An album that every fan of extreme music should own.
If Darker Handcraft was a fight it would be a massacre to cause a permanent wince to impose itself on the onlooker’s face – but also the kind that’d be utterly captivating. You wouldn’t be able to take your eyes off it. That’s what Trap Them have done with their third album: they’ve written something unreservedly brutal yet completely inspiring. It’s a confounding situation.
There’s been a trend over the past couple of years of young heavy bands mixing hardcore and blackened death metal. It’s no bad thing. There have been excellent debuts from Kvelertak and Black Breath, and with Trap Them moving from the relative safety of Deathwish Inc to Prosthetic Records the ball was in their court to show the young pretenders the way. The results here are the musical equivalent of a crosscourt passing shot: you can only applaud.
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