Trivium - The Crusade`

J1nxy · 13 Oct 2006 at 15:18

HAs anybody else bought this yet?? What an album, takes their older sound and beats it to death with early Metallica/Megadeth and comes up with a truely brilliant sounding cd.

Matt seems to have learnt a lot from the Road Runner United stuff and now sings rather than screams into the mic and the playing by all the band is amazing.

Highly recommened :-)

Steve

J1nxy · 14 Oct 2006 at 19:54

Thank god I'm not the only one who thinks its good

J1nxy · 15 Oct 2006 at 21:26

riddlermarc said:
Just a point I may have noticed - the people that don't mind the inevitable comparisons between Trivium and Metallica, are they the older "generation" (myself included) who experienced Metallica the first time around? It sort of seems that the people that knock the comparison are the younger side of 20ish who didn't grow up/live/breathe/eat/sleep Metallica right from '83?

I'm not criticising, flaming, dissing bods younger than myself or whatever but it does seem peeps are more tolerant if they are somewhat older?

As the original poster and the fact I did make the comparison between Trivium/Metallica and Megadeth I'd like to point out I am over 30 and have been listening to this sort of music for the better part of 20 odd years. I still listen to Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Pantera etc but also listen to a lot of varied modern stuff. I personally believe that I like stuff because its sounds good to ME not because it fits into a particular genre and not because it "hip" to like it.

I got accused of being a Scene Kid when I stated I disliked the GnR show at Download but to ME I thought they were dire...Metallica were bloody awsome thou (11th time I've seen them to date and intend to increase that number)

I have all 3 Trivium albums I like them all and also like the direction the sound is taking.

Any way as somebody said it sounded like Annihilator I'll have a listen to them and also go and find the new KSE album as I've liked everything they done, My Last Serenade being my favorite track.

Steve

J1nxy · 26 Oct 2006 at 10:50

dmpoole said:
I wouldn't go by my judgement.
However, another 48 year old was in my house yesterday and I played him some of it and its on his list 'to buy'.

I don't know if you're being sarcastic Edinho but I'm too old to follow fashions. I don't give a monkeys toss if you have to dress a certain way to listen to one type of music and another way to listen to another. I have no pre-conceived ideas of what a modern genre should be and therefore judge the music alone. I don't give a damn if Trivium are a chocolate pink coloured raspberry falvoured metalcore industrial gothic punk band - its the music that counts and I like what they've done.

As a young man it was very hard to find similar music. We had Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix, Uriah Heep etc etc and none of them sounded alike. We dreamed of bands coming along that sounded similar to our favourites but it would be the late 70's when similarities happened.
AC/DC sounded like Quo, Krokus sounded like AC/DC etc. If Trivium sound like early Metallica then excellent because I miss that sound.

Exactly