Triphammer - s/t CD

Here's another request. Triphammer's self-titled CD has been posted on a few blogs before, but it seems most/all links are now expired. Which is a shame, this band from Salt Lake City, Utah was awesome. I even posted their 1997 demo as one of my first posts here. Unfortunately those are the only 2 recordings this band ever released to my knowledge. This CD was released on the awesome Life Sentence Records, at a time when every release on xLSRx was an instant buy. I haven't kept up with the label after around 2000, but in the 90s, they released pretty much nothing but awesome records. Anyways, Triphammer... Like the demo, this is incredibly heavy mid-tempo metalcore, 7 songs with an average length of 6+ minutes, and not one dull second among them. Anyways, if you haven't checked out this band yet, please do, you won't regret it. More requests coming up soon.

Triphammer - s/t CD

Trial By Jury - Fortune Cookie CD

Here's a request made by someone on my old post on Trial By Jury's excellent 'Ignite' 7". This was Trial By Jury's final release, the 'Fortune Cookie' CD, which was released on Outback Records in 1993, the band folded sometime later that year I believe. Outback Records had released Trial By Jury's 'Alter' 7" the year before, a 7" that already showed signs of Trial By Jury's attempt to incorporate more influences into their music. Like all TBJ records, this is great stuff, although truth be told I play this album the least of all their records. It's hit or miss, and at times it feels like the band wasn't quite sure what direction to go into, because of the at times funk-like bass which doesn't always work all that great, and some ideas that didn't work out too well in my opinion such as a pretty weird, and bad, intro and a pretty useless instrumental tacked onto the end of the last track. There are some great tracks on here such as 'Paper', 'Sirens' and 'Self' but also a couple of tracks that do nothing for me like 'Crest'. Having said that, it's still Trial By Jury, so the good far outweighs the bad for me.

Trial By Jury - Fortune Cookie CD