Trial By Fire

Trial By fire was Protection's first album they released in January of 2015. It influences repetitive guitar riffs and very weird ones as well. It also incorporates slap bass on a 5-string. And Kevin supplies "The most annoying vocals in musical history!" -Pitchfork media*

At the time, the people who worked on this album was Kevin on vocals and guitar, Leo on guitar, and Holden on bass. FYI the only reason Holden was in it was to try to make the band get somewhere since he is a decent bassist. But after being mocked and just getting tired of it all. He left just after releasing the album for the world to hear."

"Oh, Protection.. That band!? God they suck, I'm glad I left them, I hate them so much. The lead singer the a jerk off, I tried my best. But he kept mocking me and making fun of me! I tried to get them somewhere, but they deserve to stay back behind. I also heard that the 2nd album so far, 95% of it is making fun of me, what a bunch of losers"

-Holden Wooten (from an interview)

The sales shocked Holden, the first week of release it sold 25 units, and today has sold 426 units. It shocked Holden and he was disgusted and he decided to work on a new album and also he is trying to "revive" metal from "All of these emo posers." -Holden

the Reception the album received was extremely terribly bad... "It lasted over an hour, and I realized I was only past the first real song.." -Metal Forces.

Allmusic -1/5 stars

Entertainment Weekly - F-

Rolling Stone - 2/5 stars

Metacritic - 3/100