Nine studio albums have been recorded to date: Amalgamation (1999), Trapt (2002), Someone in Control (2005), Only Through the Pain (2008), No Apologies (2010), Reborn (2013), DNA (2016), Shadow Work (2020), and The Fall (2024).

Its lineup for all studio recordings have consisted of Chris Taylor Brown (vocals) and Pete Charell (bass), with various members filling other roles over the course of their career.

Trapt's biggest commercial success was their 2002 debut single, "Headstrong", which became a crossover hit to the pop charts and peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The members of Trapt met in middle school in the mid-'90s, and were in an early NOFX cover band called the Swinging Udders, with Manny Terres on guitar and Aaron Azlant on lead vocals.

The band's first few rehearsals were in Ormandy's guesthouse, which had a party-like atmosphere with its loft overlooking the living room.

[5] On November 5, 2002, the band released their major label debut album, Trapt,[2] which was certified platinum by the RIAA.

[2] The band also posted four other songs from the upcoming album: "Black Rose", "Contagious", "Wasteland", and "Ready When You Are".

[22][23] In the following December, multiple outlets reported that Brown had been fired from the band, though it was debunked as a hoax hours later.

In 2023, the band announced that their new album, titled The Fall, would be released by the end of the year, before being delayed to March 2024, and again to May 31.

[2] The band has cited Korn, Tool, Papa Roach, Pink Floyd, Pearl Jam and Genesis as influences.

Club, and Slate all reported that the band's Twitter account had gone on a week-long effort of arguing with and insulting people.

[39][40] It began with insults of civil rights activist and bishop Talbert W. Swan II and accusations of having a "victim mentality".

The comments then expanded into areas such as defending the Unite the Right rally, calling people "nerds", challenging the existence of white privilege in society, supporting Trump's "Chinese virus" rhetoric in reference to the COVID-19 pandemic, and fat-shaming women.

[50] In November 2020, Spin reported that Facebook had deleted Trapt's page on the grounds of hate speech.

[52][53][54][55][56] In April 2021, Brown defended and clarified his stance, saying it was not meant as a defense of statutory rape, but rather, "a joke in bad taste" in relation to his thoughts on the "double standard between how men need to treat women versus the other way around".