[1] The son of director John G. Avildsen, he wrote and directed the film American Satan (2017) and the scripted series Paradise City (2021).
Initially, the label was run out of his one-bedroom apartment in Venice Beach, beginning with the bands The Faceless and Stick to Your Guns.
Sumerian has since released over 100 albums, expanded their roster to feature a diverse collective of over 40 artists, and in 2016 celebrated their 10-year anniversary as a successful independent label.
A second point was made of the fact that during the 1990s, Avildsen was active in the software piracy warez scene.
[6] In 2022, Jason Fisher of the heavy metal blog The Gauntlet and during the 1990s also a member of ROR, responded to the video, claiming that "Ash alone has easily cost companies millions of dollars."