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DARK SECRETS: Ascendancy - The Real Truth

Rate my music taste: these are my five favourite metalcore albums ever

I think these are the greatest metalcore albums ever. Agree with me?

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Sleep Token cameo, Black Sabbath jam, a surprise Robb Flynn...I think I might have just watched Trivium play their greatest festival set ever. Yep, even better than THAT Download one

Self-proclaimed "kings of metal" Trivium set an impossibly high bar headlining Friday night of Bloodstock Open Air 2025

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Hear Trivium return with Ascendancy-coded new single Bury Me With My Screams

The Florida metal mavens headline Bloodstock festival on Friday and will release a new EP, Struck Dead, on October 31

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“Every time you post a snippet or a clip or some kind of teaser, it makes people more mad”: Trivium to release much-hyped new song in early August

Guitarist Corey Beaulieu says the track has the “spirit” of the band’s 2005 breakthrough album, Ascendancy

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"The time is right for us to divert our full attention towards the next chapter of Bullet For My Valentine." Matt Tuck explains why the Poisoned Ascendancy tour is ending and Matt Heafy urges everyone to calm down

Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium take to social media to clear up any misunderstandings

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"People characterised both of our bands as being arrogant and cocky." How Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium helped revitalise metal in 2005

How Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine ushered in metal's next generation

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Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine promised “the metal tour of 2025” – and The Poisoned Ascendancy may well have delivered

Playing their classic 2005 albums at the O2 in London, the metalcore icons indulge everyone’s nostalgia while proving themselves as arena headliners

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"No one else is making contemporary heavy metal on their level." Every Trivium album ranked from worst to best

Rating the storied career of one of modern metal's most important bands as they head out on tour to celebrate 20 years of Ascendancy

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“This song is nuts! It’s a very violent, angry call for being a champion of all who deserve it”: Matt Heafy on the classic Trivium song inspired by Muse

How a sci-fi obsessed British rock group influenced a key track on Trivium’s breakthrough Ascendancy album

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Feel old yet? These classic metal albums turn 20 in 2025

Trivium’s Ascendancy, Bullet For My Valentine’s The Poison and Avenged Sevenfold’s City Of Evil are 20 years old now, and your knees aren’t what they used to be

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“I knew The Poison was going to be massive!” Metal Hammer releases exclusive Trivium x Bullet For My Valentine bundle – featuring a t-shirt you can’t get anywhere else!

Get the newest Metal Hammer with an exclusive cover and brand-new t-shirt, just in time for Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine’s mammoth Poisoned Ascendancy world tour

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“David Draiman wanted to help us make the best music we could. He didn’t ask us to write The Sickness!”: Why Trivium enlisted some superstar help to make Vengeance Falls

Trivium’s career has been a whirlwind of highs and lows – but with 2013’s Vengeance Falls, they finally learned to follow their own instincts...

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Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine announce extra Ascendancy / The Poison 2025 tour dates, plus stellar support act

The metalcore heroes will be playing their classic albums in full to mark their 20th anniversaries

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“It’s heavy, it’s dynamic, it’s technical!” We got Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine to name the best song on each other’s classic 2005 album

Ahead of their Poisoned Ascendancy co-headliner, we asked Trivium to pick the best song on The Poison and Bullet For My Valentine to choose their favourite Ascendancy track

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Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine clear Instagram profiles, post Ascendancy and The Poison album covers – are they teasing something special?

Two of metalcore’s leading lights have posted their classic 2005 albums on social media, and we think something’s up

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Grand Admiral Thrawn is being set up as the big bad in the Ahsoka series. Who is he and what does he want? Here’s a quick rundown of his story so far.

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