Trivium - Shogun

Damn it I like Trivium and with every long player there is a drastic change in the sound. They have found their way back to their old strength brilliantly, because the previous album «The Crusade» turned out to be a bit too good and the nice screaming singing and the aggressiveness were lost a bit too much, so exactly these elements were dug out again here for Shogun. A violent storm blows around your ears, which is absolutely tough and only subsides after a good hour.

All the songs on this disc are bursting with enormous power, which is rarely found in this form. The foursome has written a lot about an imaginative song creation, the singing was of course retained, but no longer dominates the action as much as it was on the previous album. Instead, Matthew often screams all anger out of his stomach and thunders it around the listener's ears with even greater force than is known from the early days. Musically, there was also a lot of tricks: The songs thrive on an ingenious alternation between driving guitars with clubbing drums and quiet, playful moments, most of which are adorned with a catchy chorus.

The pieces are relatively long, but at no time is there even a hint of boredom to be felt, since the music literally captivates you to the loudspeaker. The album combines the successful concept of its predecessor with the screams of the early days. The missing and criticized hardness of "The Crusade" is now omnipresent again and thunders out of the speakers! Splendid! All that remains is to say: you guys did everything right – keep it up! More!

Here is the current single, or rather the video for «Throes of Perdition»:

Trivium - Throes of Perdition [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

The song list for this hit album and the lyrics to "Throes of Perdition" are available after the click!

1. Kirisute Gomen
2. Torn Between Scylla And Charybdis
3. Down From The Sky
4. Into The Mouth Of Hell We March
5. Throes of Perdition
6. Insurrection
7. The calamity
8. He Who Spawned The Furies
9. Of Prometheus And The Crucifix
10. Like Callisto To A Star In Heaven
11. Shogun
12. Review by Swen Reuter

And as promised here the lyrics:

Blind-folded and gagged stood waiting
With the whole world my firing squad
At the edge of the world I'm faced out
Staring the sun right in the eye

Vultures circle above, hyenas mocking the kill
Cast drooling down their chins
Atop the cliffs I look down into the starving hell-mouth
The rabid foam crashes hard on it's teeth

Their mouths salivate
Fantasizing my gruesome ending
This world looks down upon
A man who can stand on his own two feet

As they feed their guns «ready aim»
They say I'll live if i die for their cause
Living under the rule of fellow cro-magnon fools
They are afraid to look out and stay still

Their mouths salivate
Fantasizing my gruesome ending
This world looks down upon
A man who can stand on his own two feet

Without eating from their claws

Life feels like hell should
This hell's so cold
Pull another knife out
Stick it with the rest of them
When my back is full
Turn me around to face it

Such melancholy burning the stars from skies
As we melt drowning inside their bloodied eyes
Hope is ravaged running from lacerations
So heavily we choke then we die….

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GUITAR SOLO

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Life feels like hell should
This hell's so cold
Pull another knife out
Stick it with the rest of them
When my back is full
Turn me around to face it

Sob so heavily we choke then we die ...