A trio of serious-looking musicians. The subject on the left wears a beanie and large ear gauges. The central person wears a dark t-shirt, and the person on the right wears a patched, chain-adorned vest and metal necklaces.Antacid Trip Credit: antacidtrip / Bandcamp

The metal isn’t the only thing that’s black in the Antacid Trip camp.

Tim Ramsland’s trio has a bleak, albeit honest, outlook on the zeitgeist, encapsulated on cuts like “Born To Buy,” where he sings “You are not a capitalist/You are the capital/You are the product/You are disposable…”.

But there are solutions on the nine-track outing. “Beneath The Harvest Moon” has ideas on what to do with corporate fat cats, and “Systematic Exsanguination” is a refusal to believe that wasting away at work is humanity’s raison d’être.

The band celebrates its first full-length alongside grindcore quintet Ramtha and Clearwater thrash trio Phantom Power.

Tickets to see Antacid Trip play Pinellas Ale Works in St. Petersburg on Saturday, Dec. 13 are still available for $10.

The Hellish Cycle by ANTACID TRIP

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This article appears in Dec. 04 – 10, 2025.

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