ARTIST

Trapt

Schoolhood chums Chris Brown and Peter Charell absorbed the heavy rock sound of KORN, Soundgarden, and Metallica during the mid-'90s. Both were music geeks and naturally flirted around the idea of getting a group together. Casual gigs in school motivated them even more, leaving Brown and Charell to design what would become Trapt. In 1997 fellow guitarist Simon Ormandy joined the band. The trio recorded their own demo and landed gigs in and around suburbs of Southern California. Within a year Trapt was opening up for the likes of Papa Roach, Dredg, and Spike 1000, but high school graduation loomed ahead. The future of Trapt was unknown.

Trapt's second album Amalgamation was self-released in 1998, but the band's dynamic was shifty. Ormandy and Brown were...
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