Trivium Deep Dive — “Ascendancy”

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Today I am looking forward to listen and write about Trivium’s second studio album “Ascendancy”! This album was released March 15, 2005. It features their singles “Like Light to the Flies”, “Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr”, “A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation” and also “Dying in Your Arms”. Another cool thing is that the rerelease of this album includes their cover of “Master of Puppets” by Metallica.

The album “Ascendancy” starts off the song “The End of Everything” which is a nice piano and acoustic guitar instrumental track. This transitions into the song “Rain” which has crushing riffs and a lot of angsty lyrics. It is pretty evident that the production quality improved dramatically from the first album. Really, everything improved dramatically. Toward the end of “Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr” there is some gnarly shredding, and that same pattern also happens on “Drowned and Torn Asunder” as well.

One of the songs that gets stuck in my head the most from this album is the title track: “Ascendancy”. The lyrics are absolutely beautiful, and the screaming really just heightens the emotions behind the words. “You only held me down from what I was supposed to be / Ascend above the ashes of the world I once knew / Ascendancy is the only thing this will prove”. I really…