TRIVIUM: 'Shogun' Artwork Unveiled

August 8, 2008

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

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."

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.

TRIVIUM tapped Colin Richardson (SLIPKNOT, MACHINE HEAD, FEAR FACTORY, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, NAPALM DEATH) to mix "Shogun". The CD was mixed in London, with Jeff Rose and Martin "Ginge" Ford assisting on engineering duties.

"Shogun" track listing:

01. Kirisute Gomen
02. Torn Between Scylla And Charybdis
03. Down From The Sky
04. Insurrection
05. Into The Mouth Of Hell We March
06. Throes Of Perdition
07. He Who Spawned the Furies
08. Of Prometheus And The Crucifix
09. The Calamity
10. Like Callisto To A Star In Heaven
11. Shogun

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