Fans of In Flames can give a try on this fifth studio album by Orlando, Florida’s Trivium. Formed in 1999, the band came out under the influence of Metallica to make it to the nowadays so-called metalcore which incorporated clean and screamo vocals, progressive and melodious heavy themes and death-like grindings. Boil in the proper proportion Metallica, In Flames, Machine Head and Iron Maiden in a music blender and the result should come pretty close to what’s on “In Waves”.
This merging of classic heavy constructions, thrash rawness, few death brutalities and powerful, clean vocals against screams and howls is still quite dynamic and Trivium managed to deliver a few extremely good themes and moments, still, this patters and schemes becomes so predictable that nothing can save it from itself.
Trivium announced they will support Dream Theater this September/October Across the US and actually there are a few moments of “In Waves” which bring some Dream Theater aromas to the surface. Trivium have groove metal – Pantera/Machine Head – like moments as well as metalcore urge and heavy/progressive constructions, smartly varied, organically connected elements, catchy breaks and killer shifts are perfectly incorporated in this harmonious metal hurricane and Trivium don’t let you a second chance to breathe.
Better than most of the other participants of this scene, delivering a few very good moments, “In Waves” is probably Trivium’s best release so far.
Still, metalcore, the so-called sub-gender itself is fucking boring and meaningless. It’s pretty strange how a music on high energy and intensity with this dynamics, still could be boring…
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Roadrunner Records
