What the Dead Men Say

Released in 2020, What the Dead Men Say is Trivium's ninth studio album and serves as a definitive synthesis of their career-long experimentation. Following the critical success of The Sin and the Sentence, this record doubles down on the 'everything-at-once' approach, blending technical death metal elements, thrash speed, and melodic metalcore. Recorded at Full Sail University, the album features the second appearance of drummer Alex Bent, whose technicality significantly elevated the band's rhythmic complexity. Critics, including those at AllMusic, noted the album's ability to sound both familiar to long-time fans and fresh within the modern metal landscape. It is often cited for its seamless integration of disparate metal subgenres, moving from the groove-heavy 'Bleed Into Me' to the near-black-metal intensity of 'Amongst the Shadows & The Stones' without losing its cohesive, polished identity.