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Emeritus
Reviews 3
Approval 94%
Soundoffs 54
News Articles 9
Band Edits + Tags 73
Album Edits 43
Album Ratings 997
Objectivity 61%
Last Active 12-19-22 8:25 pm
Joined 06-11-15
Review Comments 19,051
| S-TIER: Trivium
this is a series i've always wanted to start, picking every s-tier song from random bands and typing stream of conscious thoughts as fast as i can before the song is over. saw trivium last night and already had this halfway done so figured they'd be an appropriate start. these guys at the top of their game are honestly make some of my favorite metal. but what makes them fun is they write a lot of bullshit too! so hear it is: trivium the best of the best (or worst) | | 1 |  | Trivium
Ascendancy
Rain:
My first ever Trivium song. 11-year old me put the Ascendancy CD on for the first time having no idea what to expect, only that the cover was cool and there was a Master of Puppets cover at the end of the disc. This track melted my brain. The Metallica influence has always been very apparent in their music, but I knew this had to have been drawing from something newer/heavier too, and it's really the album that got me to dig into heavier/not-so-mainstream 80s/90s metal like Death, Atheist, Cynic etc. that these guys would talk about in interviews. | | 2 | | Trivium
Ascendancy
Like Light to Flies
The main “Like Light to Flies” riff is one of my favorite metal riffs of all time. It’s so good that the band recycled it over and over and over and over again for 20 years. Maybe a slight exaggeration, but it really did become the template for everything they would write after. Also of the belief Matt’s solo (the second one) is one of the best guitar solos I’ve ever heard. I said what I said. | | 3 |  | Trivium
Shogun
Into the Mouth of Hell We March:
The best prog-Trivium track. Iconic intro, iconic riffs, legitimately great vocals from Heafy, some fun lyrics. Also one of the few Trivium songs with nearly all clean vocals that doesn’t suck. | | 4 | | Trivium
Shogun
Throes of Perdition:
This song is carried by a massive hook and that everything revolves around, and that is perfectly fine when the hook is that good. The intro song is also quite notable, always thought it really fit the samurai theme or whatever of this album. Also always thought Matt sounded like he was literally choking during the harsh “we choke, then we die” section. His harsh vocals sound painful on this album but I think it really heightens this song. So does the dinky acoustic guitar that slips into the verses. | | 5 |  | Trivium
In Waves
In Waves:
The stupidest, funnest, most jaw dropping meme song of all time. All the naval gazing Trivium fans acting like this doesn’t deserve to close all their shows: touch grass. Yall disappoint me. | | 6 | | Trivium
In Waves
A Skyline’s Severance:
The only deep cut on here, I'd retroactively credit this song for getting me into old school metalcore like Converge, Botch, Dillinger etc. While this song sounds absolutely nothing like any of those bands… I feel like this is where I acquired my unquenchable taste for dirty ugly dissonant guitar chords, as that’s all this song is made up of. No clean vocals either. Wish they made more than one song like this. | | 7 | | Trivium
In Waves
Forsake Not the Dream:
This song seems hardly special in their discog ever since Alex Bent joined the band, but this song in hindsight seems like the blueprint to a lot of the material they’ve been putting out since The Sin and the Sentence. Very high tempo, lots of octave chords, blast beats (they never had those anywhere besides this album until recently), and big choruses. During the dark ages between In Waves and Sin, the style of this song in particular is what I always wanted to hear again, and they actually did it and people started to like them again see I know things. | | 8 |  | Trivium
The Sin and the Sentence
The Sin and the Sentence:
The song that really revived their career. Still remember being blown away the first few times I heard the outro of this, never thought we’d here that Ascendancy style riffing ever again. | | 9 | | Trivium
The Sin and the Sentence
Beyond Oblivion:
The Alex Bent masterpiece. Trivium with legitimately great drums. Double rides! One of my favorite bridges. | | 10 |  | Trivium
What the Dead Men Say
What the Dead Men Say:
Great main riff. Really really like the melodic verses over the crazy drums. Also has that scary tremolo breakdown section, as well as maybe the catchiest chorus they ever wrote. Maybe their crowning achievement. | | 11 |  | Trivium
In the Court of the Dragon
In the Court of the Dragon:
Please never stray away from this style damnit they're touring with beartooth and playing all their bullshit radio metal songs oh no oh no oh no not good. | |
AlexKzillion
05.22.23 | this is why i don't write reviews | Zac124
05.22.23 | Nothing here I disagree with tbh but I would add Down From the Sky and The Phalanx. | AlexKzillion
05.22.23 | both those barely missed i wanted to cut this down until i just couldn't bare to cut it down anymore and down from the sky was the last one | JohnnyoftheWell
05.22.23 | 6 and 7 are absolutely the correct picks from that album | Pikazilla
05.22.23 | correction, in waves has no salvageable songs | AlexKzillion
05.23.23 | in waves has a lot of the most unique stuff they've ever done
also has some a lot of their worst stuff tho yeah | sneakers
05.23.23 | cool list, I think there's tons of fire tracks off ember to inferno tho | veninblazer
05.23.23 | No Incineration: The Broken World? Some of Heafy's best lyrics there, unlike the fantasy bullshit on their last album. | Ecnalzen
05.23.23 | I have always really liked Ascendancy but nothing else I have tried from them ever hit the same way | JeetJeet
05.23.23 | "All the naval gazing Trivium fans acting like this doesn’t deserve to close all their shows"
lol I saw them live ages ago when they were touring for In Waves and they opened with this and it was so fucking dope. Such a banger | AlexKzillion
05.23.23 | @venin nah its a certified fact the more campy their lyrics are the better the songs are | Sniff
05.23.23 | List needs to the rats | pjquinones747
05.23.23 | great trivium list
- huge trivium fanboy | kalkwiese
05.23.23 | When I noticed the Like Light to the Flies rip offs I couldn't unhear it, but I love the stuff they do with it too lmao
Gud list | botb
05.23.23 | No ember to inferno tho | AlexKzillion
05.25.23 | no gunshot either fuck me lol not sure how i just completely forgot that song existed | AlexKzillion
10.09.25 | add sever the hand, amongst the shadows and stones, and shadow of the arbattoir to this list. gonna miss alex in this band so bad |
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