Current location:	kuwait
Current mood:	good
Current music:	Trivium: Detonation

Detonation
So I downloaded the first track released off of Trvium's new album. And i got to say it's pretty good....for the most part.

First of all, it starts off pretty fucking heavy. With a very death metal like riff (minus the blast beats). The guitars are great as always..although i was kind of disapointed with the solo. But whatever it's no big deal. Riffs are improved over the first album. They're no longer rehashed as much and reused as much. Production is good on everything, but i believe that the copy i got (even though it was sent to me through Roadrunner) was kinda shitty...there is an excess of bass.

Drums are also good. Some minimal blast beats at one point...the usual fast double bass patterns.

Vocals. They were both good and bad. During the first half of the song Matt Heafy tries to impersonate James Hetfield so much. I don't know it just doesn't cut it for me. He should just do his own thing instead of trying so hard to be "thrash metal".
His vocals get better during the second half after the interlude. Heafy should just stick to doing clean vocals cause apparently thats what he's good at.



EDIT: Alrite i take it back. It's a great song. Especially after the half time mark. It becomes fucking awesome and melodic and very..er...Trivium-ish. I just wish he wouldnt do the gay Metallica vocals.

I also paid attention to the Bass prodution, and it's great. Very audible. Paolo plays some great riffs and shredding on bass which is very cool.