Had no idea they were releasing anything, let alone had gone into the studio at any point, no that Matt killed his voice. News to me lol. One things for sure though from the review, I've been clinging to everything Shogun and earlier because their experiments have been lackluster to this one.

From what I hear they had a lot of trouble making Shogun songs sound good live. Shame, it really was a fantastic album.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Don't really get the hate for In Waves, I thought that album was great.

In Waves the song is fun as hell, but the rest of the album is dull in comparison

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Caustic, Dusk Dismantled, A Skyline's Severance, Shattering, Of All These Yesterdays, were pretty good.

Caustic is a+. Reminds me of the older shit.
But like I said, this current incarnation of Trivium is characterised by spotty songwriting with e few gems here and there.

Album Rating: 3.0

Can't hate on this. Far from their best, but very catchy and still a solid effort.

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The more I listen to the album, the more I like certain songs (Pull Me From The Void, Cease All Your Fire, Dead & Gone, The Ghost That's haunting You, Silence In The Snow and a few others). However, when I listen to Beneath the Sun and The Thing That's Killing Me I can't stop thinking that the choruses sound somewhat like Linkin Park. Maybe it's the voice, maybe the guitars, I don't know but it doesn't sound Trivium-ish at all.

I also get an a7x vibe on a few songs. Matt does a gravelly m shadows type singing voice.

Album Rating: 3.0

Got Alter Bridge/Tremonti vibes in Beneath the Sun

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I felt so embarrassed that I thought this was gonna have black metal influences. The winter imagery, Ihsahn composing the intro track, Heafy being a black metal and Ihsahn fanboy himself.

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you thought wrong

Album Rating: 3.0

Well I think this might've been good if it had black metal influences.



All the big metal names are releasing mediocre albums this year and people still eat it up. This is pretty much on par with the latest BFMV for me.

Album Rating: 3.0

yeah. matt''s always rocking bathory and emperor merch. you'd think it'd rub off on him when he goes into the studio.

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"All the big metal names are releasing mediocre albums"



Not entirely, Soilwork's newest album kicks ass and there's the new Deftones to look forward to.

Album Rating: 3.0

Screaming fucks his voice and he's never been great at it any way, I guess Black Metal would be the complete wrong way to go for him haha.

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One thing that did bug me was that in an interview, Matt said black metal influences and shrieks wouldn't work in Trivium because it's not them. They shifted to a whole different genre on The Crusade. Bands shouldn't be afraid to expand their musical boundaries. I find that the best bands are the ones who have sonmuch variation and styles in their music. Matt heafy, you should've grown a pair and atleast write a semi black metal album.

Album Rating: 3.0

"Not entirely, Soilwork's newest album kicks ass and there's the new Deftones to look forward to."

don't forget Book of Souls bro

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I enjoyed that too, but there wasn't anything that particularly wowed me

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The title track was my highlight of Maiden's album, the rest was meh.