New Trivium Music Worse than Old Trivium Music. I know right?

I hate the Florida metalcore band Trivium like it's my job. It kind of is my job, but that's not really the point. They are 16-year-old girl wearing a hoodie metal to a tee. One thing I'll admit though, is that I never had anything against the band member's musical prowess. Matt Heafy knows how to play a guitar, has always had his own unique-ish style of playing, and it always sort of depressed me that he used his powers for evil, or in this case, using his respectable metal chops to play butt rock music, instead of something that any of us could admit enjoying. 

So we know that Trivium had been working hard, (or whatever you call it) on their latest album in the studio, and it's at this point that I'd like to make a confession. When I take into consideration bands like Trivium, Bullet for My Valentine, Avenged Sevenfold, Killswitch Engage, Newtallica, and the like, I fully recognize their abilities as hard rock musicians, misled they may be, and for a reason I can't explain, I always hold out this tiny speck of hope that they might figure out what heavy metal is supposed to sound like and release an album that doesn't suck complete fart clouds musically. Alas, that never really happens, and with each album they release, that speck of hope gets a lot less brighter.

The Jeep Wrangler drivers called. They want their haircut back.

The members of Trivium just dropped a squat and shat all over what little ray of hope they ever could have had here in the metal community where we recognize what music is respectable. This sucks. This actually sucks worse than anything I've heard from Trivium before. There isn't a chalk board or series of chalk boards large enough to write out a proper formula that could properly define the magnitude of how much this song "In Waves" infinitely blows monkey wang. If you played riffs like this in Guitar Center people would laugh at you. The guitar solos are whammy-bar or wah pedal dependent and incredibly uninspiring. The chorus is yelling two words over and over again. At least I think that's the chorus? Is that the verse? Or is the cliche clean-crooning the chorus? I don't even...

I hate this song more the longer I listen to it. It actually sucks in waves. Disrespect this band hard, or don't bother coming back.