Their singer was related to Johnathan Davis. "Giving In" was their debut single and was good for like 3 listens.
Giving In and Unstable are the only songs that I liked from them. They had this thing where the lead singer had issues with the band so he left, and the rest of the guys looked for another singer, it was a mess.
I do. I just listened to their newest release "Topple The Giants", and to be honest, it's not all that great...
Yeah, I'm not sure what the appeal these guys had. I thought their music was and still is fucking awful.
Even back when I was listening to nothing but "Meteora", I thought Adema were painfully mediocre. I believed for a while that Chester Bennington performed vocals on "Giving In" and, still, I was so very underwhelmed by that song
I just listened to an old song of them and I started thinking about how the music industry was filled with this type of act back in the early 00's. LP, Korn, Trapt, Adema, Evanescence, Taproot, Crazy Town, SOAD, Hoobastank, Papa Roach, TRUSTcompany and many others. I was like "was the music all about this back in the day??". Wow, I'm glad LP got out of there. Some bands from that era do bring you some nice memories and have songs that are timeless, even a few masterpieces (early Korn and SOAD, and of course HT :redhairmike: ), but when I look at the genre as a whole (nu-metal, angsty rock), I can see why it didn't last long. It got really old and there were too many shitty acts.
Truth be told, there are still a few Trapt songs which I feel are genuinely good, but that stuff just doesn't belong in my music library anymore. I was no longer listening to any of that hard rock shit by the end of 2008. On the whole, it all disgusts me now
I listened to Trapt's first 3 albums (2000-2008), which are overall great. Then came this album in 2010 where I can only listen regularly to 3 tracks at most, and with the latest one I'm not even arsed to download it [edit: I actually did it and didn't even listen ]. As an exception, maybe Trapt does still make decent music, but we departed taste-wise from them. Actually, I don't really think they do "hard-rock" anymore, at least I wouldn't call them "heavy" depite having some distorted guitar riffs here and there.. Anyway, with Adema, I think we can all agree they simply went into oblivion, even when the nu-metal scene was still current.
I stopped listening to them after I heard their third album in 2008. There were some reggae-infused tracks which, while different, I don't feel were done very well - Chris' singing ruined any kind of optimism there might have been in any Trapt songs - and the rest were generic and boring rock songs. The self-titled album and the demo releases that preceded it contain their strongest material, IMO. And, looking back now, even though I did enjoy listening to it, "Someone In Control" was just a "Meteora"-esque rehash of what was on the first album. Musically, it was far less interesting
Ahah. Damn. I feel like I'm on an NIN or Tool forum Whatever people think about this band, it was one of my favorite back in the days, their 2 first records were fun and catchy. About the hard rock scene of the early 2000 as a whole, well, it was obviously not filled with skilled musicians, neither with super complex/interesting songs/records. But it had at least the merit of pulling of fun energetic shows with generally great crowds. You could jam to that music. And as memory, that's certainly not Pink Floyd that could pump me up as much as this song do: [video=youtube;i03ru72OZps]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i03ru72OZps[/video]