Artist description TRAP has gruff death growls and sweet soliloquies, they have shown there is room enough for sludgy breakdowns, and TRAP employ high-energy group chanting -- all-and-all, the songs go where they have to go.

Music Style Metalcore

Musical Influences Starkweather, Tool, Life of Agony, Deftones, Skinny Puppy, Converge, The Haunted, Faith No More, At The Gates

Artist History "The music of philadelphia-based act Trap is really hard to pinpoint. Managing to fuse together soft passages, angry hardcore screams and a real heavy underground death metal sound is no easy feat, but Trap moves from style to style with no real problems ..."The circle and the light" is good for what it offers most: diversity. A band in learning mode, no doubt, who will one day knock my socks off-at least I hope they do." - Unrestrained Magazine. After a year of nearly chance meetings, concepts for an EP were in place. Never under the same name twice, they played small local shows for three months before a dedicated group of regulars. "I think that we've always gotten a warm reception, the kids are always violent" says Matt Cranston, guitars. By the end of the summer of 2000, TRAP appeared on Philly's WKDU for a popular live performance. The CD release of the preformance kept them on WKDU's top thirty for a month. By fall, their first studio EP, "The Circle and the Light", would set their sound in stone. It was released independantly late January 2001. Again, the local underground station WKDU had Trap's "Circle and the Light" at the top of the charts for three months straight. Somewhat of a 'concept album', it deals with the difficulties a person and a society faces when structuring a new preception of the world, the destructive, cyclical and depressive side of pessimism, and possible affirmation found in visceral drives and destruction of opposing forces. TRAP avoided predictable, straightforward songs. Meandering structures and shifts in meter were the norm for unique songs that never tread again a single length of ground. "...it has always been important for us to make every song completely different in form and feel" says Steve. This awkwardness lends a sinister and clever mantle to the heaviest passage, and the sweetest lyrics would be presented as imperfect and grounded in the world. Sincere, somber, and sweet shifts opened the way for improvised spoken word sessions where Bloodlet and Moss Icon meet for reflection. Clean guitars shift to thunderous and epic crashes, a slow bludgeoning reproach. They leave nothing behind to watch over the lost, there is no time, not in the wake of manic choppy explosions. TRAP has gruff death growls and sweet soliloquies, they have shown there is room enough for sludgy breakdowns, and TRAP employ high-energy group chanting -- all-and-all, the songs go where they have to go. And things have only begun for TRAP, who are already looking to the future. "We sound good right now, but we can still get better, and we will," admits Matt Hepler, drums. The aim is to include even more diverse influences, and to grow towards well-developed, ambitious conceptual pieces. But most importantly, TRAP will be taking their music to the streets.

Group Members Steve Depitro, Matt Hepler, Matt DeAngelis, Matt Hepler, Mike Hepler

Instruments Guitars,Bass & Drums

Albums The Circle And The Light, Live at WKDU, All The Reasons They Don't Like Us But Should

Press Reviews "The music of philadelphia-based act Trap is really hard to pinpoint. Managing to fuse together soft passages, angry hardcore screams and a real heavy underground death metal sound is no easy feat, but Trap moves from style to style with no real problems ..."The circle and the light" is good for what it offers most: diversity. A band in learning mode, no doubt, who will one day knock my socks off-at least I hope they do." - Unrestrained Magazine. Trap, hailing from Philadelphia, know a thing or two about mixing it up. Vocalist Steve screams, cackles, growls and pines like an emo boy, at times all in one song Acoustic guitars bleed in and out of pummeling riffs while machine gun snare rolls yield to offtime skin pounding. Formed from the ashes of a stoner/thrash metal band, Trap has succeeded in finding a unique sound. - Metal Maniacs magazine

Additional Info E-mail Trap at trapsmail2003@yahoo.com

Location Philadelphia, PA - USA

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