Belfast alt-heavy rock trio Triggertone have issued the anti-war single ‘Bombs Away’ and accompanying video from their forthcoming EP of the same name, that’s due out on 2nd October.
Featuring Ben Graves (lead vocals, guitar), Ruaidhri Houston (bass guitar, backing vocals/screams) and Brendan Scullion (drums, backing vocals), Triggertone have steadily been earning respect across the competitive Irish alternative circuit, including national radio play and a semi-final place in Bloodstock’s Metal 2 the Masses, with the new EP feeling less like a standard release and more like a clear validation of the band’s purpose.
Recorded at Manor Park Studio with producer Neal Calderwood (The Answer, Fighting With Fire, Mojo Fury), Bombs Away documents a band turning heavy riffs, melodic hooks and real-world frustration into a concentrated, defiant body of work.
Conceptually, Bombs Away is an honest exercise in collective identity, mapping personal psychological struggles alongside the intense frustrations of a changing global environment. Across four tracks, the EP moves through anti-authoritarian pressure, narrative suspense, depression, self-worth and anti-war defiance.
At their core, Triggertone remain dedicated to the true essence of garage rock music: melody, lyrics and the raw humanity of a band playing together in a room. In a landscape of rigid sub-genres and the rise of AI, the trio’s intent is to offer something direct and human: an immediate rock sound built to bring human beings together.
Tracks featured on the Bombs Away EP are: ‘Pray’, ‘Room 1046’, ‘The Fade’ and ‘Bombs Away’ itself.
TRIGGERTONE LIVE DATES
29 August, Limavady, Rock the Country (The Blazing’ Saddle Saloon)
25 September, Belfast, Metalland: Echoes of Steel Fest (Oh Yeah Music Centre)
