Trivium - What The Dead Men Say Review: Every Song Ranked Worst To Best

The closing track on What the Dead Men Say is the perfect theatrical counterpart to IX and the band leave you on an epic. Heafy sounds passionate and the band are firing with such intent that you’ll do two things when the album finishes: Go “PWOAAAR” and immediately press play again.

What the Dead Men Say ending on a song as epic as this will secure its namesake. If IX is an example of what’s to come, The Ones We Leave Behind is a medley of what’s past, all the catchiness, giddy fun, and guitar playing excellence runs rampant here.

The Ones We Leave Behind is an extremely fun send off to an excellent album and as it fades out, you’ll be left festering for more and reminded of how brilliant an achievement What the Dead Men Say is.

You can’t close off such an epic album without a theatrical masterclass in metal songwriting like this.