10 Heavy Metal Albums By Bands Thought Past Their Prime

Trivium's early promise brought great expectations for the Florida natives, with their 2005 sophomore 'Ascendancy' impressing critics, and bringing a fresh excitement to the metalcore scene of the time. 2008 album 'Shogun' then repaired the damage to their reputation caused by 2006's 'The Crusade', and also saw the band touted as future Download headliners.

However, missteps and misfortune would soon curse the band, reducing them to levels initially thought to be inescapable.

The one-two of the over-polished, David Draiman-produced 'Vengeance Falls' in 2013 was followed the pseudo-sequel to the aforementioned 'The Crusade' in 2015's 'Silence in the Snow', which saw an exclusively clean vocal approach from frontman Matt Heafy due to a vocal injury he sustained in the run-up to the album's composition. The goodwill and sympathies Trivium had built up over the years had largely deteriorated, and the lads were in no man's land.

Que the introduction of former-Battle Cross and Brain Drill drummer Alex Bent in 2016, who would give Trivium the shot in the arm (and kick up the arse) they so desperately needed. Fortunes almost immediately turned around, with a new thrashy, progressive metal vein coursing through the band's sound, starting with 2017’s ‘The Sin and the Sentence’ and still going strong with 2021’s ‘In the Court of the Dragon’.