| The Crusade | ||||
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| Studio album by Trivium | ||||
| Released | October 10, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | Audio Hammer Studios | |||
| Genre | Thrash metal, heavy metal | |||
| Length | 57:35 70:30 (Bonus Disc) |
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| Label | Roadrunner | |||
| Producer | Trivium, Jason Suecof | |||
| Trivium chronology | ||||
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| Singles from The Crusade | ||||
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The Crusade is the third album by metal band Trivium. Released on October 10, 2006 through Roadrunner Records. It is considered a drastic change from their previous album Ascendancy by some critics. The album was produced by Jason Suecof and mixed by Colin Richardson.
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Before the album was released, three songs from the album were released on the band's MySpace: "Detonation", "Anthem (We Are the Fire)", and "Entrance of the Conflagration". Music videos for "Entrance of the Conflagration", "Anthem (We Are the Fire)", "The Rising", "To the Rats", and "Becoming the Dragon" were produced and released on Roadrunner's website.[1]
In the United Kingdom, the album was released on October 9, and was certified silver in for sales in excess of 60,000 copies. The album peaked at number 7 in the UK and at number 25 on the U.S. Billboard 200.
The track "Detonation" is available on the Xbox 360 release of the video game Guitar Hero II as downloadable content while the track "Anthem (We Are the Fire)" is featured on Saints Row 2.
The album represents a drastic change in style from their previous album, Ascendancy, adopting a mostly thrash metal sound, and having metalcore elements such as breakdowns and screamed vocals kept to a very small minimum. This had Heafy using a clean vocal style similar to James Hetfield throughout most of the record. Heafy justified this by noting that "the four of us were never into bands that scream and we don't like any of the current bands that scream, so we asked ourselves why we're doing it."[2] However, screamed vocals and breakdowns would return as a regular attribute on the band's proceeding album, Shogun.
Lyrical themes on the album include famous killings. "Entrance of the Conflagration" is about Andrea Yates's murder of her five children, "Unrepentant" is about Nazir Ahmad's murder of his three daughters and stepdaughter, "Contempt Breeds Contamination" is about the death of Amadou Diallo, and "And Sadness Will Sear" is based upon the murder of Matthew Shepard.[3]
All lyrics written by Matt Heafy.
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
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| 1. | "Ignition" | Heafy | 3:54 |
| 2. | "Detonation" | Heafy | 4:28 |
| 3. | "Entrance of the Conflagration" | Heafy | 4:35 |
| 4. | "Anthem (We Are the Fire)" | Heafy, Paolo Gregoletto | 4:03 |
| 5. | "Unrepentant" | Corey Beaulieu | 4:51 |
| 6. | "And Sadness Will Sear" | Heafy | 3:34 |
| 7. | "Becoming the Dragon" | Heafy | 4:43 |
| 8. | "To the Rats" | Gregoletto | 3:42 |
| 9. | "This World Can't Tear Us Apart" | Heafy | 3:30 |
| 10. | "Tread the Floods" | Beaulieu | 3:33 |
| 11. | "Contempt Breeds Contamination" | Heafy | 4:28 |
| 12. | "The Rising" | Gregoletto | 3:45 |
| 13. | "The Crusade" (Instrumental) | Heafy | 8:19 |
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Total length:
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57:35 | ||
| iTunes and "Anthem (We Are the Fire)" single bonus tracks | |||||||||
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| 14. | "Broken One" | 5:50 | |||||||
| 15. | "Vengeance" | 3:38 | |||||||
| Chart (2006) | Peak position |
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| US Billboard 200 | 25 |
| Australia ARIA Albums Chart | 14 |
| Austrian Albums Chart | 44 |
| Canadian Albums Chart | 23 |
| Dutch Albums Chart | 64 |
| French Albums Chart | 115 |
| German Albums Chart | 23 |
| Irish Albums Chart | 12 |
| Italian Albums Chart | 86 |
| Japanese Oricon Albums Chart | 46 |
| Norwegian Albums Chart | 61 |
| Swedish Albums Chart | 41 |
| Swiss Albums Chart | 92 |
| UK Albums Chart | 7 |
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