Trivium Frontman Speaks On New Material
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Orlando metallers TRIVIUM are currently in pre-production for their new album, tentatively due before the end of the year via Roadrunner Records. The as-yet-untitled CD will be produced by Nick Raskulinecz, who has previously worked with FOO FIGHTERS, RUSH, VELVET REVOLVER, SHADOWS FALL, STONE SOUR and DEATH ANGEL, among others. Guitarist/vocalist Matt Heafy writes in an online posting, "20 songs recorded: 20. 20!!! We've NEVER recorded this many songs for an album ever 20!!! I mean hot damn! And these are all DEMOS. These have been the most extensive demos we have ever done, before we'd merely just do a quick demo of the songs we were to record for the upcoming album. This time we wrote it, re-wrote it, worked and arranged, recorded and re-recorded so it's gonna be good. Next step is for me to write the lyrics and vocals for the latest batch of 10 songs, record those then we'll have our producer come down and we will work out the kinks of all 20 tracks and wittle them down and pick the absolute best songs for the new album. Then? Actually do it. Haha. We're so happy with the new material. It's our strongest material to date; it encompasses everything that is TRIVIUM to the four of us and to our fans."
In a recent interview with Revolver magazine, TRIVIUM guitarist Corey Beaulieu stated about the upcoming CD, "We want to capture the best ingredients of everything we've done. Each song has a little bit of everything, going between something heavy and then melodic, and then back to something heavy. So it has a really interesting balance. On 'The Crusade', Matt did almost all singing, so this time we're bringing back some of the screaming that's on 'Ascendancy'."
"I'm also trying new things vocally," Heafy added. "Live, I've been able to really push the high vocal part of my range in the style of Rob Halford. So maybe I'll put some of that on the album."
Source: Blabbermouth
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119 Comments on "Trivium Frontman Speaks On New Material"
6. writes:
Matt Heafy says: "Live, I've been able to really push the high vocal part of my range in the style of Rob Halford",
f*** THAT sh**!!!!!!!
Hey Matt, when I saw you on tour with Lamb Of God, your vocals sucked a$$ okay, you can barely impersonate James Hetfield's vocal style. What the f*** makes you think you could do the high screams of the Halford? Your such a joke man, you suck and your band sucks, get over yourself.
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yeah Matt, there's no way you can sing like that, shut the f*** up
7. writes:
What Brutality? These guys never were "Brutal" They're first couple albums sound like every mainstream metalcore band out there, and The Crusade is a bad tribute to a style that went out years ago. I'll agree that they butchered the Thrash era in a Brutal way though, but face it, these guys aren't very good.
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10. writes:
"As to all the haters, I guess your bands are doing well? Selling lots of records? Packing venuse around the world?"
and i guess our bands also aren't pelted with bottles of piss and a mockery in the true metal world.
so take your pick. personally, i'd rather have the respect of the underground than be playing to 20,000 disgruntled fans patiently waiting for the headliner.
11. writes:
Agnostic Preist!! Who the f*** are u kid, shut the f*** with your dumb rant, i dont see your twelve year old a$$ singing. I dont even like Trivium, and i mean i dont like them at all. Maybe you should worry about going thru puberty first, you b****. Now i stooped to your retarded level and started judging people.
14. writes:
Andrew I was refering to Trivium going back to a heavier Metalcore sound being a positive. I loved Ascendency for what it was an outstsanding uniuque reocrd the fusied agression with melody. if i want brutal i listen to behemoth, see you next tuesday, beneath the massacre, heaven shall burn, or countless others.
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17. writes:
Wow...
You people still enjoy calling people names?
Well, When you get passed elemetary school, You'll find that there's a lot more to the metal than you could ever imagine. (hopefully)
And Terminator,
Sorry, But it's people like you that do nothing positive for the world of metal. Not Trivium.
18. writes:
Trivium wouldn't have done anything positive for metal even if The Crusade was a good album. It would still just be a tribute album to the thrash era that died in the mid/late 80's.
And Dark, See You Next Tuesday is a grind/spaz band but their name is such so they can abbreviate it C U N T.
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20. writes:
Bands like See You Next Tuesday aren't brutal. They're fvcking schizophrenic and illogical. All Shall Perish, the Faceless, Dying Fetus, Becoming the Archetype, Between the Buried and Me, As Blood Runs Black, and countless others are brutal and they understand how to put a song together. Playing a bunch of random sh1t and screeching and growling doesn't make you brutal, it makes you immature and pointless. Putting everything together in a concise pattern that flows logically is brutal.
22. writes:
Note: I said if it was a good album.
Warbringer's not bad, but their particular brand of thrash is missing something that Slayer and Metallica had at the height of their melt your face thrash days.
And by definition brutal means savagely violent and in reference to music, its referring to the speed of the music and density of the riffs. Brutal means different things for different people. C.U.N.T. is one of those bands who you know you can't take seriously (because of song names like "Good Christians don't get jiggy with it till after Marriage") but if you can enjoy their lack of any sense then go ahead and enjoy it.
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26. writes:
hetfield -- here's what i do that's positive for metal:
1. i listen to it.
2. i go to shows whenever possible - and i go to watch the bands, not karate kick like an idiot who's only there to "mosh".
3. i buy band merchandise (i.e. music/apparel/patches/posters/etc). even though the label probably gets the bulk of the sales, it's one step closer to getting a band that i like another record deal.
so on the contrary, it is people like me that have helped keep the underground and metal in general alive.
if trivium were a true tribute band, they would only play covers. instead, they are blatently ripping off iron maiden, metallica, judas priest etc. all while jumping from trend to trend. trivium are ignorant posers, and that isnt positive.
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29. writes:
Terminator quotes:
"As to all the haters, I guess your bands are doing well? Selling lots of records? Packing venues around the world?"
Terminator says:
"and i guess our bands also aren't pelted with bottles of piss and a mockery in the true metal world.
so take your pick. personally, i'd rather have the respect of the underground than be playing to 20,000 disgruntled fans patiently waiting for the headliner."
People who urinate in beer bottles are worthless and even more so if they throw it at someone. Common sense.* News Flash * ANY musician trying to reach an audience is trying to be recognized in one form or another. Everyone is trying to hit the "mainstream", that's how you make a living. Ask an honest musician their objective and that's what they'll tell you. Sure The Crusade was Metallica-ish and I didn't even give it a chance. But their album "From Ember To Inferno" is terrific. Besides everyone is influenced by someone, every band has influences. Give it up.
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30. writes:
trivium arent metal! Terminator owns this thread
sorry i just make assumptions when i see a band name like that, especially since i hate bands like "the devil wears prada" and "i killed the prom queen"
see where im coming from?
oh and matt queefy wears tight pants, so..GAY
tight pants arent metal, not wearing pants is!
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32. writes:
of course every band has their influences but trivium is just shaming their influences when they should be revered.
people who piss in beer bottles then throw them at sh**ty bands arent worthless, they're funny. i wish there were some people like that at sounds of the underground 2 years ago. god trivium were so bad, and paolo cant sing, why do they make him do backing vocals when its obviously heafy tripling over his vocals on cd
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34. writes:
DeathInEye: "Putting everything together in a concise pattern that flows logically is brutal."
BULLsh**!!!!
Bands that put together insane rhythms, off the wall song structures and barely stay within the boundaries of music can be, and often are, more metal than the acts that follow the template.
By your logic Hannah Montana is brutal. She has concise songs that flow logically does she not?....Safe is SO metal....Christ.
Anyway...
Trivium as great or metal....Not so much.
If your green to metal then they're a a good bet in terms of new/younger bands. More metal than Korn, less nasal and dry-heave inducing than A7X. They have their heart in the right place, the lyrics are just bland and/or infantile.
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35. writes:
Fallen, you are an idiot! "Everyone is trying to hit the "mainstream", that's how you make a living. Ask an honest musician their objective and that's what they'll tell you." Are you from planet Earth? Any honest musician will tell you that when he honestly want's your money and alot of the times their music is not even worth the price of an album!! Furthermore there are plenty of musicians that just want to jam and make music because that is what makes them happy. My father is a fine example of that. He rocks and could have a band if he wanted to, but does not want to.
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40. writes:
Nihilistic does not describe me. I don't have to prove myself to anyone. How can you measure someone's strength/convictions by reading a handful of posts?
At The Gates, Pantera, In Flames, Dark Tranquility, Decapitated, 1349, Lamb Of God, Amon Amarth, Through The Eyes Of The Dead, Despised Icon, Animosity, Between The Buried And Me, Emperor, etc, etc, etc....
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41. writes:
lol FocusShift
thanks for the support guys and kalis. \m/ \m/
fallen -- meh, whatever. i think you need to take off the boxing gloves and loosen up a bit. if you truly don't care what we think and dont have to prove yourself, than why did you bother posting that list of bands you like? is that not personal and unrelated to this thread, which is what you were nagging kalis for earlier?
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42. writes:
No prob Termie!
I do talk about my personal life on here sometimes, mainly because I view our reg's as friends and like to share and not everyone has a myspace page. No one has ever told me not to and think that I am not the only one guilty of that crime. If I may ask Fallen, how old are you?
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45. writes:
Fallen, I am 23. At times I feel like an old lady!!!
How you doing by the way Termie? Good weekend? We have had a great weekend on here! It was way more busy than in the past. I think Fallen has relaxed a little. I will say that being a woman in the metal world can be tough, but that's what I love about it and would have it no other way!
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47. writes:
Dude, Terminator has left the building, that was an awesome post! I give you a standing ovation as well. And No, the majority of the good metal bands don't give a rip about money and fame, they just want to make good music and create their own sound. That's why bands like Trivium sell all the records because they appeal to trendy people and aren't creative enough to make their own unique sound. They are complete posers. But whatever though, I don't have a problem if people like them, just know that they have no respect on this website.
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48. writes:
This is not a response to Dark_Funeral's post but more of an observation ~ I think The Devil Wears Prada is creative and talented. This is by no means an attempt to start anything. But I also love Dark Funeral. I understand they're on opposite sides of the spectrum religiously but if it's good music I'll listen! I try not to limit myself. :-)
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52. writes:
Dark_funeral, i agree with u, up until u said tight trousers aint metal. check all the 80s thrashers, thats where drain f***ing pipes came out from bro!!! and its METAL TO THE f***ING CORE! ;P thrash as f***! so dont assume tight trousers were made by gays of today
54. writes:
My biggest beef with the band is that they really are talented musicians, but they don't play any new music. They are basically just contributing music from the '80's and calling it their own. I would love it if they took a step back and played music that is them. If sounding like Megadave and Metallica is them, then frankly, I will buy Megadave and Metallica. I would rather have them be a new band, then sound like an old one.
Plus, I still think that The Absence had a great marketing ploy by telling kids to bring in their Trivium shirts to get an Absence shirt. BRILLIANT.
58. writes:
Acendancy is a pretty good album. I'm 32 and have been listening to metal for a loooong time. I must admit, Crusade did disappoint me, not because of the style of music or the Hetfield sound, but because it was kinda like one step forward, two steps back. It sounds like a quick garage demo instead of a well written album.
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62. writes:
Holy sh**.
This is what happens when you get a bunch of metal "fans" together:
"They are t3h suxz0rz!!1111ONE"
"DEY R LIEK T3H N0T, DEY T3H RULLLZZZ00RRZZ"
" R LIEK TO 0WNZORZ AN SH!T 0N DEM!!!1111 LOLOLOLOLOLLOL!!!111111!!!!!1!!ELEVEN"
Seriously, will you whining little fanboys shut up?
Trivium are skilled IN WHAT THEY DO. That doesn't mean that they are the best that metal has to offer, but they are at least SOMETHING worth offering.
BAM! Simple and effective. Now go listen to your death metal and enjoy undecipherable lyrics about god knows what and sh** guitars that are drop tuned beyond all recognition. REAL Metal (you can hear vocals and understand them, yes even metalcore has both recognisable screaming AND CLEAN Vocals) is about SKILL (Not banging your stupid drop tuned guitar into hell and creating some BS Chugga Chugga CRAP) and TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY (NOT double kicking mindlessly and smaking the snare like a caveman) , not pig squeals (seriously, who finds that a skill to have or aspire to have? f***ing losers) and total utter sh** that is your Death (to music)Metal(can it EVEN deserve to have metal at the end? its only added here for the sake of clarity).
Anyway, thats my 2 Cents.
63. writes:
Trivium may be skilled, but apparently, that doesn't mean people are going to like them.
For one, they suck.
For two, we already have two or three sh**ty Metallica albums without these jackoffs making a bunch more.
For three, who the fxck wears a bandana onstage anymore?
I'm guessing that mister boy-sniffer above me has never been in any bands because the thing that makes me so angry about Trivium is, yes, they are talented, but they suck. Their songs sound like cover songs of songs every other band has written. It makes me upset that you would go off half-cocked over a band like Trivium.
Myself, and quite a few of my friends find Trivium to be the equivalent of Limp Bizkit as far as making any memorable music or helping advance the genre in any way. Trivium is the Wal Mart of heavy metal, and I hope you can eventually find your way to some other bands, because while you're wasting your time trying to convince yourself that Trivium is worth listening to, you're missing a shxtload of other really awesome metal.
One band, for instance: Acid Bath. Their demo release is better than any polished turd Matt Hetfield can squeeze out, and that's on any fxcking day.
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70. writes:
Post 62 writes: "Now go listen to your death metal and enjoy undecipherable lyrics about god knows what and sh** guitars that are drop tuned beyond all recognition. REAL Metal (you can hear vocals and understand them, yes even metalcore has both recognisable screaming AND CLEAN Vocals) is about SKILL (Not banging your stupid drop tuned guitar into hell and creating some BS Chugga Chugga CRAP) and TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY (NOT double kicking mindlessly and smaking the snare like a caveman)"
I love how you use Technical Proficiency and skill to describe what you think Death Metal is not, even though technical proficiency and skill go hand in hand with death metal. Listen to Nile or Cryptopsy and then reread your posts. Death metal is actually one of the the most technically proficient forms of music in the world.
71. writes:
To go on cruor's statement, Post 62,
You pretty much just described the worst of the generic deathcore band's that popular underground music is plagued with these days.
And some metalcore bands have the most unrecognizable vocals in the world. Hell, search YouTube for Interpretation of Trivium or As I Lay Dying.
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74. writes:
Whats the deal with who likes who. hell i love BFMV, A7x and Trivium like crazy, AND!! i also listen to L.o.g, Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquillity, Machine Head, In Flames, Cannibal Corpse, The Red Chord, Pantera, all the classics from the 80's Especially Zeppelin and Eric Clapton..and also looking forward to Triviums new stuff, should be good,
76. writes:
that was on of the funniest things ever, did he really say he is becoming halfordesque. i wonder if he said that with a straight face, cuz if i was there i would be on the floor laughing my a$$ off, then id have to get up and smack the big eared f*** for saying something so retarted. halfords a god and should not be in the same breath or sentence as halford. or anyone good singer for that matter! unless its, halford metal god slams wannabe hetfield! matt heafy for comparisons.
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78. writes:
To the moronic blanket statement above[post 77] - go back to high school or elementary. I am from Texas - graduated from college - so I guess there may possibly be some intelligent people from Texas. Where are you from Hetfield - California? Yeah- your governor Arnold is one to speak..lol You are just proving by your statement above that you have ZERO intelligence - and just trying to start trouble with Crawford Texas and myself.
80. writes:
Trust me, I'm not from Texas. My s/n is from a David Cross stand-up bit he did about President Bush dancing like a redneck idiot when there is real problems to attend to. It's actually "Silver spoon Crawford Texas jingo jango", but hey, you get the idea.
...and my 36 Crazyfists comment was a joke. Thanks for falling right into it.
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82. writes:
CTJJ writes: "Well, cruor, that's at least TWO bands that should be sterilized and erased from music history forever."
Which bands from my post are you refering to? The first is obviously Trivium but I can't tell if you are refering to Satyricon (since I had them in my now playing list) or As I Lay Crying?
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83. writes:
miltownmetal writes:
sooo, if trivium sucks so much (crusade did suck), what do you consider good metal?
quite simple you bandwagon tight pants clad scenester, black and death metal along with thrash like slayer! you can never go wrong
-behemoth(demigod, not the apostasy), Kalmah, dark tranquillity, heaven shall burn, dimmu borgir(ETD/Devils Path era but the discs with nick barker are good as well, i even like the new release a bit), old mans child, obituary, dark funeral, satyricon, 1349, cannibal corpse, and the 2 metalcore bands i like; devildriver and chimaira.
87. writes:
Post 85. . .learn English and proper discussion before trying to make a point. Telling anyone to "shut up" is rather juvenile, especially with this being a discussion sight.
Devil Driver does sit on the verge of metalcore, their riffing style is pretty simple in my opinion. I'm not saying all simple riffing is evidence of -core but their particular style is.
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88. writes:
Devildrivers FIRST album sits on the verge of metalcore, their first two releases have a rather simple riffing style but The Last Kind Words blew all that to sh**. That album isn't even the slightest bit metalcore, like pretty much any popular american metal band these days gets called a metalcore band at some point, and I've heard Devildriver get called Nu-metal quite a bit due to Dez's previous band Crap Chamber. Actually it was in a Terrorizer review of the Last Kind Words and the dumbass called them "sh**ty nu metal crap" and gave the album like a 4 outta 10 or something like that.
89. writes:
There's still a good deal of -core styling in their new one. They did get more melodic metal but that doesn't change that Dez is still their vocalist and I cannot listen to him. If they would get a new vocalist whose vocals weren't (in my opinion) ruining the music I may like them.
90. writes:
Dez's vocals definately take some getting used to, I used to hate them myself. And yeah theres some "core-styling" on their new album but that doesn't make them metalcore, pretty much any band that has a little bit of "core-styling" will get called metalcore by the metal masses. Pantera and Sepultura both have a bit of "core-styling" but they aren't metalcore either.
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98. writes:
lol, who said 'between the buried and me' is brutal? I love that band but they are so far from brutal that it's not even funny. Trivium's old stuff was ok 'thrasy metalcore', but if u want hear a lot better 'thrash metalcore' u should listen to the new 'as i lay dying' and 'unearth' releases.
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100. writes:
Phil, I would have to counter your statement on BTBAM. The Silent Circus had some pretty savage riffing and by definition brutality refers to the speed and/or density of the music. Listen to the first half of Mordecai for an example.
Hardcore's not my thing, even with my love of breakdowns.
102. writes:
f*** Trivium. the first time i ever heard them, I was sitting in my friends car, and one of their Cds was playing. I ask my friend, "Who the f*** is this? It Sounds like what would happen if you took Metallica and then simplified and mainstreamed it a hundred times over. It's uncomfortable and awkward". He could do nothing but laugh.
f*** Trivium. the only song I've heardby them that beats my description is "Gunshot To the Head of Trepidation", but it's still only half-decent, and hardly noteworthy
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108. writes:
I don't know Dark, have you heard the new AILD? They definitely added much more of a metal factor on their new one.
And thats not hardcore, thats scene and everything scene touches that was once good (melodic death metal, hardcore, death and grind) forms a mainstream counterpart that no where compares to the original.
109. writes:
^ anyone who does that sh** is a total loser, they're either tight clothed screamo scene fag or some fat "hardcore" kid in baggy jeans and a ball cap.
oh and phil never said As I lay Crying were straight up thrash he just said they're thrashy metalcore, but pretty damn screamo as well. If I want thrashy metalcore (which is the only metalcore I'll listen to) I'll listen to Unearths latest album or some Shadows Fall.
110. writes:
yea i never said they were thrash metal, just thrash influnced metalcore, which As i lay dying certainly is on their new disc. Take a listen before u judge. Bands like Unearth, Shadows Fall and As I Lay Dying(new) are much better than Trivium. I have nothing against their old stuff though, as someone mentioned earlier, the song "A gunshot to the head of trepidation' is decent. But massachusets metal is the sh**.
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114. writes:
It's funny how so many of you say how Trivium sucks..Blah, Blah Blah and yet you spend so much time here on the ole Trivium thread.
Envy? Jealous? p***ed because your band can't get out of the basement? Just plain can't stand the fact that some people can hear talent and you can't? Who knows....
115. writes:
^this idiot writes: "can't stand the fact that some people can hear talent and you can't"
Thats right dumbass, I rip on Trivium because I can't hear the talent, on the contrary from what music I've heard from Trivium I can indeed hear the talent . But do you know what else I hear? sh**TY a$$ MUSIC is what I hear, just because a band has talent doesn't mean they're good, their music that is. Trivium has a bit talent but they bastardize it and write incredibally boring watered down songs with lame whiny lyrics. Thats why I rip on them.
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118. writes:
Well Hetfield, one could argue why you are here right now in a Trivium thread instead of listening to Trivium. We are here because we getting our opinions out there on bands when most people in our everyday lives don't know and wouldn't understand.
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1. jayballer14 writes:
sweet, hopefully it will be like their older stuff