- Label: 'Property Of The Lost Records'
- Genre: 'Punk/New Wave'
- Release Date: '28.11.25.'- Catalogue No: 'LOST070'
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Trauma is the new album by Newport based punk destroyers Bad Sam who feature Dub War legend Richard Glover alongside Dean Beddis, Jeff Rose, Rick Demspey and Tom & Isobel. The album was recorded produced and mixed by Richard Glover at Nile Studios in Newport and mastered by Keith Tenniswood at Curved studios.
The album opens with Emotional Hostage that has the angry intensity of Dead Kennedy's with the vocalists switching in the dark, distended guitars rage against the flames rising higher and higher and our lives going up in flames.
Pedigree Poor a bile ridden rampage against anyone who has been designated Pedigree Poor with no way to get up the ladder to a better life, stuck in the worst places, starved of all the things that might change the course of your existence.
The Van is coming to take you away, no they don't go ha ha, once they drag you off to your new life that has explosive guitars slicing through your pain with extraordinary distain and the sound of sirens chasing you down the road.
The Monsters Dance is stomping you into the ground fighting against the clap track and drums nailing your brain to the walls once more.
Silent Death is raging against racism and other traumas that life
seems to keep throwing our way, how can we avoid the Silent Death of sanity and reality in this modern miasma that has been created.
Popcorn & Blood is like the Dead Kennedy's are trying to make a mosh pit classic to lose all your inhibitions too, the sort of pit that is strewn with Popcorn and Blood at the end of the night, yet no one knows who brought the popcorn to a hardcore punk gig.
Perpetual Consumption is what the mighty overlords want from us, it is our duty to fight back against this and not buy presents on every day they tell us too, no more Halloween or Easter for this lot, let alone Xmas, go on wallow in not buying more crap with Bad Sam now, by buying the bands CD's, T-shirts, stickers and tea towels for your nearest and dearest.
Turn You Off is a theme tune for all the horrible despicable politicians whose waffling nonsense needs silencing, Bad Sam are here to Turn You Off, hopefully they will also lock you up and silence you.
Salute the media as if you don't we won't promote your records, instead we will talk about baby killers and how wonderful things are, despite all the evidence to the contrary, the bass kicking down everything in its path.
The album closes with the brilliant Tupperware Death Party for anyone who was dragged to a Tupperware party back in the 70's or 80's you will connect to the hope that it would turn into a death spattered scene of carnage among the plastic containers.
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