Trivium is a heavy metal band formed in 2000 in Orlando, Florida. The band currently consists of frontman Matt Heafy (guitar, vocals), Corey Beaulieu (guitar), Paulo Gregoletto (bass) and Nick Augusto (drums). They have currently released 5 albums (and is at this time in the studio recording a 6th), an EP, 11 singles, and 12 music videos.

The band plays metal. But heavy metal is an incredibly vast genre, and there are probably more sub-genre's of it than I could name. Thrash Metal, Groove Metal, Death Metal, Prog Metal, Power Metal, Neo-classical Metal, Industrial Metal, Folk Metal, Black Metal, Doom Metal, those are just a few of the more basic ones. Interesting thing about this band is that even with the vastness of the genre that they play, they don’t really fit into any one of those.
If one was incredibly well-versed in the ancient scriptures that guide and define the glorious thing that is heavy metal, then one could pick out influences and fuse a load of them together into one term that might describe some of the band’s music. Back when I actually gave a shit about categorisation, I believe I came up with "Progressive Melodic Thrash-Death Groove Metal."

...but that was only for their album In Waves.
So, let's just call them metal.

Discography
Ember to Inferno (2003)
Ascendancy (2005)
The Crusade (2006)
Shogun (2008)
In Waves (2011)

My personal favourite Trivium album is Shogun. It's wonderfully epic and progressive. None of the songs are under 5 minutes. Prog fans, I would recommend starting here. The album isn’t perfect, but it’s a taste of what Trivium can really do if they put their minds to it. I believe that Trivium is yet to release their best work, and this album sets the bar pretty high. I know they’re up to it.
Ember to Inferno and Ascendancy are kinda bland in my opinion, probably more suited to core fans. I should probably note that among many Trivium fans, Ascendancy is commonly regarded as the band's finest.
Everyone else should check out The Crusade. It's probably their lightest album (it has a noticeable lack of harsh vocals) and, in my opinion, is some of the purest metal released in years. It’s commonly compared to early Metallica for some reason, although honestly, I don’t hear much of a resemblance. This is way better.
In Waves is more an album for the hardcore fans. It’s kind of like a mish-mash of everything they've ever done, some of it good, some of it not so good. I must admit, I was a little disappointed with the album when it first came out. It was a step backwards from Shogun, and it felt like they were playing a little too safe.

Anyway, I'm really excited for their next album, which I hope it released sometime this year. If not, well... it had better be awesome.

OMG A TRIVIUM FAN!!!! YAY!!!!! They're freaking awesome live =3

Okay, so although I wrote in the description for this (I am ShotaroKaneda, I just have a new name now) that I'm not really a big fan of Ascendancy, but lately I've been finding that whenever I actually do feel like listening to metal, Ascendancy is what I tend to favour, particularly the title track.

I don't really understand what it was about this album that initially repulsed me, but whatever it was, I don't hear it anymore. I can now see why every Trivium fan loves it so much.

So bump.

Love Trivium. Ascendancy is there best album by very far. Songs like 'Shattering The Skies Above' need to be written regulary. I feel the other songs (Besides the singles) on recent albums have been poorly written.

>>5 I'm going under the assumption that by "recent albums," you just meant In Waves, because Shogun was fucking brilliant.

If so, I can sort of understand where you're coming from with that. After Shogun, I was just a little bit disappointed by In Waves. I felt that other than the title track, Of All These Yesterdays, and yes, Shattering the Skies Above, the album didn't really have anything that was truly unique to it. They were playing it too safe with it, and therefore, the album is just good.

>>6 Couldn't piece the right words together but yes, I agree with most of what you've said there.

Well, I finally got round to listening to Vengeance Falls

It, uh... isn't very good. You know what, I blame David Draimon.

It definitely has a Disturbed feel to it. While it isn't quite as generic as their music, but I feel like they've gone a bit too far with the chugging and the... I dunno, real "steely" riffs on this one - you know how some bands (like Disturbed) basically tune their guitars down, play few notes between the first and fifth fret, call it a riff and repeat as necessary?
Yeah.

The epic Trivium-style harmonies are still there, but it's kinda hard to appreciate under the chugginess in the background. It doesn't flow, and because of that, it kinda loses its epicness.

Another problem is the fact that there are only a few real standout tracks. Most of the songs on here are more vocally based than they should be, with incredibly simplistic (also chuggy - I don't like chuggy -_-) riffs that probably took them 5 minutes to write. This, coupled with your typically cool Trivium solos (which are sometimes just unnecessary), and regular song structure's make the album repetitive, and it get's boring really fast.

On the other hand, Matt's vocals have improved a lot. I mean, they've always been awesome, but his range has is noticeably larger. He uses harsh vocals sparingly though, but it's not like on The Crusade where it sounds like he was forcing himself not to, although, it actually suits the (very generic) music. But for his cleans, he can actually go even lower now, shown especially during the intro to Wake (The End is Night) which is probably the best track on the album. He just goes so low, it's amazing.

But still, this is actually a further step back from In Waves. I'm starting to lose my faith in this band, they're turning into the kind of generic modern metal that they'd always stood above.
I swear, Machine Head's next album had better be awesome.

THE crusade album and ascendancy is nice also is shogun

>>8 Im going to have to go give this a listen. I wasn't impressed by In Waves, but Im sure they will have been able to pump out a few good tracks.

Over the last few weeks, Trivium's been teasing the public over social media. First they changed their Facebook photo to this grainy, white image of what we now know to be snow, and from then they started posting lyric excerpts. There was no formal announcement of a new album, but it was pretty obvious that a new album's in the work - and probably nearing completion - but the real intrigue there was the little hints about the kind of direction they were going to take after the lackluster Vengeance Falls.

What we've seen from them over the last few weeks have been white, grainy images, an overarching theme of winter and snow, and some dark, grandiose lyrics. I was reminded immediately of black metal, as well as some of the folkier melodeath bands like Insomnium and Ensiferum - which was confusing, because this was Trivium. Trivium's sound has always been this fiery, fast strain of melodic thrash and metalcore, and even when they did try to stray from that, the furthest of their experimentations delved a little more into the mainstream fringes of melodeath and melodic hardcore. In fact, I reckon they're about as mainstream as a band can get without being called sellouts.

Then, a few days ago, they released this, and all the pieces fell in place.

Trivium is trying to go power metal.
God help us all.

But, I actually kinda like the new song. Hated it at first, but it grew on me fast. It's different but it's definitely still Trivium, and it's definitely more enjoyable than most of Vengeance Falls.
Not enough to give me a lot of hope for the new album, but still a pretty good song.

The music video is fucking stupid, though.
Same as the single art.

I like then, the ascendary and shougun i have both cd's and i love those cruzade and most reacent from them.... they are good and they are ok peace :D

So...

Silence in the Snow is actually pretty good. Matt Heafy's vocals - there's no screaming, but you won't really miss it - have improved a lot,the songs are mid-pace and catchy, with a few nice thrash riffs thrown in here and there. Leads are epic and up to Trivium standard, and are the area where that classic/power metal direction they were moving into shows most. I mean, it's not mindblowingly awesome, but for what it is, it's pretty great; just bang your head and sing along.

Predictably, I'm seeing a bunch of people accuse Trivium of pandering to the mainstream with this one, but too many of those old-school Trivium fans like to pretend that they were some kind of brutal underground band before The Crusade. Most of them have obviously never listened to Dio or Iron Maiden before, 'cause they don't seem to appreciate the classic metal influence in there.

First impressions usually change with me, but I don't think it will with this one. Let's say 6/10.

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