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Baltimore’s favourite hardcore sons, Trapped Under Ice will return to Australia this April / May.

Formed in 2007, Trapped Under ice consists of guitarists Sam Trapkin and Brad Hyra, bassist Jared Carman, drummer Brendan Yates, and vocalist Justice Tripp. After self-releasing a demo, the band signed to Reaper Record s and released their Stay Cold EP in 2008, followed the next year by their debut album, Secrets of the World . The band toured constantly, eventually travelling the world and winning over new fans with their boundary-pushing hardcore style. In 2011 they released their second album, Big Kiss Goodnight .

Following another round of relentless touring in support of the album, the band went on hiatus in 2013 but returned to playing shows two years later. The newly rejuvenated Trapped Under Ice released their third album, Heatwave , on the Pop Wig label in 2017.

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Friday April 24 – Crowbar, Brisbane Tickets available from oztix.com.au

Saturday April 25 – Vinnies Dive Bar, Gold Coast Tickets available from oztix.com.au

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Wednesday April 29 – The Lansdowne, Sydney Tickets available from moshtix.com.au

Thursday April 30 – Basement, Canberra Tickets available from oztix.com.au

Friday May 1 – Northcote Social Club, Melbourne Tickets available from northcotesocialclub.com

Saturday May 2 – Crown and Anchor, Adelaide Tickets available from moshtix.com.au

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Trapped Under Ice announce Australia tour with Born Free

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Baltimore’s favourite hardcore sons, Trapped Under Ice will return to Australia this April / May.

Formed in 2007, Trapped Under ice consists of guitarists Sam Trapkin and Brad Hyra, bassist Jared Carman, drummer Brendan Yates, and vocalist Justice Tripp. After self-releasing a demo, the band signed to Reaper Records and released their Stay Cold EP in 2008, followed the next year by their debut album, Secrets of the World.

The band toured constantly, eventually traveling the world and winning over new fans with their boundary-pushing hardcore style. In 2011 they released their second album, Big Kiss Goodnight. Following another round of relentless touring in support of the album, the band went on hiatus in 2013, but returned to playing shows two years later. The newly rejuvenated Trapped Under Ice released their third album, Heatwave, on the Pop Wig label in 2017.

TRAPPED UNDER ICE AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2020 with special guests BORN FREE

Friday April 24 – Crowbar, Brisbane Tickets available from oztix.com.au

Saturday April 25 – Vinnies Dive Bar, Gold Coast Tickets available from oztix.com.au

Sunday April 26 – Hamilton Station, Newcastle Tickets available from oztix.com.au

Wednesday April 29 – The Lansdowne, Sydney Tickets available from moshtix.com.au

Thursday April 30 – Basement, Canberra Tickets available from oztix.com.au

Friday May 1 – Northcote Social Club, Melbourne Tickets available from northcotesocialclub.com

Saturday May 2 – Crown and Anchor, Adelaide Tickets available from moshtix.com.au

Tickets on sale Wednesday February 26 .

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Formed in 2007, Trapped Under Ice took the American hardcore scene by storm by self-releasing a demo and growing rapidly enough to be signed to Reaper Records. Their first EP Stay Cold released in 2008 and was followed debut LP Secrets Of The World which was gritty and never over-stayed its welcome, it also situated the band as one of the best bands in the scene.

After their next LP, Big Kiss Goodnight, and more relentless touring the band went on hiatus in 2013. The band didn’t return for 2 years which left a hole in the hardcore scene which was felt internationally. Upon their return, the newly rejuvenated Trapped Under Ice released their third album, Heatwave .

The eight-date run of shows will be the first headline effort Trapped’ have made in Australia since 2012 and promises to bring a memorable live experience as they team up with Melbourne Hardcore five piece Born Free .

Born Free sonically have roots in NYC style hardcore and have a traditionalist approach to their music which makes them a perfect fit for this bill. Having toured with the likes Comeback Kid , Born Free are no strangers to sharing the stage with big names in the scene.

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In the wake of releasing 'Big Kiss Goodnight,' Baltimore's Trapped Under Ice, have announced an Australian tour this March. Joining them around the country will be Sydney's Relentless.

In the wake of releasing 'Big Kiss Goodnight,' Baltimore's Trapped Under Ice , have announced an Australian tour this March. Joining them around the country will be Sydney's Relentless.

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Tickets on sale Friday 13th January 2012

Wednesday 29th February – YAC, Byron Bay AA

Tickets from Oztix on 1300 762 545, www.oztix.com.au and Oztix Outlets

Thursday 1st March – Snitch, Brisbane 18+

Tickets Available on the door.

Friday 2nd March – Between The Walls, Brisbane AA

Saturday 3rd March – Bald Faced Stag, Sydney, 18+

Tickets from Oztix www.oztix.com.au and GoBookem.com

Sunday 4th March – Bald Faced Stag, Sydney AA

Monday 5th March – Oasis Youth Centre, Wyong AA

Tuesday 6th March – Bar 32, Canberra 18+

Wednesday 7th March – Rosemount Hotel, Perth 18+

Thursday 8th March – YMCA HQ, Perth AA

Friday 9th March – Fowlers Live, Adelaide Lic/AA

Tickets from Moshtix on 1300 438 849, www.moshtix.com.au and Moshtix Outlets

Saturday 10th March – Break The Ice Fest 2012, Melbourne AA

Sunday 11th March – Corner Hotel, Melbourne 18+

Tickets from Corner Hotel on 9427 9198, www.cornerhotel.com and the Box Office

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TRAPPED UNDER ICE will be touring Australia in February and March.

Tour Dates : Wednesday 29th February – YAC, Byron Bay AA With Special Guests – Anchor (Swe), Shackles Tickets from Oztix on 1300 762 545, www.oztix.com.au and Oztix Outlets

Thursday 1st March – Snitch, Brisbane 18+ With Special Guest – Third Strike (Last 18+ Brisbane show) Tickets Available on the door.

Friday 2nd March – Between The Walls, Brisbane AA With Guests – Anchor (Swe), Promises, Thick Skin. Tickets from Oztix on 1300 762 545, www.oztix.com.au and Oztix Outlets

Saturday 3rd March – Bald Faced Stag, Sydney, 18+ With Guests – Phantoms, Ill Brigade Tickets from Oztix www.oztix.com.au and GoBookem.com

Sunday 4th March – Bald Faced Stag, Sydney AA With Guests – Phantoms, Endless Heights, Tickets from Oztix www.oztix.com.au and GoBookem.com

Monday 5th March – Oasis Youth Centre, Wyong AA With Guests – Phantoms, Mark My Words, Blind Sight Tickets from Oztix on 1300 762 545, www.oztix.com.au and Oztix Outlets

Tuesday 6th March – Bar 32, Canberra 18+ With Guests – Token, Frail Tickets from Oztix on 1300 762 545, www.oztix.com.au and Oztix Outlets

Wednesday 7th March – Rosemount Hotel, Perth 18+ With Guests – Negative Reinforcement, Dying Sun Tickets from Oztix on 1300 762 545, www.oztix.com.au and Oztix Outlets

Thursday 8th March – HQ, Perth AA With Guests – BlkOut!, The Others, Wild Sense Tickets from Oztix on 1300 762 545, www.oztix.com.au and Oztix Outlets

Friday 9th March – Fowlers Live, Adelaide Lic/AA With Guests – Anchor (Swe), Search And Destroy Tickets from Moshtix on 1300 438 849, www.moshtix.com.au and Moshtix Outlets

Saturday 10th March – Break The Ice Fest 2012, Melbourne AA Featuring 50 Lions, Hopeless, Shinto Katana, Dropsaw, Iron Mind, Phantoms + more. First Allocation tickets Sold Out, more announcements to come.

Sunday 11th March – Corner Hotel, Melbourne 18+ With Guests – Phantoms, Outsiders Code. Tickets from Corner Hotel on 9427 9198, www.cornerhotel.com and the Box Office

PUBLISHED on January 10, 2012. UPDATED on February 1, 2012 – supporting bands added.

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About Trapped Under Ice

Trapped Under Ice is a Baltimore, Maryland-based hardcore punk band that started in 2007. Their sound can be characterized as melodic hardcore, drawing influence from street punk, thrash metal, and hip-hop. The band has released two full-length albums (Big Kiss Goodnight and Secrets of the World) and two EPs (Stay Cold and Day Late Friend). Trapped Under Ice has toured across the United States and Canada with many other prominent hardcore bands. The band has also been featured on the Warped Tour and More Than Music festivals. Trapped Under Ice is known for their intense live performances and their dedication to hardcore punk and DIY ethics.

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Trapped Under Ice – Delving into the Thaw of Personal Struggle

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Interpreting the Cryonic Metaphor – Uncovering Layers of Isolation

A piercing scream for help – the inaudible plea, dying to live – the paradox of existence, the hidden meaning – a probing dive into personal hell, the grip of doom – the relentlessness of fate.

Freezing Can’t move at all Screaming Can’t hear my call I am dying to live Cry out I’m trapped under ice

Crystallized, as I lay here and rest Eyes of glass stare directly at death From deep sleep I have broken away No one knows, no one hears what I say

Scream from my soul Fate, mystified Hell, forever more

No release from my cryonic state What is this I’ve been stricken by fate Wrapped up tight, cannot move, can’t break free Hand of doom has a tight grip on me

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Within the frostbitten riffs of Metallica’s ferocious song ‘Trapped Under Ice,’ lies a chilling narrative that transcends its literal connotations. The track, a blistering highlight from the 1984 album ‘Ride the Lightning,’ is not merely a tale of physical anguish, but a profound metaphor for personal entrapment and the desperate yearning for freedom.

As we dissect the lyrics, ‘Trapped Under Ice’ emerges as an anthem for the trapped and voiceless, the souls ensnared by their own inner demons or the paralyzing grip of external circumstances. It’s a testament to Metallica’s ability to weave a tapestry of raw emotion, framing the universal struggle against the forces that bind and constrain the human spirit.

The initial verses of ‘Trapped Under Ice’ paint a dire picture of someone who has awakened to a state of living entombment. The frozen soul and core are powerful metaphors for a numbness that extends beyond the physical, hinting at an emotional or psychological stasis, wherein the individual is cognizant of their plight but powerless to change it.

This condition can reflect various real-world scenarios: the paralysis of depression, the suffocation of anxiety, or the immobilization that comes with an overwhelming sense of helplessness. Metallica taps into the cryogenic imagery to evoke a relentless feeling of being trapped, not just underneath a physical barrier, but beneath the weight of life’s challenges.

One of the song’s most memorable lines, ‘Screaming / Can’t hear my call,’ stands out as a harrowing acknowledgment of the isolation that comes with being trapped. Metallica harnesses this line to evoke the horror of the protagonist’s predicament—where the sheer effort to reach out is negated by a void where no one can hear or respond.

Much like Kafka’s narratives or the existential musings of Camus, here lies the intersection of music and philosophy, where silent cries signify an internal scream against an indifferent world. This cry into the void mirrors the struggle within ourselves when our pleas for help go unnoticed or our inner turmoil remains inaudible to those around us.

Metallica boldly confronts the paradox in the lyric ‘I am dying to live, Cry out.’ It’s a jarring encapsulation of the internal conflict experienced when one is desperate to break free from the shackles of their own mind or circumstance, yet feels life is ebbing away in the process. The phrase ‘dying to live’ conveys barren irony, an oxymoron that adeptly characterizes a state of existential irony.

In the broader scope of human experience, this paradoxical feeling speaks to moments when survival instinct clashes with a sense of futility, when the drive to improve one’s lot is choked by the fear of remaining stagnant. It’s a reminder that even at the brink of yielding to despair, the will to escape, to survive, endures.

Beneath its thrashing exterior, ‘Trapped Under Ice’ functions as a chilling allegory of personal hell. The relentless repetition of ‘Scream from my soul’ followed by ‘Hell, forever more’ serves not just as a bridge in the song, but as a bridge to the internal hellscapes we craft within ourselves—places where once-trapped screams echo eternally.

The song elucidates that hell is not a fiery pit awaiting sinners, but a state of existence some endure daily. Whether this metaphorical hell is constructed from the bricks of regret, a brewing mental health struggle, or societal confines, Metallica’s narratives implores listeners to reflect on their own internal battles and phantoms.

Navigating deeper into the track’s foreboding terrain, the ‘Hand of doom’ imagery underscores an omnipresent dread, encapsulating the notion of inescapable destiny or the cold hand of fate that can weigh upon an individual with merciless intent.

The song’s culmination in a tight grip speaks to the human experience of feeling controlled by forces beyond one’s command—whether it’s societal expectations, the looming pressure of conformity, or the darkness of preordained paths laid by an indifferent universe. The thrash metal giants challenge us to wrestle with such forces, to break free and reclaim agency, even when odds stack dauntingly high.

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In 1897, the former whaling ship RV Belgica left Antwerp in Belgium and set sail due south. It was the first voyage of what would become known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. It did not go to plan.

After a six-month voyage, they begin encountering sea ice. Several times the ship is caught in the ice for a day or two. A crew member falls overboard and is lost to the icy waters. But the crew presses on, making measurements as they go. Expedition leader Adrien de Gerlache records the process:

At noon we made a deep sea sounding, with a long series of temperatures at various depths. We lowered five hundred and sixty metres of wire, and brought up a cup of blue clay. The temperature at the surface was at the freezing point, and at the bottom slightly warmer.

Their discovery of deep warmer water was important. It’s since been named Circumpolar Deep Water. In our time, this water is getting warmer and warmer, as oceans absorb nearly all the extra heat trapped by burning fossil fuels. Antartica’s seemingly impregnable ice is now melting from beneath.

But in 1898, the ice is strong. On March 4, the crew find themselves unable to move. As the southern winter looms, the ice thickens on the surface of the Bellingshausen Sea, to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. The RV Belgica is trapped.

A winter of permanent night

The crew were about to become the first people to spend a winter south of the Antarctic Circle, enduring months of constant night. The expedition was largely unprepared for the bitter cold and darkness. But the first mate, a 25-year-old Norwegian named Roald Amundsen, felt differently. He had joined the expedition in search of adventure. He was not disappointed. “We must no doubt spend the winter here, and that is fine with me,” he wrote in his journal. Five days in, he writes:

One starts to get familiar with the idea of wintering. The cold has begun sharply. The ice is firm around us and without ridges. This is starting to get interesting.

As time drags on, the crew suffer from scurvy. The expedition leader and his second in command both become so ill they write their wills and retire to bed. Amundsen and the American surgeon Frederick Cook take over leadership.

Of this time, Cook writes in his journal :

we jog along day after day, through the unbroken sameness […] the darkness grows daily a little deeper, and the night soaks hourly a little more colour from our blood

When pale sunlight returns in spring, it’s not enough to free the ship. By January 1899, the crew become desperate. Facing a second winter on the ice, they cut a channel through the sea ice and use explosives to widen it. After a month’s brutal labour, they free the ship and sail for home.

They had been in the ice for just over a year, and had drifted more than 2,000 kilometres as the sea ice moved with the currents.

A little over a decade later, an expedition led by Amundsen would be the first to reach the South Pole.

And the RV Belgica? The ship spent its later years transporting coal, as demand for fossil fuels grew and grew.

What could assail the ice continent?

The scientists and explorers aboard the Belgica did not waste their time. They meticulously recorded their location, the thickness of the sea ice and the weather.

In our time, the data gathered by the scientists and crew of the Belgica is proving invaluable.

Working with the team from the Australian Earth System Simulator, we used data from the Belgica’s crew and satellite imagery to recreate the ship’s path and compare it to what’s happening now.

If the RV Belgica had been in the same location in the Bellingshausen Sea off the Antarctic Peninsula in 2023, rather than 1897, the story would have been very different.

In the intervening 126 years, we set about changing the Earth’s climate in earnest. Fossil fuels gave us vastly more energy. But they came with a sting in the tail – burning them released long-buried carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere, where they magnify the natural greenhouse effect which keeps the Earth from icing over. Almost all of the heat trapped by our activities has gone into the oceans.

In the north, the Arctic sea ice began to disappear from the 1970s onwards, shrinking by about 12% per decade.

Antarctica’s sea ice has held out for longer. A ship like the Belgica could have been stuck in sea ice as late as 2015.

No longer. The heat is on. In the last eight years, Antarctic sea ice has begun to melt in earnest . In the last three years, the melt has accelerated. Now, new research suggests Antarctic sea ice has undergone an “abrupt transition”.

In March 2023, the RV Belgica would have sailed through open waters where pack ice once groaned and cracked. There was almost no sea ice in the Bellinghausen Sea from February to April.

At the beginning of 2024, Australia’s marine research vessel, RV Investigator travelled 12,000km from Hobart down to the Antarctic coastline and back to Fremantle. What was shocking was how easy it was.

When sea ice is at its thickest, even modern vessels can struggle to navigate it. But on this voyage, scientists aboard collected vast amounts of data from dark oceans that should have been covered by thick sea ice.

The years of melting

In the ice continent, climate change is beginning to cause long-feared changes.

The Antarctic Peninsula – the long, trailing tail closest to South America where most tourist ships land – is starting to green. Algae is carpeting more snow , while the two native species of flowering plant, Antarctic pearlwort and Antarctic hair grass, are expanding their range on islands near the peninsula.

In the 19th century, going to Antarctica was a perilous journey, pushing the limits of human endurance. But as the sea ice retreats, it becomes easier and easier for tourist cruise ships to make the journey from ports in Argentina and Chile. Tourist numbers have increased tenfold since the 1990s, rising especially fast in the last two years.

The ice continent has long been defended by the fast, cold water currents in its oceans. But now the heat is getting in – through the water, not the air. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is speeding up and warmer water is getting into these icy seas . Antarctica’s sea ice is being eaten from below.

That means the so-called Doomsday Glacier is now at risk. The Thwaites Glacier is the size of Great Britain, and holds enough water to singlehandedly raise sea levels 60 centimetres. But the real threat is what’s behind Thwaites. The glacier is a plug, blocking much larger ice rivers from reaching the ocean. If it goes, sea level rise will accelerate.

Antarctica was once a place where humans found their limits. Enduring endless cold and dark and drifting helplessly in the ice, the crew of the Belgica found theirs. As Frederick Cook wrote, the Antarctic night had:

a naked fierceness in the scenes, a boisterous wildness in the storms, a sublimity and silence in the still, cold dayless nights, which were too impressive to be entirely overshadowed by the soul-despairing depression.

A little over a century later, we are finding the ice, too, has limits.

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