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The cover artwork of The Bugs, a mostly green-and-black cover artwork showing numerous insects on pop-up windows. At the centre is a giant spider on a globe, the symbol of the titular rogue malware.
The cover artwork of The Bugs, a mostly green-and-black cover artwork showing numerous insects on pop-up windows. At the centre is a giant spider on a globe, the symbol of the titular rogue malware.

The Bugs

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Aggressive electro about the titular botnets, viruses, worms, and other advanced polymorphic malware crawling out from the dark web and wreaking havoc across the surface web! Can the Cyber Threat Resistance League get them under CTRL?
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The Bugs (2024)

MOULE

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🎥 The Bugs Cover Art Timelapse: yewtu.be/watch?v=G-NvDULb2q8

This is yet another track I made years ago, starting on April 15, 2018, "finished" as my 41st "finished track" a few months later, and actually finished (improved, remastered and shortened) on August 3, 2024 and released as my 126th release.

It was originally called "RACCOONS!!!!2" and was part of a trilogy of similar-sounding tracks called "RACCOONS!!!!1" and "RACCOONS!!!!3", all originally 10 minutes long, which use a kick sample distorted using GarageBand's AUReverb2 plugin to form the dominant metallic kick sound in this track.

As with my more recent releases, it's been renamed to fit MOULE WORLD lore, in this case I wanted a track about the titular polymorphic malware threats that the Cyber Threat Resistance League (CTRL) have to battle!

This track was inspired by Karma Fields', MORTEN, and Juliette Lewis' track "Stickup" I discovered in 2015, and I wanted to make something similar at the time, but didn't know how to because I was just getting started with GarageBand. Messing around with AUReverb2 in 2018 lead me to make this track's beat and its distinctive sound.

This track's cover artwork was easy to make at first, as I knew what insects I'd like to make symbolising various types of malware: scorpions, having stingers, symbolise SQL injection and arbitrary code execution, hornet rhymes with botnet, and worms are...well...worms. I created 14 different insects!

The trouble came afterwards, when you can see in the cover art timelapse that it goes through numerous prototypes such as bugs being arranged in a certain way depending on what malware they symbolise and how they connect, or having a central screen in the centre. I eventually settled on having the "spider-on-a-globe" symbol for the bugs along with a background of insects and binary code. Using the most greenest green of RGB (#00FF00), which in the past I was never a fan of, was actually a good idea when combined with black, white, and shades of green combined with shadows around the artwork.

I hope you enjoy it! Let me know what you think on the Fediverse by tagging me @MOULE@moule.world, or get in contact via email!

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