Ascendancy [EXPLICIT LYRICS] [EXTRA TRACKS] [SPECIAL EDITION]

Trivium

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 9, 2006)
• Original Release Date: May 9, 2006
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Explicit Lyrics, Extra tracks, Special Edition
• Label: Roadrunner Records
• ASIN: B000F8DSSI
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #121,530 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. End of Everything

2. Rain

3. Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr

4. Drowned and Torn Asunder

5. Ascendancy

6. Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation

7. Like Light to the Flies

8. Dying in Your Arms

9. Deceived

10. Suffocating Sight

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Like Light to the Flies [DVD]

2. Pull Harder on the Strings of the Martyr [DVD]

3. Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation [DVD]

4. Rain [DVD]

5. Dying in Your Arms [DVD]

6. Rain [DVD][Live]

7. Dying in Your Arms [DVD][Live]

8. Like Light to the Flies [DVD][Live]

9. Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation [DVD][Live]

10. Pull Harder on the Strings of the Martyr [DVD][Live]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Awesome package, but falls short in some areas, May 28, 2006

By	Michael D. Ropp - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought Ascendancy the day it came out, and I love it, it quickly became one of my favorite cds. A little while later I got the privelage of being an extra in the music video for A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation, so of course, when a special addition cd came out with the music video I had to have it. I have to agree with the other reviewers in the fact that the new songs are AWESOME, especially Blinding Tears Will Break the Skies, and the Master of Puppets cover was amazingly done. I felt like the radio version of Dying in Your Arms was not needed, especially since very little on it changed. I liked the piano intro, but I hate it when bands do radio edit for their songs and cut out the screaming. If I heard the song on the radio and loved it for being metal without screaming, I would be totally pissed off after buying the cd. They should have totally redone the song or done nothing at all, it was a great song to begin with.
Onto the DVD, the music videos for the most part were great. I wasn't a huge fan of the Rain video or the Dying in Your Arms video because they seemed pretty rushed and sloppily put together to me. The other videos were awesome, with great lighting and great shots put in, and some sort of a theme. The two mentioned above seemed they shot a video of the band playing the song live and matched up the audio when they could and then put in random shots between them. It also seemed like the cameras were cheap cam-corder things.
Now the live show. I don't even know where to begin with how disappointed I was with the live show. I honestly can not figure out why the band would have released this show on DVD for any of their fans to hear. Matt Heafy is an amazing vocalist and both guitarists are awesome.....on cd. Matt was having lots of trouble hitting the notes in some of the songs, and a few of the lead parts on guitar were played out of key by Corey. There are also lots of background vocals by Paulo, who obviously did not sing the parts on the cd because he sounds totally off. The songs are played pretty much in double time which is awesome becuase it would be really hard to play Triviums songs at the speed they were recorded at, but it also seems kind of sloppy. If the band wanted the songs to be that fast, they should have recorded them that fast.
In conclusion, if you want to buy a Trivium cd, get this version. The entire cd is amazing and it's worth getting the limited edition for the music videos and the bonus songs, however, if it bothers you when bands can't really pull off their own songs live, you may want to just never watch the concert section.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good...Very Good...But..., November 16, 2006

By	J. Arnold (Michigan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an awsome package...the full-length CD plus bonus tracks and a DVD with all their videos? Live performances? What the hell...What Trivium fan couldn't LOVE this?
All the songs are awsome, Ascendancy, A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation....basically all the songs are awsome. I especially like the cover of Master of Puppets. Just awsome.
The DVD is good, but video version of "Like Light to Flies" was disappointing. It lacked the feeling and power that it had in the studio recording. I don't know why they did it differently, but in any case, it didn't turn out good. At least, thats my opinion. The live performances aren't that great either. The songs are awsome, no doubt, but the sound mixing in that building was horrible. You couldn't hear the "crack" of the snare very well, and the bass-drum wasn't very prodominate, like it should have been. The vocals could have been better amplified, as well. Not to mention they seem a little sloppy, not as tight as they should have/could have been. But I'm picky. GOOD BUY, nevertheless. IF YOU LIKE TRIVIUM, DEFINITLY GET THIS.

5.0 out of 5 stars HELL YEAH!, August 12, 2008

By	Brusso Magallanes "This and that" (California) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In another review i said i hated trivium not just their new stuff but even this.Man i was wrong trivium's first two albums are awesome,this is the closest i come to trash metal only if it's brutal,heavy and has the screams.And in this one they also used melodic death metal and sounds nothing like dumb metallica and it's just heavy,I probably started to hate trivium just cause i saw matt heafy performing with korn(which made me mad)but at least they are half rock,BUT SCREW NU METAL WHICH IS NOT EVEN METAL.And also cause they stop the screams and heavy sounds and went all trash.If you want some heavy metal and by heavy metal i mean HEAVY stuff and not trash boring stuff then you need to get this,a mix of metalcore,your trash,and melodic death metal if you say they don't have it then you're not listening well cause this is heavy and they were also influenced by the great in flames,the melodic death metal inventors.I don't care what people say about metalcore i mean why is it so bad?it's heavy and brutal just like the other great metal genre's,death,grindcore,and all that stuff.Almost every metalcore band out there where influenced by death metal and trivium is one of them even though they sound like metallica today,BUT the good news is they said they are bringing back the screams in the new album i just really hope it sounds like ascendancy and ember to infermo GOOD FOR THEM!