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100
Pure, unadulterated metal, this is gargantuan music for the biggest of all stages.
100
In The Court Of The Dragon is as bold and creative as it is fearlessly experimental.
90
In terms of a band playing contemporary, modern heavy metal, Trivium have been the best for some time. They still are, and In The Court Of The Dragon is a fucking awesome heavy metal album.
90
In The Court Of The Dragon is well-written, well-executed, and a bold new step in the Trivium world.
85
The speed with which this record was put together, irrespective of circumstance, points to a laudable, collective drive to keep creating.
80
Taken together, this makes for one of 2021’s most compelling pure metal releases, and gives its makers reason to feel proud of their craft.
80
As a whole, In the Court of the Dragon stands with Trivium's best work. It offers a classic meld of melodic thrash/metalcore and tech death in a sound as enormous as it is ambitious and diverse, making for wonderfully produced, flawlessly composed songs. All killer, no filler.
76
Against all odds (preconceptions mostly), In The Court Of The Dragon is a surprising “return to form” for a group who stayed familiar, but struggled with finding their own identity.
Trivium's magnum opus?
The american metalcore band "trivium" have been on a great form in the last few years but although releasing two successful and acceptable albums since 2017 (what the dead men say and the sin and the sentence) and receiving positive responses from the fans and critics, but there was still a lot of problmes. The albums weren't really groundbreaking or surprising, they were just good and that's it. There were even some filler tracks in both of the albums. Also ... read more
More of the same generic, derivative, boring, mediocre, limp and uninspired Metalcore from a generic, derivative, boring, mediocre, limp and uninspired band.
Pretty solid effort from these guys, I still think they can do better though. However, these songs are amazing live
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Track List
| 1 | X 1:27 | 75 |
| 2 | In The Court Of The Dragon 5:09 | 89 |
| 3 | Like A Sword Over Damocles 5:30 | 84 |
| 4 | Feast Of Fire 4:18 | 85 |
| 5 | A Crisis Of Revelation 5:35 | 81 |
| 6 | The Shadow Of The Abattoir 7:11 | 89 |
| 7 | No Way Back Just Through 3:53 | 77 |
| 8 | Fall Into Your Hands 7:45 | 86 |
| 9 | From Dawn To Decadence 4:08 | 79 |
| 10 | The Phalanx 7:15 | 86 |
Total Length: 52 minutes
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5mo
''Great instrumentation but it's not original at all so 50/100'' y'all are so fucking stupid and will never even get close to make a decent album...
1y
I haven’t even listened to this album but that “not a masterpiece” tag has me cackling XD
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Added on: August 15, 2021