The performances are brilliant and sharp, the songs concise yet intricately detailed, and the album production deftly captures the band’s strength as a live unit. It sounds as if the 4-year downtime since their last album has recharged the band with an entirely new sense of purpose. Trash Generator, the trio’s third full length, is an astonishing blast of confidence and rejuvenation. And finally, we got to have the legendary Darbian speedrun our own video game, in which the soundtrack is one of the weirdest songs we’ve ever written.” 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 and he was into it!! Next thing you know, Behn sends us this video game he had made from scratch plus a duplication of Darbian’s live Twitch stream layout. I gave our longtime visual collaborator, Behn Fannin, a call. “We had this wacky idea to try and recreate one of Darbian’s speedruns with a made-up Tera Melos-style video game. That really resonated with me, so we wrote a song about it! (and we got Rob Crow to be a part of it!) He talked about how they’re the coolest looking levels that we never see because we’re all too busy trying to beat the game as fast as possible. Those two worlds are set at nighttime and they have a very different look from the rest of the worlds. One thing in particular is world 3 and world 6. During one of these runs Darbian mentioned how there are things you don’t get to see throughout the Any% runs. This is where you complete the game without using any of the warps (located in world 1-4 and 4-2). “For a stretch of time, Darbian was working on the SMB1 ‘warpless run’ world record. Darbian is the current Super Mario Bros Any% world record holder, and has been many times in the past (“Any%” is a record category that allows the use of every trick in the book in order to complete the game).

Darbian is basically the Michael Jordan of Super Mario Bros (SMB1).

It’s a FASCINATING practice that involves tons of bizarre in-game science to make these runs as fast as humanly possible.

“Speedrunning is when a human beats a video game as fast as possible. About the video and “speedrunning”, vocalist/guitarist Nick Reinhart explains:

Super mario bros warpless world records