Review# 15
Trivium decided to make a change on this album, the change was to the vocal style used by front man Matt Heafy and so out went the screamy vocals in came the gravely singing vocals. And from this, due to the heavy influence on the band, came the (often snide) references to Metallica. I heard a lot of people calling it the new Metallica album, although most people at the time liked the album it hasn't held up. Supposedly even Trivium don't like it. And this has unfortunately lost them some of the popularity they enjoyed around the time of Ascendency with their most recent album, Shogun, not really moving them forward in the fan base.
All in all there are some reasonable tracks on here, Becoming the Dragon is good but for the most part it is one of those departures of sound that really has not worked. And there definitely is no huge anthems like Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr, I think they tried to do that with Anthem (We are the Fire) but that song is just terrible. This is definitely the album of a band in transition of sound, the quality just isn't there though, not even in the overall sound. It is almost metal by numbers and I find very little of Trivium's personality in the album. I still need to listen to Shogun, I have not bothered due to my “meh – ness” of this album but I hear that it is good so will give that a spin before their new album this year. I hope they do get back to where they were as they are a band who could dominate the world if they sort themselves out.
Becoming the Dragon is really the only song on here that has any personality so here is a video for it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rSfGtLzshc&ob=av2el
Trivium decided to make a change on this album, the change was to the vocal style used by front man Matt Heafy and so out went the screamy vocals in came the gravely singing vocals. And from this, due to the heavy influence on the band, came the (often snide) references to Metallica. I heard a lot of people calling it the new Metallica album, although most people at the time liked the album it hasn't held up. Supposedly even Trivium don't like it. And this has unfortunately lost them some of the popularity they enjoyed around the time of Ascendency with their most recent album, Shogun, not really moving them forward in the fan base.
All in all there are some reasonable tracks on here, Becoming the Dragon is good but for the most part it is one of those departures of sound that really has not worked. And there definitely is no huge anthems like Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr, I think they tried to do that with Anthem (We are the Fire) but that song is just terrible. This is definitely the album of a band in transition of sound, the quality just isn't there though, not even in the overall sound. It is almost metal by numbers and I find very little of Trivium's personality in the album. I still need to listen to Shogun, I have not bothered due to my “meh – ness” of this album but I hear that it is good so will give that a spin before their new album this year. I hope they do get back to where they were as they are a band who could dominate the world if they sort themselves out.
Becoming the Dragon is really the only song on here that has any personality so here is a video for it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rSfGtLzshc&ob=av2el
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