"Then I wondered: 'It would be pretty cool if we could actually get Darbian in the video.' I figured there's no harm in asking, so I sent him a message. "We had this wacky idea to try and recreate one of Darbian's speedruns with a made-up Tera Melos-style video game," Reinhart says. This frenetic prog-punk wallop contains a guitar solo that twitches like a Tron lightcycle careening off a cliff, and switchback time signatures crammed into a weirdly poppy song.įor the song's video, Reinhart and Tera Melos doubled down on the geek worship. "Warpless Run" comes from Tera Melos' first new album in four years, Trash Generator. "So we wrote a song about it - and we got Rob Crow to be a part of it!"
in record time, "that really resonated with me," Reinhart says. When Darbian mentioned having to skip worlds three and six ("the coolest looking levels that we never see because we're all too busy trying to beat the game as fast as possible") in order to beat Super Mario Bros. "My heart was racing and I was yelling at my phone screen." Tera Melos guitarist and singer Nick Reinhart recalls one of Darbian's recent live streams as "the closest thing I've ever felt to being a real sports fan," he tells NPR. speedrun world record, completing the classic in four minutes, 56 seconds. "Speedruns" are a weirdly enthralling piece of video game culture, wherein a gamer takes on titles, often older ones like Super Metroid or Sonic The Hedgehog, using every trick in the book to beat their chosen game as fast as possible.īrad "Darbian" Myers currently holds the Super Mario Bros.
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