He went crying to school, I had to go to the principal’s office, but he stopped bothering me after that! Now I’m not saying it’s ok to be violent, but today things are different. Until one day, I made a snowball and stuck a piece of a broken icicle in it. We’d take the same route to grade school every day and one winter, he threw snowballs at me that really hurt. I remember when I was a kid, there was a boy who really was a bully. For their next album the band expanded their sound by adding synthesizers and samples, making their fifth album, Reborn, their most ambitious album to date.It really saddens me to see how many listeners send in emails saying they need advice because they are being bullied. For their fourth album, the band went into the studio with producer Johnny K, and in 2010 released No Apologies.

A year later they teamed with producer GGGarth Richardson for their third studio album, Only Through the Pain. A live album released in 2007 ( simply titled Live ) was their first for Nikki Sixx's Eleven Seven label. The band returned in 2005 with Someone in Control. A year later, Trapt prepared their proper debut, and a self-titled EP appeared in spring 2004. Seattle native Aaron Montgomery joined to play drums, and after a 9/11 benefit show, Warner Bros. Talks of a deal were in the works, but Immortal dropped the band after eight weeks.Įach member eventually dropped out of school and moved to Los Angeles to focus solely on Trapt. As luck would have it, Trapt impressed those at the Immortal label after a stellar gig at the Troubadour one evening in late 2000. The band met up on weekends for rehearsals and shows, and also managed to issue another record, Glimpse, in early 2000 with hopes that a record label would notice. Ormandy and Brown were attending classes at UC Santa Barbara by fall 1999 while Charell was several hours away at UC Santa Cruz. Within a year, Trapt were opening up for the likes of Papa Roach, Dredg, and Spike 1000, but high-school graduation loomed ahead.Trapt's second album, Amalgamation, was self-released in 1998, but the band's dynamic was shifting. The trio recorded its own demo and landed gigs in and around the suburbs of southern California. In 1997, fellow guitarist Simon Ormandy joined the band.

Casual gigs in school motivated them even more, leaving Brown and Charell to design what would become Trapt. Both were music geeks and naturally flirted with the idea of getting a group together. School chums Chris Brown and Peter Charell absorbed the heavy rock sound of Korn, Soundgarden, and Metallica during the mid-'90s.

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