Trivium comments on upcoming album

The cover artwork for "Shogun", the forthcoming fourth album from Florida metallers TRIVIUM, can be viewed here.

TRIVIUM guitarist/vocalist Matt Heafy recently spoke to MTV News' "Metal File" about "Shogun", which hits stores September 30.

"With this new record, it basically summarizes everything we feel we've done right as a band, that we feel are key ingredients of TRIVIUM, all rolled into one, with a new direction on top of it," he explained. "So, it does have a little bit of everything we've done, and some more. It has as much singing on it as [2006's] 'The Crusade', but it has just as much, if not more, screaming than [2005's] 'Ascendancy'. The songs are longer, and there are more vocal parts. So, I do everything from the lowest possible singing notes I can do to the highest [Rob] Halford-wannabe notes, and everything in between, and the same goes for all the screaming, because we felt the music called for that stuff.

"With 'The Crusade', we were done with screaming — done with bands that did it, done with doing it ourselves," he continued. "We just didn't want to do it anymore. But when we started jamming for 'Shogun', and we heard how brutal and heavy some of the stuff was — it's the heaviest sh-- we've ever done before — we tried singing over it, and it wasn't right. What was it missing? The screaming, and that's exactly what it needed."

"Kirisute Gomen", the first song to be released from TRIVIUM's new album "Shogun", is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page.

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Tags:  Trivium, Matt Heafy, Shogun, Florida, Roadrunner Records

jason    August 08, 2008