"The End of Everything"

When I bought Trivium's Ascendancy album in a local record store (the CD in the upper-right corner within the photo), I wasn't expecting to hear the first track (called The End of Everything) at all. While I do have the album in my iPod, I've been scouring the earth for this album as well as their debut album, From Ember to Inferno, to complete my Trivium collection. Now that I have Ascendancy, From Ember to Inferno is left, but it'll be that much more difficult to find. Anyhow, the reason I never heard the intro track until now was that I never had that song in my iPod in the first place! My younger brother, who had given me a digital copy of this LP years ago, never gave me that song. Maybe he forgot or thought he included it in the digital copy, who knows. So for the past 5 years or so since I've been listening to this LP, I always though Rain (the second track) was the first. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that that wasn't the case.  As I'm sure you've heard it already, the intro track is moody, foreboding, but immensly enticing. I'm really glad to have found out that this is the first song in the LP, since it leads into a perfect buildup into Rain.