Trvium's new song.

[Crazy_Joe]

Sounds good, but still i can't call them thrash because they look emo.

[chrisola]

Thought id ressurrect this...

The new album is amazingly................

























FANTASTIC!!!!!!!


Just listened to a promo copy and it wipes the floor with the other 2 trivium albums.

Vocals are great through out, as is the playing and song writing... anyone who doubted their playing ability needs to listen to the 8min instrumental 'The Crusade' (they channel Michael Angelo's Speed Kills in the latter part of it lol)...

this is so far away from the metalcore emo (whatever) stuff thats everywhere now, its a good heavy metal album with a nice mix of songs and styles.. plenty of solos and cool riffs :D

Maybe its not groundbreaking, but its fantastic!!!!!

Going on my must buy top 5 CD list along with the new I cd (Abbath from immortals new band... holy shite is it good), new Agalloch cd, the new Belphegor blast beat fest and the new Blind Guardian \m/

[crispsandwich]

I got a chance to listen to a promo copy the other day too. I'm not so sure about it. The guitar playing is jaw dropping (Matt Heafy is an awesome guitarist, I prefer his solos, tone and general playing to Corey's) but MH is trying SO hard to be James Hetfield IMO. 'The Anthem' is a classic, and there are a few other good ones but to be honest I preferred Ascendency. I know it was all metalcore emo-ish stuff (or whatever it gets categorized into) but I thought they were bloody good at it. At Total Guitar put it, this is the best Metallica album in ages. But no-one sounds great doing Metallica apart from Metallica (well, not these days unfortunately) and their undeniable talent (especially Heafy's) is totally wasted on this album, which should have been called 'And Justice Part Deux'. The title track is a mess too IMO. It's just a mish-mash of time signature and riff changes. They're not Metallica and they should stop trying to be and go back to what they were good at, which was what got them noticed in the first place. Here's hoping album number four will be 'the one' :).

[Crazy_Joe]

I like it apart from the vocals, it's trying to be Hetfield but failing, but that instrumental is pretty kool, and i like the guitar work a lot.

[Muzzzz]

Back to the 3-string sweep thing, if you mean this kinda thing:

C# minor


-16--12-------------12--|
----------14-----14------|
--------------13---------o|
---------------------------o|
-D---U---U---U---D--U---|
----------------------------|

I can do it resonably fast (Triplets at 240 BPM) from a brief stint with trying to learn Steve Morse's 'Tumeni Notes' (yes, i am a fool).

But 3 string sweeps are pretty cool as just a little transitional 'zip' from top note to bottom in an otherwise non-shred solo.