AVOID’s track-by-track guide to new album Cult Mentality

This Friday, explosive Seattle quintet AVOID drop their new album Cult Mentality. To celebrate, frontman Benny Scholl goes into detail about each of the 10 tracks that complete the full-length – chatting about everything from feel-good weed songs to meaningfully opening up about mental health through music… My World “This – obviously! – is the first track on the record, and I really don’t think it could go anywhere else. The riff in the first verse came from a demo we had kicking around for like a year and a half called ​‘The Joke That’s Always Funny’, because we would just beat that riff into the ground in the demo, but we were able to find a way to repurpose it and use it in a way that I think is a lot more tasteful and really gives awesome li...