Shogun is such an insane combination of their talent, influence and maturity. I prefer the style of Ascendancy, but there are moments in The Crusade and in Shogun that really show how gorgeous they can write.
Considering they were teenagers when they wrote this album I think it's bloody impressive, I was in college when this album came out and saw them multiple times that year, was amazing.
Have you ever listened to Protest the Hero's album Kezia? They wrote that in high school as well I believe. Both bands I listened to in high school. But PTH, while maybe not in most people's wheelhouse, is an absolute impossibility of talent.
@@metal-adjacent yeah it’s a great album! I did see them live about 10 years ago or so but can’t say I was too impressed, I think they must’ve been having an off day sadly. Great band otherwise though.
i think only Matt Heafy was a teen. He was 19 when the album came out I believe, and I think all the other guys were all at least several years older than him?
@@Joshcoshbagoshember was written when they were all teens and some of the ascendancy songs were also...check out ember to inferno ab initio and it has the old demos for stuff like blinding tears
The End Of Everything into Rain is one of the hardest set openers of all time If you want early Trivium with more melody, you want Shogun, Ember To Inferno (song not album) has one of the best choruses
Trivium and Avenged toured a lot during that time frame cause they both released ascendency and city of evil within a year or less and they toured a lot plus the factor they also got to tour with metallica (bullet from my valentine also was another band in that tour) and both bands got that stamp of approval from metallica as metallica viewed as the new generation of guitar centric bands that were inovative and up coming at the time. That generation of bands was great (Avenged, Trivium, BFMV, Killswitch, Atreyu, just to name a few)
I'm so glad that you're checking out some Trivium! This band really pushed me deeper into the metal rabbit hole when I found them in high school compared to when I was mainly listening to Metallica and A7X (nothing wrong with that tbf). I would suggest checking out their albums "Shogun" and "The Sin And The Sentence" if you want to dive into some of their different styles throughout the years🤘🔥 P.S. Your guitar moment with Pull Harder was dope af 🔥🔥
When recording part of this album, Matt Heafy (vocals/one of the guitarists) was only SEVENTEEN. They were killing it from a young age, Trivium is all-time for me 🤟
Like light to flies was the first track I ever heard from them.. those times were magical times .. it was a great time to be alive if you were a metal head
This album is literally one of Trivium's best albums. They were pretty young recording this album. Also I personally have listened to this one over and over. I suggest that you definitely check out more of their old stuff.
You should do the old Darkest Hour Album Deliver Us. Similar vibe but more pronounced Vocals, I think you may have mentioned once you didn't like those kind of vocals but that was a good time ago. More raspy, melo death, but with great Metalcore riffs just gives tje incredible feels. One of my all time favorite Metalcore albums and I always get teary eyed and emotional from it. Can only recommend
i remember buying this album when i was in highschool in 2008-2009 because it was on the metal section of a store and the cover looked cool, one of the best metal albums i've heard til this day, this is a solid 10/10 just like 90% of trivium discography
All hands down best trivium album ever this album is one of the main reasons I'm a metalhead and Travis Smith was by far there best drummer in my opinion the reason why I wanted to play the drums departure is def my top fav song on this album damn hearing this album def bring back so many memories getting stoned in my bro car and drinking a beer at 19 years old now 37 soon lol I def miss this era wish we could go back to this style miss this old school metalcore sound
Absolute MetallicA from the music, along with bands like Death, and In Flames. This album generated gigantic hype at the time, m'chara. "The next Metallica" was a tag I saw on every magazine at the time. And at 19-20, they were up for that challange. They've had some peaks and valleys since. Albums like "The Crusade" was a melodic 80s metal inspired album, that was sometimes attacked for being too much like Metallica/Megadeth. But "Shogun" is a prog, tech metal stunner. A massive comeback, huge props and acclaim. I love how they, despite some ups and downs at them, they kept going. Outliving and outplaying various tempos and trends to deliver, in my opinion, their best album yet, with "In the Court of the Dragon". An maith ar fad, go beith tù ag èisteach le Trivium. Very good that yer listenin to Trivium.🤘👊👍
The first "band band" (as in not local bands) I went to see when I was like 14, they played the Ambassador, dinky venue. Best night ever. This album blew my fucking mind! Still does!
A classic album. I grew up to this and many other bands like Killswitch, Deftones, As I Lay Dying, Born Of Osiris, Chimira, In Flames, Soil Work etc. 😎
Hey man I just want to say I love your channel and I love your reactions. Huge Trivium fan here as well as a new modern metal and hardcore and whatnot. Love seeing Trivium being reacted to you. I would kill to see you react to the song Shogun. By far my favorite Trivium song and it is completely epic.
Oh also a reaction to pillars of serpents would be insane. That song has an incredible breakdown and it doesn't get very many reactions that I think it deserves
This album came out when I was a teenager and just starting to play guitar. Big time nostalgia listening to this one again for the first time in at least 10 years.
Hey man love your reactions, I think it’s a good idea to pause and talk rather than talk over the music, for me personally I feel I’m listening more intently when not talking, just my opinion though, keep it up mate 👍
Listen to shogun for sure or honestly their newest album is amazing, feels like your actually fighting a dragon lol. Playing elden ring to this album was definitely fun.
One thing to remember is Matt Heafy was like 17/18 years old when he wrote this AND sung it live. I dont like Trivium that much, but this album is so nostalgic for me.
What really impresses me about this album - Matt Heafy is just eighteen years old at the time of recording of ‘Ascendancy’. I wanted to be him growing up. Haha
LOL yeah light to flies chorus is breaking benjamin as fuck. That's funny. But we love Breaking Benjamin so it's ok. Do The Crusade album next if you havent already!
Trivium has evolved quite a bit in the time between Ascendancy and What the Dead Men Say. This album is the one that shot them into the mainstream. Lots of music publications went so far as to say these guys were the next Metallica because of this album. Interviews with these guys looking back at this time frame is cool. It was intriguing to see how they felt about this album, and then the absolute about-face that fans and critics took with the very next ablum.
Trivium is a band that is so consistently good that pretty much every other album besides maybe the crusade deserves a reaction, especially shogun and the last 3 albums they've put out.
Like everyone's saying dude, Shogun is an absolute juggernaut of an album. It's a tie with In the Court of the Dragon for me, but Shogun gives me a certain nostalgic feeling I can't replicate any other way. I had the honor of seeing them play the title track itself live last year. One of the coolest and most surreal moments of my life.
Sorry this is late and you may or may not have read this before, but their name (Trivium) is Latin for a 3-way intersection, which describes their sound/style of music. A mix of Thrash, Metalcore, and Melodic Death Metal.
I just had to say most people are probably not angry you are talking over the best/main part because THEY can't hear it, it's because they think YOU'RE missing the best part by talking that's all...
@@DrewFortune97 I realise this and I'm sure people are way way way too angry about it. I know how the internet is, but at the end of the day, they just want you to get the feeling they did when they first heard the song. Reaction content is inherently kind of a social thing, hard to explain but I watch them because I love showing people new songs or films and I get the same thing watching people get enjoyment out of songs. I might be totally wrong but that's how I usually feel about it when people talk over the best parts or miss them on accident.
This is their peak album that put them on the map and many predicted would catapult them to being the top modern metal band drawing Metallica comparisons which I never really heard since their style was completely different with screamo and emo vocals but they never matched the quality of this album plateauing and declining since.
@@ghostofmoredishesmorebitch1507 Nah, first three albums all bang as it is Josh's band, as much as Jamie was great, the moving parts of the band are still there.
@@RthereNEusernames not saying they were bad, but losing the range of cleans and dirty vocals definitely hurt and it doesn't peak as much..similar to new bury tomorrow not hitting as hard without jason
@@ghostofmoredishesmorebitch1507 Josh definitely still does great cleans imo, but I hear you on the harsh vocals. I think he's gotten much better with the new singles out. I think the next album should be solid. I hear you about Bury Tomorrow though. They just sound like a different band. In my opinion, Sylosis didn't change much sonically without Jamie
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It’s about time we have more Trivium on here. You should go down the Trivium rabbit hole. You’d probably like 90% of their work. Shogun especially
shogun is a masterpiece for sure
Shogun is their Magnum Opus for sure 🤘
Shogun is such an insane combination of their talent, influence and maturity. I prefer the style of Ascendancy, but there are moments in The Crusade and in Shogun that really show how gorgeous they can write.
Considering they were teenagers when they wrote this album I think it's bloody impressive, I was in college when this album came out and saw them multiple times that year, was amazing.
Have you ever listened to Protest the Hero's album Kezia? They wrote that in high school as well I believe. Both bands I listened to in high school. But PTH, while maybe not in most people's wheelhouse, is an absolute impossibility of talent.
@@metal-adjacent yeah it’s a great album! I did see them live about 10 years ago or so but can’t say I was too impressed, I think they must’ve been having an off day sadly. Great band otherwise though.
I was listening to this when I was like 4 years old 😅
i think only Matt Heafy was a teen. He was 19 when the album came out I believe, and I think all the other guys were all at least several years older than him?
@@Joshcoshbagoshember was written when they were all teens and some of the ascendancy songs were also...check out ember to inferno ab initio and it has the old demos for stuff like blinding tears
The End Of Everything into Rain is one of the hardest set openers of all time
If you want early Trivium with more melody, you want Shogun, Ember To Inferno (song not album) has one of the best choruses
This album is one of the best metalcore albums ever. My 2nd favorite trivium album behind shogun (and not many albums are better than shogun).
Bc it's not really metalcore😂
Best Metalcore albums imo:
1. Alive or Just Breathing
2. Fall of Ideals
3. Sleep in Your Grave
4. Jane Doe
5. Come Clarity (FIGHT ME. ITS METALCORE.)
@mikeyj.philly fucking love come clarity. Favorite in flames album so no arguments from me lol
I LOVE that you covered this. This was the album that got me into the genre. 🥺
Trivium and Avenged toured a lot during that time frame cause they both released ascendency and city of evil within a year or less and they toured a lot plus the factor they also got to tour with metallica (bullet from my valentine also was another band in that tour) and both bands got that stamp of approval from metallica as metallica viewed as the new generation of guitar centric bands that were inovative and up coming at the time. That generation of bands was great (Avenged, Trivium, BFMV, Killswitch, Atreyu, just to name a few)
and they released The Crusade right after which is like, basically a metallica album with matt on vocals and a good drummer lol
This album was definitely a ripper back in the day! Agree that Like Light to Flies is the top track!
classic album, one of my fav
This Is one of the best metalcore albums of the 2000's, AND the fact they were just adolescentss when this was released Its mindblowing
I'm so glad that you're checking out some Trivium! This band really pushed me deeper into the metal rabbit hole when I found them in high school compared to when I was mainly listening to Metallica and A7X (nothing wrong with that tbf). I would suggest checking out their albums "Shogun" and "The Sin And The Sentence" if you want to dive into some of their different styles throughout the years🤘🔥 P.S. Your guitar moment with Pull Harder was dope af 🔥🔥
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1,000,000 % agree!! Shogun and TSATS are musts!!!
Like Light To Flies was the introduction track for me. Absolute banger!
My fav Trivum album by far!!!🤘🏻
This is on of my top 3 favorite albums of all time
This is a 10/10 album🎉
You should try more Parkway Drive...especially Early like Horizons
Early 2000s metalcore will never be beaten and I'll go to my grave standing by that statement
Picked up the guitar thanks to this album
Well THANK GOD for this album then!🔥
My favourite trivium album. One of the best metal albums of the 00s imo. And I’m going to see trivium live in September, I can’t wait!!!!🤘
When recording part of this album, Matt Heafy (vocals/one of the guitarists) was only SEVENTEEN. They were killing it from a young age, Trivium is all-time for me 🤟
This is their very best album in my opinion. 💯
Like light to flies was the first track I ever heard from them.. those times were magical times .. it was a great time to be alive if you were a metal head
This album is literally one of Trivium's best albums. They were pretty young recording this album. Also I personally have listened to this one over and over. I suggest that you definitely check out more of their old stuff.
Definitely an album that helped shaped my musical taste. For when this came out there wasn't much else like it.
This album is on semi regular rotation in my car 🤘🔥🤘
You should do the old Darkest Hour Album Deliver Us. Similar vibe but more pronounced Vocals, I think you may have mentioned once you didn't like those kind of vocals but that was a good time ago. More raspy, melo death, but with great Metalcore riffs just gives tje incredible feels. One of my all time favorite Metalcore albums and I always get teary eyed and emotional from it. Can only recommend
i remember buying this album when i was in highschool in 2008-2009 because it was on the metal section of a store and the cover looked cool, one of the best metal albums i've heard til this day, this is a solid 10/10 just like 90% of trivium discography
Their best album. Don’t listen to a ton of Trivium these days but still love this album.
I like every song on this album only album of theirs I can say that
Love this album totally got me in to metal game changer for me also got my first tattoo of the head on the album cover and it's sick !
All hands down best trivium album ever this album is one of the main reasons I'm a metalhead and Travis Smith was by far there best drummer in my opinion the reason why I wanted to play the drums departure is def my top fav song on this album damn hearing this album def bring back so many memories getting stoned in my bro car and drinking a beer at 19 years old now 37 soon lol I def miss this era wish we could go back to this style miss this old school metalcore sound
Hey, you should check out "the blackening" by machine head. It is known as the best metal album of the 2000-2010 decade.
Absolute MetallicA from the music, along with bands like Death, and In Flames. This album generated gigantic hype at the time, m'chara.
"The next Metallica" was a tag I saw on every magazine at the time. And at 19-20, they were up for that challange.
They've had some peaks and valleys since. Albums like "The Crusade" was a melodic 80s metal inspired album, that was sometimes attacked for being too much like Metallica/Megadeth.
But "Shogun" is a prog, tech metal stunner. A massive comeback, huge props and acclaim.
I love how they, despite some ups and downs at them, they kept going. Outliving and outplaying various tempos and trends to deliver, in my opinion, their best album yet, with "In the Court of the Dragon".
An maith ar fad, go beith tù ag èisteach le Trivium. Very good that yer listenin to Trivium.🤘👊👍
This was my "complete Uni assignments fast" to band 10 years ago! I love this album
Trivium is amazing honestly
Fun fact the video for the opening track Rain was filmed in Belfast in 2006…. I was there 😊
The first "band band" (as in not local bands) I went to see when I was like 14, they played the Ambassador, dinky venue. Best night ever. This album blew my fucking mind! Still does!
A classic album. I grew up to this and many other bands like Killswitch, Deftones, As I Lay Dying, Born Of Osiris, Chimira, In Flames, Soil Work etc. 😎
One of my favourite "listen from front to back" albums. Another is Funeral for a Friend: Hours. Both are killer albums in their own genres of metal.
Hey man I just want to say I love your channel and I love your reactions. Huge Trivium fan here as well as a new modern metal and hardcore and whatnot. Love seeing Trivium being reacted to you. I would kill to see you react to the song Shogun. By far my favorite Trivium song and it is completely epic.
Oh also a reaction to pillars of serpents would be insane. That song has an incredible breakdown and it doesn't get very many reactions that I think it deserves
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This album came out when I was a teenager and just starting to play guitar. Big time nostalgia listening to this one again for the first time in at least 10 years.
This was one of the most played albums for me when I first got into metal. This and The Fall of Ideals for me.
Hey man love your reactions, I think it’s a good idea to pause and talk rather than talk over the music, for me personally I feel I’m listening more intently when not talking, just my opinion though, keep it up mate 👍
Trivium is so underrated ❤
You should listen "Into the Mouth of Hell We March"
Early Trivium is all about the *BREAK DOWNS!*
All Shall Perish - The Price Of Existence (2006)
Honestly In The Court Of The Dragon has to be my favourite album of theirs. You should totally check it out (unless you already have)
Listen to shogun for sure or honestly their newest album is amazing, feels like your actually fighting a dragon lol. Playing elden ring to this album was definitely fun.
i know you can only reference what you know, but the LoG moments are Pantera, and the Gojira moments are Morbid Angel / most death metal
One thing to remember is Matt Heafy was like 17/18 years old when he wrote this AND sung it live. I dont like Trivium that much, but this album is so nostalgic for me.
What really impresses me about this album - Matt Heafy is just eighteen years old at the time of recording of ‘Ascendancy’. I wanted to be him growing up. Haha
LOL yeah light to flies chorus is breaking benjamin as fuck. That's funny. But we love Breaking Benjamin so it's ok. Do The Crusade album next if you havent already!
BOAT
RUDDER
STRANGE
MOUNTAIN
Trivium has evolved quite a bit in the time between Ascendancy and What the Dead Men Say. This album is the one that shot them into the mainstream. Lots of music publications went so far as to say these guys were the next Metallica because of this album. Interviews with these guys looking back at this time frame is cool. It was intriguing to see how they felt about this album, and then the absolute about-face that fans and critics took with the very next ablum.
Trivium is a band that is so consistently good that pretty much every other album besides maybe the crusade deserves a reaction, especially shogun and the last 3 albums they've put out.
the album is a drop d masterpiece, but check out ember to inferno matt was 16 making that album and its again another masterpiece of D
Trivium - Shogun Album by them please haha
Like everyone's saying dude, Shogun is an absolute juggernaut of an album. It's a tie with In the Court of the Dragon for me, but Shogun gives me a certain nostalgic feeling I can't replicate any other way.
I had the honor of seeing them play the title track itself live last year. One of the coolest and most surreal moments of my life.
You need to check shogun album , for me it's the best Trivium album.
Sorry this is late and you may or may not have read this before, but their name (Trivium) is Latin for a 3-way intersection, which describes their sound/style of music. A mix of Thrash, Metalcore, and Melodic Death Metal.
Such a good time with this record. Even named one song of my band after "Ascendancy". ❤️😌
ps: New Trivium tour guitar player finally found?
This band got me into heavier music. Before that it was mostly Metallica and stuff like that since I was a kid.
I just had to say most people are probably not angry you are talking over the best/main part because THEY can't hear it, it's because they think YOU'RE missing the best part by talking that's all...
Well those people need to chill😂 the music volume doesn’t lower for me, it’s all crystal clear even if I’m talking🙏🏻
@@DrewFortune97 I realise this and I'm sure people are way way way too angry about it. I know how the internet is, but at the end of the day, they just want you to get the feeling they did when they first heard the song. Reaction content is inherently kind of a social thing, hard to explain but I watch them because I love showing people new songs or films and I get the same thing watching people get enjoyment out of songs. I might be totally wrong but that's how I usually feel about it when people talk over the best parts or miss them on accident.
Ermagerd, best trivium album!
This is their peak album that put them on the map and many predicted would catapult them to being the top modern metal band drawing Metallica comparisons which I never really heard since their style was completely different with screamo and emo vocals but they never matched the quality of this album plateauing and declining since.
I'm going to leave here the album "the last kind words" by "devildriver" and I'm leaving ✌️
No more chatgpt??
I’m not catching this reference?😂😂
@@DrewFortune97 the video for The Sea Starts Here you used chatgpt. Unknown musical treasure
You're putting references into this that weren't around when the album came out lmao know your history
BFMV?
But late to this one bud, albums like 15 years old
18 years late bro
Can’t believe matt was only 19 when he wrote this album
I could never get into Trivium for some reason, but I think if you like them, you'd also really like Sylosis. A better version imo.
Sylosis first album* switching vocalists and losing that melothrash feel kind of hurt ngl
@@ghostofmoredishesmorebitch1507 Nah, first three albums all bang as it is Josh's band, as much as Jamie was great, the moving parts of the band are still there.
@@RthereNEusernames not saying they were bad, but losing the range of cleans and dirty vocals definitely hurt and it doesn't peak as much..similar to new bury tomorrow not hitting as hard without jason
@@ghostofmoredishesmorebitch1507 Josh definitely still does great cleans imo, but I hear you on the harsh vocals. I think he's gotten much better with the new singles out. I think the next album should be solid. I hear you about Bury Tomorrow though. They just sound like a different band. In my opinion, Sylosis didn't change much sonically without Jamie
Shogun is the best thing they’ve done. This one is good too though.
Vengeance Falls is their best album 😎
LMAO!
U mean crusade😂
@@ghostofmoredishesmorebitch1507 Nope, my opinion.
@@DizzyMan24 I thought this was a troll post
@@ghostofmoredishesmorebitch1507 No... lol
bro cmon just post the video
PLAY 30 SEC THEN TALK FOR 3 MIN COMPLETELTY FORGETS WHAT HE JUST HEARD
You good bro?😂😂
you sure have alot to say for something you havent heard, LISTEN TO THE DAMN SONG
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“That’s very lamb of god”- guy who has never heard Pantera lol
Pantera videos on my channel, hold this L
@@DrewFortune97 I don’t care. It’s called a joke. You can keep it… it’ll go nicely with your pile of them.