Trivium - Ascendancy
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Artist: TriviumEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2005-03-15
Music Label: Roadrunner Records
Soundtracks:
- The End Of Everything
- Rain
- Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr
- Drowned And Torn Asunder
- Ascendancy
- A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation
- Like Light To The Flies
- Dying In Your Arms
- The Deceived
- Suffocating Sight
- Departure
- Declaration
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Free Music Review: My Favorite Metalcore Album, Trivium Ascended New Heights
Hit: 5 Stars
Trivium are a American Metalcore band that have really freshened the otherwise grim commercial metal scene. Metalcore is often times dubbed not 'true' metal to some metal elitists afoot. The reason behind this madness is for its delving in hardcore. Whatever you consider metalcore to be, their is no denying Trivium struck gold here! The albums manor isms are scream for a bit, splice in some clean vocals (much like Kill Switch Engage), and spiced up harmonizing guitars.
"Ascendancy" is the bands sophomore album, and achieved high praise. As much appraise as it claimed, it was also cited for startlingly similar riffs from their metal predecessors.
Beginning the piano classic classically laden "The End of Everything", this band knows how to compose.Banging right into the highly produced sounds of "Rain". Heavy, fast, and amazing tones come at ones ears in a amazingly aggressive manor. "Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr" is one of the bands signature songs. Cratering with a vast drumming intro, inducing one with the 'I have to learn to play the riffs on this song' guitar riff, and climaxing with a harmonic minor solo... ahhh music worthy of a metalhead. Relief the first few songs are good, and the rest remain just as valiant. "Suffocating Site" pitches a strong breakdown, Trivium know how to pump fans (and get them to crank their speakers).
Other songs worth of strong mention are "Ascendancy" which is another staple to the bands repertoire, the screaming vocals are great and the solo twists in two directions. "The Deceived" shows Triviums celerity to answering ones thrashy needed dosage of a song. The harmonizing towards the end is a bit cliche' though, but the song non the less is top notch.
"Departure" and "Declaration" touch base upon similarities if quickly listened upon. Rest assure they are quite different, and easily contrast once passing of the intros. "Departure" goes for a softer acoustic approach and smooth vocals, while "Declaration" bats an almost too perfect heavy quality to it.
While Trivium do have a newer release 2007's "The Crusade", it's really not better or worse. It strikes many as too Metallica like, or too much of a dramatic change in sound.So they really contrast far too much for comparison. Overall still a good album to look into, but "Ascendancy" is a much truer fulfilling start to get into the band with.
"Ember to Inferno" is Trivium's debut, another great album to check out if you are a fan of the bands heavier content. The production isn't nearly as great, but sounds much similar to "Ascendancy" than previously noted "The Crusade". With three albums and a EP out, Trivium have a new album tagged "Shogun" on the horizon. Promising to return to their heavier material, while not having so closely associated 'stolen' riffs.
The production really can't be beat by a metal album, the quality seems as good as Metallica's "Black Album" was back in the day (which still holds amazingly today). This is the album that re inspired the metal rusting in me.
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Ascendancy, the group's second album and their first on Roadrunner Records, is filled with carefully crafted songs that surge with energy, passion and originality. Like their solid 2003 debut Ember to Inferno, Ascendancy is rooted in '80s and '90s thrash, recalling the glory days of Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, and Testament. But the new disc doesn't stop there, incorporating aspects of melodic death metal and even prog-rock. Twin guitar harmonies and point/counterpoint dynamics abound, twisting around vocals that alternate from melodic and pained to caustic and full of rage. "We had so much more to work with this time," says guitarist and lead vocalist Matt Heafy of the Jason Suecof-produced disc. "I had great guitar sounds, Travis [Smith, drums] is playing like a machine, and the vocals are so much more multi-dimensional."While the first album, lyrically, addressed romantic disillusionment and child abuse, this time the songs confront spousal abuse, suicide, depression, tyranny and freedom of speech. However, even at his most poignant, Heafy prefers expressing gut emotion to preaching. "I've found that when you have a negative aspect in your life, you can find so much negativity in other people's lives around you, and in the world. For me, it's good to write about the negativity to get some of it out of my system."Pop Music CDs
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