Trivium (band)

For other uses, see Trivium (disambiguation).

Trivium

Trivium are a bunch of fags that think they're as good as Metallica.

Biography

Early Days

The band members chose the name Trivium, which is Latin for the crossroads of the three schools, because they "liked the way it implied an open-mindedness to different styles, and summed up their musical aesthetic". After a couple of gigs at parties, the original singer quit the band and Heafy took over the vocals. Heafy also spent time in the Orlando black metal band Mindscar, alongside Mike Radford, before leaving to focus on Trivium. For the next two years, the band honed its sound, and in 2002 Heafy won the Best Metal Guitarist Award at the Orlando Metal Awards. Trivium headed into the studio in the beginning of 2003 to record their first high-quality demo disc. From this, German label Lifeforce signed Trivium and sent the band into the studio to record Ember to Inferno.

After going through various lineups, the band finally settled on guitarist Corey Beaulieu, who brought a new influence to the band's sound. Paolo Gregoletto was signed as the band's bassist just prior to a tour with Machine Head. Trivium was signed to Roadrunner Records after good sales of their debut and began writing songs for their new album.

Rise to fame

The band's second album Ascendancy was mostly completed by July 2004, recorded in the Audiohammer and Morrisound Studios. In September of the same year, the band embarked on several tours with Machine Head, Iced Earth, Killswitch Engage, and Fear Factory, adding to the hype surrounding the band. "What's cool about a tour is every night's a party," Heafy says. "It's not always because everyone's drinking, but people are getting along well and hanging out. The energy from the crowds is amazing."[2] Ascendancy was released on March 15, 2005 through Roadrunner Records. The band have continued touring to support it since, including on the Roadrage 2005 US tour, featuring bands such as The Agony Scene, Still Remains and 3 Inches of Blood. The band also made 13 appearances at 2005 Roadrage in the UK through the summer. This tour heightened their popularity in the UK considerably, building a good reputation with Kerrang! and Metal Hammer magazines. Trivium also performed on the main stage at Download Festival 2005. Kerrang! hailed their show as 'The band of the weekend by a long mile.

Through July and August Trivium appeared at Ozzfest 2005, playing second stage alongside bands like As I Lay Dying, Arch Enemy, Killswitch Engage, and Rob Zombie. After Ozzfest the band headed back over to the UK for a headlining tour with All That Remains and It Dies Today, and also toured in Japan with Arch Enemy and in the United States and Canada for a main support tour with Children of Bodom and Amon Amarth. In early 2006, Trivium were the main support for the Swedish band In Flames, along with DevilDriver and Zao across North America.

Trivium recorded a cover of "Master of Puppets" for the Kerrang! Remastered 20th anniversary tribute to Metallica's album Master Of Puppets. Also appearing on that album doing tributes are Machine Head, Mendeed, Bullet for My Valentine, Fightstar, Chimaira, Mastodon, and Funeral for a Friend. This was released exclusively with the issue of Kerrang! magazine, released on April 5 2006.

Recent Events

Trivium began writing and recording a new album in April 2006, just after their 2006 headlining tour "The Crusade III: Ascend Above the Ashes" with God Forbid. The band played on the main stage of the Download Festival in 2006, beneath only KoRn & Metallica. The band completed and released the album for October 10 2006. The band's fame is focussed in the UK, where many of their fans are located it sold over 60 000 copies on it's day of release, making it silver.

It was placed at #1 in the UK Rock Charts and debuted in the UK album charts at #7 It debuted on the U.S. Billboard charts at #25. The album saw use of seven string guitars on a number of songs, including the tracks "This World Can't Tear Us Apart", "And Sadness Will Sear", "Becoming The Dragon", "Contempt Breeds Contamination" and the title track of the album The album is a departure from their previous sound: Heafy has abandoned his harsh metalcore scream in favor of a more melodic style (more inspired by lead vocalists such as James Hetfield) and the band's style has been described as a return to the classic thrash sounds of bands such as Metallica, Testament, and Megadeth. The album received generally positive reviews from critics , with one critic noting, "If the closest point of comparison is mid-80s Metallica, how bad could it be?". However, it has also received a backlash from some metal fans , with entire websites devoted to this [3]. The album was voted #6 on Metal Hammer's Best Albums of 2006. As well as being voted the Best Live Band at Metal Hammer's Golden Gods Awards /.

To support the album they toured under Iron Maiden on the European leg of their 2006 world tour from November 12th - December 23rd. During this short tour of the UK, Kerrang! 105.2 arranged one day in which Trivium was the headline band, on 13 December. No tickets were sold for the gig; tickets were awarded through a competition on Kerrang. . On April 28, 2006, Trivium announced a North American re-release of their album Ascendancy, which includes four bonus tracks, one of which is their cover of the Metallica song "Master of Puppets". It also contains reworked art, and a DVD featuring all existing music videos.

Trivium toured Australia in early 2007, making appearances at the Big Day Out (also the Big Day Out in New Zealand) and all capital cities. Trivium has just been announced recently that they will take part on the Family Values Tour alongside Korn, Atreyu, Hellyeah, Flyleaf, Evanescence and more.

Photo of Trivium playing on their Spring 2007 European Tour

Between April and June 2007 they went on a headline tour of much of Europe and the UK with label mates Annihilator and Sanctity as well as Gojira.

The third, and most recent, single the band have released is from "The Crusade" and is called "The Rising". It debuted at number 32 on the US Mainstream Rock Charts. The music video debuted in the UK on Scuzz TV on the 20th April 2007.

Matt and Corey of Trivium visited the Dean Guitar stand at the London Guitar Show in the ExCel centre London, to do autographs for their fans, and to promote dean guitars, on the 27th of April 2007.

Recently Matt and Paolo signed on as endorsed artists for EMG active pickups.

Trivia

When they play live they are well known for having an intro, for the album Ascendancy they used 'The end of everything', and now for the Crusade tour they use the song from Final Fantasy, 'One Winged Angel'.

Band members

Current members

• Matt Heafy - Vocals, Lead/Rhythm Guitar
• Corey Beaulieu - Lead/Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals (2003-present)
• Paolo Gregoletto - Bass, Backing Vocals (2004-present)
• Travis Smith - Drums

Past members

• Brent Young - Bass (2001-2004)
• Brad Lewter - Vocals (2000)

Discography

Studio Albums

Album Cover	Date of Release	Title	Label	US Billboard Peak	UK Chart Peak	US sales	UK sales
File:Trivium (EP).jpg	2003	Trivium (EP)	Self-Financed	-	-	-	-
File:Embertoinferno.jpg	October 14, 2003	Ember to Inferno	Lifeforce Records	-	-	-	-
	March 15, 2005	Ascendancy	Roadrunner Records	151	78	145,000+	100,000+ (Gold)
File:TriviumTheCrusade.jpg	October 10, 2006	The Crusade	Roadrunner Records	25	7	100,000+	60,000+ (Silver)

Singles

Year	Title	Chart Positions				Album
		U.S. Modern Rock	U.S. Mainstream Rock	UK Singles Chart	UK Rock Singles
2005	"Like Light to the Flies"	-	-	-	-	Ascendancy
2005	"Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr"	-	-	-	-	Ascendancy
2005	"A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation"	-	-	-	-	Ascendancy
2005	"Dying in Your Arms"	-	-	-	-	Ascendancy
2006	"Entrance of the Conflagration"	-	-	-	-	The Crusade
2006	"Anthem (We Are the Fire)"	89	-	40	1	The Crusade
2007	"The Rising"	-	32	-	-	The Crusade

External links

• Official website
• Trivium at Roadrunner Records
• Trivium Interviews
• Trivium at Myspace