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It aint emo at all.
Emo is more about heartbreak.
It's more in the vein of Meatloaf or Bon Jovi lyrics.
A good positive hard rocking love song! 8)
Power ballads FTW!
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Rolling Stone review:
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/...reviews_rssfeed
Nothing mars a good metal record like so-called harsh vocals, which is a nice way of referring to the booming, incoherent growling style so many metal groups who grew up listening to nasty stuff from Florida or Scandinavia use today. Matt Heafy, lead vocalist of the Orlando, Florida, thrash-metal quartet Trivium, fell into that trap on their first two records -- but for their new politically charged album, The Crusade, he's tossed the bark aside in favor of his actual voice. The change makes all the difference, even if he now sounds so much like his hero James Hetfield it's distracting. The rest of Trivium also sound like they've been listening to Cliff Burton-era Metallica on nonstop shuffle, but somehow they never come off as a cheap knockoff. Trivium's songs are mostly taken straight from the headlines -- though their newspaper must be late, because some of the stories are at least five years old. "Entrance of the Conflagration" is about Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in 2001, and "Contempt Breeds Contamination" is about the 1999 killing of Amadou Diallo by the NYPD. Still, when Heafy and Co. rip into Bush and Co. for their Iraq fuck-up on biting speed-metal tracks like "Ignition" and "Detonation," they seem like one of the few contemporary metal bands that matter.
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 Haha, what a load of bollocks. The majority of music/film/theatre/etc.. critics talk shit most of the time. Only very few can produce good reviews with a good amount of knowledge to back it up.
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Pretty good review as far as Rolling Stone is concerned, though I could care less what the rag prints to be honest.
Anyways, I'd this album is my favorite of the year; and probably my favorite since I picked up Anthrax's "We've Come For You All," so this is like my favorite album in the past three years or something like that.
Ah, but then there is Maiden's new one. Hmmmm. Close, but I'll give Triv's latest the nod.
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From what i heard off the new album doesn't sound that great, i'm not dissing the album or nothing, i'm still going to pick it up and still expecting it to be a kick ass album, but when i first heard Ascendancy i was blown away, i just don't like the vocal style that Matt is going for now, i do like the guitar work, that hasn't changed, still fucking sweet but yea i can't say anything until i pick up this album
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well that's weird, because the vocals are much, much better.
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Review from one of the bigger music sites on the net www.allmusic.com
**** out of *****
QUOTEIn listening to Trivium's The Crusade for the first time, it's remarkable that this is the same band that recorded Ember to Inferno a scant three years ago. While last year's Ascendancy hinted at what was to come, it still doesn't prepare the listener properly. The former thrash metal band from Ember to Inferno disappeared, was covered over by this insanely talented quintet whose members could be 20-years-olds. They play an aggressive form of syncopated, intense progressive metal. With vocalist/guitarist Matt Heafy and drummer Travis Smith are guitarist Corey Beaulieu and bassist Paolo Gregoletto, who should be ready for the world stage at this point, and clue in those who think is speed metal is some passé form of rock music. Check the twin guitars in "Detonation" as Trivium weave dynamic, melodic passages around a crunching riff. Or the vocal chorus that opens "Entrance of the Conflagration," before it erupts into kick drum-driven mayhem without ever delving into cliché. Sure, early Metallica were an influence on Trivium (the Metallica who released Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets, not the current incarnation who left those guys in the dust to become a respectable rock band). This is not to say that thrash doesn't have its place in the mix — check "To the Rats." Never has a drummer sounded so crisp and so completely in control of the beat than Smith does here. The quick yet devastatingly tasty guitar riffs that Heafy and Beaulieu concoct are creative, knotty and canny. Other notable cuts on this fine outing are "Becoming the Dragon," "The Rising," and the eight-plus-minute title cut that closes the set.Let's face it, though it's made and listened to primarily by the young, as a genre, metal has grown up and become far more sophisticated than it's given credit for. If anything, it's the only place in rock & roll music where innovation and creativity are flourishing because other than electricity and volume, there are no rules; the musicianship is top-notch, the writing gets better all the time, and production techniques are not the focus, music is. Trivium's The Crusade is a perfect example of what's possible. Along with other American bands like Mastodon and Slayer — and an entire slew of groups from their home state of Florida — are redefining the genre.
Hopefully I can find and buy the album today. 8)
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