#stabscotch

[sekwar]

VR room

[maquina-semiotica]

Stabscotch, "Hands Undressed"

[hyenapriest]

in honor of sinday!

Ask Hyena anything, no limits. NSFW tag will be given out like candy!

[word-for-today]

You probably know the game/challenge being depicted. Do you know what it's called? The most common name seems to just be "knife game", but that's pretty vague; other names from various sources (some reliable, some jokes) include "five finger fillet", "pinfinger", "knife fingies", and a segment on King of the Hill where Peggy finds out a group of inmates doesn't know what it's called and suggests "stabscotch". "Knife game" has been a default name for a while but may have gotten some extra support from the viral music video by Rusty Cage called "Knife Game Song".

Any of y'all know any other names for it?

[artsycervidae]

Dumping thoughts about modern AU Hinata because I must indulge and they're my favorite right now

I imagine them having a punk/goth aesthetic. And an undercut. Still a lot of scars and bruises, maybe more facial piercings.

They always carry a knife, matches, and a lighter directly on their person. They also keep safety pins all over their clothes like in their boots or on their jeans.

They like playing stabscotch, starting fires, and ending fights.

Their prosthetic isn't super up-to-date, which gives them limited grip and range of motion. They tend to resort to using their teeth and juggling things. They're shy about asking for help. Because of this they carry a pull-tie bag most everywhere they go, and they've got some useful little lifestyle gadgets they take with them.

They also carry stuff like masks, snacks, sanitizer, water, etc. But they are reluctant to use it for just any situation. It's a sure sign they like someone when they deign to use resources. Which. Naturally makes them an awesome chaperone when attending outings with Tetsuya, despite their intense self-expression.

[ineffag-swag]

heres a song rec for "music that wants to kill you"

radio spiricom by stabscotch

This sounds like there is a goofy ass shapeshifting creature creaturing in a liminal space. How do you even find these

[fleshphagus]

This absolutely fffucks btw.

[chimeraan]

Shit fucks

[svanwijk]

Album Review: Radioactive Boss Baby - Radioactive Boss Baby (2022)

The relentless musical shifts of Radioactive Boss Baby (2022) overwhelm the senses. The moment Stabscotch and Five Star Hotel get into any groove on this collaboration they change gears in delirious manner.

“I ABSORB🧬(D2F REMIXX)” starts off stomping in two-two time but devolves into chaos driven by complex rhythms. The frantic glitches and tempo shifts of tracks like “GLOMANIC_ADHD” or “FM consumjer studio (sounhd) GAZE {YOUTUBE RIP}” defy categorization. Meanwhile vocalist Tyler Blensdorf shouts in characteristic demented anger with the elegance of a Captain Beefheart background choir. The warped “[4K] Phantom Eye” where an ominous childish voice provides contrast to his resolute spoken word passes for calm.

The unstable sonic mutations that Radioactive Boss Baby indulge in successfully shape a sonic wasteland. It all feels downright dystopian, as if the musical equivalent of Nick Lands accelerationist essay “Meltdown”. Like that writing it reflects the runaway process of technological change as exhibited in information overload.

Yet Radioactive Boss Baby never ventures beyond such a reflection of a hyperactive world. Stabscotch themselves engaged in the pandemoniac noise rock cleansing of Uncanny Valley (2017) and Iglooghost sculpted a dreamscape of glitches with Lei Line Eon (2021), two accomplished albums that did explore ways out of meltdown.

Rating: Approach With Caution (+)

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[sekwar]

everyone stop what they're doing and feast your eyes on this real powerpoint presentation that happened. i wasn't there to see it in person but thank god it got recorded. i cannot emphasize just how important this is gonna be for the future of everything. all hail ZAMN!

also art is happening. i just accepted a big opportunity that i will talk about once it comes out oooooooooo

[toerisdivine]

#6: Twilight Dawn - Stabscotch

Genre: Noise Rock, Experimental Rock, Brutal Prog

    Twilight Dawn is really a collection of 2 EPs that came out this year, but they are two halves of the same whole.  Both sides are very good, but I’ll be talking about each half separately because I feel that the 2 sides have different strengths.

7 Is a Cycle

    7 Is a Cycle is reaching far into a transcendent space rock vibe with a heavy dose of fantasy imagery that results in an album that can only be called otherworldly.  While there certainly is a story going on that I’m sure is rewarding to follow, personally I’m interested in how the album makes me feel like I’ve been picked up and dropped in alien territory. The album opens with “The Last Alchemist” which feels like waking up to the beginning of a forgein, tribalistic black mass.  A swirl of dissonant string instruments and random drum rolls serve as a backdrop to the pastor’s shouted rant at the heavens.  Over time the mass calms down, speeds back up, becomes more in line with what we’d consider music, and by the climax you realize you’re not prepared for what this album has in store for you.

    Especially because “Glass Bubbles” is something completely different.  To me this song is chilling out on an alien planet filled with bioluminescent flowers and mushrooms, floating along through a dense forest exploring an unknown landscape.  Gravity is a song that makes me feel far less bound to a planet.  In fact, I’d go as far as to say this song feels like being plucked into a wormhole and experiencing the last 10 minutes of 2001 A Space Odyssey.  This song reaches a level of intensity where my brain is never sure how I should physically react to this song.  As I type this, I’ve become acutely aware of how cold I am and I feel like I’m being watched.  The first time I listened to this song, I felt my mindstate being altered similar to alcohol.  I’m not trying to overstate it and say this song made me drunk, or heck even tipsy, but I felt like I was 4-5 sips into a mixed drink at a college party, and that’s certainly not a feeling I’ve gotten from any other piece of music.

    “Blood Loves” is back at the satanic mass, and as the pastor realizes his trip wasn’t what he expected he starts arguing with the forces beyond his control.  The music shifts between a quieter,more human pattern and the chaotic swirl of the spirits who don’t take his insubordination lightly.  In the end he’s punished, with the album’s stinger “Satyrs” consisting of the repeated shouts of “God please, give me life, give me death, give birth to all the satyrs that are locked in my head.”  It’s a voyeuristic look into someone else’s eternal punishment that manages to be the most unsettling part of this horror movie of an album.

Drama Dragon

    In contrast to the black magic of the first side, the band has described Drama Dragon as white magic.  It makes sense, because while Drama Dragon isn’t less dense or high energy than 7 is a Cycle, the music feels far less alien and unnatural.  The sci-fi and fantasy elements have been replaced by running lines of notes that are more jazz or punk that make the songs feel more human.  For as avant garde as the songs can get, they always feel like a group of friends just having a good time, similar to how one might feel about a jam band or Butthole Surfers.  It’s certainly far lower in scope than 7, but there are a few equally majestic moments in this half and it’s a good come down from the pure insanity.

Must Hear: Glass Bubbles, Jump on the Urinal and Stand on Your Head

I’d mostly stick to listening to a full half at at time outside of these two songs

Recommended For: People looking to go on a spiritual journey, People who like music that sounds like other planets

[hyenapriest]

Gives him a fishbowl of booze

He's not sure what to make of this. So he's just gonna shake it, maybe something shows up? Smells kinda bad, really. It's not food, so he doesn't try for a taste either. So it ends up on the ground. “Uh, thx?”

[live-at-the-tostitos-fiesta-bowl]

Album Listening Update (6/4)

(haven’t done one of these in a while)

[hiragum0]

    “There’s still people out there who didn’t grow up playing stabscotch, and it saddens me a little to remember that.”

[anthonyfingo]

Notes #233: Stabscotch: Uncanny Valley

Sound: Unhinged experimental rock; chaotic brutal prog

Specifics: [M] -Grizzly, tortured vocal howls; a versatile performance that even allows for sinister suaveness at times; think Fugazi -Absolutely mad guitarwork, the perfect accomplice to the auditory assault the singer concocts like Charles Manson -Nearly two hours long; a creative behemoth -18 tracks, so no cheating for length by having a half hour long track or two; every track is around 5 minutes -So much happens; even in just one song, there are so many strange passages that are wildly different from one another, I can’t believe they make it work -So fucking quotable “With my hands undressed, with my hands undressed” -Excellent incorporation of noise into their compositions -Strangely anthemic -I cannot overstate how fucking impressive it is that these guys made over an hour and a half of unique, constantly interesting material on one album -I can’t believe the album of the year came out this early in the year; this could jump all the way up to 90% or higher by the time I put my year end list out -Even if its score never goes up the rest of this year, it will be my number 1, quote me, nothing will outdo what Tyler Blensdorf, Zack Hubbard, and James Vavrek have summoned on Uncanny Valley

Score: 80%

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