Wednesday, April 5: The Skull, “Trapped Inside My Mind”
If “Trapped Inside My Mind” didn’t sound exactly like classic Trouble, it certainly came closer than most, including the most recent iteration of that band. Of course, that was the whole point: Eric Wagner formed The Skull with Ron Holzner and Jeff Olson with the specific intent of recreating the sound of their former band’s early records, and even if Bruce Franklin and Rick Wartell’s riffing was intrinsic to the Trouble sound and thus could not be fully replicated by anyone, three-fifths wasn’t too bad. “Trapped Inside My Mind” opened For Those Which Are Asleep and howled like something out of Trouble or Run to the Light, with Holzner and Olson laying down the bottom end like the epochal doom metal rhythm section they were, and Wagner’s anguished- and apparently ageless- pipes remained singular. If anything, the song illustrated just how timeless great doom metal can be, as this could’ve been recorded at any point in the last 40 years and would’ve been just as potent in any other year.
