Push and drag the skull to tumble it like a bowling ball. Eyes ride with the skull as it rolls. Rolling scrolls the blood-signature wall behind the page. Release to leave the wall where it sits.
Anything plus Skull Collector is Skull Collector plus things much better.Anything plus Skull Collector is Skull Collector plus things much better.
Events shape it, it grows, it connects, it loves, it teaches. Skull Collecter.Events shape it, it grows, it connects, it loves, it teaches. Skull Collector.
We're here to make a difference. We're here to do something good in the world, or we're not here.We're here to make a difference. We're here to do something good in the world, or we're not here.
Aussie bogan death metal: a bloke and his screaming missus from the back of beyond play the loudest, dumbest, most sincere death metal on Earth.
Skull Collector is a fantasy death metal project made as a single living artwork. This site is everything that goes into it; the band itself plays at skullcollector.band. The lyrics are spelled broken on purpose, "Skul Colectr", so the words become a code and the scream itself names the band. The debut piece, "Using", is built on a counted system: clocks locked at the same time across a map, an outer ring of thirty called spiritual, an inner thirteen that transforms, seven languages spinning the words, and a total of 3333. Sound, typography, image, number and myth are designed together, and each one is shown here as part of the work rather than as decoration around it.
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Owner-reviewed early access · death metal / screamo death metal
Waltzing Matilda death metal golem tribute/parody
The Skull Collector golem, built from skulls, replaces the swagman. The swagman does well and does not drown. A tribute/parody that confronts the crown and colonialism.
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A culturally significant Australian song reappropriated into a vulgar Screamo Death Metal rendition some may find highly offensive. Treatment of Australian cultural themes may be regarded as disrespectful, confronting or insulting. Contains cartoon nudity, implied violence and animal harm. Please do not record, download, reproduce or share. VIEWING IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED.
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Six five-second parts from across the whole track, including the middle. Rough, wrong-spot cuts. No crossfades. No separate teaser.
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SKULL COLLECTOR · thugMATH · music video · 5:30
Works
Using · cover art
Medium: digital image · Size: 360 × 360 px
Skull Collector's HomeUsing
Using · track
Medium: recorded sound (death metal, voice with growls and screams) · Length: 5 min 30 s
Medium: text, deliberate misspelling as code · Sections: intro, four verses, chorus, duet, bridge, outro
"Inside close brackets is da screaming / Is da growling is da name / Colecti never sez it rite / But da scream makes it true"
sku||¤co||ector · logotype
Medium: typography
Story
Skull Collector started with a name that would not stay spelled the same way twice. Every time it was written, the word came out wrong somewhere, and instead of fixing it, the mistake became the method. The song "Using" grew out of that idea: if the word can never be said right, then the scream has to carry the meaning. Around that scream a whole system took shape, clocks all stopped at one moment, a scale marked on a map, thirty on the outside and thirteen within, seven languages, and a count that had to land exactly on 3333. A duet section folds a second voice into the work. The skull garden in the lyrics opens only when the count is complete, and this site is where the counting is shown.
The Bogan Mirror
Every icon meets its own reflection across the gold axis. Same bloke, other side.
Ute
Esky
Thongs
Mullet
Golden lager tin
Hi-vis
Southern Cross
Flanno
Footy
Sausage sizzle
Drop bear
Magpie
Bogan lore
The Roos. The road crew are kangaroos who carry skulls in their pouches, run security and hand out merch. They never speak; they only thump.
The drummer. The drummer roo plays with his feet and two tasers (cartoon only), on a kit made from 40-gallon drums with the bottoms cut off so they can take the tasers.
The Staffie. The band's Staffordshire bull terrier just does dumb things, mostly during the quiet bits.
The uniform. Blue singlets, stubbies, thongs or steel-caps, mullets, flannos, and Southern Cross pendants worn ironically.
The rig. Utes, eskies, Bunnings-orange extension leads, and a servo pie for every soundcheck.
The look. Hand-drawn crayon-scribble chaos, as on the "Using" cover: white cartoon skulls, red guitars and an exploding star of red, blue, green and black. Palette: black, bone white, blood red, crayon blue and green.
The rules. Cartoon stage violence only. No real people, no slurs, no punching down. Swearing stays in character and off kids' platforms.
The artist's work
Artwork by the artist behind Skull Collector, shown on its own away from the band's lore.
The Skull Collector work is guided by the Living Veca Symmetry Codex — geometry as living structure, not costume. Sacred geometry is the language of the work, not decoration.
Living Veca Symmetry Codex — the geometry of skullsLiving Veca Symmetry Codex — the geometry of skulls
The vault of bone is a temple of measure.The vault of bone is a temple of measure.
This chapter of the new edition of the Living Veca Symmetry Codex turns the gaze to skulls — not as trophies alone, but as living geometry. Skull Collector reads the cranium as a construction: a vault, a pair of orbits, a midline, a jaw that answers itself across a mirror.
Bilateral twinship. Golden correspondence. Equilibrium in bone.Bilateral twinship. Golden correspondence. Equilibrium in bone.
Look for bilateral symmetry first: left and right as a quiet vow. The orbits sit as paired openings — vesica-like companions when their circles are allowed to speak to each other. The midline is the axis that keeps the song honest. Traditional makers have long loved the golden ratio as a correspondence for beautiful proportion; treat it as a poetic measure here, not as a fake claim of millimetre-perfect anatomy.
Map the vault of the cranium onto sacred forms the way a draftsman maps a dome: Seed and Flower as repeating life-circles, Metatron’s net as thirteen centres of relation, octave rings as nested resonance, Fibonacci growth as a spiral that remembers its last step. The Vector Equilibrium — the cuboctahedron’s calm — suggests how force can sit in balance; skull structure can be felt in that mood of even tension, without pretending a skull is a metal lattice.
Skull Collector gathers skulls the way geometry gathers centres.Skull Collector gathers skulls the way geometry gathers centres.
In this edition the parchment of the signature sphere carries original tea-stained plates: skulls woven through Seed of Life, Flower of Life, Metatron centres, octave rings, golden spirals, and equilibrium frames. Blood marks from the Covenant slowly cover that parchment. Behind the sphere, space holds Orion’s Belt and the Pleiades. Nothing here unredacts sealed words. This new edition is of the Living Veca Symmetry Codex.
Skull Collector got hold of his own copy of the Codex and doodled all through it. Under every plate runs a faded neon-blue blueprint — lines an original draftsman left eons before the Codex came into the world, the pattern that is everywhere and normally unseen, made visible here. The Codex itself is brushed in with a Japanese calligraphy brush and grey watercolour; over the rest of the page he went at it with a feather quill in black ink and blood. Each plate takes the style of a different culture, told through skulls alone, labelled top-left in his matchstick gothic.
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The screensaver cycles through every plate of Skull Collector’s doodled Codex, then through every donated drawing-contest entry. Watch it full screen here.
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Skull Collector drawing contest
Draw something for Skull Collector — skulls, his world, anything he would collect — in your own hand.
Accepted sizes. Entries must fill a whole phone screen neatly: portrait 1:2 (width : height, taller than wide — for example 1080 × 2160 pixels) or landscape 2:1 (width : height, wider than tall — for example 2160 × 1080 pixels). PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 4 MB.
Skull Collector values those who value Skull CollectorSkull Collector values those who value Skull Collector
Tell the owner who you are, why you want the full track, and why you deserve early access before others. Every pitch and its evidence is reviewed by the owner. This form never issues or emails an access code.
Join Skull CollectorJoin Skull Collector
You have a beautiful skull. Give it to Skull Collector. Give it to me.You have a beautiful skull. Give it to Skull Collector. Give it to me.
Give me your skull now.Give me your skull now.
Sign the Petition to make the dust that is of the universe. Universe, one song. Uni-verse. Uni, one, verse, song. Skull Collector.Sign the Petition to make the dust that is of the universe. Universe, one song. Uni-verse. Uni, one, verse, song. Skull Collector.
I spiritually sign over the dust of this skull. I emotionally sign over the mandible of this skull.I spiritually sign over the dust of this skull. I emotionally sign over the mandible of this skull.
May truth and wisdom emanate.May truth and wisdom emanate.
An artistic expression, not a legal transfer of ownership. Signatures are recorded for the owner, not displayed publicly.
All parts of this skull dust were forged in the heart of stars. We are eternal. So is the love of Skull Collector.All parts of this skull dust were forged in the heart of stars. We are eternal. So is the love of Skull Collector.
Skull Collector Covenant
You have a beautiful skull. Give it to Skull Collector. Give it to me.You have a beautiful skull. Give it to Skull Collector. Give it to me.
Give me your skull now.Give me your skull now.
Affirm the Skull Collector Covenant. Your name identifies you for the owner. Your signature may be any mark you choose — it does not need to match your name. The blood mark joins the back wall of this site; your written details stay private for owner review.
Artistic covenant only — not a legal contract. Names and notes are private for the owner. Signature marks alone appear on the back wall.
Fan gallery — write Skull Collector
Write Skull Collector in your own dark font and send it in. Chosen pieces appear here as a fan wall of dark-font renderings. Use the file picker (tap to choose on a phone). Drag-and-drop is not required.
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