Trapped Within Burning Machinery

Trapped Within Burning Machinery is an American doom metal band from Moreno Valley, California formed in 2009. The band consists of vocalist and guitarist Zak Esparza, guitarist Rob Trujillo, drummer Geoff Jones and bassist Ernie Lara. Their last full-length The Filth Element was released in 2015 through Black Voodoo Records and Midnite Concoctions receiving critical acclaim from music publications such as Decibel and CVLT Nation.

The band's sound features “slowed-down, yet thoroughly blackened take on funeral sludge” and melds “a lycanthrope that shifts forms between massive, fuzzed-out, sludge-filled hatred to moments of quiet contemplation and solemn passages.” On the band's style, CVLT Nation’s Joseph Collins wrote: "They’ve managed to straddle a fine line in the territory of Yob and similar Doom/Sludge acts, while also showcasing to a degree some rather progressive metal ideas.” The band deals with topics such as misanthropy, industrialism, human suffering, enslavement and dystopian robotic uprisings.