The first segment sounds like something off Ascendancy. Maybe the anniversary tour rubbed off on their songwriting

solid track, should be a good EP! they've been on an upswing for a decade and their live show was great

Lucazade - I think they did say they'd be going back more towards the sound of Ascendancy on their next LP

Ah it's fine, they were on a heater until the chorus when it kind of became a bit too WTDMS for me, didn't care too much one way or the other for the rest. Pretty safe song vocally.

I know they've always been shredders but goddamn they have sustained their chops.

Pretty good for a Trivium track. Solo didn't blow me away like the title track off their last album, but the groovy stuff hit hard. Chorus was the weakest part, but the song is still a banger.

yeah, chorus is a bit weak but overall the track is a banger

Another by-the-numbers entry in the Trivium catalog. That isn't always a bad thing especially since they recovered from the dip in quality with the releases of Vengeance Falls and Silence in the Snow, but this song doesn't really offer anything special. Not bad just par for the course.

Ascendancy vibes for sure on this one. Really digging it

The songwriting and riffs here are giving "Ascendancy" vibes, which is beyond cool with me. However, as others are noting, the chorus is subpar - and Ascendancy thrived on endless catchy choruses. Still dig the song though, hope they keep going this direction

it would be cool if they just cut the bullshit and became a thrash band instead of wasting their time playing metalcore because the riffs themselves are good.

Yeah I really am just over the attempt at being catchy still when the fans that're still here are here because of the great heavy riffs. Also there are only so many breakdown patterns left that will keep things interesting without Shogun-level complexity. Less shimmery metalcore choruses and more of the melodic death metal/thrash intensity that made the early era so lovable please.

Man, their drummer is still top notch.

I remember his solo at a show in February, one of my fave moments next to Matt learning Polish slurs onstage.

mid

>dynamic
>catchy
>cool riffs
>drums go crazy

me gusta

This fucking rules.

Not the biggest fan, but I like more adventurous Trivium anyway

Pretty good track. Not a huge fan of Heafy's clean or unclean vox, unfortunately, though the cleans at least have gotten much better since he's moved away from trying to sound like bargain-bin James Hetfield. Don't love when they get thrashy, either, and there wasn't much of that here, so this works for me.

Whoever plays drums for them these days is a beast. Didn't keep up much with this band after being meh on The Crusade and Shogun.