Trivium's new album debuts in Top 25

The Sin and the Sentence, the new album from Floridian metal act Trivium, has debuted at No. 23 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of roughly 16,000 copies in the United States. This marks the band's sixth consecutive album to debut in the Top 25 on the aforementioned chart. The Sin and the Sentence also debuted at No. 7 on the Top Album Sales chart, No. 1 on the Hard Rock Albums chart, and No. 3 on the Rock Albums chart. Trivium's previous record, 2015's Silence in the Snow, sold 17,000 copies in its first week and bowed at No. 19 on the Billboard 200. Before that, their Vengeance Falls album (2013) debuted at No. 15 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 15,000. In 2011, Trivium released In Waves, which sold 22,000 copies in its first week and landed at No. 13 on the Billboard 200. Going back further, the band's 2008 album, Shogun, debuted at No. 23 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 24,000. Trivium's biggest sales debut came in 2006, when The Crusade sold nearly 32,000 copies in its first week, good enough for a No. 25 spot on the Billboard 200. Trivium made their first Billboard 200 appearance in 2005, when their Ascendancy album peaked at No. 151.