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Trigger Effect – X1: That Vital Force

• 23rd Apr 2013

Trigger Effect’s monumental new album ‘What’s Left To Eliminate?’ will be their first to be released in the UK. It will be released on May 27th through UK indie label Dry Heave, with the band also hitting these shores in June for a week of live maelstrom.

The new opus was rehearsed and scrutinized at length in between tours in true Trigger Effect fashion. This album sees them at their most powerful, as they manage to pack even more riffs and even more catchy-yet-aggressive vocals into even shorter and more intense songs. Produced by Ian Blurton whose credits include The Weakerthans and Cursed, at first glance the album’s sequence seems to echo their past efforts as one song crashes seamlessly into another but this time around the band have attempted a more narrative flow with each song contributing a chapter to a cohesive brutal rock and roll saga of despair and redemption.

Hailing from the frozen great white north of Montreal, Quebec in Canada are the five piece punk chaos machine that is Trigger Effect. Trigger Effect’s story begins in the early 2000’s while its members were still in high school. The band played its first gig in 2004, with its current line-up of vocalist Nick Babeu, guitarists Pat Bennett and Jordan Brown, bassist Sergio De Silva and drummer Mike Niro coming together in 2005. The fivesome immediately got a van, named it Noline, hit the road and haven’t looked back.

Trigger Effect first came to the attention of their core fanbase with the release of their first album, 2007’s blistering 22 minute opus ‘Dare to Ride the Heliocraft’, as the band toured relentlessly, taking in Canada, the US and Europe. Their next release, 2009’s split 7 inch ‘Friendship.Adventure.Music’ was a tribute to these tours and to their commitment to the spirit of the Turbo Machine, the moniker they had previously adopted for all of their professional and covert activities. More touring was followed by an ambitious recording session in which the band recorded both a full length and an EP in one shot. They released full length ‘Versitis Maximus’ independently in 2010 and then again in 2011 through Indica Records. When touring for ‘Versitis Maximus’ was complete they then sent the 10 inch ‘Escape From Planet Scorpion’ off to the presses and did it all over again.

With a sound falling somewhere between the thunderous melody of The Bronx, mixed with the technical discordance of Refused, the rock n’roll fury of Zeke, all delivered with the ferocity of Black Flag, their non-stop, chaos-filled sets have built them a reputation as one of the most explosive live bands on the scene. This is a testament to their nine years together, playing over five hundred shows at people’s houses, kitchens, communist rallies, converted military bakeries, movie theatre entrances and squatted hotels in over a dozen countries.

To date the band has owned 4 vans, had 1 stolen, released 5 pieces of vinyl on many different labels around the world and played more than 600 shows and festivals with more bands in more countries/states/provinces than can be listed here. The boys of Trigger Effect are now the men of Trigger Effect and as always the Turbo Machine does not die.

LIVE DATES
Sat 8th June – Kingston, Fighting Cocks
Sun 9th June – Exeter, Cavern
Mon 10th June – Canterbury, Beercart Arms
Tues 11th June – Glasgow, Bar Bloc (free entry show)
Weds 12th June – London, Old Blue Last (free entry show)
Thurs 13th June – Southampton, Joiners
Fri 14th June – Milton Keynes, Crauford Arms
Sat 15th June – Oxford, Wheatsheaf