Trephine - s/t CD / Digital Download

Years in the making... For the uninitiated, Trephine play a unique blend of metal/prog/punk/ noise/math rock which finds their instrumental, guitar/bass/drums assault joined by found object percussion. To help make their strongest release yet, Trephine called upon three masters of their craft-- producer/engineer, Jon Smulyan, mastering engineer, Alan Douches, and visual artist, Stephen Kasner. Slayer riffs and Propane tank percussion collide for eight tracks of pure surgical doom!!!

"Purely instrumental math-rock with teeth, this plays like some rabid, Slayer-ized version of Don Cabellero...The Fucking Champs meet Mastodon... Clutch and Moe Staiano's Moe!kestra!... or something like that. These guys pull off some obtuse, angular riffage and jazzy beats but keep this firmly rooted in the HEAVY, balancing all of the abrupt shifts, propane-tank percussion, and complex shredding and abstract structures with some serious metalcore riffs, swaggering Southern sludge ,and over-all evil-sounding crunchiness." -CrucialBlast.net

"Certainly this is one of the most distinctive metal acts gracing the underground and deserves to be heard far and wide." -Fishcom Collective

"These guys are well aware of their abilities to drop jaws with the kind of cyclical riffery that will leave your head in a thick but welcome fog. So when they flirt with jazzy elements and mathed-out herky jerks, it just pushes this one into the realm of brilliance." -The Nerve

"If Mars Volta and Yes swung the ropes in a game of double-dutch for Mastodon with Voivod and Mr. Bungle kicking cans along the gutter, you might get the unpredictable street soiree that comprises Baltimore's Trephine." -Live 4 Metal

"Imagine the bastard offspring of King Crimson and the Melvins sold to the traveling freak show...moody prog rock pieces to heavy noise complex math rock chaotic assaults... recommended listening for your next surgery disaster." -Jackalblaster

1. Goes to Hell, Mr. Wiggles (part one)
2. Age of Reptiles (MP3)
3. Metal Detector
4. Devil's Activist
5. Axolotyl
6. Resident Advisor
7. Adrenochrome
8. Goes to Hell, Mr. Wiggles (part two)

Dave Batovsky - percussion
Chuck Collins - guitar
Will Doane - bass
Don Baumer - drums

Release date: June 28, 2005

Artwork: Stephen Kasner

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