Loyola Greyhound

Issue date: 9/9/08 Section: Arts & Society

Media Credit: MCT campus Trapt, the platinum-selling rock band, released their third studio album entitled Only Through the Pain this past August. The band was among many popular acts, including Buckcherry, Sixx A.M. and Papa Roach, in the Crüe Fest tour which is comparable to the likes of Ozzfest or the Warped Tour.

When I called platinum-selling artists Trapt on the last day of their stint on the newly formed Crüe Fest, I was surprised when Tommy Lee, drummer of '80s metal band Mötley Crüe and partial originator of the fest, answered the phone.

"Hey there, who am I talking to?" I asked, not given specific band member availability by Trapt's publicist.

"This is Tommy Lee!" said a slightly inebriated sounding voice.

"Really? What's up?" I asked, worried that there might be a mistake. As it turns out, the only mistake was my naivite.

"Ahh, I'm just messing," said a playful Aaron "Monty" Montgomery after I genuinely believed him. "This is Monty from Trapt, actually." Understandably, though, given the rock star lifestyle, Monty was not far off base.

While gearing up for the release of their third studio album, Only Through The Pain (which came out on August 5), Trapt joined a line-up of A-level bands on Crüe Fest, a new summer rock festival starring, well, Mötley Crüe.

"We're just chilling on this tour," says Montgomery in what we hope is a positive light. "They're great people, and everybody out here is doing an awesome job." Artists such as Buckcherry, Sixx A.M. and Papa Roach joined the ranks of Trapt and Mötley Crüe for the tour, making it rank along the lines of Ozzfest.

"They're trying to brand it like an Ozzfest or a Warped Tour. It's sort of a rock tour, versus, like, a festival, where there's [main] stages and side stages [and] where everybody's grody and sweaty by the end of the show," says Montgomery. "It's sort of nice though, nice [to have] air conditioning and stuff. It's cool to do those festivals [too, though], we just did a lot of those in June before Crüe Fest."

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