Trauma Ray Announce New EP Carnival Out February 20 via Dais Records. 

Trauma Ray’s Carnival EP captures the Fort Worth’s five strongest, most intense, and exploratory work within the boundaries of a whirlwind year. Carnival delves into moodier, more cerebral material, like holding their past excursions against a funhouse mirror. There’s a distinct sense of unease in these songs, built as a band in a fleeting window of time, proving they work best under pressure and when pulling from the darkest corners of their subconscious.

Carnival follows in the breakout success of Chameleon, their 2024 debut on Dais Records which further established trauma ray amidst the current wave of shoegaze revivalists, yet increasingly agile, able to weave between scenes, touring extensively since with the likes of Deafheaven, Loathe, Touché Amoré and more. A confluence of blitzing riffs and stark beauty, trauma ray’s sound continues to evolve, nodding to loud-quiet-loud greats across metal, grunge, and shoegaze from Slowdive to Smashing Pumpkins. 

trauma ray’s new single and video “Hannibal” contorts with a tinge of unprecedented evil, slithery, “Stone Temple-y, Alice in Chains-y,” vocalist Uriel Avila quips. Lyrically, he taps into teenage angst, the feeling of being dissected and rejected. “It’s a song about the feeling of doing your best as an individual yet still falling short in the eyes of those you hope to make proud.” adds Avila. “A lot of it stems from internal battles I faced growing up with my father, role models, and religion. Some of it comes from more recent experiences of being put under the microscope by my peers. It’s a gut wrenching sensation that I was able to tie lyrically to the visceral mood of the instrumentation that kicks off the track and begins the journey through Carnival’s overall theme.”

Carnival EP Tracklist: 

1 – carousel

2 – Hannibal

3 – Méliès

4 – Funhouse

5 – Clown

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