The years 2005 and beyond will be the years of CrimsonFaced... Michael Trapp, a.k.a. The Alien, a.k.a. Mike E.T. of Bliss(This) fame has gone and went completely solo. Layering all the instruments, programming all the keys and drums and recording all of the vocals, Trapp is a one man wrecking crew a la Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails whom he has credited as an influence. In 2003 - 2005 - The Alien recorded a 13 - song CD of musical madness. Coming in at about 1 hour, "Captain Freak" is a demented vision of heavy guitar music for the 21st century. Here's the heart of the matter. 13 tracks of awe-inspiring rock and roll. No filler... Every song integral to the whole of the CD. Heavy guitars, sick drum programming, distorted twisted vocals all combine to bring an aural sensation yet to be heard on an independent release. Be prepared to be devastated...
Between 2007 - 2009 the Alien again went and recorded 13 brand new CrimsonFaced tracks all ready to astound and amaze. The long awaited follow up to “Captain Freak” was FINALLY HERE! WTF was Mike E.T. doing over those last 4 years? Geez, you would think a musician that locked himself up in his Sober Sucks Studios would come out once and a while to play - but not Mike E.T. The Alien was lovingly caressing his guitar strings in the most god awful perverted way. His poor keyboard was banged and hammered from one end of the studio to the other. Between writing music for a futuristic CGI movie still in development and adding some cool tunes to a huge variety of movies and cable TV programs, Mike E.T., between psychotherapy sessions with his mixer/therapist Paul Kurzweil, wrote and recorded 18 songs, 13 of which came together on the deliciously demented and aptly titled “Lunatic Binge.” Whereas “Captain Freak” was mostly in your face the entire CD, “Lunatic Binge” veers from sick rock and roll to melodic musings about life. Think Trent Reznor meets the Bee Gees; after a drug binge. Think Pink Floyd for the 21st Century. Think Ozzy and a sequencer doing battle for each others' soul. Mike E.T. hopes you enjoyed his creation. He poked his head out of his studio to give the world Lunatic Binge, and now he has once again crawled into his studio, locked the door, put a huge dresser against the door, and has imprisoned himself with 50 cases of Corona, 5 bottles of Patron, 5 guitars and 12 Virgins. See you when I see you...
Between 2007 - 2009 the Alien again went and recorded 13 brand new CrimsonFaced tracks all ready to astound and amaze. The long awaited follow up to “Captain Freak” was FINALLY HERE! WTF was Mike E.T. doing over those last 4 years? Geez, you would think a musician that locked himself up in his Sober Sucks Studios would come out once and a while to play - but not Mike E.T. The Alien was lovingly caressing his guitar strings in the most god awful perverted way. His poor keyboard was banged and hammered from one end of the studio to the other. Between writing music for a futuristic CGI movie still in development and adding some cool tunes to a huge variety of movies and cable TV programs, Mike E.T., between psychotherapy sessions with his mixer/therapist Paul Kurzweil, wrote and recorded 18 songs, 13 of which came together on the deliciously demented and aptly titled “Lunatic Binge.” Whereas “Captain Freak” was mostly in your face the entire CD, “Lunatic Binge” veers from sick rock and roll to melodic musings about life. Think Trent Reznor meets the Bee Gees; after a drug binge. Think Pink Floyd for the 21st Century. Think Ozzy and a sequencer doing battle for each others' soul. Mike E.T. hopes you enjoyed his creation. He poked his head out of his studio to give the world Lunatic Binge, and now he has once again crawled into his studio, locked the door, put a huge dresser against the door, and has imprisoned himself with 50 cases of Corona, 5 bottles of Patron, 5 guitars and 12 Virgins. See you when I see you...