MetalSucks

Alright, people. I feel like fucking death. I just wanna go lie down and hopefully never wake up. Let’s get this over with:

• We finally finished the goddamn motherfucking list with “Albums We Wish Had Made It” entries from my man Vince (Soilwork’s Natural Born Chaos) and my girl Amy Sciarretto (DEP’s not-really-eligible Calculating Infinity).
• We got another exclusive world tour video tour diary from Misery Index. We also spoke with Johnny Kelly of Type O Negative and Seventh Void and got our bro-bros at Thrash Hits to do a video interview with Trigger the Bloodshed for us. Thanks, dudes.
• We lost IQ points just watching this video interview with the singer of Attack! Attack!
• We have it on good authority that there’s gonna be an Acid Bath reunion.
• Dallas Coyle is now answering your questions.
• So is Gwar’s Oderus Urungus.

We’ll be at Summer Slaughter on Sunday. If any of you spot us and want to buy us a drink, please, for the love of all things holy, don’t.

-AR

At last month’s Download Festival in Donington Park, UK, our friends over at Thrash Hits were kind enough to corner Trigger the Bloodshed and interview them on our behalf – at the toilets. The quick interview centered around the surroundings, as Thrash Hits grilled them about festival toilets, their best toilet experiences, shitting in general, and potential toilet horror stories. Check it out below.

Trigger the Bloodshed couldn’t have picked a worse time to be a (something) the (something) band playing death metal with the occasional fit of hardcore swagger: nothing could be hotter, and nothing could be less appealing to anyone over the age of 19. The thing with TtB, though, is that the hardcore swagger is incredibly brief, and greatly overshadowed by the fact that the band play a fierce, unrelenting brand of fucking death metal. The Great Depression, the band’s latest, has all the subtlety, nuance, and melodic sensibility of a bone saw; it doesn’t resort clean vocals or ambient tracks (well, they do one, but it‘s quick), instead opting to tear right the fuck into you until there’s nothing left but skin and hair folicles. Cheesy, overwrought metaphors aside, if one considers the band deathcore, then this is a hefty argument in its defense. But if you’re not so hung up on labels, and, more importantly, if you like your death metal fast to the point of seizure-inducing, Trigger the Bloodshed, believe it or not, are your kind of band.

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