Arc Angles, Apocalisp (Rabbit Rabbit Records Press, 2022)

By SoDak

The three members of Arc Angles were previously in And We Are Them, which put out a series of excellent digital records in the 2010s. As the Arc Angles, they have continued to refine their post-hardcore sound. In 2022, they released their first physical record, Apocalisp. This Los Angeles band has an impressive breadth, as the eight songs on the album explore different terrain. The record opens with ringing, sustained guitar notes, letting the tension build for around a minute, until the drum quickly fires, as the song explodes into a captivating riff, as guitar, bass, and drums create a pulsating beat. This song, “Apocalisp,” has quiet moments, which wonderfully contrast to the overall relentless drive. The chorus is intriguing, “I can’t feel the earth spin, the unveiling, a faded giant, muted mayhem. This can’t be real, I can’t believe my eyes, a cataclysm just as we designed.”

At times, Arc Angles sound like a very cool mix between Quicksand and Russian Circles. The drums and vocals that open “Subtle Tease” give me goosebumps, as the guitar resides in the background, lingering, until everything moves to the front in a series of musical punches. Just listening to this song, I feel a need to jump around to release the energy that is culminating. There is a contemplative heaviness within this tune. As the songs asks, “Am I running fast enough, barely keeping up, gave my all for what?” 

On these eight songs, there are plenty of quirky, tempo changes that sustain attention. My favorite song varies each time that I listen to the record. For instance, this morning, I am obsessing over “Illuminaughty,” especially the tender desperate moment where the vocals plead, “Say what you mean, and mean what you say, say anything.” Yesterday I was smitten with “Summer Assaults.” Tomorrow, I think it will be “Little Seizures.” The instrumental songs, “Czardust” and “Numbchuks,” are excellent, with their hard-driving riffs and expansive moments. The artwork is beautiful—almost as attractive as the old photo of Brian, the drummer of Arc Angles, that accompanies this review. 

Pick up Arc Angles’s Apocalisp and their soon to be released Daisy twelve-inch EP from Rabbit Rabbit Records Press.

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Elon Musk Dies at 56—South African Tech Gazillionaire Who Assisted the Suicide of Twitter

The following post is part of the fictive obituary series. 

By Chastity Morgan

Elon Reeve Musk, the tech gazillionaire who acquired Twitter, an online social media platform, in 2022, died in an intergalactic starship crash on Saturday, May 5, 2818.

Born to onetime emerald mine owner, Errol Musk and Maye Musk, a Canadian-born model and dietitian, Elon Musk died when his SpaceX starship collided with xfjqz-illionaire Jeff Bezos’s super shuttle on Saturday, May 5, 2818. Starship troopers are still investigating the cause of the crash, but it is believed that Musk was following his Google Starmaps and went down a one-way galaxy when his starship collided with the Amazon xfjqz-illionaire’s super shuttle. An investigation has been launched to see if Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Macro, will be held liable if it is found that Google Starmaps failed to update its mapping system causing the crash.

Elon Musk, businessman and investor, best known as the CEO and architect of Tesla, was notorious in the tech world for being a megalomaniac. He sold his first tech company Zip2 for a humble $307 million in 1999. From there, Musk went on to co-found X.com, a banking service, which merged with Cofinity in 2000 to form PayPal. By 2025, Musk managed to acquire all the cryptocurrency on planet Earth. 

Musk was the inspiration for Larry Gatlin’s hit single “All the Cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley.” 

All the cryptocurrency in Earth

Is in the laptop in the middle of Silicon Valley

In Elon Musk’s name.

So if you’re dreamin’ about planet Earth,

Silicon Valley’s a brand-new game.

Musk hit hard times in 2023 when he assisted with the suicide of Twitter. Although Twitter read like the bathroom stall of a mediocre high school, its millions of users were upset when a memo leaked regarding Musk’s plan to “compassionately kill” the platform. Musk’s drastic moves to cut costs including the killing of the verification checkmarks, and killing of the Twitter staff, were met with other maneuvers to bring back controversial figures under Twitter’s “Freedom of Hate Speech Act.” These actions were transparent, but the public was in uproar when a correspondence between Musk and Zuckerberg was leaked. Musk told Zuckerberg, “I will kill him (Twitter). Then we can merge and create our own speech platform.” In which Zuckerberg replied, “Please kill Twitter compassionately.” Musk then replied, “I will, but he must die.” Social justice groups around the United States called for the canceling of Musk for his use of gendered pronouns in reference to Twitter. In spite of protests, Musk still killed Twitter.

The Twitter scandal was then followed by a gang of Tesla cars going rogue and taking electric stations around the United States hostage. In July 2026, autonomous driving Tesla’s with no drivers started to circle electric stations. It looked like a scene straight out of the 1986 film starring Emilio Estevez Maximum Overdrive. The United States in an attempt to curb the disaster turned off the electricity for all major cities with charging stations. For twenty-four hours, the country was dark, but luckily the hostage situation was short lived as Tesla’s only get 267 miles per charge. Although Musk has not been the CEO of Tesla since 2018 due to fraud charges, his name is still synonymous with the electric car company.

Rather than face more scrutiny, in 2027, Musk left much of his fortune to his eight children. He was cryogenically frozen until the public would forget about his misdoings. Unfortunately, his children carried on his legacy with a series of “choices made in poor taste,” which extended Musk’s frozen state. Finally, his lineage died out, and it was then safe for him to start the unthawing process as he headed back to planet Earth. 

Musk fully thawed on May 3, 2818, with the $75 billion he set aside for this moment. By May 4, his pompous ass ill-equipped to fly the new age starship and with no starship license jet off into the unknown. Only two days after his thaw, he crashed into xfjqz-illionaire Bezos’s super shuttle and evaporated suddenly into the galaxy on what would be Karl Marx’s 1,000th birthday.

Check out the trailer for Maximum Overdrive: 

Watch the video for Gatlin’s “All the Gold in California”: