SHOGUN? SHO’NUFF
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 at 3:25pm by Axl Rosenberg
Trivium’s new album, Shogun, gets its official release on Roadrunner a week from today, but the entire album is currently streaming on the band’s MySpace page.
If you’re one of the people who showed enough restraint not to download the album when it leaked a little while back, here’s your chance to preview before you buy. Or, if you’re one of those people who hates Trivium the way Sarah Palin hates science, here’s your chance to know thy enemy, as the saying goes. Y’know, in the unlikely event you wanna try and make an intelligent argument against the band, instead of just calling them and their fans “fagets.”
Also, read our interview with Trivium’s Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu here.
-AR
Stupid “fagets”.
Oh yeah, and about the new Trivium.. I’m happy. I couldn’t have asked for a better transition for them.
Well, I’ll admit up front that I have not heard this yet, so if it’s some sort of masterpiece, I will apologize down the line. BUT.
You guys REALLY aren’t going to crack on a solid Metallica album and give these taints a pass are you?
that chorus in “throes of perdition” sounds like a nickelback song. well, the one song they’ve ever written. and although matt heafy can do the whole ‘core not metal scream well, when he tries to get into the gutturals its about the worst death vocals i’ve ever heard. don’t know what he’s going for there.
These kids are amazing guitarists and write melodic and interesting modern thrash. Why is the metal community so hard on them? Heafy has more talent in his little finger than these idiots calling Trivium “fags” do in their whole body. I don’t get it.
Shogun is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than Death Magnetic.
Define “interesting” Steverazor, b/c–without having heard the new record yet—I find them to be terminally dull. I don’t dislike them b/c i consider them fags, or b/c I think that I have more talent in my whole body than in Heafy’s little finger. I just want to sleep for long periods of time whenever i hear that dull, ringless, charmless THWAP of a bass drum sound that signals that I’m listening to Trivium. At least Lars lets the natural tone of the drum sing now and again.
But, I haven’t heard Shogun (groan) which I’m sure is a fuckin’ masterpiece.
Pretty kickass. This album restores my faith in Trivium.
Also, better than Death Magnetic.
The first song on the album is amazing, some parts have a Iced Earth style Gallop and some death metal style playing, after that song the album trails off in to a VERY GAY direction. The death metal/deathcore style breakdowns are super retarted and I though they wanted to me all over metallica’s dick. What happened metallica found out about it and made death manganic, now trivium don;t know what to do. Its like a EXTREME down grade from an amazing Crusade album. And everthing sounds like a watered down asendenscy. Problley give this a 4 out of 10 because the solo’s save the album and when matt sings he sounds amazing.
Am I the prettiest?
“The death metal/deathcore style breakdowns are super retarted” – Retarded?
wow phil the more you type the more it shows what little you know about trivium and metal in general. down grade from crusade? are you fucking high? crusade had it’s moments (becoming the dragon/the crusade) but it’s very clear that shogun destroys crusade.
i’ve had the album for about a week now and haven’t stopped listening to it.
Anyone else notice how the lyrics keep getting more and more absurd? I don’t really care about lyrics and vocals as much (obviously as a metal fan) but it’s hard not to be distracted by some of the inane things that dude spits out. Maybe it’s different on this one, at least there’s only a couple of song titles that makes me laugh instantly.
I had a huge metalcore boner when the debut came out and it carried halfway through Ascendancy. Not sure I can forgive a band for a song like “Dying in Your Arms” so I gave up on them when The Crusade came out. Personally, when they were playing standard metalcore they were far more interesting than Metallica v 2.0 who confusingly become Japanese samurais. I’ll give it a spin, but hearing about weak attempts at death growls doesn’t help the cause.
this is definitely they’re best stuff. i was never into them. they’re good musicians but their music was always a “meh”. but i love everything i’ve heard from shogun and i’ve heard the entire album now
It’s good.
…never been a big fan of Trivium, I always had seen them as Metallica wannabes trying to disimulate ther huge metallica influence with metalcore choruses and breakdowns, but this sounds really really good. They have really grown as a band. Lamb of God is still the best american metal band nowadays, IMO.
im not a fan, dont like them at all
not gonna listen to it anyways like you suggest because i dont need it to make an intellegent argument because i dont argue about the band or any bands i hate actually, im not gonna change the mind of those im argueing with and theyre not gonna change my mind so whats the point?
fagets
No, I’ll listen to this, I thought Trivium were just another boring shitty Metalcore band, which along with all the others are beloved by most, I do need to keep up on the metalcore scene despite how little I find to like.
ok people hatin on this what are you 12? anything core sucks and is just your fake ass attempt to get your dick sucked by some scene girl. if trivium sound just like metallica good respect your fuckin elders bitches. all you kids can fuckin suck a dick while you practice your fuckin karate kicks and wear your gay bandanas. true metal hates you
They may be able to play, but it doesn’t help the fact that Heafy and the band are complete douchebags. Rockstar attitude for days with those guys. It’s actually comedic. I just can’t dig a band when I know the members are full of shit.
Well, I listened to some of it, and I’ll retract my drum statement…not as muffled-sounding this time out. Still boring though. OH, and when did the chick from “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” start fronting this band?
Jason: *wraps arm around* You and I need to discuss DEP.
They’re actually pretty chill dudes. I saw them last night in Bakersfield and they played KG, Down From The Sky, Into The Mouth Of Hell We March, and Insurrection as far as shit from Shogun. I hung out with em for a few afterwards and we just bullshitted and they signed a few things and posed for pictures. The new album is totally badass in my opinion.
I don’t like how the vocals are so literal with the rhythm of their songs… it’s like they can’t think of anything interesting to do with the words.
This is definitely better than a lot of their previous shit.
WOW GREGDOUT, you alctually like this trash, when they try to do a break down all you hear is raaa blaaa raa blaa. I though trivium were past this and wanted to sound like kreator. But this is not thrash at all, and I know this because I been listening to them since Ember to Inferno came out and saw them open for machine head back in 2004. They KILLED then, but now BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
You want to a real amazing thrash bands Nocturnal and Advenger of Blood.