Southern Cali’s Trauma gives us a tour of the not so sunny beaches and shady trees instead we’re smacked upside the head with hardcore punk, some grindcore and the surely blasphemous classical instrumental. Yes that’s right, Trauma plays hard and screams as any hardcore band must but they throw in some surprises you don’t see coming.
We have some melody on this here record next to the grunting guitars and the appropriate nails down the chalkboard vocals. Lyrics are sick, PO’d and ugly however four songs in we’re greeted with a sliver or two of actual singing. After you listen to the classic keys of Insomniac Trauma which is actually semi-peaceful, you’re treated to a soft female throat on Wake Up Before You Die. Don’t worry there’s no mush here, just some nice ingredients wrestled away from other genre’s thrown in to boost the vitality. Bands like this prove why Jesus was the original headbanger. <ahref=”http://www.strikefirstrecords.com” target=”_blank”>www.strikefirstrecords.com
