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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 13d

Happy name day to LEARNING THE SECRETS OF ACID. Available on Bandcamp and Ampwall.

Cover art for LEARNING THE SECRETS OF ACID by UMULAMAHRI

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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 19h

I finally just saw them for the first time too. They played in an abandoned lot in the middle of the fucking Williamsburg waterfront, lol. A sublime experience

avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 22h

One of the only things I wrote as a metal blogger I still think is worth half a shit

www.invisibleoranges.com/dont-listen-...

Don't listen to everything

A lot of albums will come out in 2014. You shouldn't try to hear all the good ones.

www.invisibleoranges.com

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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 22h

I went to like 20 shows by myself in a row at one point in late high school. Always excruciatingly awkward, but I saw some sets I’ll never forget. Stay strong brother

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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 22h

Probably my single favorite prog album

avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 22h

I was not prepared for where this tune would go the first time I heard it

avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 22h

For better and for worse, I am not English enough to make music that sounds like this

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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 22h

Oh I assumed this was just superseding the entire interview

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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 22h

It’s a fucking phenomenal song too

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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 22h

DON'T SLEEP ENOUGH DON'T SLEEP ENOUGH DON'T SLEEP ENOUGH DON'T SLEEP ENOUGH

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Fragile Ego, by Thank

from the album Sexghost Hellscape

thankleeds.bandcamp.com

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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 22h

Doing interviews for my 17 bands after hours at my corporate day job like

(What are your hobbies?)
I like staring at the wall, sticking knives into toasters, feeling bad about myself all the time
(And who are your influences?)
We exclusively listen to meme rap, and the album 'Red' by King Crimson
(What are your hobbies?)
I like staring at the wall
(And who are your influences?)
I think I'd have to say... stop, don't touch my fragile ego

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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, as “Sergeant D,” a nom de plume he ported over from the Metal Inquisition blog (which was admittedly a pretty entertaining site for a while). His Metalsucks stuff was mostly about misogyny and how he wanted to fuck teenagers

avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 2d

They have always had a pretty broad reactionary streak; they just performed some halfhearted woke gestures circa 2020 when they thought it would be good for their business

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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 2d

Well it’s easy to do if you are against the concept of having ethics

avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah they ran a post reiterating some anonymous troll social media frap about how Andrew has no right to criticize bigotry because he had some kind of business relationship with a label guy who likes Arghoslent. Very much the “we should improve society somewhat” cartoon

avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know if journalism is even the right word per se; it’s definitely a UK Tory tabloid vibe

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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 2d

Just caught up on this nonsense with Metalsucks going after Andrew from Ripped To Shreds, and would like to state for the record that a) Andrew is totally in the right, and b) Metalsucks has always been a source of tendentious reactionary slop. I hope their business fails.

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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 3d

Thank god, I can finally die

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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t join bands, I’m a default member unless the other founders choose a different singer

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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 3d

Have never read any Banks, though he has been recommended to me many times. Waterworld of course isn’t “good” but it has a lot of cool Mad Max-like set pieces

avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 5d

Thinking about the scene in Waterworld where Kevin Costner is locked in a cage suspended above a lethal pool of compost slurry, such that escaping would result in falling into the slurry that they’ll lower him into eventually anyway, for the 1,575th consecutive week

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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 6d

Funny how uniformly people are interpreting “acid” in the album title to mean LSD - not what the lyrics imply

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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 7d

This post constitutes throwing gasoline on the fire

avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 7d

This type of corny shit makes me want to boo him more, not less

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 8d

Philly booing Ohtani cmon man. He's not a Dodger he's our national baseball Folk Hero. He is for everyone. He loves dogs and hits balls 500 ft and throws the ball 100 mph.

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Clawhammer PR @clawhammerpr.bsky.social · 8d

A densely cerebral excursion into warped riffs, fractured rhythms, and unyielding intensity. The album redefines the framework of death metal, crafting something volatile, unpredictable, and deeply unsettling.
ampwall.com/a/umulamahri... @theretweeter.bsky.social @ampwall.com

Learning the Secrets of Acid · Umulamahri

Learning the Secrets of Acid - Umulamahri, a 5 track album

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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 8d

This should've been a way bigger recurring trope in the show