the songs are linked conceptually by having cult science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 movies, novels or TV series as their subjects, mainly adventures on space. The album features a guest vocal performance by Dave Brock

Dave Brock

David Anthony "Dave" Brock is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He plays electric guitar, synthesizer, bass and oscillators. He is best known as being one of the founders and musical focus of the English space rock group Hawkwind...

 of Hawkwind

Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures....

 on the track 'Hawkwind Medley'.

CD 1

1. "Lift Off" – 1:13
2. "Set Your Controls" – 6:01
3. "High Moon" – 5:36
4. "Songs of the Ocean" – 5:23
5. "Master of Darkness" – 5:14
6. "The Eye of Ra" – 7:34
7. "Sandrider" – 5:31
8. "Perfect Survivor" – 4:46
9. "Intergalactic Space Crusaders" – 5:22
10. "Starchild" – 9:04

CD 2: (Special Edition only)

1. "Hawkwind Medley" – 9:46 (Master of the Universe/Silver Machine/Psychedelic Warlords/Brainstorm/Assault and Battery/The War I Survived (including melody of Space Is Deep)/Spirit of the Age/Lost Chronicles)
2. "Spaced Out" – 4:53
3. "Inseparable Enemies" – 4:15
4. "Space Oddity" (David Bowie
   David Bowie
   David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
   
    Cover) – 4:59
5. "Starchild" (Pro-Logic Mix) – 9:31
6. "Spaced Out" (Alternate Version) – 4:55
7. "Intergalactic Laxative" (Hidden Bonus Track, Donovan
   Donovan
   Donovan Donovan Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...
   
    Cover) – 2:32

Album Themes

The themes of the album's songs are based on the following films or television shows:

On CD 1

• Set your controls - Doctor Who
  Doctor Who
  Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
  
  
• High Moon - Outland
  Outland (film)
  Outland is a 1981 British science fiction thriller film written and directed by Peter Hyams.Set on Jupiter's moon Io, it has been described as a space Western, and bears thematic resemblances to High Noon....
  
  
• Songs of the Ocean - Star Trek IV
• Master of Darkness - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
  Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
  Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner. The screenplay, based on a story by George Lucas, was written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan...
  
  
• The Eye of Ra - Stargate
  Stargate (film)
  Stargate is a 1994 American adventure-military science fiction film released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Carolco Pictures. Created by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, the film is the first release in the Stargate franchise...
  
  
• Sandrider - Dune
  Dune (novel)
  Dune is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert, published in 1965. It won the Hugo Award in 1966, and the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel...
  
  
• Perfect Survivor - Alien
  Alien (film)
  Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature which...
  
  
• Intergalactic Space Crusaders - Blake's 7
  Blake's 7
  Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC for its BBC1 channel. The series was created by Terry Nation, a prolific television writer and creator of the Daleks for the television series Doctor Who. Four series of Blake's 7 were produced and broadcast between 1978...
  
  
• Starchild - 2001: A Space Odyssey
  2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
  2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, and co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, partially inspired by Clarke's short story The Sentinel...
  
  , and 2010

On CD 2

• Spaced Out - Dark Star
  Dark Star (film)
  Dark Star is a 1974 American comedic science fiction motion picture directed by John Carpenter and co-written with Dan O'Bannon.-Backstory and plot:...
  
  
• Inseparable Enemies - Enemy Mine
  Enemy Mine (film)
  Enemy Mine is a 1985 science fiction film based on the story of the same title by Barry B. Longyear. It was produced by 20th Century Fox, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and starred Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett, Jr...