What happens if you take the best parts of Nine Inch Nails, Death Grips, & Underneath-era Code Orange, and throw them into a blender? I didn’t initially pay much attention to trap-metal. I’d looked it up, in passing, but nothing really grabbed me. While I appreciated the way trap was evolving into a much more extreme form of music—with the inclusion of screamed and harsh vocals, distorted guitars and bass—I never found anything that made me sit up and take notice. That is, until I came across Ghostemane. In particular, his 2020 album ANTI-ICON. The YouTube algorithm gods must have … Continue reading Ghostemane: ANTI-ICON – Trap Metal at its Finest