Trivium/YMMV

• Broken Base: The Crusade caused this to happen.
• Contested Sequel: The Crusade, and to a smaller extent, Shogun
• Even Better Sequel:Ascendancy
• Crowning Moment of Awesome / Crowning Music of Awesome: The band has a number of moments lyrically and musically that just take things to the apex. Of course, then they do it again.
  • The first is "Pull Harder On The Strings of Your Martyr", where the supposed fascist that is being killed asks "Oh god why?!" to which our hero replies "'Cause I'm god, that's fucking why!" (Badass Boast, much?) Combining Wish Fulfillment with being the human embodiment of Laser-Guided Karma so you can Justifiably Do Evil Unto Evil? Awesome. Oh, and did I mention that this is followed by a ridiculously awesome Solo by Producer Jason Suecof?
  • Then there's the middle section riff of "Ascendancy" which is a full eight bars and filled with ridiculous accurate guitar technique and a mixed lead/rhythm approach.
  • Then we have "A Gunshot To The Head of Trepidation", which follows it's Breakdown-as-Verse-Riff (how did they make that work?) with this chorus: "A gunshot/ to the head of trepidation/ my promise/ if you ever lay a finger!"
  • Far too many moments on The Crusade to list, but this troper think the one that tops everything album is the ending title track, where there are, among other things, ridiculously arcane chords, tapping as an approach to riffing(how did they make that work?), gleefully fucking around with tonality, and so many epic Guitar Solos that one of them happens on top the loop of Paulo Gregoletto's Bass solo!
• Memetic Mutation / Mondegreen: BOAT! RUDDER! STRANGE! MOUNTAIN!
• Painful Rhyme: See A God Am I.
• True Art Is Angsty: Played completely straight in any song that's not about Heafy's social awareness (The Crusade) or vast knowledge of Greek Mythology (Shogun). It's pretty compelling: Heafy's definitely not a bad lyricist.