Review by Marcus Stalmer (original review date: 4-13-05)
This band is pretty badass. I don’t like the kind of music they are classified as but I like them and that says a lot. The first time I heard this album I was with my good buddy Alan. Alan is really into the Nu-Metal and crap like that so we were listening to the song “Pull Harder” and he started to turn all red and shit and he said he felt like his skin was on fire. I was worried that he might go into shock and I did actually doubt this band’s ability to raise motherfuckers from the dead like Senses Fail so I told him that we needed to get to a shower or bathtub – stat. He said he felt as if he were about to burst into flames and I started to worry about spontaneous human combustion and types of shit like that. Alan always drives quicker when the music is rocking him harder and the only way to rock him harder was to crank the fuck out of the volume. So I did. We pulled into the parking lot of a YWCA and ran in to the building. My shower/bathtub idea saved the day. So then we decided to pull a joke on some of our cock rocker friends and we played it for them. At first they were all about it but then they felt the fire too. They sort of freaked out so I told them to get in the shower and they were fine but that didn’t stop me from blasting Trivium even louder. You should’ve seen the fear in Trey’s eyes, it rocked.
-Mark
