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| Shogun(Special Edition CD/DVD) | 
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| Artist: Trivium
Label: Roadrunner Records
Category: Music
List Price: $21.98
Buy New: $15.23
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 18114
Format: Special Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 016861798581
EAN: 0016861798581
ASIN: B001E1GXPA
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Kirisute Gomen | | • | Torn Between Scylla And Charybdis | | • | Down From The Sky | | • | Insurrection | | • | Into The Mouth Of Hell We March | | • | Throes Of Perdition | | • | He Who Spawned The Furies | | • | Of Prometheus And The Crucifix | | • | The Calamity | | • | Like Callisto To A Star In Heaven | | • | Shogun | | • | Poison, The Knife Or The Noose(bonus track) | | • | Upon The Shores(bonus track) | | • | Iron Maiden(bonus track) |
Disc 2
| • | Making Of Shogun | | • | How To Play Songs From Shogun |
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Product Description
Trivium stormed onto the metal scene in 2005 with their critically acclaimed debut album Ascendency and continued their dominance with the follow-up The Crusade. Now the band has unleashed their most cohesive and mature effort, Shogun. The band is poised to continue to knock the metal and hard rock community on its ass with what will definitely be hailed as the metal album of the year by critics and fans alike! This Special Edition includes three bonus tracks and a DVD with a 45-minute making of the album documentary as well as 'how to play' clips teaching fans how to play songs from the new album on guitar and bass.
Album Description
There's no such thing as a band born to greatness. To succeed in the world of music there's a whole energy-sapping storm of hard work to plough through. Florida's Trivium has surely earned the major contender status that has been afforded them by the international media. Trivium's sophomore release (and Roadrunner debut) Ascendancy (now certified Gold in the U.K.) made them a hit with discerning music fans everywhere, The album garnered a large number of frothing, ultra-positive reviews throughout the music press around the world, including Metal Hammer, Rock Sound and Kerrang , who declared Ascendancy album of the year. Trivium soon graced the covers of a lot of these magazines and picked up a fistful of coveted awards, including 'Best International Newcomer' at the 2005 Kerrang! Awards ceremony and several Metal Hammer Golden God statuettes. 2006's follow-up, The Crusade was a faithful account of a great young band's swift and bewildering evolution, from up-and-comer to world-beating behemoth, and delivered their first UK Top 10 album. More touring followed - first on a gargantuan Arena tour with their Metal heroes Iron Maiden and then a sold-out UK headlining tour that culminated at London's infamous Hammersmith Apollo. 2008 sees Trivium change it up yet again on 'Shogun', choosing not to record in the familiar environs of their home state of Florida. Instead the band headed to Nashville, Tennessee to work with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Foo Fighters, Stone Sour). The result is a monolithic album that crystallizes the band's sound and showcases Trivium's finest elements. Vocalist/guitarist Matt Heafy is thrilled with the album, saying, "We made a cohesive, epic metal album that combines all of the ingredients of everything we feel we have ever done 'right' musically, while adding a new direction that the music called for. We had so much fun creating this album and hope our fans feel that energy when they listen." Even Slayer's Kerry King, an undisputed heavy metal god, expressed excitement about touring with the band this fall on the "Unholy Alliance: Chapter 3" European tour. He commented to the UK's Total Guitar magazine, "I'll be at the side of the stage watching them. Great players like that make us want to do better." Looks like the metal community is waiting with baited breath for Shogun.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
The Special Edition isn't that Special, but the music is still phenomenal! October 1, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
First off, I chose to buy this edition for the three bonus tracks which I don't particularly find to be all that special. To add to that the DVD itself it very lame and I feel that it is set out to appeal mostly to juveniles. Half way through the DVD I literally got up out of my chair and went and washed my pile of dirty dishes. That's how boring it was to me.
With these complaints put out there now I will have to say that "Shogun" is an amazing album and is perhaps the best Trivium have put out thus far. The melodies are catchy, the riffs are brutal, and Matt Heafy has one of the best voices out there in the current era of Metal music (minus the John Pettibone style screams that he has started to use). Shogun is a 5 star album in my opinion so I recommend buying the regular version rather than this one, but of course the choice is yours, so buy which ever version you want. I honestly wish I had saved the six dollars and had just ordered the other one. Hope this is helpful!
 Awesome! October 2, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This album is excellent. They take the best of Ascendancy and The Crusade and combine them to produce there best album yet! The DVD has the making of the album along with instructions on how to do the riffs on the songs. I would have liked some music videos or some live performances on the DVD but I gotta say, I love this album and honestly think that the quality you get is fantastic. My fav metal album this year.
 big disappointment October 7, 2008
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
I was so looking forward to this release and I am just as depressed.
If you are fan of a vocalist who screams, no need to read any further.
I have always liked the music of Trivium, but the vocals on the earlier albums made them unlistenable. The Crusade was such a big step forward and one of my favorite metal albums. I had hoped they would continue with that trend ala A7X and BFMV - bands that used to scream and not sing.
Sadly, Trivium has gone the other way and now screams more than sings.
Fell free to buy my copy off of Amazon.
By far the best CD of the Year (2008) December 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to say, I thought that with their earlier CD 'The Crusade' Trivium had sort of lost a little of their power and awe inspiring drive that was so evident in 'Ascendancy'. But with 'Shogun' Trivium have served up a combination of both earlier works and engineered the most mind blowing masterpiece i have heard in a long time.
If their was ever a CD that has created such a phenomenal comeback, it has to be Shogun. I honestly can't stop listening to it. Mat's vocals are so powerful, the lyrics and the singing are by far the biggest hit with me. Not just that though. These riffs that Trivium have created just blow the mind - Kirisute Gomen - unbeatable!! Trivium have also created this air of mystique on Shogun that is so very rare in music these days.
I have to say, i was pleasantly suprised, and so glad i was blown away when i bought this CD. You will be too. A perfect 10/10.
One of the Best Metal Albums of 2008 October 5, 2008
Personally, I gotta give it to these guys: this album really kicks balls and was well worth the wait. Literally from start to finish a killer modern metal album. I purchased release day and it's been spinning ever since. These guys are truly underrated and this stuff is deeper and more technical than they're given credit for. It's definitely an upgrade compared to "FROM EMBER TO INFERNO" (meh) , "ASCENDANCY" (which I really dug) and "THE CRUSADE" (which was ok), much darker and more epic.
If you're a fan of they're older material you'll absolutely love this one. As Heafy himself said, "SHOGUN is the past, present, and future of TRIVIUM". Pick it up!!!
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