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"It will certainly be one of the best albums of 2008...it is the kind of record that makes you reevaluate your entire record collection," ALARM
“4/5 stars – Operation: Wow Factor…filthy stoner-metal and psychedelic breakdowns – eerie blots of noise litter the soundscape and implore you to pay attention. Whether they're grooving in dub or melting eardrums with sinister riffage..giving birth to a stirring new noise,” Alternative Press
“Jah help the unsuspecting Rastafarian who gives these guys a spin, because the first few seconds of Dub Trio's Another Sound Is Dying (Ipecac) is enough to make even the heartiest dread swallow his spliff…neck snapping death metal…knuckle-bloodying metal riff assault…and straight up dub workout,” Magnet
“Dub Trio is one of those bands who came out of the gate with such a conceptually innovative fusion, in their case of electro, punk and dub, that their output so far has been a slow-paced progression towards perfection,” Impose Magazine
“NYC's heaviest instrumental power trio once again calls on the effects of classic dub to shred the speakers in what is otherwise a tightly coiled, metallic thud…the band uses the sound of dub as a true creative jumping off point,” Global Rhythm
“Ridiculously awesome…earphone nerds and head-nodders alike have their favorite new album,” Metro Spirit
“Though Dub Trio drenches its sound in spacious grimy reverb and frequently slides into dub-y grooves, it also fuses things together with heaps of harsh metal riffs that can suddenly turn a song from mellow to thrilling,” The Onion
“Raw, powerful and unbelievably precise,” Jambands.com
“Ride the Lightning-era Metallica giving way to math-metal jazzercise, Ramones 4-chord bliss, Primus-esque skullduggery, ska, Rastafarian bounce,” Glide Magazine
“Brutally fantastic…this rocks – very hard and very loud…it is the perfect post-punk record…the perfect rebellious adolescent album…it is a metal and dub melting pot turned up to 11,”Aloud
“The trio's ability to chop and paste various musical forms see a resultant hybrid ultimately transcending category,” XLR8R
“Opening salvo "Not for Nothing" unleashes a monolithic, neck-snapping riff that sets the tone for much of the swirling experimentation in Echoplex-laced heaviness that follows…Dub Trio lays down a fusillade of metallic fury that shames a majority of the Hot Topic–sponsored, pseudo-headbanging bands out there…churns like a chopped-up Aphex Twin experiment in metal gone horribly right,” SF Weekly
“Skull-crushing, genre-bending music…ASID goes right for the throat from the very beginning, pounding a metal riff into your skull with pissed off speed…a kick ass rock band…each track has moments of ear splitting guitar gut, rumbling bass and, most memorably, innovative drumming…It's this ability to surprise and engage that makes Dub Trio one of the best experimental bands out there today, in any genre,” 411 Mania
"It's a reggae-and electronica-tinged instrumental metal record…impressive overall in its combination of bombast and melody," Time Out NY
“Guitarist DP Holmes' riffs saturate like raw steak on a stack of tissue; bassist Stu Brooks has never gotten downer, sounding as if he wants to shake the very foundations of Hades. Drummer Joe Tomino is plain ridiculous, the way he knocks the beat backward and forward like some kind of 5D table-tennis match. Every track on this album dares to be great,” Metal Jazz
“The band is most true to the core idea of dub — the experimental manipulation of sound — in its willingness to destroy it, to go beyond the confines of traditionally dubable reggae material…The trio's ambition, their sheer steeze to take the chains off the dub aesthetic, makes them fascinating, if not brilliant, and they go from nut-crunching sludge riffs to long, loping chill-outs without flinching,” San Francisco Bay Guardian
“Dub Trio have located that unique middle ground where the attack is all sweaty, militaristic and storm trooper defiant, though when you dig deeper, that dub feel is still in there somewhere, gumming up the works and providing rat-like elasticity,” Yahoo Music
“Dub Trio are a formidable dub unit…in fact, they're almost too good,” Pitchfork
Dub Trio’s third studio album, Another Sound Is Dying, finds drummer Joe Tomino, bassist Stu Brooks and guitarist D.P. Holmes working again with producer/engineer Joel Hamilton. The 14 massive tracks showcase Dub Trio’s chops and vocabulary (all three members are also seasoned session players) as they pummel with wrecking-ball force on tunes that simultaneously embrace metal, dub, punk and reggae while pushing all of the above into dazzlingly unfamiliar areas.
While again a mostly instrumental set, Another Sound Is Dying features a return vocal cameo from Ipecac co-owner/art-rock jack-of-all-trades Mike Patton. The musicians’ first collaboration, “Not Alone,” appeared on Dub Trio’s 2006 album, New Heavy, as well as the eponymous debut that same year from Patton’s Peeping Tom project; and when he took Peeping Tom on the road, Brooks, Tomino and Holmes became the only constant members in Patton’s backing band.
Their 2004 debut album for ROIR, Exploring the Dangers of, testified to Dub Trio’s jaw-dropping live skills: the album was literally recorded as a live-dub experiment. But with New Heavy, the trio made good on their album’s title, creating a metallic K.O. grounded in serious low-end theory. That year’s Peeping Tom tour, in which they shared stages with the likes of Gnarls Barkley and The Who while opening for and being part of the headlining act, proved that Dub Trio’s sound crossed genre and audience barriers as much as it bridged them.
A live album for ROIR, Cool Out And Coexist, kicked off 2007; and between session work—the members have recorded with 50 Cent, Mos Def, Common, the Fugees, Tupac and Matisyahu among others—and tours with artists such as Gogol Bordello, Clutch and Helmet, Dub Trio teamed with Ipecac to unleash Another Sound Is Dying. As much as the album continues the louder, heavier progression of New Heavy, it also finds Dub Trio melding their preferred styles into a sound that’s at once bigger and more cohesive than ever.
Felicitacion (Live @ Telerama Dub Festival)
Bay vs. Leonard (on Fearless TV)
Not For Nothing (Live @ Red Room, Vancouver, 9/24/07)
