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Trouble is an American doom metal band noted for their slow (by 1980s standards), heavy albums such as their 1984 debut, Trouble (later Psalm 9), The Skull (1985), and others. Other than their influence on the just-emerging subgenre, they are also known as being one of the better, more prominent Christian metal bands, now or then. Many critics disagreed that they were Christian because use of the word "Fuck" in "Bastards Will Pay" (it should be noted that the band does not consider themselves as a Christian act). Trouble's first record label, Metal Blade Records, marketed the band as "White Metal" (in contrast to the rising black metal movement), although the band was not particularly fond of that tag.

Their sound is mid-tempo compared to Funeral Doom bands like Skepticism or Esoteric or even Doom-Death like My Dying Bride, but was some of the slowest metal being written at a time when NWOBHM and then thrash metal bands were playing faster and faster; Trouble songs generally move about as fast as a slower Black Sabbath song, like "Iron Man," "Lord of this World" and "Into the Void," but while the tempo had been done before, the sound is all their own. While most slow songs by Iron Maiden or Saxon tend to border on ballads, all of tracks on The Skull are as heavy as they are slow, with the distinctive fuzzy distortion and melodic, integral (rather than superfluous or ostentatious) guitar solos that are all their own.

Discography

Studio releases

Album Cover	Year of Release	Title	Label
	1984	Psalm 9 (formerly 'Trouble')	Metal Blade
	1985	The Skull	Metal Blade
	1987	Run to the Light	Metal Blade
	1990	Trouble	Def American
	1992	Manic Frustration	Def American
	1995	Plastic Green Head	Century Media
	2006	Simple Mind Condition	Century Media

Compilation and live releases

• One for the Road (1994, demo of Plastic Green Head)
• Demos & Rarities 1980 - 95 (2005, compilation)

DVDs

• Live in Stockholm (2006)

External links

• Official website:
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