Desmond's Daily Offering - "Entrance of the Conflagration" by Trivium

When I first heard Trivium, I was instantly brought back to the day when I first discovered Thrash in the 8th Grade. Their earlier efforts rocked out, no doubt but they were still maturinig as a band and Matt was finding his voice. The music on their first two albums was killer but the lame "screamo" vocal garbage was just plain silly. They really came into their own on "The Crusade" album while at the same time, paying tribute to the glorious Masters of Thrash that came Years before.(Metallica, Testamanet, Exodus, etc). "Entrance of the Conflagration" is a song has it all....absolutely majestic riffery, Hetfieldesque vocal stylings and double bass madness.
\m/\m/\m/\m/\m/ A bit of back story on this amazing album......
In April 2006, after a headlining tour featuring Mendeed and God Forbid as openers, Trivium entered the studio with Suecof and Heafy producing again.The band played the Download Festival again, this time on the main stage with Korn and Metallica. Trivium released The Crusade in October 2006. Debuting at number 25 on the Billboard 200, the album sold over 32,000 copies in its first week of sales.The album was a critical success, with Andy Greene of Rolling Stone claiming "Nothing mars a good metal record like so-called harsh vocals" and Don Kaye of Blabbermouth.net stating The Crusade "is one of the best metal releases of 2006 and quite possibly the heavy music album of the year." On The Crusade, Heafy's vocals changed from a metalcore scream that was heard on Ascendancy, to more singing on this album. This new singing style, along with the band's thrash metal music were criticised of sounding too much like Metallica, who was a major influence on the band. Heafy commented on the change:

If anyone is wondering why the screaming is gone it's because the four of us were never into bands that scream and we don't like any of the current bands that scream, so we asked ourselves why we're doing it. This time around I wanted to be a better singer because that's what we wanted to hear, so we dropped the screaming and did a lot of vocal training and vocal work.
—Matt Heafy

The band supported the album by touring with Iron Maiden and Metallica, appearing on the Black Crusade tour with Machine Head, Arch Enemy, DragonForce and Shadows Fall, as well as headlining a European tour with supporting acts Annihilator and Sanctity and acquiring an opening slot on the Family Values Tour with Korn. Trivium was named the best live band of 2006 at the Metal Hammer Golden God Awards.