TRAPPED UNDER ICE have announced a new album and an end to their hiatus. This new album titled Heatwave, will be their first in six years since the release of "The Long Kiss Goodnight" and is due out on the band's label Pop Wig.

Baltimore's boundary-pushing hardcore heavyweights, Trapper Under Ice, have returned at long last. The band have announced their long-awaited new full length, Heatwave, due out July 21st via Pop Wig Records. To celebrate the news of their first new album in six years, Trapped Under Ice has shared the first taste of new music from Heatwave, the aggressively groovy "Do It".

When Trapped Under Ice went on hiatus in 2013 their impact was felt, whether directly through the new bands formed by TUI-alums themselves (most notably Turnstile and Angel Du$t), or indirectly in the sonic influence taken by many young up-and-coming HC bands, many of which have now released music through Pop Wig Records, the label founded by several Trapped Under Ice members. Now everything has come full circle as Trapped Under Ice return with Heatwave, continuing to hold their never-vacated mantle as one of hardcore's most forward-thinking bands. 

Trapped Under Ice have always colored outside the lines, often treating hardcore's conventions as loose guidelines to be shifted and warped into something driven just as much by hooks as by breakdowns. On 2011's modern classic, Big Kiss Goodnight, Trapped Under Ice began to lean into their catchier sensibilities, and now Heatwave finds the band fully embracing that side of themselves and writing their most concise and infectious work to-date. The album's tight fourteen minute run time leaves no room for filler, just eleven lean tracks of groovy and hook-filled hardcore, at once exuberant and kinetic but undeniably aggressive and raw, with CLRVYNT saying the record is "undoubtedly their most interesting and, dare we say, fun record to date."