Trivium "Silence In The Snow"

Silence in the Snow is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Trivium. It was released on October 2, 2015. It is the first and only album to feature third drummer Mat Madiro, who joined the band in May 2014 and before he had departed from the band in December 2015. It is the band's only album to date to not feature any harsh vocals. Michael "Elvis" Baskette was hired as the producer whom the band had met while recording In Waves album back in 2011.

The band premiered "Silence in the Snow" and "Blind Leading the Blind" on their headlining performance on Bloodstock Open Air. "Blind Leading the Blind" was later released as a single on YouTube August 13, 2015. On August 21, 2015 a music video was released on YouTube for "Blind Leading the Blind".

The third single "Until the World Goes Cold" premiered on Octane on August 26, 2015. The music video premiered on YouTube the day after. The single landed on No. 10 at Top 10 Active rock chart in February 2016, making it first ever Trivium single in the Top 10.

On September 25, 2015, a week prior the worldwide release, the entire album (including two bonus tracks) was officially streamed on Octane. Heafy, Beaulieu and Gregoletto were also participating in the radio program, breaking down the meaning of songs and commenting on the songwriting process.

The fourth single "Dead and Gone" was released with its music video on March 10, 2016.

Guitarist Corey Beaulieu cites Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio as the main influences for the album, as well as touring experience with Heaven & Hell back in 2007. He said the title song was written during Shogun sessions but was eventually cut from the final release, as the band thought it did not fit "Shogun's sound."

During the album's making, vocalist Matt Heafy worked with vocal coach Ron Anderson in order to improve his voice which he blew in 2014. The result of his training is a more melodic, clean singing style, making Silence in the Snow the first Trivium album not to feature any kind of unclean vocals at all.

Silence in the Snow marks the return of 7-string guitars, which have been previously used in The Crusade and Shogun.


AllMusic says that with Silence in the Snow, Trivium has completed their move towards arena rock, that they used the "building blocks of metal" to create a more popular sound.

Thou Shalt Suffer "Somnium"

This is a completely symphonic album created by Ihsahn alone. It is very different to the Death metal of Into the Woods of Belial.

Here follows the real tracklisting of the album, which contains 11 items. As there are only 10 tracks on the record, it's unclear how the actual tracklisting goes.

Solum visio perfecto est
Solum somnium completum est
Solum haec visio potest mihi dare
Absolutam commoventem suavitatem
Solum hoc somnium est verum mihi
Non possum vivere ante
Meum somnium esse veritatem
Solum tunc possum vivere
Vivam in somnio
Vivam in meo somnio
Numquam peribo

Recorded and mixed sporadically at Symphonique Studio between 1993-1999.
Mastered at Strype Audio 1/12/1999.
Released February 28th, 2000.

Thou Shalt Suffer "Into The Woods Of Belial"

Thou Shalt Suffer were a band that was part of the early Norwegian black metal scene. It formed in 1990 at Akkerhaugen, Norway, under the name "Dark Device". Its style was mainly death metal, though it included some black metal traits, alongside Ihsahn's trademark keyboard melodies. The band split up in late 1991 when its members formed Emperor and Ildjarn.

In 2000, Ihsahn used the name Thou Shalt Suffer for his solo project. That year he released Somnium, an album of ambient songs influenced by medieval music.

Into The Woods Of Belial is a compilation album, released November 28th, 1997.

Tracks 1-5: Into the Woods of Belial- Demo tape.
Tracks 6-7: Open the Mysteries of Your Creation- 7ep.
Tracks 8-12: 1991 rehearsal

Reissued in 2004 with altered cover art.

Vinyl released by The Crypt in August 2012 in 3 colors, each limited to 222 units makes a total of 666 copies and re-mastered by Dan Lowndes
The 2-LP contains the same tracks as the CD and as bonus alternate versions of:

Succumb to Vestigia Terrent

Painful Void of Time

Tracks 1 to 5 were originally planned to be released as a limited edition "Into The Woods Of Belial" MLP, that never happened. It was put out as a demo.
Tracks 6 & 7 are ’Open The Mysteries Of Your Creation’ 7" EP (released in a limited edition of 1100 copies by the Mexican label Distorted Harmony Records).

Tracks 8 to 12 are dug up recordings.