TRIVIUM: New Audio Interview With PAOLO GREGOLETTO Available

Italian news blog Musica Metal recently conducted an interview with bassist Paolo Gregoletto of the Florida metallers TRIVIUM. The 11-minute chat is available for streaming at this location (click on the green play button to launch audio). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Musica Metal: Has there been any moment in your career when you sat back and thought "Wow, yeah, I've reached some landmarks in my career, but will these 15 minutes of fame end?"

Paolo Gregoletto: I definitely think about everything we've done, and it's been awesome. It's an honor that we've gotten a chance to play with bands like SLAYER, METALLICA and IRON MAIDEN. For me, personally, that's just as high as you can go, just being a fan of metal! I don't know… I don't think about it ending. It's going well. I mean, I think we would literally have to make, like, a pop record and not tour to really end it, 'cause at this point it just feels like our fans are so devoted to us, and we keep making new fans. You can never tell, you can never say for certain, but it feels like we're coming past that point of being a hype band or being a band that the media loves. Now we're a band with a real fanbase, and I think people are starting to respect us more in that way than just [people saying] "Oh, they were given this," or that it's a one-album thing.

Musica Metal: You've been putting out albums every year and a half, more or less, and spending the rest of the time on tour. What knd of fire burns inside you, to keep on going at this breakneck pace?

Paolo Gregoletto: Just the will to get bigger as a band and see it to its full potential. When we did that tour with IRON MAIDEN through Europe and every night was sold out — the biggest arenas in Europe — it makes you feel so small. At that point, all the accomplishments we've done pale in comparison to that, and that's just a normal tour for them. It's just like, "How are we gonna get to that?" And if you look at what bands like that did, they put out an album, they toured their asses off, put out another album, toured their asses off. If it takes us ten records of this pace of doing it, we wanna do it, we want it that bad. That's what separates bands that don't have the desire, 'cause there's a lot of people that just… they would go out on one tour and just not wanna do this. [You have to be] willing to go through all the bullshit of it [in order] to reap the benefits.