Anyone even remotely paying attention to 21st century metal surely knows Trivium's story at this point. Bursting onto the scene with instant classic 2005 breakthrough album Ascendancy, the Floridian metallers were heralded as the genre's next major festival headliners in waiting, a generational performance at Download that year seemingly earmarking them for greatness. An often surprising, sometimes confusing decade followed, peppered with some killer releases but also marked by divisive stylistic shifts and bizarre creative choices, making for something of a stuttering march on metal's upper echelons.
Eventually, Trivium found the consistency fans had been crying out for, putting together a string of records that firmly consolidated them as one of modern metal's greatest bands, a maturity and sense of identity seeing them embark on a remarkable creative purple patch that has yet to dry up. With all that in mind, here are Trivium's ten studio albums ranked in reverse order of greatness.
