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Released: Jan 1, 2009
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  • Genre: Alternative / Psychedelic / Thrash

    Location KERNERSVILLE, North Carolina, Un

    Profile Views: 22413

    Last Login: 11/16/2011

    Member Since 10/4/2007

    Website www.reverbnation.com/stopmotionofficial

    Record Label Dehartless

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    God is not judging you, they just want to see a good fight. We aren't interested in a record label right now, only playing live. BOOK US AT YOUR HOUSE OR YOUR BAR. North Carolina and surrounding states. benjamindehart@gmail.com Planning a summer 2011 tour. Let me know: a) if you already have one that we can hop on. b) if you want us to come to your town c) if you have a house we can play - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tyler, Eric, and Ben played in their first band together, The Capitols ("punk 'n roll"), when they were 14 years old. We parted ways musically while remaining brothers throughout high school. For about 5 years, Tyler and Eric played metal while Ben resisted the Triad hardcore scene, instead studying Radiohead to death, fronting various indie folk bands, and making new sounds using guitar pedals and post-production. But strange sounds only take you so far...early 2011, Ben fell in love with metal via Tyler and Eric's project at the time, Illusionist. Tyler taught Ben how to scream, but neither of them wanted to play traditional metal. So we took the rhythms and raw energy of Illusionist and merged them with Ben's sonic engineering and compositional complexity. The result is Stop Motion. If you let us in your heart, our songs will engulf you completely. Garrett comes from numerous projects such as St. Anthony's Fire and Saturday Night Lies. We have all been tight with Garrett for years, and he gave Ben the kick in the ass that he needed to finally get Stop Motion off the ground and out of his imagination. we can bring our P.A. system to your living room and destroy your hearing or I can just play an acoustic set at your house, as long as there's a couple people there i'm good for it. just throw me some beer. or whatever you may have to barter with. we're gonna play in a lot of random ass places. follow the twitter if you want to get up on those free shows. twitter @ihatjhatkhat Devil's Pit E.P. available for $2 if you want a hard copy, email benjamindehart@gmail.com it has 4-8 songs on it, it just depends I'm going to try to get them in some stores. Right now you can find them at Love That Music in Kernersville. we're going to record our first live show and release it on a CD called the Satanic Death Killers it would be cool if a couple people got video so that we can compile a DVD as well. More About Stop Motion **we're called Stop Motion because our lives are discrete moments strung together so quickly as to create the illusion of motion and continuity, just like stop motion animation. We know the future and the past has no real existence except in our expectations and memories, respectively. So time must never stray further from the origin than strays the pendulum on a grandfather clock. No matter how far you go forwards, you will snap back to the center and then start going backwards. If you want to know what the fuck I'm talking about, put a snake on a 2D grid. Yes a snake. Looking from above, make its head the Y positive and its tail the Y negative. Its body ripples about the Y axis, time moving forward is X positive and time moving backwards is Y negative. The snake AS A WHOLE never leaves the Y axis, because however far it curves in the X direction, it is counter-curving somewhere down the line for a total of nothing. Integrate a sine wave and the net area is zero. So the snake is using its muscles only to move back and forth in the X direction, yet its body moves consistently in the Y positive direction. Ever wonder why your life changes around you no matter how afraid you are to leave behind what you know and love? Because the harder you flail, the faster you slither in the dimension perpendicular to us: time. You have slithered to a new spacetime. Stop flailing and time stops. You think i'm joking... but suffering and anticipation drive the earth around the sun. The future comes either because you want it to or because you don't want it to. Indifference kills gravity, and our fear fuels time itself. Zen koan: 2 hungry bald dudes in robes watching a flag rippling in the wind, one says it's the flag that moves and the other says its the wind that moves. 3rd bald dude who just ate a cheeseburger walks up and says you're both full of shit, it's the mind that moves. You need a memory to know where the flag was a second ago, to calculate the change in x y and z coordinates (ihatjhatkhat). We animate the flag ourselves, and if we didn't, then every time we looked at it, we wouldn't remember how it was before. You would see a brand new stationary flag every time... there would be no motion at all, like slowing down a stop motion animation to one frame per second and wiping our memories between each frame. That's the essence of Stop Motion. We want you to see a brand new band every time we play. If you leave your assumptions about "music" at the door, we will absorb your fear and anger, then pump it back to you in a way that makes you forget why the fuck you were scared to begin with. You create our live show every bit as much as we do. We will share all of our fears with you, but you have to give them back. We need our fear. "The only thing to fear is fear itself" is bullshit.. Do not be afraid to be afraid. Fear is what makes us alive, it enforces the only universal purpose among conscious beings which is not to die. If you're not afraid, you're dead. When we play live, we are not afraid. Our conscious minds die when this happens, but our bodies and musical instincts carry on. This is music without expectations, and these are songs from the dead.

  • Members

    Ben Dehart Tyler Gordon Eric Fowler Garrett Borgwardt

  • Influences

    Radiohead, Zeppelin, the Beatles, High on Fire, Born of Osiris, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, Meshuggah, Red Collar, the White Stripes, Pixies, Parkway Drive, Bring Me the Horizon, Outkast, anything that hits

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    Stop Motion

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