Trivium are just awful, there is no two ways about it. They started out as a generic metalcore band, and when they realised that they were they tried to jump on the thrash revival bandwagon as a Metallica rip off (right down to the singer trying to copy Hetfield's vocal ffs). As soon as they realised that wasnt working for them they crawled back to the metalcore world, where thankfully I havent really heard anything from them since.
There was a brief period as they went through the Metallica rip off phase that I thought they were going to be looked at as the leaders of their generation in metal. Then Machine Head released The Blackening and all was right in the world.
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