Trivium Crusade CD

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 Don't listen to the negative reviews
Everyone who says Trivium blew it with the crusade is musically immature if they really think screaming makes music better. I know all of Triviums music and the crusade is better than ember to inferno by a million years , and pretty much as good/better than ascendancy. Get it right people singing is what people are supposed to do lol
Submitted by Bob (FL USA)
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 MASTERPIECE!!!!
I AGREE WITH BOB FROM FLORIDA! IT's GREAT CD and TERRIFIC BAND! Matt for President!!!!
Submitted by najponk (prague)
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 METALLICA LIVE THROUGH TRIVIUM
this is what a lot of guitarists and old style metal heads have been waiting for great song writing better than acendency and his singing make;s it a lot more 3d
Submitted by jeff (ballarat,victoria,australia) 
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 Bait & Switch...
For the short review... Would I buy this album again? Probably. It is ok. It has some really good guitar playing, some really good percussion, and a couple of nice heavy rhythm parts. Vocals are ok. For the long review... If you liked the first two albums, you will be very disappointed with this offering. I feel that the band has “matured” into mainstream mediocrity. Oh, I can see why. The style allows Heafy to showcase his talents a bit more, and hey, mainstream means more money, eh? “Ignition” and “To the Rats” still have a little of the old fire in them, but overall the music is uninspired and quite frankly they have lost the spark that made them unique. “Anthem” and the title track “Crusade” were especially mainstream and made me want to puke. I like metalcore. I like emotional, screaming, syncopated, gut wrenching music that makes you jump up and say “yeah!”. I would have given this album three stars, but I had to deduct a star for the direction the band is taking.
Submitted by Diamondfist (Seattle, WA USA) 
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 Not Life-Altering, But Not Bad At All
I've heard a lot of comparisons with Metallica at their peak, but I gotta say those are exaggerations. This reminds me more of the bands that tried to sound like Metallica at THEIR peak, particularly Act III-era Death Angel. Pretty much straight-up thrash metal, with some light Shadows Fall touches in some of the riffs. I really can't fault the MUSIC at all, because these guys can play their butts off. With thirteen full tracks and pretty much no letup, there are some fillers, but I suppose that's to be expected. The album only really falls short in the vocals and lyrics. I for one am glad to hear Matt Heafy has gotten over the awful, generic, metalcore hollering he was doing in the past (which is what kept me from really being interested in this band). The Hetfield comparisons are fair enough, but I also hear some Chuck Billy as well, and, unfortunately, a lot of the choruses have an anthemic, nu-metal quality to them, like a very heavy Disturbed or something. The lyrics are pretty much crap, from really stupid "crowd-pleaser" themes like "Anthem (We Are the Fire)" and 'The Rising" (although both songs are catchy as hell otherwise), to trite "political" rants that we've heard a million times by a million other bands, to "social commentary" that's way too topical. Heafy deserves some slack, since he's only 19 or 20, but this is stuff a high school kid would write after watching one newscast. A final note: this is NOT hair-band music, and you'd do well to ignore anyone who bandies that hackneyed term around too freely.
Submitted by Fizz (Delmarva) 
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