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Negative Agent

@negativeagent.bsky.social

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Aggressive industrial-metal band based in NYC. Gleefully telling fascists and their sycophants to fuck right off. Plus, you can dance to it! 🎵 NegativeAgent.Ampwall.com 🎵 NegativeAgent.bandcamp.com 🚫 Fuck Generative AI

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Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · Jul 1

New Negative Agent demo!

⚙️“Mind Wipe (Demo v3)”⚙️

Industrial-Metal like Grandma used to make!

With a ripping solo by @metalminder.bsky.social from Am I In Trouble?!

#IndustrialMusic #IndustrialMetal #Metal #Goth #ElectronicMusic #MetalSky #OnAmpwall

Negativeagent.ampwall.com/album/mind-wipe

Mind Wipe (Demo v3) · Negative Agent

Mind Wipe (Demo v3) - Negative Agent, a 1 track ep

Negativeagent.ampwall.com

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Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · 18d

Yep. He was definitely having fun with it. I had a friend in a band who used to do stuff like that, too. Keyboard players don’t wanna be held back!

Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · 18d

Al knows what he did.

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Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · 18d

Seen on an NYC subway platform. Some heroes don’t wear capes or have fancy super powers. They just wield a red marker and are driven to fight the machines. Respect! ✊
#CyberPunk #FuckAI

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Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · 18d

Fun fact: One of my earliest interviews, way before I became a pro music journalist or Revolver’s managing editor, was with FLA’s Rhys Fulber for a zine some friends and I published called The Poison Apple. I can’t remember what we talked about exactly, but it was a fun afternoon!

Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · 18d

#FrontLineAssembly were fucking AWESOME last night, showcasing why they’ve dominated #industrialmusic for 30+ years. FLA’s influence on my music can’t be understated & I was psyched when Bill Leeb & Rhys Fulber signed an old keyboard key of mine.
#ElectronicMusic #GothMusic #EBM #WaxTrax #ColdWaves

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Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · 19d

Tonight: Front Line Assembly, Mentallo & the Fixer, Clock DVA & Lead Into Gold. This is the classic industrial I came up with in the early & mid Nineties, this show is gonna feel like a time warp. Can’t wait!
#IndustrialMusic #EBM #Goth #GothMusic #ElectronicMusic #FrontLineAssembly #WaxTrax

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Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · 24d

Xoth (@beholdxoth.bsky.social) were awesome, one of the best shows I’ve been to in a while. Just four dudes with killer songs & massive stage presence. Outstanding blackened-tech-death-thrash-whatever-metal & weird sci-fi themes — highly recommended!
#Metal #MetalSky #DeathMetal #LiveMusic

Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · 25d

Xoth tonight! I’ve been looking forward to this show for a while.

#Metal #MetalSky #Xoth #LiveMusic

Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · 25d

This woman’s husband was grabbed by masked ICE agents without a warrant or explanation. Then this ICE jackass violently threw her to the ground. Watch the video, she didn’t do anything. This is what we’re up against.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks! I hate that the world’s giving me so much to write about… I’m looking forward to it all being boring again!

Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · Sep 19

I like those odds! Gonna start accumulating the appropriate bribes now.

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Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · Sep 19

Yeah, unfortunately life gets in the way sometimes. Pushed back to December. On the plus side, it allowed me to turn it into an LP instead of an EP. 🤘

Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · Sep 19

🎵 NEW SONG! 🎵

⚙️ “Boot Licker” ⚙️

More Industrial-metal madness from Negative Agent!

Stream the Demo for FREE on Bandcamp:
NegativeAgent.bandcamp.com/album/boot-licker

Debut album coming in December!

#IndustrialMusic #IndustrialMetal #Metal #ElectronicMusic #Goth #MetalSky #Cyberpunk #Bandcamp

Boot Licker (Demo v2), by Negative Agent

1 track album

NegativeAgent.bandcamp.com

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Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · Sep 19

Thanks, sir! Who do we talk to about playing at the Grand Bazaar? 🤘

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Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · Sep 19

🎵 NEW SONG! 🎵

⚙️ “Boot Licker” ⚙️

More Industrial-metal madness from Negative Agent!

Stream the Demo for FREE on Ampwall:
NegativeAgent.Ampwall.com/album/boot-licker

Debut album coming in December!

#IndustrialMusic #IndustrialMetal #Metal #ElectronicMusic #Goth #MetalSky #Cyberpunk #OnAmpwall

Boot Licker (Demo V2) · Negative Agent

Boot Licker (Demo V2) - Negative Agent, a 1 track ep

NegativeAgent.Ampwall.com

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Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · Sep 19

Thanks, I’m glad you liked it! I’m about to make the official posts.

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Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · Sep 18

New Negative Agent demo dropping tomorrow! I I was gonna hold it for the album but fuck it, the track turned out to be too timely to ignore.

Streaming for free tomorrow on Ampwall and Bandcamp! ⚙️🤘🎵

#IndustrialMetal #IndustrialMusic #Metal #ElectronicMusic #Goth

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Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · Sep 18

I know it won’t move the needle very far, but I’ll sleep better knowing I’m not giving money to a company that collaborated with Trump to stomp on the 1st Amendment. I’ll miss Star Wars and Marvel, but not as much as I miss democracy.

Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · Sep 18

The same guy who directed Moonstruck also made a ridiculously violent movie ruminating on the role of institutionalized violence as a means of societal control. Rollerball is one of my all-time faves and Jewison was a genius.

Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · Sep 15

My dream when I set up the new studio, the fondest wish that helps me contemplate the future with any sort of optimism, is that I’ll have enough outlets to deliver juice to all my gear while also keeping my power cords neat.

I know, crazy talk!
#HomeStudio #MusicProduction #IndustrialMusic

Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · Sep 15

Turns out they only needed the one-page summary pages from the three documents totally 230 pages. Too bad that wasn’t written on the instructions. Oh well, this is why we won’t have any oxygen left. 🤦‍♂️

Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · Sep 15

What year - no, decade - is it? I need to submit an application for something that requires me to print LITERALLY 300+ pages of forms. All of which exist as emailable PDFs. But nope, needs to be snail mail. Oh, and they want three paper checks. A forest died for this application. Geez…

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Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · Sep 13

Still alive. Still working on music. Just very, very busy… So here’s a picture of my cats sleeping weirdly.

Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · Sep 7

#IndustrialMetal

Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · Sep 6

I got this guitar pick from Michael J. Fox after an interview I did with him. Before the cameras started rolling, he & I & my wife were talking about guitar playing. He recommended that she check out a Baby Taylor acoustic, which she ended up getting. Fun day.
#Guitar #BackToTheFuture #80s