Trivium - The Crusade review
| Band: | Trivium |
| Album: | The Crusade |
| Style: | Alternative metal, Thrash metal |
| Release date: | October 2006 |
01. Ignition
02. Detonation
03. Entrance Of The Conflagration
04. Anthem (We Are The Fire)
05. Unrepentant
06. And Sadness Will Sear
07. Becoming The Dragon
08. To The Rats
09. This World Can't Tear Us Apart
10. Tread The Floods
11. Contempt Breeds Contamination
12. The Rising
13. The Crusade
Trivium baffles me. As much as I thought their original style was not particularly interesting to begin with, it is extremely strange for any band to simply throw their old sound out of the window in favor of something else. Yes, this is very strange indeed and yet this is precisely what the guys from Trivium did. To make matters even more complicated, the new Trivium sound is basically old-school thrash (with some heavy metal elements here and there), rooted especially firmly in bands such as Metallica and Testament. The hero worship here is at such a level that we are almost dealing with a tribute album. How does all of this pay off quality wise?
Well, here comes the part that baffles me. I simply don't know what to say about an album like The Crusade. As much as the thrash over here is quite passable, I just can't get over how uniquely unoriginal it is. Call it the Trivium touch or whatever, but once again the band has made an album that is largely unlistenable to me. Don't get me wrong, songs like "Entrance of the Conflagration" or "To The Rats" are actually quite exquisite thrash, with memorable song-writing, sharp rhythms and good riffs; however, the ghost of James Hetfield and co. leers ever so closely all the time behind all this decent music. Even the vocals are an un-mistakable rip-off. Of course, I still think this is an improvement over Trivium's previous formulaic and cliché-laden metalcore-ish sound. Still, it would have been much better if the band concentrated their efforts on a more original result.
In a world where context doesn't exist and solely on its own merits, The Crusade is a good and often great thrash album. Unfortunately, context is something that I just cannot ignore and so overall this album is a disappointment for me.
 | Written on 11.12.2006 by With Metal Storm since 2002, jupitreas has been subjecting the masses to his reviews for quite a while now. He lives in Warsaw, Poland, where he does his best to avoid prosecution for being so cool. |
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| kaos666 Posts: 99  |
It was Kerrang, MH are a bit more decent...a bit!
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser staff Posts: 9718  |
Written by Guest on 21.04.2007 at 12:06 What can you expect, Ive seen My Chemical Romance on the cover of metal hammer....not once, but twice!
---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin
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Well i like it.. ^^ and besides, its wat i listen, why wud i bother to people who says triviums gay? Didnt i not bothered wen ppl said metals gay wen i started listening to metal? 
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser staff Posts: 9718 |
Written by Doc G. on 11.01.2007 at 08:55 Oh you idiot, you got tired of that album in like 2 weeks. I found it good for a short period of time but now that Im very tired of it I cant help but side with the mob.
---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin
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| Szron Posts: 5  |
7/10 Decent enough album, but I liked the previous ones better. The songs on Crusade are more catchy and diverse from each other and I guess that's a plus. Still, they lack the aggression and raw vocals of the previous releases (especially Ember). I've seen the band live, but the sound engineering was awful. Never mind, I still had a blast in the moshpit. For the people who dub them talentless - check out the Roadrunner United DVD, where Corey Balieu comes up to the studio, drops a mind-boggling killer solo (for In the Fire) with a smile on his face, and leaves for home afterwards. If that's not talent, then I don't know what talent is.
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| b0000mst1ck Posts: 547  |
the crusade gave me a revelation; trivium should just change their name to alcohollica and become a metallica cover band.
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| +{Jonas}+ I R Serious Cat Posts: 4955  |
I personally like this album, it's a big improvement over the metalcore sound, as jupitreas says, but it's barely their 1st album as thrash metal. I seriously think it's a good beggining to get into the genre... IMO we should wait and see how the next album is gonna be.
---- "Nobody wants to be the weird kid, you just end up being the weird kid. You don't know how you ended up getting there" - Rob Zombie http://jonas-bs.deviantart.com My dA, mainly photography, go check it out!
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| arwestromen Posts: 645  |
7/10 I don´t see anything wrong with this album, it got good riffs and diecent vocals, who gives a shit if they´re not original...give me ten bands (max ten years in existense) who have a original heavy sound.
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| ioannisk Posts: 75  |
The album has some really nice songs but in general they got me tired quite soon. I don't understand how a really good musician like mathew heafy, that has proven himself in roadrunner united with amazing songs like in the fire and dawn of a golden age, can't write something equally memorable and impressive with his own band. Generally i would give the album a 6.
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| Nicko's Nose Posts: 486  |
This album is so fucking underrated! I'm sure that most of the "metalheads" that hate Trivium hate them only because they're not not tr00 metal!!!1!eleven! or for another reason that has nothing to do with the quality of their music. Its incredible how fucking close minded some "metalheads" are... Trivium could release the best metal album ever and a lot of "metalheads " would hate it simply because... Its Trivium. Anyway, back to The Crusade, I don't think that it sounds that much like Metallica, ok, a lot of the riffs remind of Metallica, but saying that you could listen to a song from it and think that its a Metallica song is fucking stupid... The choruses don't sound like Metallica's choruses at all for example. 8/10
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| Xeros612 Posts: 30  |
Decent enough album, though I still refuse to classify it as thrash. As with the rest of their discography, I say thrash-influenced metalcore. The vocals are much improved here, lacking Heafy's "bleh" screams for the most part, plus all the songs are catchy and with good solos. I give it a solid 7/10 myself. EDIT: After a relisten, I'm upping it to a 9. Solid album.
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| +{Jonas}+ I R Serious Cat Posts: 4955 |
I heard a rumor that this albums is suposed to be a tribute to teh whole Bay Area Thrash scene... It's a pretty decent thrash metal album, IMO.
---- "Nobody wants to be the weird kid, you just end up being the weird kid. You don't know how you ended up getting there" - Rob Zombie http://jonas-bs.deviantart.com My dA, mainly photography, go check it out!
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Written by Thedude117 on 27.11.2012 at 04:48 Not to be a total douchebag, but this isn't Shogun.
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