DEATH TRAP

Maximum Rock n Roll number 32 DEATH TRAP interview, pretty funny, not sure what the hell I was talking about half the time!



Death Trap was around from 1983-1986 in King City California, we started out as DISTORTED YOUTH (82/83) for about a year before changing the name to Death Trap. King City is a small agriculture town in the south end of Monterey County or basically in the middle of fucking no where! Death Trap was the first hardcore/punk band in King City and probably the surrounding area. We were very sloppy 3 chord punk and we played it the way we thought it was meant to be played. At first we mainly just practiced and played a few local parties. The local following was pretty much the band and 6 or so close friends. King City had a high school rodeo team and plenty of shit kickers to go a long with it so they didn't take to kindly to our music or us. So we wrote a song just for them called "NO HICKS". Eventually I made contact with a promoter from San Jose and a few other contacts and we played shows in Fresno, San Jose and Santa Cruz a few times. We never put anything out or were never on any compilations or anything. We were in Maximum Rock n Roll issue 32 and a small piece in a earlier issue. The nearest town with any punk rock was at least 1.5 hours away from us.
Later on Death Trap turned into Second Chance for less then a year but in that time played the famous GILMAN STREET PROJECT in late 1987 or early 88, can't remember exactly, it was with the HICKOIDS from Texas and a show with AGRESSION and D.I in San Luis Obispo
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Here's a list of some of the bands DEATH TRAP played with:
Harsh Reality, Vicious Bunnies, Caustic Notions, Social Distortion, Vandals, Dr. Know, Capitol Punishment, Mistaken Idenity, Insurgency, Legion Of Doom, Ribzy, MIA, Doggy Style, Subterfuge, Justice League, Social Unrest, Battalion Of Saints, RKL, A.O.D, BL'AST!, D.O.A, Death Sentence, Pariah, Possessed, Death Angel (yep thrash metal!!)and a few I can't remember.