TRIVIUM Look Back On A Decade Since Landmark Ascendancy Album - "A Melting Pot Of Influences That Probably Shouldn’t Go Together"

Music Radar recently caught up with Trivium’s Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu for a look back on the ten years since their landmark album, Ascendancy. Following is an excerpt from the interview.

Q: What do you remember about writing and recording Ascendancy?

Corey: “I joined the band right after I graduated from music university. I had no job and nowhere to live, so I was living out of my car for a while, and then started crashing round Matt’s house. He was still in high school, so once he’d finish his studies we’d all meet at the warehouse and jam for hours. We had nothing else to do but play and write.”

“That’s how pretty much all the songs on Ascendancy came about – just some dudes with nothing to do, no fans, no job, no nothing. By the end of that album and beginning of The Crusade, we already had done our first TG cover. I think it was when Matt had more of a bowl cut with short black hair…”

Matt: “Come on! It was a questionable swoop, not a bowl cut. I was about 17 years old and still living at my parent’s house. We just played what we wanted to hear as fans of metal. And all these different sounds began to creep in: death metal, melodeath, trad metal, hardcore… It became a melting pot of influences that probably shouldn’t go together.”

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Trivium has announced details of a winter headline trek, which will see the band performing their first shows of 2016 in support of their new LP, Silence In The Snow. The new dates are set to get underway January 8th at Charleston, South Carolina’s Music Farm with additional dates to be announced shortly. Tickets for all dates will go on sale Friday, December 4th. For complete tour information, visit this location.

Long known as one of modern metal’s most potent live acts, Trivium are also set to take the stage at a myriad of international hard rock and metal festivals this summer. Dates include appearances at Columbus, Ohio’s Rock On The Range, Mendig, Germany’s Rock AM Ring, Nuremberg, Germany’s Rock im Park, Paris France’s Download Festival and many more.

Tour dates:

January
8 – The Music Farm – Charleston, SC
9 – Capone’s – Johnson City, TN
11 – Chameleon Club – Lancaster, PA
14 – Asylum – Portland, ME
16 – The Lost Horizon – Syracuse, NY
18 – Dallas Nightclub – Kitchener, ON
20 – The Machine Shop – Flint, MI
21 – Route 20 Outhouse – Racine, WI
22 – Boondocks Pub – Springfield, IL
23 – The Vanguard – Tulsa, OK

May
20 – Rock On The Range – Columbus, OH

June
3 – Rock AM Ring – Mendig, Germany
3 – Rock im Park – Nuremberg, Germany
9 – Nova Rock – Nickelsdorf, Austria
9 – Greenfield Festival – Interlaken, Switzerland
10 – Download Festival – Paris, France
17 – Graspop Metal Meeting – Dessel, Belgium
23 – Nummirock Metal Festival – Nummijärvi, Finland