Average Rating: 4.50 Rating Variance: 0.00 Objectivity Score: 33% (Poorly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name4.5 superbTrivium ShogunTrivium is: Matt Heafy - vocals/guitar Corey Beaulieu - guitar/backup vocals Travis Smith - drums Paolo Gregolitto - bass Tracks 1. Kirisute Gomen (6:42): There is a lot of great, great stuff on this album, but I just can't get into this track. It has a Crusadey feel to it, and it kind of plods along until it reaches the chorus, which is really the only good part of the song. The song structure here is kind of annoying I think. Basically, intro, verse, pre-chorus, verse, pre-chorus, chorus, solo, pre-chorus, chorus, outro. I don't hate this track, but its far from the best on this album. 2. Torn Between Scylla And Charybdis (6:48): This would have been a great opening track for the album. TBSC has one of the coolest intro guitar riffs I've heard in a long time, and the two nasty guitar solos delivered up my Heafy and CB later on don't hurt either. This is the first time on the album we get to hear Heafy's clean singing voice, as opposed to his thrash and screaming vocals. I think it sounds great. 3. Down From The Sky (5:27): The subject matter for this one is nuclear war, and this is one of the heaviest tracks on the album. What stands out the most here is the guitar solo, which has some strange (but pretty cool) effects to it. I like this track a lot. 4. Into The Mouth Of Hell We March (5:52): By far my favorite track on the album. This track is an absolute pounder, and the whole band is at the top of their game on this one. The beat is very unique, and gives the song a 'different' atmosphere (but definitely not a bad one). Into The's... highlights are an unbelievable, throttling, and lengthy guitar solo, and amazing rhythm guitar work in the verses. The basslines are also superb. A plus plus. 5. Throes Of Perdition (5:54): TOP has a similar song structure to Kirisute Gomen, and because of this, it kind of drags until it hits the chorus. But once it hits that chorus, everything clicks, because the chorus, solo, and bridge are all excellent. One of the album's better tracks. 6. Insurrection (4:57): This is a low point of the album. Basically just speed drumming by Travis while Heafy puts on a lackluster vocal performance. Not much to love in the form of guitar work, either. I usually skip this track. 7. The Calamity (4:58): Another highlight of Shogun, all four members of the band put on a show in The Calamity. Heafy stands out in particular, as both the lyrics and his vocal delivery are top notch. 8. He Who Spawned The Furies (4:08): HWSTF shows us Heafy's growls for the first time on the album. Not bad at all. The whole track has kind of an ominous feel to it, which suits the lyrics (Greek mythology stuff). Some pretty decent talkbox effects in the solo. 9. Of Prometheus And The Crucifix (4:40): This track features some particularly gory lyrics (Chew my organs out/I feel it tear out my insides), and the guitars seem to have a slightly higher pitch than in other tracks. As a note, there is very little screaming in this track, the vast majority of it is clean. But other than a crazy double kick section that starts about a third of the way through, this song is fairly boring. 10. Like Callisto To A Star In Heaven (5:24): I probably defend Heafy's vocals more than pretty much everyone, but his vocals in Like Callisto... grate on me a little. Its his screaming that's the problem, a lot of the time in this track he sounds like the cookie monster. What saves this track from being a complete waste of time is the instrumentals. Travis is superb, even by his standards, and the guitars crank out a suprisingly harmonious guitar solo. For those reasons, I'll still call this a highlight of the album. 11. Shogun (11:53): The epic closer is epic. Shogun has four major 'parts', as I'll call them. The first part starts after the intro, and features the only real chorus in the song (which does a brief comeback much later on), and ends at about the 4 minute mark. The second part begins with an acoustic section with soft vocals by Heafy, then an electric guitar and drums kick in, and he repeats those vocals, and this wraps up at about 7 minutes. The third part is absolute mayhem, and I love it. Its basically a couple of double kick verses which then each explode into shredding guitar solos. This works so well, it nearly sends chills down my back. After the chorus from part one makes a brief comeback, the song wraps up with about a minute and a half of bass & drums, and Travis really kicks ass here. This song honestly feels about half of the nearly 12 minute running time. Shogun and Into The... are without a doubt the highlights of an unbelievable heavy metal album.
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