The latest is In The Court of the Dragon. Alex is really awesome, and admitted drum nerd, he loves to watch old jazz and rock drummers and how they do things. ITCOTD is a real throwback album, very much like a modern Ascendancy.
Alex just flat out destroys. I've seen Trivium live twice since he's been their drummer & both times he just blew me away. Their music has been great for a long time, but he took it to another level on the last 3 albums (and counting).
He quickly became one of my favorite drummers when he joined this band. When you go back to his old days of playing you can understand how he's so incredible.
Everything they've done since Alex joined has been amazing, from The Sin And The Sentence to In The Court Of The Dragon is solid gold. I think it would be amazing to see Alex covering Austin Archey from Lorna Shore, and vice versa, hell we could throw in Aaron from Infant Annihilator, all three are masters of their craft respectively, the only thing that could make this cooler would be throwing in Danny Carey and Mario from Gojira, maybe get them all on Drumeo! That would be sick! Shit, I forgot about Brann from Mastodon and Mike Portnoy, I probably need to wrap this comment up before I end up writing a complete novel!
Alex Bent is a badass. And great reaction this was of The Sin and The Sentence. The next album was What The Dead Men say and In The Court of The Dragon. Which is their best album since The Sin And The Sentence. But In the Court of The Dragon is more Old School Trivium style/heavier.
No need to make a video about it, but you should listen to the song "The Sin and the Sentence" from same named album. Legends say that, that was one take from Alex.
I know for sure Alex did a drum playthrough for The Catastrophist in one take, with no metronome or backing track. He was absolutely on time with the song.
You really need to check his Sever the Hand playthrough. People obsess over this song and Betrayer probably cause they're 2 of the most popular songs on the album. Instrumentally Sever the Hand is the best song on this album
I like that one in particular and the amount of ride cymbal hits he does on one part is insane.. it sounds like anywhere between 3 or 4 to 6 hits as he's doing them other hits on the Tom's and snare with the other hand lol.. it's early I'm waking up so I might have made no sense 😴
@ivesyned708 basically yeah, it's once the singing is stopped and it's all instrumental at that point for a bit.. drummer just goes crazy on the ride lol definitely has good limb independence for sure
