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We have finally mixed and mastered our debut Album, “Purgationâ€
It is relentlessly heavy and sounds truly crushing! It is set for release across the UK 17/03/08 and the first single from the Album “Laceration†is set for release 03/03/08 so make sure you pick that shit up, as it will include bonus material not on the album.
For more info on the album please see the blog.
Trigger The Bloodshed - 4K Kerrang review
Trigger The Bloodshed - Purgation
Talk about making an impression. Seconds into this debut by Bath based grindcore/death metal exponents Trigger The Bloodshed you're already shaking your head in disbelief at the sheer immensity of their awesome aural thuggery. Unlistenable if you seek melody and tunes, heavy as hell if you're into sheer power. Amid the brutality come barely perceptible hooks, slight order in chaos. Having been together barely a year, the quartet's achievement thus far is significant. That they are this cohesive, this intense and disturbing in so short a time indicates a genuine chemistry that fans of this genre should note.
4Ks Steve Beebee
Trigger The Bloodshed - Metal Hammer review - 8/10
Trigger The Bloodshed - Purgation
If you know anything about death metal, its not hard to separate the fakers from the die hards. Trigger The Bloodshed ooze devotion to the cause; their sheer intensity, technical skill and song writing nous belies any potential snobbery from purists. Fans of Hate Eternal and Origin will doubtless become enamoured with the high speed fury from Max Blunos' chops, but TTB have a finely honed sense of dynamics too.
As a result, the strongest songs - Laceration, Lovers, A Perfect Casket - twist, churn and pummel like a sublime amalgam of old and new school rudiments. Arguably too extreme to appease the scene kids, Purgation is a welcome shot in the arm for British brutality and hopefully, the first of many such assaults from these young destroyers.
8/10 Dom Lawson
Trigger The Bloodshed – Planet Loud Review – 9/10
Trigger The Bloodshed - Purgation
(Rising Records)
PL Rating
Date posted 25 February 2008
What the British metal scene needs is a good, honest balls-to-the-wall death metal band. Aside from Napalm Death, not since the days of Carcass has Britain been capable of producing a band capable of going toe-to-toe with the American heavy hitters like Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel and Deicide. Up step Trigger The Bloodshed who, complete with a 15 year old drummer, are ready to take on the new school of American Death Metal upstarts and show them how it is done.
Described as possibly the heaviest album ever, Purgation more than lives up to the promise surrounding it. Forty minutes of utter filth, the album lurches from track to track with the band delivering a sound that is tighter than any group of humans should rightfully be allowed to play. Layer upon layer of concrete-heavy brutality pours out of the speakers as the likes of Laceration and Impregnable Miscreation are delivered with frightening fury. The most impressive thing about listening to Purgation is that it actually sounds like the recordings of a band who have had years to hone their sound not the workings of a band who have a 15-year old drummer. Yes, powering the band from the back is a young kid by the name of Max whose drumming has to be heard to be believed. Doing things to a drumkit that shouldn’t be possible, Max’s phenomenal drumming simply push this band to the limits of their endurance while Charlie’s rabid, feral vocals are just the icing on top of this very heavy cake.
Summing up, Purgation is the best death metal album to come out of the UK in a long, long time. Give UKDM fans a few years and they will be holding this album up alongside the classics of the genre – you know, the Deicides’, the Behemoths’ and the Cannibal Corpses’ of the scene. As for being Britains’ answer to Job For A Cowboy – Trigger – these guys are much more than that. 9 / 10
Trigger The Bloodshed – Terrorizer Magazine – 7/10
TRIGGER THE BLOODSHED
‘Purgation’
RISING
Like a flaying battery of arms and legs, desperately kicking down the flimsy walls of whatever box you might try and fit this deathcore five-piece into, Trigger The Bloodshed are determined to keep fashionable preconceptions well away from their debut album. Careering onto the scene with the odd mathy outburst, you’re flung blind-folded into a grinding pit of pneumatic blast, interspersed with the a-typical hardcore beat-downs and duelling vocals akin to the likes of American peers Beneath the Massacre. Yet there’s a carefully placed air of mysticism that holds British contemporaries Bring Me The Horizon and Architects at arms length. An underlying atmospheric tension continually breaks up generic spats of brutality and skittish riffs with spine-chilling illusions of calm. It won’t avoid the labels or the gapping pigeonholes underfoot. But the focus is back on the music, and in a genre so seemingly obsessed with aesthetics, it’s a welcome distraction.
[7] JENN SELBY
Trigger The Bloodshed - Rocksound review - 7/10
Trigger The Bloodshed - Purgation
A lot heavier and faster than you might initially expect upon glancing at their logo and promo pictures. Trigger The Bloodshed have no time for the current trend of cluttering songs with breakdowns or accessible melodic passages. They’re here to play death metal and thats what you’re going to get. The first couple of tracks fly past in a grind like blur, before settling down, giving you something slightly longer to linger on. They’ve clearly focused on the songwriting (Laceration, Rebirth) with positive results, definite progressions and minute changes apparent. Although the focus seems to slip slightly around Mortuary Walls, they refuse to ease off, leading to a grand conclusion.
Trigger The Bloodshed – Subba-Cultcha Review – 4/5
British Death/Grindcore act are here to make the world bleed profusely. The world deserves it too.
Hello world, the UK is taking your metal back, as you really don’t seem to know what to do with it half of the time. There is a slew of brilliant debut albums surfacing right now, and in the face of mediocrity elsewhere, the UK metal scene is enjoying something of a renaissance. Trigger the Bloodshed is another name to add to the list of vibrant new acts, as they have spat out a debut of such vitriol and unrelenting power that you’ll need to staple your jaw back on with those really BIG staples.
Pummeling you into the ground with a violent mash of death metal and grindcore, Trigger the Bloodshed are absolutely terrifying. Both their brutality and speed are incredible, and while some songs resemble others, it is hard not to get caught in the pit with this one. It has talent, intelligence and a great big blood-smeared grin. Is that a meat cleaver in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me? Cutting their teeth by playing on the same stages as Napalm Death, Narcosis and Architects, their aura is one of consummate professionalism and absolute, raw energy.
Trigger the Bloodshed have what it takes to become the leaders of a powerful new movement in UK death/grindcore, and they have every bit of talent it needs to back up that claim. Their gruelling work ethic with regards to touring has paid off in spades, as the results are ferocious here, and certainly warrant a second and third listen. This is music to have your very own apocalypse to. 4 / 5
By: Andrew Hawnt – Subba-Cultcha.com
Trigger The Bloodshed - Rock Midgets review - 4/5
Christ almighty, was this the cause of that earthquake a few weeks back? Thoroughly believable, as Trigger the Bloodshed could surely only be measured on the Richter scale. Pounding drums, blitzing riffs and vocals dug up from the earth itself, this is a grinding, churning maelstrom of noise that will not give up. With Bring Me The Horizon bringing death metal to the floppy haired masses and Job For A Cowboy making a Grinding Death racket marketable at Hot Topic, there’s a lot of bands peddling something similar to this. Only, well... it’s usually sh*t. It’s really terrible. But somehow, this Bath-based outfit are a (corpse)breath of pestilent air. As a result, instead of ’Laceration’ being a tiring assault on your senses, it draws your attention like a nearby car-crash.
A wall of noise that comes tumbling down on your head, it’s no wonder they’ve played with Napalm Death. And though – like much of this style of music’s output – the songs are never too varied, and prolonged exposure to its drumbeats (often so fast it’s like white noise) could lead to severe trauma and a headaches to keep Anadin in business, this becomes part of Purgation’s (what?) charm. Heavy, relentless, ferocious. And definitely not sh*t.
4/5
Trigger The Bloodshed - Organ review
TRIGGER THE BLOODSHED – Purgation (Rising) – The sounds of extremity or maybe some great big drain-cleaning brain-sucking machine and a relentless munching babbling cookie monster vocalist aided by a tantrum throwing Tasmanian devil and a gang of pissed off wasps flying right at your face. Relentless grindcore flavoured extreme heavy metal, one dimensional in a positive way, gunning and gurning and churning and somewhere in that never ending whirlwind of intensity there is a sense of melody and indeed some light and shade. They’re from Bath, they like to scream and tell and grinding bloody babbling fore and musical laceration is good for you. They do it better than most, X marks the spot, bring a shotgun.
Trigger The Bloodshed – New-Noise.net Review
Trigger The Bloodshed - Purgation
By Nadeem Ali
It is hard to believe something as intense as this could come out of Bath. The primal grindcore of Trigger The Bloodshed isn’t exactly what comes to mind when one thinks of little old Bath. Despite being barely a year old TTB’s impressive pounding, grinding metal destruction, alongside gigs with the legendary likes of Napalm Death, is helping the band make a real name themselves in the UK metal scene. ‘Purgation’ not only manages to be intense but also a whole lotta fun. What they lack in originality they more than make up for with their squalling over the top head mushing racket. Everything fits together perfectly with the odd briefly pompous operatic interludes and chiming guitar solos only adding to the rich atmosphere. If TTB haven’t purged all their delectable sins already it they will definitely be worth keeping an eye on.
New-noise.net
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