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We compile hearts and crash systems_

DEBUT EP

Alpha - Album Cover

ALPHA

// 6-7 tracks of absolutely insane nerd-core chaos!

  1. 01 The Server Room Girl 2:30
  2. 02 Not a Bug 1:32
  3. 03 Close to the Metal 3:44
  4. 04 The Band 3:15
  5. 05 CTRL-Z 1:37
  6. 06 Systemd 2:18
  7. 07 The People Versus Python 2:58
LYRICS
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■ STOPPED TRACK 01 / 07
The Server Room Girl
0:00 / 0:00
VOL

ALBUM

Beta - Album Cover

BETA

// 8 tracks. deeper. weirder. still no optimization.

  1. 01 Sudo The Cactus 2:31
  2. 02 I'm A Coder, Baby 2:17
  3. 03 Technical Debt Polka 2:13
  4. 04 The Meeting 1:58
  5. 05 The Fixer 2:00
  6. 06 The Dinner Party 2:07
  7. 07 The Long Way Home 2:00
  8. 08 It's Not a Language, It's a Church 2:00
LYRICS
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■ STOPPED TRACK 01 / 08
Sudo The Cactus
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VOL

THE BAND

Crash Override McException
CRASH OVERRIDE McEXCEPTION
Lead Vocals & Theatrical Dramatics
String getString()
STRING getString()
Lead Guitar & Background Wailing
Null Pointer Exception
NULL POINTER EXCEPTION
Bass & Existential Dread
Infinite Loop Patterson
INFINITE LOOP PATTERSON
Drums & Chaos
Escape Key Martinez
ESCAPE KEY MARTINEZ
Keyboards, Synths & Polka Breakdowns

ABOUT

Five nerds who met at a coding bootcamp that turned out to be a pyramid scheme. They formed a band instead. They don't scale, they don't optimize, their big-O notation is cursed. But they'll give you everything they've got... until the stack bursts.

Genre: Musical theater meets metal with polka breakdowns, glitch, casio, disco beats with heavy instruments. Think The Darkness having five babies with Weird Al.

We believe in:

  • C, Assembly, BSD
  • RISC architecture
  • Hard tabs, Whitesmiths style
  • Brackets on the next line
  • Close to the metal
  • Rust is actually ok
  • Python (the enemy)
  • systemd (the other enemy)
  • Microsoft (evil incarnate)
  • Soft tabs / spaces (heresy)

cout << "Let's. Fucking. Go."

Quality Seal Of Schlllop Clouds of Confusion Seal of Quality Schlllop! Deluxe storytelling with a metal spirit and a polka heart. This music contains AI-generated vocals & instruments. Some content (e.g. the cover artwork) is created using original, locally grown, hand crafted genAI tools. All content has been painstakingly written, coded, POKE'd into existence, salted, hashed, generated, kill -9'd, cloned, encoded, decoded, sprite multiplexed, pushed, pulled, stashed, turned off and on again, edited, disassembled, baked, multiplied, divided by zero, polished, buffer overflowed, linked, shifted left 7 times, bit masked, debugged, cursed at, sold, stolen back, stale branched, unrar'ed, refactored, zipped, tar'ed, gzipped, uploaded, blown on like a cartridge, downloaded, sudo'd without thinking, copper listed, gifted, negotiated over, twittered, ROT13'd twice for security!, optimized, kidnapped, segfaulted, NOP sledded, merge conflicted, dicussed over, locked up, freed, reverted, pixeled, painted, smoked, composed, face-lifted, buried, exhumed, launched, cut, copied, reassembled, pasted, compiled, cooked, sun dried, stone washed, brain-rotted, shot, revived, executed, translated, jump started, memed, iterated over, eaten alive, produced, image'd, distributed, forgotten, lost, found, arranged, rearranged, destroyed and mass mass mass'd by gizmo64k.

COC ADVENTURE

A genuine Commodore 64 BASIC text adventure! Help Crash Override get the band ready for the show. You have 10 minutes. The crowd is getting restless. Don't let the exception go unhandled.

Runs on real hardware or any C64 emulator (VICE recommended). Three rooms of pure nostalgia. Null says "undefined". Infinite Loop won't stop drumming. Standard stuff.

▼ DOWNLOAD .D64
COC Adventure - C64 Screenshot

CLOSE 2 THE METAL

A browser-based arcade shooter! Defend against waves of invaders, battle the dreaded MS-BOS floppy disk boss, and blow up chain reactions for massive damage. No quarters required. No Python allowed.

Pure JavaScript. Close to the metal. Whitesmiths style. Brackets on the next line. Always.

▶ PLAY ARCADE
Close 2 The Metal - Arcade Cabinet

CLOUDS OF CONFUSION'S GUIDE TO RUST

Infinite Loop Patterson spent mass years drumming in Python. Couldn't loop fast. Couldn't thread right. The GIL had him in chains. Then he discovered Rust and mass mass broke free. Now he loops at native speed and mass won't stop. Null hasn't smiled since, but that's normal when dealing with the Rust community.

The band's official guide to a language under 40 they don't hate. No Zen. No PEP 8. No church. Just a compiler that never lies and a cactus that never judges.

▶ READ THE GUIDE
Clouds of Confusion's Guide to Rust