Nü-metal cucks Trapt apparently released a new album. The “album” Shadow Work (which I’m not entirely convinced exists) reportedly only sold 600 copies during the first week of its release.

Trapt were, of course, quick to dispute the meagre sales numbers revealed by SoundScan data, insisting that they actually sold roughly 3,400 additional copies. Huge, “I have a girlfriend but you wouldn’t know her, she goes to another school” energy on this.

“We sold almost 4k albums from July 3 to July 9,” frontman Chris Taylor Brown Twitter account Wednesday. “Not bad for a band that did everything ourselves and got zero word said about it on any DSPs??????? We’re happy with it. Not sure what chart you are looking at, cause they would be missing quite a few.”

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The sobering sales numbers may come as a surprise to fans after the group revealed back in May that Shadow Work would be “probably one of the top 5 albums that will ever exist for all of time.”

2020 has truly been TRAPT versus the world. We didn’t think it was possible for the butt rock titans to emerge from the periphery to the forefront of our consciousness, but they found a way.

Back in March, TRAPT’s Chris Taylor Brown went on a Twitter tirade, defending Donald Trump’s piss-weak response to the coronavirus pandemic. It was a glorious display of duncery, that saw the frontman throw around phrases like #whiteprivilegedoesnotexist and “Bernie beta bitches.”

Trat then decided that they were going to attempt to fight… everyone. Taking aim at Ice-T, Danny Diablo and Power Trip‘s Riley Gale. Interactions that incited timeline chaos, with bands like Born Of Osiris, Power Trip, Attila, I Prevail and Dance Gavin Dance banding together to share a few choice words against TRAPT.

The one band that they didn’t have the cojones to fight? Sydney punk heroes Grenade Jumper.

So it goes, Grenade Jumper were hosting “One Hit Wonder” live stream on Instagram — where the band played a bunch of, you guessed it, one hit wonders. The band included TRAPT’s generation-defining breakout ‘Headstrong’ in the setlist. A decision that didn’t sit well with the nü metal antiques, who, in a strop, blocked the band on Twitter.

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