Trivium…I Don’t Hate Them
October 1, 2008 by Scott
I bought Triviums new release Shogun yesterday and I’ve been listening to it on and off. With Shogun, Matt Heafy reaches back to Ascendancy with some of the vocals. I said before that I didn’t care for Ascendancy as much as I like The Crusade, but listening to Shogun and the older style Heafy screams, I had to check out Ascendancy again.
I’ve had Ascendancy since 2005 and I can probably count on my hands how many times and how many songs I have listened to. When I got Ascendancy I also got a few other CD’s in the mix that I can’t think of off the top of my head but Trivium didn’t get much attention. I just wasn’t into that Matt Heafy scream back then. Upon listening to Ascendancy all the way through today I was very surprised how much I was diggin it. It will probably get a lot more iPod time now. And then The Crusade started playing right after that (alphabetical order in iTunes) and I was absolutely loving it! I was a bit hesitant about buying The Crusade when it came out because I was afraid I wouldn’t like it, but I bought it anyway and it got a lot of play time and still does.
Trivium gets so much flack, being called Screamo, Metalcore, Metallica clones, etc. But in my opiion they are a great solid band that have an ass-load of talent. Seriously, in this day and age of metal it’s tough not to sound like another band, but most people can tell a Trivium song faster than they could tell another death/black/metalcore band if a random song played. Now some people may be reading this and saying to themselves ‘I wouldn’t know a Trivium song if I heard one", and you know that those are the same people that hate them. Trivium have a signature sound to them, believe it or not, where as many other metalcore bands all sound similar. I’m not bashing metalcore bands, most know that I dig a lot of metalcore bands. But the fact is that Trivium gets more crap by more people that probably have never heard many or any of their songs. I’m checking out these guys live on the 18th with All That Remains and I’ll be interviewing Corey Beaulieu before the show.
I’ll try to get a review of Shogun up sometime this week.
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I like so much their guitars.
For me, a good music work.
Good stuff this is another good effort from this band. Have you checked out there first Ember To Inferno? Allotta good stuff on there too, but so far I’m definately digging Shogun.
I’ve seen it in stores but because I wasn’t in to Ascendancy I figured I wouldn’t like it. I’ll check it out for sure now.
it has a more raw heavy sound than their newer albums
i could never get into this band i’ve tried but its never clicked.