Fifteen years ago last month, Trivium released Ascendancy: the album sent them skyrocketing onto the main stage at Download and onto the cover of Kerrang! magazine, standing with a guitar aflame, heralded as ‘The Hottest Metal Band Of The Century’. Since then, though, it’s fair to say that the Floridian metallers have had a bumpy ride. In the records that followed their sensational breakthrough, there has been an overarching sense of a band unsure of themselves. Ignore the patchy-at-best The Crusade from 2006 and Trivium have been on a journey of discovery, showing glimmers of genuine innovation and exploration throughout their back catalogue, but with 2017’s The Sin And The Sentence they finally managed to find their footing. And now, on What The Dead Men Say, their vision of being one of...
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