TRIVIUM: New Video Interview With MATT HEAFY Available

December 18, 2007

Rockster.tv conducted an interview with TRIVIUM frontman Matt Heafy prior to the band's December 1, 2007 show in Cologne, Germany. Watch the 10-minute clip — which includes performance footage from the Cologne concert — at this location.

In a recent interview with The Metal Forge, Matt Heafy stated about the shift in direction on the band's latest album, "The Crusade", most notably when it came down to Heafy's vocals, "We just took it naturally. It wasn't a conscious thing. It was just clearly where things just naturally progressed to. Every record to us sounds very different. The next one will sound completely different to the last one which is different from the other ones but it still sounds like TRIVIUM. I guess the biggest thing people were saying was about the vocal thing. When I first sang in TRIVIUM, I was 14. I couldn't sing. I sounded like shit. The only thing I could do was scream. I wanted a singer. We couldn't find anyone else. I could scream, so I did it. I did it originally as the main vocals, and as soon as the singing got good enough to do on its own, I kept adding a little more singing, a little more singing, and nailed it. Finally, I was doing just singing live, y'know, some of the old stuff I shifted around along the lines of that singing, but I'm still advancing it. It's not as clean as it was on 'The Crusade', but it's even heavier now… it's more of a grubbier, distorted vocal. But on the albums, I'll do screaming, whatever is appropriate and I guess, it's a whole lot of experimentation – doing what we feel the music calls for."

TRIVIUM will spend the first few months of 2008 writing and recording its new album for a late 2008 release via Roadrunner Records.

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