Blog author: Alex Stojanovic Wow, where has the time gone? I cannot believe it's already been 10 years since Trivium's The Crusade was released. I just turned 24 but I'm feeling old, haha. I first discovered Trivium in August 2006 just weeks prior to the release of the album. In between the time I got into metal in 2004 and when I discovered Trivium, I never got into the screaming metalcore vocals, but hearing Trivium changed |
something in my brain about screaming vocals. I'm not even sure what it was, but I do know that I really dug Matt Heafy's melodic voice. "Drowned & Torn Asunder" from Ascendancy was my gateway Trivium song and I loved what I heard, but it wasn't until I heard The Crusade that I transformed into a die-hard Trivium fan and had to hear the rest of their songs.
September 2006, I started my freshman year of high school and I remember I would constantly watch Trivium music videos on YouTube and the Roadrunner Records website in computer class instead of doing the assignments. Come on, we've all done it. I bought The Crusade soon after it came out and it did not leave my CD walkman for weeks. I would always listen to it on my lunch breaks. There's not one clunker to be found on the record, but some of my favourite tracks are "Ignition", "Entrance Of The Conflagration", "Anthem (We Are The Fire)", "To The Rats", "Tread The Floods", "This World Can't Tear Us Apart" and "The Rising". I really hope that Trivium will start incorporating some more deep cuts from The Crusade into the set on future tours.
The thrashier direction the band took on The Crusade may have turned off a lot of fans from Ascendancy and split the fanbase a bit, but the success of the record turned the band into a headlining act in North America, got them the main support slot on Iron Maiden's European tour in 2006 and got them to the point where they could headline 3,000 to 5,000-seater venues in the U.K, including the Hammersmith Apollo in London.
To this day, The Crusade remains one of the most important records to me because it set me on my journey to discover the rest of the metal world and made me become the metalhead I am today.
September 2006, I started my freshman year of high school and I remember I would constantly watch Trivium music videos on YouTube and the Roadrunner Records website in computer class instead of doing the assignments. Come on, we've all done it. I bought The Crusade soon after it came out and it did not leave my CD walkman for weeks. I would always listen to it on my lunch breaks. There's not one clunker to be found on the record, but some of my favourite tracks are "Ignition", "Entrance Of The Conflagration", "Anthem (We Are The Fire)", "To The Rats", "Tread The Floods", "This World Can't Tear Us Apart" and "The Rising". I really hope that Trivium will start incorporating some more deep cuts from The Crusade into the set on future tours.
The thrashier direction the band took on The Crusade may have turned off a lot of fans from Ascendancy and split the fanbase a bit, but the success of the record turned the band into a headlining act in North America, got them the main support slot on Iron Maiden's European tour in 2006 and got them to the point where they could headline 3,000 to 5,000-seater venues in the U.K, including the Hammersmith Apollo in London.
To this day, The Crusade remains one of the most important records to me because it set me on my journey to discover the rest of the metal world and made me become the metalhead I am today.