Figured I’d try something new it’s Zombie killing time 🧟 #metal #hype #Zombiesmore

Embrace your inner punk and bring some honey badger energy into 2025 with HUNNY BADJA, the punk-AF honey badger who's a threat to all forms of hate and is unashamedly her punk self regardless of what anyone thinks about that! -- • Listen on MOULE WORLD Music, check out its merch, and find links to other platforms: https://music.moule.world/honey-badger-energy • Bandcamp: https://moule.bandcamp.com/track/honey-badger-energy • Cover Art Timelapse: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=sLCl2M2DOEQ -- During the December 2024 holidays, I became interested in punk subcultures, in particular disability-themed ones like Stimpunks (stimpunks.org) and can strongly relate to their "do-it-yourself" fierce energy, especially as an autistic person. In particular, their page Punk is Autistic (stimpunks.org/2024/12/18/punk-is-autistic/) and the linked Autistic Culture podcast episode of the same name (open.spotify.com/episode/7f78Ye0d4cYy2tWEZKiL1H) started a mental domino chain leading me to finally declare war against the inner perfectionist, arbitrary patterns, and other monsters in my head, and start 2025 with a kick-ass punk metal DnB track. I'm calling this new attitude "honey badger energy", inspired by the reputation of honey badgers! -- On January 7th, I started making this track with some death metal melodies I copied and pasted from unfinished project files I made years ago, then built some fast-paced beats, and eventually slower-paced beats as you hear in the intro, followed by some synth leads I managed to make sound like electric guitars. I was inspired by FalKKonE's metal remix of Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King (invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=2gS9oAX1bnE) It was originally going to be exclusively punk rock, but it quickly became a drum and bass track as I took the fast-paced drum and bass beats from CTRL+ALT+DELGADO (music.moule.world/ctrl-alt-delgado). On January 9th, I spent the day working on it, mastering it, resulting in this track and relinquishing my love of making music and artwork after a long rut from late 2024. -- This track also marks a new way of me releasing music as part of my war against old patterns: as soon as I finished it, I immediately released it on my Faircamp and then my Bandcamp, then distributing out to other platforms like Apple Music, TIDAL etc. later, as I've found pre-save campaigns and scheduling music months in advance like DistroKid and indie music "gurus" were saying to do was holding back my creativity. Ever since I joined the Fediverse I've been caring less and less about pleasing algorithms and realise just how much it was holding back my creativity. Making and instantly releasing Honey Badger Energy is a refreshing change. As a bonus, it's also my 200th finished track! -- This track introduces a new MOULE WORLD character for the first time in one-and-a-half years: Honey (A.K.A. HUNNY BADJA)! She's a punk AF honey badger who's a threat to all forms of hate and is unashamedly her punk self regardless of what anyone thinks about that! According to HYPER HYENA on Mastodon (mastodon.moule.world/@HYPERHYENA/113770776412170722), Honey was the lead singer and electric guitarist for a band she was in, while our favourite all-caps hyena was the drummer! -- This cover art took six-and-a-half hours to make and was very straightforward and extremely enjoyable to do, I was smiling all throughout its creation, even while spending a lot of time on detailed parts like shadows. I believe my effort really paid off in the end as this is one of my most favourite cover artworks I've made in a while. The very fact HUNNY BADJA is flipping the bird is another literal and metaphorical pair of middle fingers to my inner perfectionist as it's my first cover art with deliberately rude hand gestures, which would've been unthinkable for me to include a few months ago. -- Embracing the punk movement encourages me to be fearlessly myself and I've never felt this liberated in years. In a year where the planet continues to be destroyed, fascism creeps back, basic decency and kindness is eroding, billionaires hoard all the wealth, and common sense becomes more uncommon, I hope this track encourages you to embrace your punk side just like HUNNY BADJA, and fight back against blatant fascism, systemic injustice, and destructive internalised beliefs. -- Let me know what you think on the Fediverse (mastodon.moule.world/@MOULE), and for more MOULE, visit https://MOULE.WORLD!more