Séance Prime is Trap Them

Trap Them

- Description :Trap Them's influences include hardcore punk bands, such as Black Flag, Born Against, and Tragedy; metal bands like Dismember and Entombed , and experimental bands like Swans...

's Deathwish Inc.

Deathwish Inc.

Deathwish, Inc. is a independent record label founded by Jacob Bannon and Tre McCarthy. The label was originally used to release early albums by Bannon's own band Converge starting in late 1991. It wasn't until late 1999 that McCarthy and Bannon discussed turning Deathwish into a full-fledged label...

 debut, released on October 30, 2007, making it their third release of the year. Like Sleepwell Deconstructor

Sleepwell Deconstructor

Sleepwell Deconstructor is the first album by Trap Them, released on April 3, 2007 on Trash Art!. Like the last recorded output from core members Ryan McKenney and Brian Izzi, Backstabbers Inc's Kamikaze Missions , Sleepwell Deconstructor is produced by Kurt Ballou...

, Séance Prime was produced by Kurt Ballou

Kurt Ballou

Kurt Ballou is the guitarist from Massachusetts-based band Converge. Aside from his role in Converge, he is a prolific producer, engineering and producing out of his own Godcity studio.- GodCity studio :...

 at Godcity Studios. Described as "a tornado of D-Beat hooks, frantic bursts of speed, and earth shaking dirges" this album has been critically called their heaviest release to date.

In 2011, the EP was reissued as Séance Prime: The Complete Recordings featuring all six songs from this recording session, including: "The Iconflict", originally released as a CD exclusive track, and "Enders", originally released on a split single with Extreme Noise Terror

Extreme Noise Terror

Extreme Noise Terror are a British crust punk / grindcore band originally formed in Ipswich, England in 1985. The band are widely considered one of the earliest and most influential European grindcore bands, and particularly the forefathers of the crustgrind subgenre.Notable for one of the...

.

Track listings

Séance Prime (7")

1. "Day Thirteen: The Protest Hour" – 3:12
2. "Day Fourteen: Pulse Mavens" – 3:39
3. "Day Fifteen: Citizenihilist" – 2:50
4. "Day Seventeen: Wafer and Wine of Sandblast Times" – 1:40

Séance Prime (CD)

1. "Day Thirteen: The Protest Hour" – 3:12
2. "Day Fourteen: Pulse Mavens" – 3:39
3. "Day Fifteen: Citizenihilist" – 2:50
4. "Day Sixteen: The Iconflict" – 4:19
5. "Day Seventeen: Wafer and Wine of Sandblast Times" – 1:40

Séance Prime: The Complete Recordings (LP)

1. "Day Thirteen: The Protest Hour" – 3:12
2. "Day Fourteen: Pulse Mavens" – 3:39
3. "Day Fifteen: Citizenihilist" – 2:50
4. "Day Sixteen: The Iconflict" – 4:19
5. "Day Seventeen: Wafer and Wine of Sandblast Times" – 1:40
6. "Day Eighteen: Enders" – 0:58

Reception

Séance Prime has gotten mainly positive reviews, from many critics. Lambgoat described it as "a small shift in songwriting style and a desire to get outside the grindcore box," but also said this change "sacrifices some of the intensity that was a key component to the band's sound." The EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 was also praised as the band's heaviest to date and a continuation of their mixture of many different genres including d-beat

D-beat

D-beat is a style of hardcore punk developed in the early 1980s by imitators of Discharge, for whom the genre is named. Discharge may have themselves inherited the beat from Motörhead. The first such group was The Varukers.The vocal content of D-beat tends towards shouted slogans...

, grindcore

Grindcore

Grindcore is an extreme genre of music that started in the early- to mid-1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres – including death metal, industrial music, noise and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk....

, hardcore punk

Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...

 and extreme metal

Extreme metal

Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s. The term usually refers to a more abrasive, harsher, underground, non-commercialized style or sound nearly always associated with genres like black metal,...

.

Production

Séance Prime was produced by Trap Them and Kurt Ballou

Kurt Ballou

Kurt Ballou is the guitarist from Massachusetts-based band Converge. Aside from his role in Converge, he is a prolific producer, engineering and producing out of his own Godcity studio.- GodCity studio :...

, famous for his work with Converge

Converge (band)

Converge is an American band from Salem, Massachusetts. Playing a blend of hardcore punk and metal since 1990, Converge has helped to define many of the elements of the metalcore genre.-Description:...

, and The Hope Conspiracy

The Hope Conspiracy

The Hope Conspiracy is a hardcore punk band from Boston, Massachusetts that formed late 1999. They were picked up by Equal Vision Records and Bridge 9 Records before signing a deal with Deathwish Records.-Biography:...

.