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Trivium are a metalcore band with strong Thrash metal influences from Orlando, Florida. Their debut album was released through Lifeforce Records on October 14, 2003. Their debut with Roadrunner Records, Ascendancy, scanned a 7,054 on the Nielsen SoundScan charts. The album also debuted at #4 on the US Top Heatseeker Chart and #151 on the US Billboard Top 200 Chart. They have finished recording their next album "The Crusade" and are looking for an October release under Roadrunner. While Kerrang! magazine have hailed Trivium as "the next Metallica", people have suggested that they are merely copying Metallica's image and song creation, something that has been strongly denied by frontman Matt Heafy.

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 brought a new influence to the band's 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." Staging themselves as one of the up-and-coming metal bands of todays rock world Trivium were finally set to release their newest album.

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 presitgious reputation with Kerrang! and Metal Hammer magazines. Trivium also performed Download Festival 2005 in the UK, where they were opened on the Main Stage. Despite the early 10 AM start Trivium played a set, setting themselves as 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. Such a lineup did not strike a chord with the Ozzfest fans, who'd have rather seen such bands play Main Stage.

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 immeadiately boosted their far east fan base and blazed Trivium's name through the world for the first time.

After this, the band headed back to the United States and Canada for a main support tour with Children of Bodom and Amon Amarth. On this event Trivium experienced a less-than-friendly welcome by Children of Bodom fans, which was widely criticised by Trivium's ever-growing fan base. Trivium did their 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 5th 2006.

The band have finnished recording their new album "The Crusade" which is set for an October 2006 release. The four began writing and recording in April 2006, just after their 2006 Headlining tour "The Crusade III: Ascend Above the Ashes" tour with God Forbid, Bloodsimple and Mendeed. The band played on the main stage of the Download Festival in Donnington, UK in June 2006, beneath only Korn and Metallica.

Trivium will also be supporting heavy metal legends, Iron Maiden, on Maiden's 2006 world tour. The dates of which Trivium will appear are from the 12th of November through to the 23rd of December. They are rumoured to try to outperform Iron Maiden by bringing out some sort of stage props, some which are considered to be like Eurovision winners Lordi

On 04/28/2006, Trivium announced a North American re-release of their hit album Ascendancy, which includes four new tracks and a cover of the Metallica song "Master of Puppets".

The band are due to record a new album "The Crusade" in October 2006. The band have revealed that they will be using less screaming and be singing in a way usually seen in thrash metal bands such as Metallica. They recently perfromed a new song, "Detonation," at many European festivals.

Another song with Trivium's guitarists, Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu has been released on the Roadrunner United album named In The Fire.

Line-up

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Former members

  • Brent Young - Guitar (1999 -2001), Bass (2001-2004)
  • Brad Lewter - Vocals mbmbvm
  • Jared - Bass (1999)
  • Erxhan - Guitar (1999)'''

Discography

  1. |#151 #4 (Top Heatseekers)
Album Cover Date of Release Title Label US Billboard Peak US sales
2003 Trivium (EP) Self-Financed
October 14, 2003 Ember to Inferno Lifeforce Records
March 15, 2005 Ascendancy Roadrunner Records
October 10, 2006 The Crusade Roadrunner Records
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 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. There was considerable fan controversy on the subject of whether or not Trivium were essentially toning their work down to widen their demographic.
  • Rain - Same style as the 'Dying in Your Arms' video. Released as a bonus video on the special edition of Ascendancy, however, the video has leaked onto sites such as 'YouTube'

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