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Trap Them - Seizures in Barren Praise

Rating

RIYL

Fucked Up
Cursed
The Hope Conspiracy
Disfear

Label

Deathwish Inc.

Tracklist

1. Day Nineteen: Fucking Viva
2. Day Twenty Eight: Targets
3. Day Twenty Six: Angels Anonymous in Transit
4. Day Twenty Nine: Reincarnation of Lost Lones
5. Day Twenty Five: Guignol Serene
6. Day Twenty: Flesh and Below
7. Day Twenty Four: Gutterbomb Heaven on the Grid
8. Day Twenty Three: Invertopia/Day Thirty: Class Warmth
9. Day Twenty One: Roam/Day Twenty Two: Absent Civilian
10. Day Thirty One: Missions Convincers

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Aaron Yarborough

I had the intense pleasure of seeing Trap Them perform live about two months ago, well before their new album Seizures in Barren Praise had landed. They made me deaf - literally. I had stupidly forgotten my earplugs and paid for it the next three days by living underwater. But for the 40 minutes or so they played, I didn’t notice. I was too busy ogling at the cross-eyed and snaggle-toothed Ryan McKenney, previously of Backstabbers Inc. fame, as he danced and flailed around the stage while recounting the demented stories of the characters set in his fictional shit-town of “Barren Praise.”

That’s right, Trap Them’s newest release is a concept album and one that continues in the same vein as 2007’s Sleepwell Deconstructor. McKenney details the differences between the two on the band’s Myspace: “Lyrically, previous Trap Them releases are all stories from people who had lived in “Barren Praise” before deciding to up and leave. This is the story of those who stayed behind to tell the stories of watching everything unfold…” McKenney and company deserve some credit for trying something not normally seen from the hardcore punk/grind scene with this bizarre form of storytelling but like most from the genre, lyrics take a backseat to noise.

But what glorious noise it is. There’s hardly time to take a breath between each blitzkrieg as the songs rush through tempo changes, squeals of feedback, and McKenney’s throaty roar before spectacularly collapsing in upon themselves. With most of the tracks clocking in at or around two minutes, the hits come hard and fast. “Day Twenty Nine: Reincarnation of Lost Lones” is just over a minute long but will make you want to destroy the nearest village in site. “Day Twenty: Flesh and Below” mixes Disfear and Converge-esque riffing into the album’s most formulaic, but still excellent, track. The record climaxes with “Day Thirty One: Mission Convincers”, a seven minute opus built around some stellar guitar and vocal work that shows us Brian Izzi is quite capable of writing a riff and McKenney at his most volatile and desperate.

Expect the same eclectic, discordant mix of skuzzy punk, classic hardcore, and buzzsaw guitars that raised eyebrows with last year’s release, though this time around the four-piece sounds a bit more congealed and purposeful. Pissed off, insanely loud, and ambitious in scope, Trap Them might take a spot in many hardcore fans top ten lists this year with Seizures in Barren Paradise.

--Dan Strobel

Author

moat211

Last updated: 09/29/2009 09:01PM

Comments

logan37

11/28/2008

07:33AM

Age: 21

Location
Toronto

1. Disfear, Converge, Backstabbers Inc.

??? haha

also, I wouldn't say they sound anything like Fucked Up.

also, this album is awesome.

Denizen

11/28/2008

08:51AM

Location
Bedford, OH

Day Twenty Six took me to another dimension. I had to sit in silence for a few minutes after I made it through the entire song to recover and reboot my life.

rasta