In Waves

Trivium hit its peak in 2005 with, aptly enough, Ascendancy, an album that helped prove metalcore had at least a few legit bones in its body. After 2008’s unfocused Shogun, the group is claiming that its new album, In Waves, is a return to Ascendancy’s laser-guided cohesion. And that claim is mostly true. But for a…

By and large, the heavy metal community can be counted on to listen with open ears and form individual, unbiased opinions, but some prejudices still run deep, and the members of Trivium have been on the receiving end of several of these throughout their career.

TRIVIUM set the bar pretty high for themselves with 2008's "Shogun". While the band's success elicited several obligatory "sell-out" chants, the album itself packed enough punch to knock the wind out of any argument stating the Floridians had gone soft. An aggressive performance coupled with bold so...

Trivium's fifth release is the kind of heavy-rotation schlock that clogs up the darker reaches of rock music cable channels, writes <strong>Jamie Thomson</strong>