History YMMV / Trivium

* CommonKnowledge: Capharnaum is consistently touted as Matt's side project among many fans. Except it's not. They released their debut album in 1997, two years before the band was even formed, and not only was Matt was a fan of them before he joined, but he was brought in on vocals for ''Fractured'' extremely early in their career. This is evidenced by just about all reviews of the album dated at its release not even mentioning Matt by name, just referring to him as their new vocalist because it came out before ''Ascendancy'', therefore Trivium had yet to make a name for themselves, and the band was completely abandoned after with no activity since. Matt and Jason Suecof ''have'' apparently talked about doing another album at various points over the years, but their mutual lack of time has perpetually forced it onto the back burner.

* CommonKnowledge: Capharnaum is consistently touted as Matt's side project among many fans. Except it's not. They released their debut album in 1997, two years before the band was even formed, and not only was Matt was a fan of them before he joined, but he was brought in on vocals for ''Fractured'' extremely early in their career. This is evidenced by just about all reviews of the album dated at its release not even mentioning Matt by name, just referring to him as their new vocalist because it came out before ''Ascendancy'', therefore Trivium had yet to make a name for themselves, and the band was completely abandoned after with no activity since.

** The ending title track of ''The Crusade'', where there are, among other things, ridiculously arcane chords, tapping as an approach to riffing ([[RunningGag how did they make]] [[OverlyLongGag that work]]?), gleefully fucking around with tonality, and so many [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic epic]] Guitar Solos that one of them happens on top the loop of Paulo Gregoletto's Bass solo!

* SignatureSong: A roughly three-way split between "Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr", "Down from the Sky", and "In Waves".

* FaceOfTheBand: Not to the extent of, say, Dave Mustaine, but Matt Heafy certainly fits.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: Played completely straight in any song that's not about Heafy's social awareness (''The Crusade'') or vast knowledge of Greek Mythology (''Shogun''). It's pretty compelling: [[FaceoftheBand Heafy]]'s definitely not a bad lyricist.

* AudienceAlienatingEra: As time has gone on, ''Vengeance Falls'' and ''Silence in the Snow'' have come to be regarded as this, as the general consensus from fans seems to be that they were trying way too hard to have big radio hits at the expense of everything else, and wound up sounding like an extremely watered down version of themselves that focused on big choruses to the detriment of the rest of their sound. The band seems to agree with this, as "Strife" and "Until the World Goes Cold" have been the only consistent setlist entries from either of those albums since the latter half of 2017, with other songs only showing up on deep cut livestream sets. Depending on who you ask, this may extend to ''In Waves''; while it did give birth to several setlist staples and it has its fair share of fans, numerous people slammed it on release as an uninspired, watered-down album that tried too hard to be ''Ascendancy'' and failed completely, and is generally considered to be one of their weakest releases at this point in time.

** While ''Silence in the Snow'' has a polarizing reception from the fandom, they universally agree that this is where Matt had truly begun to better his singing voice. Compared to the previous albums, Matt offers a more operatic and commanding clean vocal style, allowing him to be much more distinctive in comparison to other vocalists in the {{Metalcore}} and similar 00s and 10s Metal bands. It helps that Matt received vocal training from [[Music/{{Disturbed}} David]] [[Music/{{Device}} Draiman]] since recording ''Vengeance Falls'', which explains a clear vocal difference between the two albums. Matt's improved vocals would persist in future Trivium albums, waving in very well with his harsh shouts and screams.

** The ending title track of ''The Crusade'', where there are, among other things, ridiculously arcane chords, tapping as an approach to riffing ([[RunningGag how did they make]] [[OverlyLongGag that work]]?), gleefully fucking around with tonality, and so many [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic epic]] Guitar Solos that one of them happens [[UpToEleven on top the loop of]] Paulo Gregoletto's Bass solo!

* DorkAge: As time has gone on, ''Vengeance Falls'' and ''Silence in the Snow'' have come to be regarded as this, as the general consensus from fans seems to be that they were trying way too hard to have big radio hits at the expense of everything else, and wound up sounding like an extremely watered down version of themselves that focused on big choruses to the detriment of the rest of their sound. The band seems to agree with this, as "Strife" and "Until the World Goes Cold" have been the only consistent setlist entries from either of those albums since the latter half of 2017, with other songs only showing up on deep cut livestream sets. Depending on who you ask, this may extend to ''In Waves''; while it did give birth to several setlist staples and it has its fair share of fans, numerous people slammed it on release as an uninspired, watered-down album that tried too hard to be ''Ascendancy'' and failed completely, and is generally considered to be one of their weakest releases at this point in time.