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For best results, steal it (and my discography) and blast it through your own media player.

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Recordings from May 2023 to January 2024 finished between December 2024 and January 2025.

"Gray Shovels" and “Edelweiss, My Love” are taken from Katartisis, recorded between April-August 2020. They are remixes (literally), not re-recordings. "The Fulcrum" heavily references "Amphiclasm" but is not a re-recording.

All instruments and production by Jimmy Hamzey.

For the one who still enters my dreams uninvitedly, and whose shadow I will never outrun.

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Anybody courageous interested in a run (besides tapes): Serpentcolumn@gmail.com

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Condensed shitpost you should ignore below:

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The reason for me taking the time to do this was that this anti-AI tool narrative causes repercussions in terms of any possible label and media support, which causes repercussions for artists, which causes repercussions for the creative potential and overall quality of independent music. The death of the blogspot world and consolidation of the internet into 3 websites was catastrophic for independent music. The remaining margins have forced all of us except the most socially adept scene darlings to even narrower margins. This is also related to a larger discussion over preemptive censorship and state control of media, which should enrage anybody, and which artists discuss amongst ourselves but not openly. The time for that discussion has come.

The ecosystem in which independent music lives is crippled, paralyzed by fear over anything that provokes controversy. All label and media decisions reduce down to the lowest common denominator of what pisses listeners off, no matter how niche. The stifling, uncreative, and oppressive atmosphere of the most elitist of local punk scenes has become the rule, not the exception. As a consequence, we are all forced to accept industry rules or risk being blacklisted everywhere. That already happened to me years ago, so I am happy to fall on the sword.

You can read the rest of it elsewhere, I'm sure it has been reposted and preserved. If not, I have a backup that I am willing to share for anybody interested in my opinion. I have copies of mailing lists in case I am forced to start my own site to host downloadable files for past and future releases.

Thank you for the support to my open-minded, actual listeners. I don't care how few you are. Many of you are people like me who were always already alienated and used to being attacked from all angles.

To the rest of you high school bullies doing the CIA's work, see pfp.

-JH

In the future, there's a party from the past, she's a cop

1. Serpent Column

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