Ascendancy (2005) is an album by the band Trivium. It was released on March 15, 2005 through Roadrunner Records. The album was produced by Jason Suecof and vocalist/guitarist Matt Heafy. The album spawned four singles in "Like Light to the Flies," "Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr," "A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation" and "Dying in Your Arms." Music videos for each of the songs were shot; a promotional video was filmed for the song "Rain."
A demo of the song "The Deceived" was included on the re-release of Trivium's debut album Ember to Inferno nearly a year before Ascendancy was released. Likewise, a demo version of "Like Light to the Flies" was included on the MTV compilation album Headbangers Ball Volume 2.
International versions of the album featured "Washing Away Me in the Tides" as a bonus track; the song was later included on the Underworld: Evolution (2006) soundtrack.