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Trivium‘s Matt Heafy has opened up about the creation of the band’s 2005 album ‘Ascendancy’ and how Muse inspired one of the tracks.In a recent interview as part of the latest issue of Metal Hammer, The frontman reflected on the creation of the band’s second album which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.“Recording the album? It was easy, it was effortless,” Heafy told the outlet. “We came into the studio having everything prepared beforehand, jamming in our storage place and singing and screaming the words.

Gojira, Trivium and Machine Head have been announced as the headliners for next year’s edition of Bloodstock festival.The annual heavy metal music bash will return to its home of Catton Park, Derbyshire on the weekend of August 7-10, 2025. Other acts to have been announced include the likes of Me And That Man, Kataklysm, Static-X, Obituary, Emperor, Lacuna Coil, Orange Goblin, Creeper, Kublai Khan TX, The Black Dahlia Murder, Lord Of The Lost, August Burns Red, All For Metal, Breed 77, 3 Inches Of Blood and Feuerschwanz.

Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine spoken to NME about their UK co-headline tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ‘The Poison’ and ‘Ascendancy’.After teasing fans online, the tour was finally announced last night (February 22) during a live-streamed press conference where Bullet’s Matt Tuck promised the run of shows was set to be “the metal tour of the year.”The first leg of the rotating co-headline world ‘Poisoned Ascendancy’ tour is set to kick off in January 2025, with Bullet For My Valentine playing ‘The Poison’ in full at every show, with Trivium doing the same with ‘Ascendancy’ to mark 20 years since their release. In a statement, Trivium’s Matt Heafy described them as “two records whose influence can be heard to this day in the DNA of modern metal.”“Trivium and BFMV were in such whirlwinds when our respective albums came out that we each never truly got to play together or sit back and celebrate during the maelstrom of constant touring, recording and globetrotting,” said Heafy.

Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium is on the horizon.Speculation that the two are set to join forces comes following them each sharing a very similar set of posts online, hinting to fans that a new announcement is on the way.Yesterday (February 20), both bands posted nine photos onto their respective Instagram accounts at the same time. For Trivium, the nine images made up the cover artwork for their second studio album ‘Ascendancy’, when put together, while Bullet For My Valentine’s made up the artwork for their debut LP ‘The Poison’.As well as posting the same format at the exact same time, the update also comes as both of the albums will be turning 20 next year – hinting that some form of anniversary celebration is lined up for 2025.Trivium frontman Matt Heafy has spoken previously about a potential announcement to celebrate 20 years of the sophomore album.

Trivium frontman Matt Heafy has confirmed that the band will be taking a hiatus after their scheduled run of live shows.The singer-songwriter and guitarist confirmed the upcoming break in a new interview, and recalled the reasons why the members are looking to put the metal band on pause after their upcoming tour dates.“Normally we are always, we’re so open with everything — we show everything we do, we talk about everything — but the one thing we are always secretive about is the records,” he began, talking with EMP at the Summer Breeze Festival.“But this time I can say that we’re just going on a proper break this time. Because we’ve done 10 albums of ‘album-tour, album-tour.'”He continued: “This time, when this tour cycle ends, we’re gonna take a true break, and instead of working on music, we’re actually gonna work on building our Hangar studio, so that way when it comes time to make records, we can do that again.

Trivium frontman Matt Heafy had to pull double duty as security during the band’s recent show in Dallas, Texas.While performing in Dallas earlier this week, Heafy and Trivium bassist Paolo Gregoletto were alerted by their audience that a crowdsurfing fan was on the brink of injury after security at the show failed to properly ensure the safety of the crowd.Heafy, who films and livestreams all of Trivium’s show, took to Twitter once the concert had wrapped to reveal that he had to jump offstage mid-performance to catch a fan from falling. In the clip posted online, Heafy can be seen throwing his guitar to the ground and catching the fan right in the nick of time.“Don’t ever say we don’t love our fans.

Sophie Lloyd has released her collaboration with Trivium frontman Matt Heafy, ‘Fall Of Man’ – check it out below.The track is the second single to be taken from Lloyd’s forthcoming debut album ‘Impostor Syndrome’, which is due for release later this year. A music video for the song will drop next week.“Working with Matthew K.

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Trivium‘s frontman Matt Heafy has been teasing a collaboration with Sophie Lloyd, Machine Gun Kelly‘s touring guitarist.Heafy is set to appear on Lloyd’s upcoming single ‘Fall Of Man’, which will be released on Friday (February 24).Heafy shared a teaser of the track to Instagram. In the caption, he wrote: “Sophie Lloyd is an immensely talented force of a musician and songwriter. I recall first seeing Sophie’s guitar playing online and being truly blown away – so having been a fan of Sophie’s for several years, I was honored when asked to guest on an upcoming track.“When I learned too that Trivium had been a longtime favorite band of Sophie’s – I was humbled and appreciative.

Sometimes, in this digital age, it can be hard to think up what presents to get for people. What about a personalised message from their favourite singer though? Lovely! That’s what Colin Peppard of the band Post-Party did for his bandmate Matthew O’Reilly.Peppard explained in a video on TikTok that he’d been scrolling through Cameo – the service where fans can pay for personalised video messages from celebrities – and discovered that The 1975’s Matt Healy was on there.

DEALSUniversal Music Publishing has expanded its relationship with the Irving Berlin estate and will now represent its catalogue worldwide. That catalogue includes songs like ‘White Christmas’, ‘Let’s Face The Music And Dance’, ‘Puttin On The Ritz’ and ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business’.

Darkborn lead David Goldfarb has shared that the cancelled first-person Viking game was “fucked” due to it becoming open world.Speaking to NME, Goldfarb said that Darkborn – which was cancelled by The Outsiders in 2020 – suffered some major issues in the development cycle, including a big change to the game’s structure.“It didn’t start as an open world game,” shared Goldfarb. “It became one, and that’s why we got fucked.

Kate Bush‘s ‘Running Up That Hill’ performed in the style of Metallica‘s ‘Master of Puppets’.The cover features Trivium frontman Matt Heafy on guitar and vocals and a solo from YouTube shredder Steve Terreberry. As Vincent takes on the role of James Hetfield in the melody, Heafy joins in with powerful screams in the chorus, with Terreberry coming in at the end with his solo.Vincent has become known for his unique interpretations of well-known songs over the past few years.

Trivium’s Matt Heafy has shared a heavy new collaboration with Gerard Way from his solo black metal project Ibaraki’s upcoming debut album, ‘Rashomon’.The new track, titled ‘Rōnin’, features screamed vocals from the My Chemical Romance frontman, as well as composition from Emperor’s Ihsahn. The nine-minute track also comes with a kaleidoscopic music video that sees two people being brainwashed and hypnotised.Watch the music video for ‘Rōnin’ below.Heafy revealed on Twitter that the track’s screamed vocals were performed entirely by Way, and were his “favourite moment” on the song.

recent preview ‘Tamashii No Houkai’. “‘Tamashii No Houkai’ means ‘the breaking of the soul’ or ‘soul collapse’,” Heafy said of the track in a statement.

Trivium’s Matt Heafy has shared the first track from his much talked about black metal album, ‘IBARAKI’.Entitled ‘Tamashii No Houkai’, the new record hears the frontman team up with Emperor’s Ihsahn, who worked with Heafy on the whole album alongside Behemoth’s Nergal.“‘Tamashii No Houkai’ means ‘the breaking of the soul’ or ‘soul collapse’,” Heafy said of the track in a statement (via Kerrang!). “It’s a Japanese term that didn’t exist before, but one we forged to reflect the song’s meaning.”He continued: “‘Tamashii No Houkai’ is co-written by Ihsahn – the legend behind Emperor and a musician who has been a longtime influence and mentor to so much that I do in music.

Trivium‘s Matt Heafy has inserted himself into the ongoing beef between Machine Gun Kelly and Slipknot, criticising the former for his “16-year-old pop punk cosplay identity.”MGK sparked an uproar this month when he hit out at the veteran masked band at Chicago’s Riot Fest, saying onstage: “You wanna know what I’m really happy that I’m not doing? Being 50-years-old wearing a fucking weird mask on a fucking stage, talking shit.”His onstage diss came after Taylor appeared to dismissively allude to Kelly in an interview earlier this year: “I hate all new rock for the most part.

Trivium‘s Matt Heafy has revealed that he plans to release his long-gestating black metal album next year.Speaking in a new interview, the frontman, who is currently working on Trivium’s 10th studio album, ‘In The Court Of The Dragon’, said his black metal record, featuring Emperor’s Ihsahn and Behemoth’s Nergal, is coming next year.“During this [lockdown] I was able to finally finish my black metal record with Ihsahn from Emperor,” Heafy told Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta on The Jasta Show. “He’s been producing and co-writing that with me for about 11 years, and it finally comes out in the middle of next year, which should be fun.”The band project was initially named Mrityu, but Heafy revealed that after discussing his goals with Ihsahn,

Trivium’s Matt Heafy has released a new acoustic EP that features reworked songs from the band’s 2005 album ‘Ascendancy’ – listen to it below.The frontman, who shared the four-track project yesterday (February 5) on YouTube, has promised that there will be an acoustic EP released for each one of the band’s records except for 2020’s ‘What The Dead Men Say’.The ‘Ascendancy’ acoustic EP tracklist is as follows:01. ‘Rain’ 02. ‘Dying In Your Arms’03. ‘Suffocating Sight’04. ‘Departure’Listen to the new EP below.Back in September, Heafy confirmed the sad news that former Trivium bassist Brent Young had died.Young played on the metal band’s 2003 debut album ‘Ember To Inferno’, as well as their ‘The Blue Demo’ record.“We have just been given word on

Trivium’s Matt Heafy has shared a heavy metal cover of sea shanty ‘Wellerman’ – listen to it below.The frontman is the latest to hop on the newfound TikTok trend of sea shanties, which was kickstarted by Scottish postman Nathan Evans.Putting his own spin on the popular sailor anthem, Heafy reworked the track on his Twitch account on Monday (February 1) mixing it with some raging riffs and thunderous drum kicks.You can watch a snippet of the sea shanty cover below:Evans recently revealed that he quit his job as a postman after his rendition of the 19th-century sea shanty ‘Soon May The Wellerman Come’ landed in the UK Top 10.He has since released ‘Wellerman’ as an official single after signing a record deal with Polydor.

Trivium have covered Power Trip‘s ‘Executioner’s Tax’ in honour of frontman Riley Gale, who passed away last week.Trivium performed the song live as part of their ‘The Deepest Cuts’ stream, which took place on frontman Matt Heafy’s Twitch channel. The set included songs the band rarely play and a few they had never performed live before.The entire livestream can be viewed below.