Trivium - The Crusade review
| Band: | Trivium |
| Album: | The Crusade |
| Style: | Alternative metal, Thrash metal |
| Release date: | October 10, 2006 |
| A review by: | jupitreas |
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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| Talvi Posts: 825  |
Trivium really sucks. The worst is seeing them live when you don't want. How bad a band can be when they worship Metallica?
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| Herzebeth Posts: 5537  |
I never liked Trivium to begin with, I'm amazed that you even gave this album a Try...
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| chris_metalhead Posts: 26  |
I heard some songs of full metal racket (radio) in Australia. Its stupid that a band would blatently rip something off rather than take in a wide variety of musical influences and put them together to make more of an original sound. If we wanted to hear Metallica, we would listen to Metallica.
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| jadawal Posts: 241  |
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| Promonex Cathemeral Elite Posts: 9720  |
Decent album, but yeah, damn unoriginal. They are surprisingly good on stage though.
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| Passenger Lost To Apathy Posts: 1464  |
I feel exactly like you, jupitreas. It doesn't seem like a bad album if you look at it, Trivium did change a bit, which most people don't seem to figure out, and they sound like an early-90's Thrash band, which could be great. The problem is that their songs literally do nothing for me and I can't understand why. I'd even consider this their best album, but, if I was to rate it, I'd probably give the same 4 you gave to "Ascendancy". BTW the vocals are way better now.
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| MetalMachine Posts: 30  |
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| kaos666 Posts: 99  |
So bad it's not even rated...I love it! Trivium are balls, why they are dubbed the saviors of metal passes me, I can be a savior of metal if they can! The review perfectly suits my opinion!
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| Deathwyrm Posts: 100  |
For the most part, follows my same thoughts regarding the album. I heard a couple songs on Ascendancy, and bought. Over-produced and mainstream metalcore? Absolutely. Terrible vocals? Yeah. The guitarwork, while using simplistic formulas, were actually put together reasonably well. I found myself able to enjoy it more than other metalcore albums. Just had to get past the irritating vocals. To me, Ascendancy sounded like what would happen to a young melodic death/thrash band if ran through the mainstream machine generator, and then told them they're the greatest thing ever. Crusade came across as just plain hero worship. I was going to pass on this one. But I had to hear it for myself after reading in various magazines about "It's the best album Metallica never made!" and even their attitude in interviews where they consantly say "We're going to be the next Metallica." Yeah, the album came across as total hero worship. Not even really good hero worship. Entrance of the Conflagration was alright, I didn't mind the song Crusade. These are decent musicians. While I admire a band for changing style, and many have done it and were good at it (Amorphis for example)... this album comes across as egotistical fanboy-ism.
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| Jeff Freaky Admin Elite Posts: 7078  |
Hey guys, keep it cool. You can hate the album, the band etc, no problem but keep cool stay polite and don't act like idiots. (the next one who will post a stupid mesage will take a heavy ban...) Thx. @Kaos666: Jupitreas never give ratings to his reviews...
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10094  |
stereotypical trivium hater post: 1.intro: d00d trivium is so gay!! 2.content: the singer sux ass!! and the guitar is so lame, and teh drummer blows donkey balls!! 3.climax: trivium is the gayeeeeest!!! 4.repeat one of the steps above: did i mention trivium is gay?? and the drummer sucks!! 5.grand finale: trivium blows donkey balls!!!!and thsi album sux so much!!!!fuck trivium poser wannabe spice girls!!!! 6.mention trivium being gay(one last time): trivium is so gay!!!!  no offences meantas for the album, i only heard anthem(we are the fire) and i think it's mediocre. i mean, if i listen to megadeth-tornado of souls, i'll remember it had a wonderful solo. if i listen to judas priest-all guns blazing, i'll remember that ear piercing falsetto at the beginning. but if i listen again to that track, i won't remember anything. simple as that! it's just some generic filler.
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| SteTech Posts: 576  |
I heard that Entrance song on the telly and it sounds pretty good (something which I'd hate to admit in reality), but the big turn-off for me is the hype surrounding them. I'll also admit Trivium are a talented bunch, it's just a real shame they just play a load of shite!
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| X-FrEaK Posts: 287  |
hum... maybe you should start giving a score to the albuns you review...just imo lol anyway this album is a lot better than the previous ones, however its not a great album, maybe 6.5/10
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| devildriver86 Posts: 23  |
ill admit i used to like Trivium i thought they had some talent Hefey could scream pretty decent i mean he was no Dez Fafara but he was alright and i heard this new CD and omg i fuckin hated it im a really big metal fan and i love bands like iron maiden judas priest metallica and the old bands and i heard this new CD and it was like a fuckin shitty ass Metallica remake i will admit but they did mediocre on the song Master of Puppets but stop there they ruined it for me i dont think i can even listen to them after this cd i give it a 2 at best bc its is very unoriginal
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| Darth Satanious Post Destroyer Posts: 2157  |
It comes to be surprisingly curious how a band that comes to be the mere shadow of Metallica can be this enjoyable. Yes, that big and great was Metallica. I have neither bought this album yet nor heard everything from it but what I have heard, a couple of songs, was pretty enjoyable. Yes, Trivium was never that original but Trivium does not come to be the only unoriginal band out there that people are worshipping. I believe that, as long as you realize how limited the greatness of Trivium can be for their lack of originality, there is no problem in enjoying their music.
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| Mega-Slayer Posts: 828  |
Jesus,why so harsh,this album is a marvelous masterpiece full of perfect musicianship and an all out great display of originality,not
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718  |
Written by [user id=18475] on 11.12.2006 at 10:05 Wow, looks like me and you are alone on this one, I absolutely love this album, and I hated Trivium with a passion before this came out, I mean i still vomit upon there first 2 albums but I was so pleasantly surprised with this one, its good.
---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin
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| Sunioj Posts: 3894  |
Written by Mega-Slayer on 13.12.2006 at 02:24 NO YOU ARE WRONG!!! THIS IS PURE BLACK METAL!! 
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| Mega-Slayer Posts: 828 |
Written by Sunioj on 25.01.2007 at 16:45 I second that!
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| Danny Thomas Posts: 552  |
haha everyone seems to hate trivium so much, mind you, i do understand why. the vocals on the first 2 albums didn't interest me, and therefore i don't listen to them. i, as much as i hate to admit on metalstorm, do like the new album. ok, yes trivium has more than just a tiny metallica influence, but it's actually a good listen, and to be honest, i love the vocals. you guys are to ruff on these guys. i wouldn't say they are one of the greatest bands of all time, because they most certainly are not, not even close, wouldn't even make my top 100, but i think the new album deserves at least a listen.
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718 |
Written by kaos666 on 11.12.2006 at 17:59 Who the hell dubbed them saviors of metal?
---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin
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