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everything in Scoured (post-metal), guitar and some other stuff in Retrofit (alt-rock) ampwall.com/a/scoured scoured.bandcamp.com they/them

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Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · Jun 23

hello you should listen to my music, some of it is good!

ampwall.com/a/scoured
ampwall.com/a/retrofit

Mournful, atmospheric solo metal project

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 1d

the fact that they have literally four album names that they’ve used at least three times each is both so funny and so annoying

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 1d

love when the improvised placeholder solo ends up being so sick that you just use it in the final song without even rerecording it

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 1d

I've largely taken 2025 off for putting out music but 2026 will be the year I truly show what I can do as a songwriter

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 1d

got a first-draft master for another song from the Retrofit album and folks, this is gonna be so good

might try and push the other guys to release the first two songs as teaser singles or something, I just want people to hear these and don't want to wait

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 1d

Agriculture? if so, can confirm it's real good

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 1d

two weeks until the yearly LOTR marathon, I am very excited

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeah, unbelievably excited for act 3

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 1d

another friday has arrived, so here is a chart of music I listened to this week

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
OutKast - Aquemini
Prince - Sign O' The Times
Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses

Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
The Protomen - Act II: The Father of Death
Bolt Thrower - Realm Of Chaos: Slaves To Darkness
Boris - Pink

Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Vanessa Funke - Requiem

Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust, Inc.
Opeth - Deliverance
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 2d

that's exactly the range I'm looking at and yeah, it's still a masterpiece

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 2d

Deliverance is probably the least perfect album in Opeth's insane run but goddamn that title track really is one of their absolute best

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 2d

regardless of your opinions on Slipknot, it fucking rules that they've taken albums full of blast beats to legitimate mainstream success

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 2d

I am listening to Outkast's 1997 masterpiece Aquemini

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 3d

I have the exact opposite problem where I instinctively pronounce every Lebanon, Reading, Lancaster, etc the PA way since that’s what I grew up with

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 3d

truly feels like a band trying to push past their breaking point, it rules so much

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 3d

few things get me more hyped in extreme metal than when the drummer can't quite go fast enough so everything awkwardly slows down

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 3d

hell yeah, I love how punk that one is

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 3d

probably not surprising, considering my noted love of very fast or very slow metal over midtempo stuff

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 3d

most people correctly love late Bolt Thrower but I have such a soft spot for their early grind-influenced albums, especially Realm of Chaos

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 3d

you should also be listening to Prince.

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 3d

I am listening to Prince.

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 4d

listening to the best Carcass album

carcass.bandcamp.com/album/necrot...

Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious (Full Dynamic Range Edition), by Carcass

carcass.bandcamp.com

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Nirensimt @nirensimt.bsky.social · 5d

Stargazers,
Announcing the coming of new stand-alone single Sanctimus Tenebris unleashing October 21st.
Pre-order and teaser available at ampwall.com/a/nirensimt/...

Sanctimus Tenebris · Nirensimt

Sanctimus Tenebris - Nirensimt, a 2 track ep

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 4d

oh shit this Agriculture album really is that good

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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · 4d

1) Ripped to Shreds cancelling a show with Master and calling them out because they played at Metal Threat is exactly the thing that's almost never done in the metal scene and makes a HUGE difference when it happens. It's a conversation starter about complicity in metal and most plp don't want it.

Ciarán @scoured.bsky.social · 5d

finally a release that features both Fast Scoured and Slow Scoured