SHIT!!!!

They suck major cock. Spoken diplomatically.

I can understand why people hate on this band.
But I think they write some catchy songs. They aren’t breaking any new ground, but shit like ‘We are the Fire’ and ‘A Bullet to the Head of Trepidation’ are pretty solid songs.

These guys are a lot better that some of the other -core bands who get a bit too much love around here. *coughAvengedSevenfoldcough*

Ascendancy is a sick album, the Crusade had its moments…although at times I thought Hetfield was actually singing for them (see: We are the Fire) which wasn’t really a bad thing…it just didn’t have the same Trivium sound as the previous album.

I remember trying to introduce my friends to these guys back when Ember came out and no one cared, then suddenly Ascendancy hit and everyone was like O_o

Long story short, these guys are fucking talented, but I think their rise to fame out of nowhere has sparked a rather large hatred in a lot of metal fans….that and their music is exactly original by any means. Good, but nothing mind blowing.

@Kye:

1) “rise to fame” is somewhat relative.

2) That said, your statement, “…has sparked a rather large hatred in a lot of metal fans” says way more about the idiocy of fans (short for “fanatic”) than the band itself.

I first liked Trivium when i saw them open for Machine Head, and then Ascendancy wasn’t even out. I bought Ember to Inferno, and thought it was one of the best albums to come from an unknown American band. I saw them play on the Road Rage tour in a shitty cramped bar in Philly above the Troc, and they were awesome. I really liked them even when they started playing bigger places and festivals. I abandon the notion of liking this band when The Crusade was released, because i didn’t want to hear a Metallica Jr.

They’re one of those bands you hate to like… I hated their cover of “Master of Puppets” and hate most of the tracks off The Crusade with the exception of certain parts of certain songs. I can fully understand why people don’t like them, but all in all they’re a young band who got big too quick, but this is the fate for most bands these days. No one today can be Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, or any of the other bands like them. The days of underground exposure and work ethic to gain notoreity are gone, you can be a star in two days thanks to the internet and record labels looking for the next big thing.

Trivium are just a band looking to be the next Metallica, and i don’t blame them, but they won’t be. I want to hate them, but i can’t, not because they’re good, but because they have potential. They’ve become Napster/Reload era Metallica in mentality without toughing it through the 80s.

All in all, Ascendancy is still a good record. Anything else, i don’t really care about.

I think it’s pretty obvious Trivium shouldn’t have gotten as popular as they have in the time they have. Guitar World hails them as if christ has returned, and honestly, it’s ridiculous and insulting.

But what about their music? Well, it’s a mixed bag: Trivium is a band who wear the influences like jumpsuits and who excel in “almosts”. Their lyrics were shamelessly bad on “The Crusade,” and their music felt so much like Metallica that it could’ve been the predecessor to “Death Magnetic.” In my opinion, Trivium is the definition of lazy, a band with so much potential but no drive to be original.

@36: Guitar World hails every artist as a second coming of Guitar Christ. But they have to in order to sell mags in a shrinking industry. They’ve also never reviewed a piece of equipment they don’t love. Sigh. It’s a necessary evil, I suppose, to at least have one magazine left to discuss guitars and guitar players.

Yes, “The Crusade” is derivative, but at least the superior musicianship is evident and the songwriting not too bad (some lyrics aside).

Trivium may very well be “lazy”. On the other hand, they may be playing (read: marketing) to a whole new generation of rock fans who are just now discovering their dads’ old metal CDs. And exactly how many ****-core albums can a band write without retreading? I’ve brainwashed myself into believing “The Crusade” was more homage than rip-off.

Ascendancy was good i did not like the last one sounds like alot don’t like them cuz they r popular and not underground who cares i like good metal popular or underground

I’m still burnt from their last album

*weeps*

Metallica rehash? Maybe in the vocals. But the lyrics and the music are far from anything Metallica ever did.

I like all 3 of their albums equally for their own highlights. Ember was a bad ass album in light of the fact that pretty much no one knew who they were. Ascendency was just fuckin heavy til the end. The Crusade, to me, was an homage to metal for Trivium. They took all the roots that people have but never really show because that would mean making older style metal which isn’t always acceptable in today’s heavier-than-thou metal world. They took elements from every aspect of late 80′s-early 90′s metal and made it their own. Cheesy or no, that album still kicked ass. A lot of people can’t get past Matt’s sorry attempt at a Hetfield impression, but I’ll be damned if there aren’t some bad ass fuckin riffs coming out of that album. You can’t deny it.

The new album will bet yet another redemption for an almost fallen metal band. Trivium will add more screaming to their shit, and people will realize again that they still have the chops to get on stage with some of today’s heaviest bands and have no problem holding their own.

Trivium are in no way posers. All four of them are just big ass metal nerds that have done nothing but listen to metal their entire lives and this is the end product.

I think Jesse’s comment is an homage to mine. :D

Joe- everyone does praise the Slayer ripoff. I seem to remember Demiricious getting some love around these parts.

Now granted, I like Demiricious better than Trivium. But I’m just playing devil’s advocate.