“In Waves” by Trivium

"In Waves" is the title track of Trivium's fifth album and the first taste of it, released as a single in May 2011 on Roadrunner, and it's the sound of a metalcore band deliberately shifting its weight. It was also the first Trivium single with Nick Augusto behind the drums, and it doesn't sound much like the singles that came before it.

The video, directed by Ramon Boutviseth, skips the usual performance footage entirely: the band wander a strange, swampy landscape across a stretched-out seven minutes, the opening chapter of a story that carries on into the next single, "Built to Fall". For those who wanted to see them actually play it, a live take from Chapman Studios came out alongside the rest of the album.

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