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Kerrang!Aug 24, 2011In Waves draws from the band's entire repertoire and shapes what it finds into a defining and definitive set. [6 Aug 2011, p.50]
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Q MagazineAug 22, 2011Blunt, focused and inventive, it's as near to classic metal as Trivium have been. [Sep 2011, p.110]
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Aug 22, 2011As intense and heavy as they try to be on each song, the heaviness loses its effect when every song prior to it wielded it just the same.
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Alternative PressAug 19, 2011In Waves hits some high notes with solo-heavy scorchers, but bury them seven tracks deep is as dumbfounding as their guitar work is breathtaking. [Sep 2011, p.120]
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UncutAug 18, 2011Chops-wise, all is unimpeachable--but one ends up craving novelty. [Sep 2011, p.98]
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Aug 17, 2011What's disheartening about In Waves is its lack of a clear identity; the band seem to be targeting too much at once.
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Aug 9, 2011In Waves is not Trivium's finest moment by any stretch of the imagination but it does point towards the band having found direction and its own voice for the first time in quite a while.
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Aug 9, 2011New drummer Nick Augusto seems to be pushing Trivium toward a choppier and at times more primal sound, but for a band that was recently poised to evolve into something more sumptuous and ambitious, In Waves is a return to form Trivium doesn't need.
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Aug 8, 2011Song after song whips by, wedding equal doses of neo-thrash aggression and accessibility, represented by frontman Matt Heafy's alternating clean and gruff vocals as well as his and fellow guitarist Corey Beaulieu's jagged staccato riffs and tight-knit harmonies.
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Aug 8, 2011The album's better songs – of which a towering Black and the inventive if not precisely brilliantly titled Capsize the Sea are just two – even hark back to the time when their creators sounded fresh and exciting.
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Aug 4, 2011In Waves is as overproduced and mercilessly polished as modern metal gets, and all the worse for it.
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Aug 4, 2011An inconsistent record with flashes of brilliance, In Waves should keep diehard Trivium fans happy.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 57 out of 64
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Mixed: 5 out of 64
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Negative: 2 out of 64
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