Trap Metal
Trap metal fuses trap beats with heavy metal and hardcore punk, pairing distorted 808 bass with screamed or growled vocals.
Tracks are short, loud and abrasive, sometimes with down-tuned guitar riffs and industrial noise over rattling trap hi-hats. It took shape in underground rap in the mid-2010s, with Bones often named as a forerunner and Scarlxrd, Ghostemane and City Morgue among its main acts. It differs from older rap metal by using trap production instead of a live rock band.
Artists it is known for: Scarlxrd, Ghostemane, City Morgue.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, mid-2010s
- Also called
- scream rap, ragecore
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 5%
About 4,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have trap metal among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Trap Metal artists
$uicideboy$
Lil Darkie
BONES
Ghostemane
Pouya
Night Lovell
13 Killoki
Ramirez
ZillaKami
99zedThe trap metal artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.