Track Listing

1. Cut Down All The Trees and Name The Streets After Them
2. The Dark Trail
3. Quarter Past
4. Problem!?
5. Semi-Fiction
6. Oh, The Casino!
7. Sledgehammer
8. Seattlantis
9. Ex-Creations
10. Shhh!!! If You're Quiet I'll Show You a Dinosaur
11. Caught Up
12. A Man. A Plan. A Canal. Panama.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25755 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-01
• Number of discs: 2

About the Artist
There comes a time in every artists' life when the present becomes the past and the future begins to take shape. For The Fall of Troy, that moment is eternal.

For the last four years, the ever-progressive band from the suburbs of Seattle have been leading the campaign to push beyond all boundaries and extend their musical prowess into another realm. At 17-years old, the band released (and sold) a thousand copies of The Fall of Troy, a 10-song album that rapidly made the rounds on the internet, garnering an immeasurable number of awestruck fans. By 19, the now seasoned musicians released a more accurate portrayal of their skill in the form of Doppelganger, a pristine recording that was overflowing with vocal and instrumental hooks and went on to sell over 45,000 copies.

Now with all three members at the tender age of 21, The Fall of Troy's new album, Manipulator, is their future. Having built upon the band's reputation for lightning fast guitar riffs, raw screams, catchy choruses, and a volatile rhythm section, Manipulator finds The Fall of Troy combining metal with progressive, rock with blues, and past with present to once again push themselves beyond. The heavy parts are heavier, the poppy parts are poppier, and the overall dynamics make the album impossible to classify.

Join The Fall of Troy on their journey. Manipulator is here.

Customer Reviews

Killer is all i can say
This album is a killer album. The fall of troy is one of the best bands to come out in a long time. Between Thomas Erak's psychopathic vocals and guitar playing to Andrew Forsman's tight yet insane drumming you can hear why many people claim this bands is extremly talented. But there strength is in the amazing song they write.

I will Review mt Favorite song on the album

Dark Trail- This song to me is the fall of troy's strongest song. It features different styles of Thomas Erak's voice and guitar work with some sick drums to go along.

Quarter Past- This song has a very bluesy vibe to it and show Thomas Erak's more melodic vocals which are very killer

Ex-Creations- This song has a vibe more like an older The Fall Of Troy song. This is one of the heaviest song on the album and one of the best.

A Man. A Plan. A Canal. Panama- The 8 minute epic that ends the album i mean its 8 minute need i say more.

Fall of Troy = Manic goodness
The Fall of Troy's third release, is right where I'd expect them to be: a little bit older, but they haven't lost the edge, and the music structure I guess represents what it's like to have ADD. I see this band, and this release as being not very accessible, perhaps because of its strange manic style. By manic I mean there are extreme moods being represented,and visceral energy. In a recent interview guitar/vox Tom Erak stated that when writing this album it was during a dark period for him, which is manifested in Manipulator. The guitar once again is awesome, the vocals alternate between clean singing, to shrieks, screams, and some growls. You could hardly call these songs boring, even if it's not as intense as their first and second (more similar to the latter). Some of the songs are even catchy, in their own strange way.

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If you're looking for prog emo by all means look to these guys rather than Coheed And Cambria. Prog has never been known for catchy memorable melodies, and unlike Coheed's records you won't find many on this one, rather an amorphous glut of frequent erratic stops and starts, vocals that are completely indebted to New Found Glory and Glassjaw rather than bringing anything new to the table, and a muddy guitar tone that works against their playing style. Good complex songwriting should have a solid base and then add the experimental toppings but it seems like these guys can only do one or the other at a time. In those moments where they stand still long enough to lock into a groove it becomes apparent how conventional their compositional instincts are so I suppose it's just as well that they stick to the technical showboating and juvenile experimentalism.