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

This song starts like a bullet to the head: pure fire and speed. Track four on What the Dead Men Say, Amongst the Shadows and the Stones is the album’s first pure speed and rage banger, almost breathtaking in the way it hits you at the start. Matt Heafy's growled vocals are venomous but still perfectly tread the line between heaviness and built for singalongs.

Amongst the Shadows and the Stones manages to combine every era of the band’s discography into a vicious package that sounds uniquely Trivium and like the best of modern metal. It’s thrashy with dual guitar solos and intense riffs, whenever you think it has finished pummelling you, it snaps back relentlessly and just as hard. However nothing quite compares to the enjoyment of when the song first starts, it’s pure fury.

The repeated phrase throughout is "Bloodied corpses, broken bones reveal" which is hard as hell before bursting into a chorus all about dying beaten for a cause which may be for nothing at all. This one's pure metal.