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New Tryptophan Album: Deathly Gardens, coming July 28th

Tryptophan is pleased to announce our new album, "Deathly Gardens" arriving July 28th. We will be performing that date at Staten Island's The Full Cup to kick it off.  https://www.facebook.com/events/386733464708650/ The album features 20 songs that we have been working on for the past 2 years. Alex Armitage, who recorded our first album "Fadt" just about 15 years ago, and was Ron's bandmate in "Cannibal Overdrive", provided the recording and mixing.  Providing the artwork is Rebekie Bennington.  “Deathly Gardens” is an abandoned amusement park in a strange post apocalyptic landscape, inhabited by individuals with mutant abilities. Melodic folk, metal and pop anthems tell the  chronicle of god like being named “Glow”, and his encounters with other strange denizens on this barren world. A twisted funhouse mirror to life in modern America. This album is our first to be recorded in higher sample rate audio, and its the best sounding record we ...

Tryptophan.12.3.2011 Live At The Full Cup

Here is a monster line up featuring Frank Cavallo, Ron Hill, Artie Kitchen, Steven Pepe, Nick Purpura, Will Schalda recorded last year at the 1 year anniversary of The Full Cup, Staten Islands finest live music spot.

Tryptophan Live 5/5/2012

Setlist: Buenas Tardes Amigo (Ween Cover) Is A Feat Dust A Nice Boy Voice On The Phone Juices Lady Captain Glow Legal Spider-Man (Marvel Comics Cover)

Cannibal Overdrive 1.8

Frank Is Looking To Kill Someone Tonight

Cannibal Overdrive: Eat Your Friends

Staten Island Hardcore: Cannibal Overdrive: Eat Your Friends : "In 1992 the out of work Purple Pie Man .. found himself alone, and unwanted, the berry patch girls having grown up and having no further need for their friendly foe. He found him self traveling abroad, and found himself on a tribal beach, where he observed a strange ritual by native tribsmen. They were having a fishfry,put were placing the fish in strange jelly. He watched as they gained all kinds of strange abilites and superpowers. Using his berrybirds, he snatched some of the jelly. Taking it back to his hidden labratory, he isolated the properties of the substance, and was able to encode the jelly into a computer code, and within the code all that would come into contact with it would swear allegience to him. He unleahsed this code on the then newly emerging internet. The virus was code name "Cannibal" but it quickly ran amuk, into overdrive if you will. The symptons were all found in the name, if ...

Tryptophan: Fadt 1998

Tryptophan began in 1996. Originally, it was just me and Cannibal Overdrive drummer Mike Runner. The songs on our first proper cd were originally released on a dreadful Ron Hill solo tape called "Fadt", the Tryptophan cd is a supersonic remake. By the time we recorded this cd, Mike Runner had bowed out, and the ongoing line up featuring Frank Cavallo, Nick Purpura and myself had been established. This cd was recorded at "God City" (aka John Lisa's house) by Alex Armitage, mastered by Howard Rappaport at Sony Music. It includes guest appearances by John, Stapes and Mike (of Muddfoot), and Liz Heim (of Cradle).-Ron Hill