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drew this for a discord pfp!!

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Just saw the Be Alone video! Lots of mysterious happenings but I'll resist pelting you with lore questions.

I'm curious regarding the rap verses and the chorus. The verses are full of a lot of anger and a call to action, while the chorus is more a reaction of feeling overwhelmed and scared, with a vibe more like denial: "I don't want to be here. I don't want to see this." Am I misreading that?

That’s totally the right read! It’s in many ways an attempt to encapsulate the feeling of overwhelming dread and enormity of horror as well as the desire for escape from fear and isolation that is affecting so many of us right now (and was similarly present when we wrote it a few years ago).

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hi sam! i feel like Rust draws a lot of inspiration from cyberpunk genre and it’s themes. Are there anymore science-fiction genres that he also draws from?

It’s definitely primarily cyberpunk and cassette futurism, but also some present day dystopian speculative fiction! Influences include Blade Runner, Half-Life 2, Equilibrium, Fahrenheit 451, Children Of Men, Cyberpunk, as well as the sci fi work of Paul Verhoeven, to name a few.

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RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST RUST

Who else is excited for the new song to release?? :3c

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drawing fanart before the song even drops im losing it man

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Can we get any insight on some of the themes that might appear in the upcoming Rust album? I’m really interested in the character as a whole and I’d love to hear about some underlying messages within the songs that align with the character! I know that there’s some reference to fascism here and there, anything else you can share? Thank you!!!! (I’m super excited to hear what you and Yoav have been cooking up)

Absolutely! I think it’s best described by contrasting it to zero_one, as I think of them as foils for each other, just as the characters are:

zero_one is a character that represents change and personal evolution. zero_one was very much an inward-facing album about self-actualization and its opposing forces, i.e. the obstacles in one’s own life (and in some cases in one’s own psyche) that prevent it. It is framed - with regards to canon - as a semi-concept album, around a person’s growth into the person they would become thru the lens of being ‘chosen’ to be zero_one.

Rust is the reverse! Rust is a character that represents rebellion and uncompromising principles. So Rust is an outward-facing album about society and social issues, particularly those around how fascism takes root, drives people mad, and numbs them to horror. It is similarly framed as a semi-concept album, about an authoritarian dystopia into which Rust’s message of revolt and hope takes hold.

I’m SO proud of this record, it’s very personal and in so many ways an expression of a sort of anger - and grief! - that I feel deeply inadequate at processing outside of art. It’s some of our most sophisticated work yet and Yoav has poured a tremendous amount of musical genius into it.

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FUCK THE HAND AIM FOR THE NECK

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a hc of rust being meta-referential was brought up in the tlt server soooo i thought it would fit to draw them over some deadpool panels lol

og under the cut

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TLT meme redraws

og images under the cut

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free to use

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zero_one miku!!

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1hr Tesla sketch I did in the airplane :333 also bc I love him

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WENT TO THE LIVING TOMBSTONE CONCERT IN HOUSTON!!!! WOOOOOO!!!

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01 getting 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 at the living tombstone concert

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me when i can draw whatever i want

ermm i made this specifically bc i wanted 2 draw all my fav music related characters in 1 picture cause yknow, why not? :33