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Safari Man
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The first project of this decade for one of the main bands in today's metalcore scene is out and it's a "gift" for the older fans of the American band.
The new Trivium album, "What the dead man says", begins with an epic intro that really set's up the tone for the first real track, with the same name of the album that show the more pure metalcore side of the american band, with a really powerful bass line and pounding drums all over it. The next tune, "Catastrophist", unfortunately shows the problem with the more recent Trivium projects. It's clear that, some of the times, the band runs out of creative or edgy/agressive material, and when that happens the band tries to produce more easily digestible music and commercial hits, with weak lyrical content and lack of general and interesting direction on this really showing up, with Matt Heafy singing not being the greatest of its career either. It's frustrating for some of the more older fans that grew up listening the 00's projects of Trivium (that catapult them into the spotlight of the metalcore scene), like the "Shogun" and "Crusade", and even the masterpiece that "Vegence Falls" was, to see them now taking such an easy way to make new music. "Bleed into you" is another clear example of this. Nonetheless, if one can ignore this severe lacks on the structuring of their music, there are moments of instrumental geniality on this record sprinkled across this 10 tracks LP. There are also some moments when the band approach a more power metal alike vibe with their lyrics and instrumental, and even a more fast paced style of heavy metal, but always lacking something more genuine, recalling the past days of the band's discography. The band has this amazing foundations into metalcore/trash/power metal that were so significant to their rise into this global status and this LP must be the project when they tried the most to track back those days and to flee more from the generic and flavorless metalcore sonority that stagnated the growth of the band since "Silence in the Snow" and "The Sin and the Sentence". Beyond this, the production on this is as good as could be, and the bass lines by Paolo Gregoletto are always on point and pushing the sound on this into a more raw state. Summarizing, this album shown that the band didn't lose the inteirity of the original metalcore fast and aggressive pace that make them such stars, but also maked clear that they are way pass beyond the "Shogun" or "In Waves" catalogue, which isn't necessarily bad if they made consist and relevant music and projects from start to finish, which they've strugled to do in more recent years. Still, a really decent album, a generic one with some "spice" to please the more hardcore fan base of Trivium that are so eager to see them go back some year
TRACK OF THE SPOTLIGHT: The single of the same name of the album is the one that really stands out by being the most consistent track in terms of pace and direction from the first second.
The new Trivium album, "What the dead man says", begins with an epic intro that really set's up the tone for the first real track, with the same name of the album that show the more pure metalcore side of the american band, with a really powerful bass line and pounding drums all over it. The next tune, "Catastrophist", unfortunately shows the problem with the more recent Trivium projects. It's clear that, some of the times, the band runs out of creative or edgy/agressive material, and when that happens the band tries to produce more easily digestible music and commercial hits, with weak lyrical content and lack of general and interesting direction on this really showing up, with Matt Heafy singing not being the greatest of its career either. It's frustrating for some of the more older fans that grew up listening the 00's projects of Trivium (that catapult them into the spotlight of the metalcore scene), like the "Shogun" and "Crusade", and even the masterpiece that "Vegence Falls" was, to see them now taking such an easy way to make new music. "Bleed into you" is another clear example of this. Nonetheless, if one can ignore this severe lacks on the structuring of their music, there are moments of instrumental geniality on this record sprinkled across this 10 tracks LP. There are also some moments when the band approach a more power metal alike vibe with their lyrics and instrumental, and even a more fast paced style of heavy metal, but always lacking something more genuine, recalling the past days of the band's discography. The band has this amazing foundations into metalcore/trash/power metal that were so significant to their rise into this global status and this LP must be the project when they tried the most to track back those days and to flee more from the generic and flavorless metalcore sonority that stagnated the growth of the band since "Silence in the Snow" and "The Sin and the Sentence". Beyond this, the production on this is as good as could be, and the bass lines by Paolo Gregoletto are always on point and pushing the sound on this into a more raw state. Summarizing, this album shown that the band didn't lose the inteirity of the original metalcore fast and aggressive pace that make them such stars, but also maked clear that they are way pass beyond the "Shogun" or "In Waves" catalogue, which isn't necessarily bad if they made consist and relevant music and projects from start to finish, which they've strugled to do in more recent years. Still, a really decent album, a generic one with some "spice" to please the more hardcore fan base of Trivium that are so eager to see them go back some year
TRACK OF THE SPOTLIGHT: The single of the same name of the album is the one that really stands out by being the most consistent track in terms of pace and direction from the first second.
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