Trivium (band)
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Florida, United States of America |
| Years active | 2003 – present |
| Members | Matt Heafy Corey Beaulieu Paolo Gregoletto Travis Smith |
Trivium are a metalcore band from Orlando, Flordia with strong Thrash and Death Metal influences. Trivium are currently in the studio recording the follow-up to 2005's highly rated Ascendancy.
Trivium's debut with Roadrunner Records, Ascendancy, scanned a 7,054 on the Nielsen SoundScan charts. The album also debuted at #4 on the US HeatSeeker Charts and #151 on the US Billboard Top 200 Charts.
Biography
Trivium formed in 2000 after the band's original singer saw Heafy perform the Offspring's "Self Esteem" with a drummer at his high school talent show. The band members chose the name Trivium, which is Latin for the intersection between the three schools of learning: grammar, rhetoric and logic, 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 the wheel. 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 found guitarist Corey Beaulieu, a dedicated Death Metal buff who bought a knew influence to the bands sound. Landing a bassist was even more difficult. Numerous players came and went before Paolo Gregoletto was brought in just in time for the tour with Machine Head. Feeling so strongly about the group, their music and their dedication to their craft, Paolo left another group to be a part of Trivium. Trivium signed to roadrunner Records after good sales of their debut and began writing songs for their new album.
By July 2004, Trivium had 80 percent of the material for Ascendancy written and fine-tuned. Then in September, the band headed into Audiohammer and Morrisound Studios where they recorded the songs. They then embarked on several tours with Machine Head and Iced Earth as well as played dates with Killswitch Engage, Fear Factory and others, and won over new fans with every show. "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."
In the year 2005 Trivium released their second album Ascendancy on their new record label Roadrunner Records. The album was released March 22. At this time Trivium was on the Roadrage 2005 US tour, featuring bands such as The Agony Scene, Still Remains and 3 Inches Of Blood. Since then the band has been on a constant tour run.
Through summer the band hit the UK for Roadrage 2005 UK with Still Remains and 3 Inches of Blood for 13 dates. This tour heightened their popularity in the UK considerably during that tour building up a good profile with UK rock magazines such as Kerrang! and Metal Hammer Trivium also performed Download Festival 2005 in the UK, where they were bumped up to opening the Main Stage. Despite the early 10 AM start Trivium played a now legendary set, just about becoming the band of the weekend. Kerrang! hailed their show as 'The best band of the weekend by a long mile.'
In the end of July and into August Trivium was on the road with Ozzfest 2005 playing second stage along side bands like As I lay Dying, Arch Enemy, Soilwork, and Rob Zombie.
After Ozzfest the band headed back over to the UK for a headlining tour with All That Remains. From there they headed over to Japan with Arch Enemy. This was Matt's first time back in Japan since he was born. Their visit to Japan immeeadietly boosted their far east fan base.
After this, the band headed back to the U.S. & Canada for a main support tour with Children of Bodom and Amon Amarth.
The the band are currently writing songs, and already have a few done for their next album "The Crusade" which is set for an Autumn 2006 release. The four are scheduled to be off and in the studio writing and recording in April 2006, just after their 2006 Headlining tour "The Crusade III: Ascend above the world" tour with God Forbid and Bloodsimple and Mendeed.
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Line-up
- Matt Heafy - Vocals/Guitars (2000-)
- Corey Beaulieu - Guitar (2003-)
- Paolo Gregoletto - Bass (2004-)
- Travis Smith - Drums (2000-)
Former members
- Brent Young - Bass (2001-2004)
Discography
- EP (2003)
- Ember to Inferno (2003)
- Ascendancy (2005)
- The Crusade (2006)
A demo version of the song "Like Light To The Flies" was included in the MTV2 Headbangers Ball Volume 2 compilation. "Pull Harder On The Strings of Your Martyr" was included on the soundtrack to the movie The Cave.
A song featured as a bonus on the Japanese release of Ascendancy entitled "Washing Away Me in the Tides", previously unreleased in the United States, is featured on the Underworld: Evolution soundtrack.
Videos
- Like Light To The Flies
- Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr
- A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation
- Dying in Your Arms - Has just started showing on Scuzz and Kerrang(both UK music channels), it is a live video that the band recorded at the Wiltern Theatre in La on January 28th. Also a part of the song has been re-recorded. This verse:
You poisoned my life
So I take this knife
And I cut you out
Cut you out
On the band's second album Ascendancy, the lead singer Matt Heafy screamed the lyrics but the video for the song has got rid of this and is now much more melodic and clean.