Band of Sizzling Thunder

Vintage sunglasses often worn by one of the lead singers, Janis, with chrome lenses that reflect a blue light.

The lifespan of the fixed star was dropping sharply. Before the red giant exploded completely, the residents of Emerald III fled their mother planet.

Facing a future with nowhere left to go, the elites took away all hope and pretended not to hear the cries of despair.

Janis's parents paid an enormous sum in credits to board a starship, waiting passively for an interplanetary salvation. The planet would be destroyed when the red giant exploded, and the fixed star would go out and become a white dwarf… Before the foretold doomsday arrived, flight was the only answer. But Janis, the Doctor of Chaos, intended to face the erasure of the galaxy head on, and she did everything she could to prove that the traces of existence would not be turned into nothingness.

The sun was dying yet shining more brilliantly than ever. Janis took her mother's sunglasses and returned to the mother planet together with young people who shared her resolve.

“Cowards know only how to run, yet their mouths never stop shouting about salvation.” Cheap Salvation, a single from the Sizzling Thunder band's first album, whose words Janis wrote in anger after a quarrel with her parents.

The bracelet of the bassist Sid, braided from the ribbon bands of the tours, with a few lines of lyrics written on it.

With a handful of powerful, pioneering songs, the Sizzling Thunder band of Emerald-III quickly stirred up fierce feelings across the whole planet.

The sparks of thunder born when the rhythm guitarist Dave struck his strings hard marked the beginning of the tour, and the fans took them as the only light for the rest of their lives.

The band's tours were all kept going spontaneously by the fans, who handed out silk bands as identification at the venue entrances. Most of these music lovers could not afford the high cost of escape, and resigned themselves to a fate of waiting for the electromagnetic blast. But from the moment they saw those rebellious young people return to the planet, they felt their souls catch fire. On their bracelets they recorded lyrics, recorded the date of every performance, and recorded their own quiet weeping as well.

The bassist Sid collected a ribbon band from every tour, had his girlfriend Nancy braid them into a bracelet, and wore it at all times.

“No meaning, no direction, nowhere else to go, we have no future.” Our Road, a single from the Sizzling Thunder band's second album, and Sid's creed for living.

One of the lead singers, David, painted white stars on the back of this leather jacket, and it became the cover of the final album.

The rock and roll of the Sizzling Thunder band rang out across the galaxy, and one after another the young people who refused to flee returned to Emerald-III, the world about to be destroyed.

The lead guitarist Jimmy took the band down into the Underground City to sing, and they would spread the cry of a planet's destruction across the whole cosmos.

David sprayed white stars on the back of the leather jacket. They are the white dwarf left behind after the fixed star goes out, the proof that the fixed star ever existed. Whether they had left the planet or stayed behind to face its destruction, they were all listening to rock and roll that thundered like a storm, and raising the same eye catching symbol together.

Though the band perished, their existence was carved deep into the music and became eternal.

“We will burn ourselves out to light up the lonely white dwarf.” White Star, the title single from the Sizzling Thunder band's final album, with both words and music by David.

The ankle boots of the drummer Bonham, their rivets set into a coat of paint that reflects the stage lights.

The Sizzling Thunder band changed the way people faced the end of the world, but it could not change the fact that it was coming.

The planet's surface was desolate and grim, and in an age of scarce supplies the band recorded all of its albums onto discarded X-ray films.

When night fell on Emerald-III, the surface temperature dropped sharply and the air turned far colder. People streamed out of the underground city in crowds to look for wherever the band was playing. On the stage of the final tour, named Thunder's Roar, in restless air full of the warning signs of an electromagnetic storm, the lightning was led up onto the stage through metal scaffolding. Flashes of light danced beneath Bonham's feet, and the band and the thunder seemed to become one. After the encore ended, an enormous flickering sphere swallowed the whole stage.

The night of thanks passed, and the Sizzling Thunder band's show became one of a kind, just like their lyrics.

“The thunder drowns out our voices, the lightning runs in our blood. Take our music with you, and fade away together with the fixed star.” Song of Thunder, a single from the Sizzling Thunder band's final album, and the work Bonham was proudest of.