TRIVIUM Bassist To Take Part In Online Chat; Guitar-Lesson Preview Posted Online

Bassist Paolo Gregoletto of Florida metallers TRIVIUM will take part in an Ustream chat this Wednesday, June 15 at 6:00 p.m. GMT (1:00 p.m. EST). Go to this location to take part in the question-and-answer session.

"In Waves", the title track of TRIVIUM's fifth studio album, is available for free download via the band's Facebook page. The CD is tentatively due on August 9 via Roadrunner Records.

On June 9, Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu of TRIVIUM stopped by the Guitar World studio for a lesson on various techniques, plus how to play the song "Inception Of The End" from "In Waves". The complete lesson will be posted on GuitarWorld.com in the coming months. For now, check out a quick clip of the boys warming up and showing a bit of "Inception Of The End" below.

TRIVIUM's follow-up to 2008's "Shogun" was recorded at Audiohammer Studios in Sanford, Florida with the production/mixing team of Colin Richardson (MACHINE HEAD, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, SLIPKNOT, FEAR FACTORY) and Martin "Ginge" Ford, along with engineer Carl Bown.

During an appearance on a recent edition of the Metal Injection Livecast, TRIVIUM guitarist/vocalist Matt Heafy stated about the forthcoming CD, "We've been writing this same record for a year and a half. We demoed it for eight months. . . [but] when we actually started the record, it took us about three months or so of tracking and it's gonna take maybe two months to mix."

On which previous TRIVIUM album the new CD sounds most like:

"It's hard to say which one it sounds most like, but I can say, to date, my favorite one that we have ever done is 'Ascendancy' [2005] that's been my favorite. There was a lot of experimentation on 'The Crusade' [2006] and 'Shogun' [2008]. 'The Crusade' was the opposite of everything 'Ascendancy' was and 'Shogun' was kind of pulling elements from every single record. Whereas this one, nothing sounds like any of the other ones at all, but with this record it sounds more like us than ever. 'Cause with the other records, you could go, 'OK, maybe this sounds like this kind of music' or 'This sounds like this kind of band,' or maybe 'It pulls from here or there,' whereas this is just definitive 'our' sound; there is nothing that really deviates from the past; it's all in the realm of itself. I know that's really broad and it doesn't really answer too much of it. It's a whole new thing. It's not like anything we've done before again."

On the lyrical themes covered on the new TRIVIUM album:

"With 'From Ember To Inferno' [2003] and 'Ascendancy', they're both kind of in the same realm; they're both a lot of personal stuff, a little bit of social things, things that I saw around me. With 'Crusade', it was a lot of sociopolitical [commentary], maybe drawing more from specific current events and a couple of other bits here and there; there are obviously some things that are personal. With 'Shogun', there was a lot of mythology influence, there was a lot of Japanese history influence. With this new record, the long answer, or the short answer, is basically is that there is no right or wrong answer on what anyone's gonna perceive of what the lyrics mean to them, but I will not be saying what they mean to me at all. Because I really want people to come up with everything Everything down to the music to the visuals to the art because we're recreating everything with this new record. There's a new TRIVIUM logo, there's a new style of art, there's a new look, there's a new feel, there's new kinds of videos and everything going on. And I really want it to be up to the ear and the eye of the beholder of what they feel it means to them. So whatever it means to you is gonna be right. I don't want people to go into it with a preconceived notion of what I feel like it should mean where it could mean something else to that person and to that listener."

"In Waves" high-quality stream: