"Malice Drips From All Your Holes" should be written into every divorce decree.

Dude, the phalanx was probably my favorite song off the album. The chorus alone gives me chills

Them: “What does trivium sound like?” This song: “yes”

The demo version was so good it needs to be uploaded seperately from the commentary !

Matt- "I sound so young." We all were back then Matt, we all were so young back then.

I love Matts pre-destroyed voice. Nothing against his current voice

Was not expecting to hear Torn as the second half of this. Glad that both Phalanx and Torn exist as their own songs as they are two of my favorites. Thanks for sharing this, Matt.

A special petition for Trivium to release this crazy ass demo of The Phalanx!!

So glad to hear this! Heafy’s gravely Shogun voice is unbeatable. Hope to hear the full Silence in the Snow demo someday.

Very good decision to hide The Phalanx in 2008 because it is not in the same frequency with Shogun. But it is absolutely very good decision to put in album of 2021... And I think it is big musicianship to wait 13-14 years to find right album to put it into. Thanks Trivium for this art.

Crazy to see how two different songs were born from this demo

I feel like they Should just put together all the scraps from this era and make an EP or something , all of it is gold from what i have heard

I like this Phalanx way more than final version.

BRO this chorus is 100x better!!! I wish you still sang it like this omg it makes the song so much better!!!

I love this. The re-write has done wonders for this song. The demo is fantastic, but I feel as it is, it would have been a little lost on Shogun. Holding it back, and developing it with the experience gained in the interim made it one of Trivium's absolute best songs.

Those lower screams are so good on this. Takes me back to shogun era

Would love the full Ascent of the Pheonix demo on KZfaq. That has Corey written all over it 😆

"Malice drips from all your holes" is the highlight of the song

If this is indeed the 2008 demo, I’ll be stoked! Fond memories graduating high school and attempting college while blasting Ascendancy and The Crusade. Would love to see this era (2003-2008) revisited more!

Paulo absolutely was correct to change the chorus. The current song is frankly fucking excellent. Its really cool to hear what it couldve sounded like in shogun though!

I'm still waiting to hear the unreleased track from the Making of Shogun videos. That shit sounds 🔥

Your "painful" voice as you call it is so fucking brutal. I love it!

Wow! So awesome to hear Matt's old vocal style on a "new" song! So COOL!!!!

*insert Leo pointing meme when the Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis section kicks in*

This and silence in the snow needs to be released

3:58 "MALICE DRIPS FROM ALL YOUR HOLES" Matt's a goddamn poet.

Man, this demo and the silence in the snow demo from the shogun era sound fuckin great!

When i first found out this song was written way back i was gutted that it had existed for so long and we hadn't heard it. Now im glad it took so long as it matured and ripened perfectly with age. The demo was good but i dont think it would have had the same impact back then. Now was definitely the best time to bring this one out. Only question is now, what other gems is Mr Heafy hiding

4:27 a reference to the song shogun? Similar to how they foreshadow the melody at start of kirisute

I really needed Matt Hetfield screaming the lyrics to my favorite song from ITCOTD! This demo is lit!

I wish these demos were released for some shogun special release. Would be cool to hear these songs properly, especially Phalanx and Silence in the snow without all the skipping and talking

It's interesting to see how the song developed. I'm glad it was kept for ITCOTD and re-hashed. It fits the theme of that album better. But fucking god does this demo still slap 🤘

i need this demo as a seperate version. it's really nice. this song in general is one of the best for sure.

Crazy to hear The Phalanx and Torn as the same song! Awesome hearing old demos like this from that era!

Matthew dude I’m listening to this at 6am at the beach in Hong Kong I love u man. It’s crazy. This shit is so good, I love young matt vocals.

Silence in the snow demo would be great too!🙂

One day there has to be a "Cleaning out the closet" type of album with all the songs we never got to hear!

I got to say, as a fan of Trivium when I was younger and having not been since in waves, the chorus in this version stands out, it's simple but the vocal melody is brilliant

I like both versions honestly. I’d love to have this version in iTunes though. I’m a big shogun fan though so that might be why I like this sound so much.

That was cool hearing Torn Between's middle section in there. It definitely fits better in Torn Between though

Commenting to echo the sentiments of the others. I NEED THIS DEMO RELEASED PLEASE. I love the chorus and well everything. Even the Torn Between bridge.

The weirdest thing is after the single was released and you spoke about it being a shogun leftover, I played Scylla right after because of the similar vibes (or maybe cuz scylla is my favorite off that album), not knowing that the two were one at the time.

Let’s vote!!! Release this version!!

Fascinating to see the man himself perplexed and amazed at his masterpiece while examining. What a legendary composer.

WE NEED SITS DEMO

So cool early versions of these songs! Thank you so much for sharing!

the phalanx just torned between scylla and charybdis

They improved the song a ton

You’re voice is butter. And this was demo back in 08? You guys are fucking LEGENDS! 🤘

as a long-time fan, I have to say it's super cool to see you reacting to old demos like this where even you don't know what's coming next. Also, I have to mention that's very admirable that you guys will sit on riffs and ideas for years until the time is right... you end up with 2 masterpieces instead of 1.

Really cool how you turned The Phalanx and scylla into different songs in totally different eras of Trivium, You guys are amazing🤘🤘🤘🤘

Damn, you guys wrote lot of music before releasing Shogun, Im so glad that you are bringing it back

Matt you gotta release some of these demos on an album please

love it but, I understand why the bridge is now Torn both sound great the way they ended up anyway.

The layered vocals at the end where you hold "heart" over the refrain gave me massive chills upon my first listen to this at release - it is an absolutely massive closer.

I was really wanting to hear this version, thanks dude!

We need this version!! It sounds fucking amazing!!

I just listened to this side by side with the ITCOD version and noticed that the vocal melody in the chorus from the demo is used in the orchestration during the chorus of the new version. Very interesting!

"Did I get the right lyrics" lmao

Living in hopes that Trivium one day release the demo versions from the archives. Day one buy as it is for all their albums so far. So glad we're getting to hear the demos after all this time rather than them never seeing the light of day.

Chorus was definitely improved

“Malice drips from all your holes” what dae fuk 💀💀

Incredible to hear this and compare it to the ITCOTD version. Both are phenomenal, and I love how you all have evolved as individuals and together as a band. Makes me wonder what other tracks there may be archived away that we haven't heard yet. 😉

I love hearing this stuff. Behind the scenes stuff and tour stories and things are intriguing to me. This song is my favorite on the record and to hear that it was conceptualized so long ago is cool.

Holy smoke!! Such an evolution!!! Love you guys!!!

Totally love this! One of my favorite eras of Trivium the Shogun days!

Came across this today. This was so awesome to hear.

This was an interesting experience. No wonder I love The Phalanx so much, it was written between The Crusade and Shogun. This was quite the ride! Thank you for sharing!

BRUH this sounds raw as fuck in the E TUNING. AHHHHHH

It's always so cool hearing these demos. Honestly, I think it would be amazing if you did Ascent of the Phoenix and OG Silence in the Snow as bonus tracks or something.

This is awesome. You have great Vocal on this

I feel it's really weird that the Phalanx was held back so long. At the same time, I'm really glad that we basically got 2 Shogun albums now.

Même la demo de 2008 est vraiment superbe ! Un vrai plaisir à écouter 🤘

It is incredible how the sound of the song was in the times of shogun and it is interesting and I think that either you are matt, or with the band launch online not an album, but a list of what they were the demos, songs and projects or ideas that did not come to light on the albums

Even though I always loved the band since maybe 2005, post 2012 was the era that I really follow and got really into the stuff of Trivium. And this album is by far my favorite. Maybe this is why.

That's wild. My favorite song on the new album was a demo mixed with the first song I ever heard by Trivium on pandora radio back in 2010. Love it

I would pay money for this

Demos are always fun to listen to

We need this demo version Matt!

Interesting to hear this after the current version. I like both, but I think the current one is more epic.

When hearing the ablum promo, I was wondering which song took a piece from this song back then and shelved this one until now. Really cool to hear this early version; you guys made the right choice, in my opinion. I think the piece taken goes well in that song, and the new version of this one shows their growth as a band. It's also great to hear how much Matt's voice has improved, from all the hard work he's done. Like back then, he was fine, but he's gained so much power and control. Fun stuff to experience!

love the song Matt it helps my mind set..keep rocking on you beautyfull person your music helped me out in dark times and i Thank you Matt and your band mates

Please upload the demo on Spotify I love it so much!

Cool! It has parts of other Shogun songs on it. I would love to see a full version of "Ascent of the Pheonix".

It’s so awesome to hear this. How did you sit on this song for almost 15 years? It’s incredible.

Τhis demo explains PERFECTLY why I felt in love in first sight with this song.

I'd love to see an album with all the unreleased Demos, they sound so good

I need this on mp3 or streaming platforms. Yo Matt Heafy; TAKE MY MONEY!

Damn, I love this aggresive harsh vocals

Wow. Two of my favourite tracks combined lol. I'm sure if this was back on Shogun, I would have lost my shit to this. But you know what, fair play on holding off until now. The Phalanx as it was finally released sounds epic, and It sounds great with your new and improved vocal skills. In its current version, it has a Power Metal sort of feel which I don't think you'd have pulled off back then and that fresh Power Metal sound is what makes this song stand out. The ultimate lesson though, never completely throw away old ideas. It may just be that it's meant to be saved until the right time.

The Phalanx was incredible, but I could have used ONE more chorus. Shit was off the chain. Great album. I always look forward to ya'll's releases.

Chorus on both songs sound so good but I'm so happy you decided to rewrite the song

2007?? I wonder if this was the song in the background of the Shogun documentary that seemed impossible to ever find lol

I like both choruses. And with torn it makes this version nuts! 🦾🦾🦾

I would absolutely love an upload of just the demo, as well as a rerecorded version... I love the new version of the song but that old chorus just hits different.

Man this is so badass

Ah yes, the slowed down dyers eve riff sounds heavy

Please Matt, recording this varsion. Is so fucking crazy

This is honestly one of my favorite Trivium songs It's great to see it's Shogun roots

Matt we need this