TRIVIUM Kicks Off 'Shogun' World Tour; Setlist Revealed
August 7, 2008Florida metallers TRIVIUM played the first show of their "Shogun" world tour tonight (Thursday, August 7) in Tokyo, Japan at the sold-out Shibuya-O East.
The group's setlist was as follows:
01. Kirsuite Gomen
02. Becoming The Dragon
03. Detonation
04. Ember To Inferno
05. Tread The Floods
06. Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation
07. Blinding Tears Will Break The Skies / The Deceived / Like Light To The Flies
08. Into The Mouth Of Hell We March
09. Broken One
10. Down From The Sky
11. Departure
12. Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr
13. Iron Maiden
14. Anthem (We Are The Fire)
TRIVIUM will perform later in the week at the Summer Sonic festival in both Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. Then the band will do a one-off headline show on Wednesday, August 13 in Sydney, Australia at the Enmore Theater.
TRIVIUM guitarist/vocalist Matt Heafy recently spoke to MTV News' "Metal File" about the group's forthcoming fourth album, "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."
Read the entire interview from MTV News' "Metal File".
"Kirisute Gomen", the first song to be released from TRIVIUM's new album "Shogun", is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. It can also be heard below.
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