21 Thursday Feb 2013
Posted in Band Spotlight, Hardcore, News, Post-Hardcore, Streaming Songs..., Upcoming Shit
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Against Me!, Deathwish, Hesitation Wounds, Secret Voice, The Hope Conspiracy, Touche Amore, trap them
Hesitation Wounds will be releasing their debut three song EP on Secret Voice sometime in the near future. This melodic hardcore project features Jeremy Bolm (Touche Amore), Neeraj Kane (The Hope Conspiracy), Jay Weinberg (ex-Against Me!) and Stephen LaCour (ex-Trap Them). Vocalist Jeremy Bolm had this to offer on the new project:
25 Friday Jan 2013
Back during SXSW 2011, Thrasher Magazine and Converse shoes put on their yearly Death Match showcase; this year the headlining act was Trap Them. Due to an incident the prior day where All Pigs Must Die set was cut, Trap Them was nice enough to give up half of their set to APMD, but instead of cutting the set short, Trap Them just let APMD set up their gear on stage with TT’s and perform in between Trap Them songs! It was a pretty sweet event and lucky for you guys, I was there to capture it on an SD card.
Posted above is Trap Them’s intro featuring Ben Koller (Converge, All Pigs Must Die) as the second drummer. Posted after the jump is the rest of the show Continue reading »
18 Thursday Oct 2012
Posted in Fucking Ramblings, Just Kill Me..., Mixtape, Now Playing...
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Between The Buried And Me, Brand New, Ceremony, Death Grips, early graves, gayrilla biscuits, Jay z, Kanye West, Mid-work week playlist, russian circles, trap them
How many of you hate your jobs? How many of you can listen to your music while working? Well fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it), I can answer yes to both questions.
The following is a new segment in which I will give you a playlist based on the songs I find myself listening to over and over again while working. Originally I had planned to do this with full albums, but quickly realized I only listen to a handful of album. So in order to be less redundant I’ve decided to limit myself to ten songs a week. Continue reading to find out what songs I am annoying my co-workers with this week.
28 Friday Sep 2012
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all pigs must die, American aftermath exclusive, Earth Control, Gaza, owen hart, sxsw, Touche Amore, trap them
A few years back, I attended SXSW in Austin, TX and was looking for a show on twitter when I saw Trap Them tweeted about how they were going to be playing a house show later that night. Needless to say, I attended said show and even got there hours before any decent bands were scheduled to play. The show was in some random hipster kids garage and was nothing but local Austin acts, but since it was SXSW and there were tons of bands looking for a place to play, the show became pretty epic, pretty fast.
Not only did Trap Them agree to play, but so did Owen Hart Earth Control, Touche Amore, Gaza and All Pigs Must Die… So after waiting through all the shitty locals, Owen Hart and Touche went on, then it was a few more hours of waiting before anyone notable played. By this time, it’s getting to be pretty late and by pretty late I mean 2am, and Trap Them, Gaza and All Pigs Must Die have yet to play.
So in order to speed things up and allow enough time for everyone to perform, Trap Them and All Pigs Must Die decided to set up both their equipment at the same time and play dueling sets! After Trap Them’s first song, ironically, the police show up and try to shut the show down before All Pigs Must Die can play one song. The police were not immediately successful in shutting the show and APMD had the balls to play another song before cops could pull the power. The videos of this event are embedded above and below. I hope you enjoy yourself almost a fraction of what I did filming them. Have a nice weekend.
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– Josh Huddleston
10 Monday Sep 2012
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Trap Them guitarist Brian Izzi recently hinted that new Trap Them material was in the works. One can only hope, right? No other news has been released so far but until then, jam to “Mission Convincers” over and over and over.
-Lane Oliver
06 Friday Jan 2012
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Everything Went Black, landmine marathon, Ov Hell, Primitive Weapons, prosthetic records, skeletonwitch, trap them
Okay, every now and then I get stumped when I try to label a band. I mean, there are just no proper labels I can give some bands. The latest band to join the no label clique? Brooklyn, New York’s Primitive Weapons who just so happen to have very recently signed to Prosthetic Records. Prosthetic is already the home to a lot of amazing bands like Skeletonwitch, Trap Them, Ov Hell and Landmine Marathon and they have recently signed one of my personal underground favorites Everything Went Black so before I could decide whether Primitive Weapons would fit in on Prosthetic, I had to hear the band. So first thing I did was head over to the bands Facebook page and check out their tunes.
On Primitive Weapons‘ Facebook, they list themselves as “weird, heavy” and I think that about sums it up. They have some hardcore elements, some sludgy breaks and righteous, vicious vocals. Pretty much it’s just an all around good time. I really dig this band’s sound and I can’t wait to hear what they have to offer on their Prosthetic debut. Their album is due out this Spring. I’ll keep you updated on happenings as they become clear. Check out a track below to get a feel for the band’s sound.
30 Friday Dec 2011
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Animals As Leaders, baring teeth, Best Of 2011, Death Grips, east of the wall, Grayceon, immortal technique, khann, Orgone, Protest The Hero, psudoku, rotten sound, top albums of 2011, trap them, Tyler The Creator, ulcerate, Weekend Nachos
It’s the end of the year and you know what that means, right? A whole month of pretentious bloggers telling you which albums you should have listened to. 2011 was a stand out year for metal and music in general. Because of this, coming up with a list of what I found to be the best albums of the year was not an easy task. Below is a list of my favorite FULL LENGTHS of 2011. My list might have been a little different if I hadn’t made a separate list for EP’s. Anyway, If you haven’t heard any of these albums for some reason then you need to seriously go check them out. I’m going to start off with a few albums that were great but just barely didn’t make the cut for whatever reasons.
Honorable mentions:
An Isle Ate Her - ‘Phrenia‘
All Pigs Must Die - ‘God Is War’
Anomalous - ‘Omnivalent’
Gridlink - ‘Orphan’
Noisear – ‘Subvert The Dominate Paradigm’
Russian Circles - ‘Empros’
Gigan – ‘Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes’
Unexpect - ‘Fables Of The Sleepless Empire”
Wugazi – ’13 Chambers’
Continue after the jump to find out what my favorite albums of the year were. Oh and make sure to leave comments telling why my list is shit or what albums I should have been jammin’.
06 Tuesday Dec 2011
Posted in Band Spotlight, Black Metal, Crust, Death Metal, Now Playing..., Post-Metal, Sludge Metal, Videos
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all pigs must die, Deafheaven, Hetfield & Hetfield, junius, ken mode, tombs, trap them, Vattnet Viskar, vygr, wolves in the throne room, ZOMBI
What can I say, 2011 was a very conflicted year for me musically. Sometimes I wanted to gaze off into an abyss and reflect on life with some lo-fi ambient black metal, and other times I wanted to pound ‘Gansetts on a beach listening to Havok with Swayze’s dead body dressed as Bodhi from Point Break (Weekend at Bernie’s style). Either way, it was a year of great music by some great people.
All I can say is, as you’ll see from this list, on any given day, I have no clue what I’m doing whatsoever. Judge away if you want to, but let’s be serious here, none of you actually ONLY listen to Aura Noir all day; well except for Bari. I’m a music fan first, and an elitist second, with that being said:
MY GODDAMNED TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2011. -Chris Alfieri
03 Saturday Dec 2011
Posted in Band Spotlight, Black Metal, Death Metal, Grindcore, Metal, News
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Alarum, Best Of 2011, Big Business, brutal truth, Earth Control, Elitist, Exhumed, Krallice, Maruta, noisear, owen hart, rotten sound, Scourge Schematic, the drip, toxic holocaust, trap them, ulcerate, weedeater, Weekend Nachos, World Under Blood, wormrot
No particular order. -Bobby
Trap Them – Darker Handcraft
Maruta – Forward Into Regression
Rotten Sound – Cursed
Toxic Holocaust – Conjure and Command
Weekend Nachos – Worthless
Wormrot – Dirge
Exhumed – All Guts,No Glory
Elitist – Fear In A Handful Of Dust
Owen Hart – Earth Control
Scourge Schematic – Life Savings.
Brutal Truth – End Time
Weedeater – Jason…The Dragon
Big Business – Quadruple Single [ep]
Scourge Schematic – Life Savings
Noisear – Subvert The Dominant Paradigm
03 Saturday Dec 2011
Posted in Band Spotlight, Black Metal, Death Metal, djent, Extreme Metal, Grindcore, Hardcore, Uncategorized
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all pigs must die, amon amarth, Animals As Leaders, Devin Townsend Project, Dream Theater, east of the wall, Evan Brewer, Krallice, Maclyn Bean Photography, meek is murder, Mogwai, OBSCURA, rotten sound, russian circles, scale the summit, skeletonwitch, Stray From The Path, Textures, the black dahlia murder, Thomas Giles, Touche Amore, trap them, wolves in the throne room, wormrot
This is my Best Albums of 2011 list. Some of these albums are not “metal” per se, but still amazing releases. As you may notice, I’m a fan of prog and grind and instrumental things.
I was fortunate enough to see/will be seeing all of these bands live this year (excluding 2, 6, 7, 14, 15 & 20), and all of these live performances blew my mind.
Haters gonna hate. – Maclyn
23. Thomas Giles – Pulse
22. Touché Amoré -Parting The Sea Between The Brightness and Me
21. Russian Circles – Empros
20. Rotten Sound – Cursed
19. Skeletonwitch – Forever Abomination
18. Textures – Dualism
17. Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events
16. Scale The Summit – The Collective
15. East of The Wall – The Apologist
14. Meek is Murder – Algorithms
13. All Pigs Must Die – God Is War
12. Animals As Leaders –Weightless
11. Amon Amarth -Surtur Rising
02 Friday Dec 2011
Posted in Band Spotlight, djent, Doom Metal, Extreme Metal, Grind/Crust, Hardcore, Heavy Metal, Hip-Hop, instrumetal, Mathcore, Metal, News, Non-Metal, Other, Post-Metal, Prog Metal, Punk, Reviews, Rock, Screamo, Shoegaze, Sludge Metal, Uncategorized
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and so i watch you from afar, Animals As Leaders, BADBADNOTGOOD, Capsule, Cave In, Chelsea Wolfe, Colin Stetson, Death Grips, Earth, east of the wall, giant squid, Giles Corey, Glassjaw, Grails, Grayceon, khann, Mogwai, Primus, russian circles, St. Vincent, Steven WIlson, This Will Destroy You, Tom Waits, trap them, Young Widows
It’s been a very, very good year for music in my opinion. I have been lucky enough to listen to a plethora of great albums throughout 2011. So I knew it was going to be torture just to narrow my favorite albums down to JUST 25. But after weeks of preparation, my list is complete. I urge you, the reader, to check out every album on this list.
28 Monday Nov 2011
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23 Wednesday Nov 2011
Posted in Band Spotlight, Grindcore, Hardcore, Metal, Mourning Jams, Now Playing..., Videos
Good morning, folks. How are we all feeling on this fine Thanksgiving Eve? Well, today I’m gonna cut right to it, as I have been doing lately. I mean, do you really need a long explanation about what the morning playlist is? Well, I don’t think you do. It’s Trap Them. Enjoy.
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29 Thursday Sep 2011
Posted in Band Spotlight, Black Metal, Crust, Grind/Crust, Grindcore, Hardcore, Metal, News, Punk, Rock, Speed Metal, Tour Dates, Upcoming Shit, Videos, WTF?
Wow. Is it just a day to talk about tours I will not be attending? Oh well. A while back, we talked about this tour with Toxic Holocaust, Trap Them, Kvelertak and Wolves Like Us. Well, now it appears that The Secret will be taking Trap Them’s place due to some unforeseen health issues. This is a bummer I think. I mean, either way this tour is going to kill. I would be biased either way because I love both of those bands equally. You can still check out the dates here. All the best goes to the members of Trap Them. I hope all is well.
~R. Gnarly//Grave Det Eller Dø.
20 Tuesday Sep 2011
Posted in Band Spotlight, Black Metal, Metal, News, Punk, Thrash MEtal, Upcoming Shit
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Hells Headbangers, kvelertak, Midnight, relapse records, toxic holocaust, trap them, Wolves Like Us
One band that I absolutely love, Toxic Holocaust and a band that I’m just getting into, Midnight are teaming up for a 7″ split to benefit the victims of the tsunami disaster in Japan. I don’t know about you, but already this sounds amazing to me and if it doesn’t to you, then the description of the vinyl should turn you on:
The 7” is limited to a one-time pressing of 1,000 copies on Japanese-flag colored heavy-weight vinyl, and features tracks from both bands (“A.T.O.M.I.C.” by TOXIC HOLOCAUST, “Destroy Tsunami’s Power” by Midnight) exclusive to this release. The split also features exclusive artwork by Daniel “Sawblade” Shaw (TOXIC HOLOCAUST, Insect Warfare, Coffins). All proceeds will go to the Red Cross relief efforts for victims of the tsunami disaster. The 7” can be ordered here.
Japanese-flag colored vinyl? Sick. You can see the album art at the top of this post. After the jump you can see the forthcoming tour dates Toxic Holocaust has with Kveletak, Wolves Like Us and Trap Them.
~R. Gnarly//Dig It or Die.
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