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Trivium
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Background information
OriginFlorida, United States of America
Years active2000 – present
MembersMatt Heafy
Corey Beaulieu
Paolo Gregoletto
Travis Smith

Trivium are a Metal band from Orlando, Florida. They formed in 2000 after the band's original singer saw Matt Heafy performing at the high school talent show. Ascendancy, their debut with Roadrunner Records, peaked at #151 on the US Billboard 200 and at #4 on the US Top Heatseekers charts.

Biography

The band members chose the name Trivium, which is Latin for the intersection between the three schools of learning: grammar, rhetoric and logic, because they liked the way it implied an open-mindedness to different styles, and summed up their musical aesthetic. After a couple of gigs at parties, the original singer quit the band and Heafy took over the vocals. For the next two years, the band honed its sound, and in 2002 Heafy won the Best Metal Guitarist Award at the Orlando Metal Awards. Trivium headed into the studio in the beginning of 2003 to record their first high-quality demo disc. From this, German label Lifeforce signed Trivium and sent the band into the studio to record Ember to Inferno.

After going through various lineups, the band finally found guitarist Corey Beaulieu, a dedicated death metal buff who brought a new influence to the band's sound. Landing a bassist was even more difficult. Numerous players came and went before Paolo Gregoletto was brought in just in time for the tour with Machine Head. Feeling so strongly about the group, their music and their dedication to their craft, Paolo left another group to be a part of Trivium. Trivium signed to Roadrunner Records after good sales of their debut and began writing songs for their new album.

By July 2004, Trivium had 80 percent of the material for Ascendancy written and fine-tuned. Then in September, the band headed into Audiohammer and Morrisound Studios. They then embarked on several tours with Machine Head, Iced Earth, Killswitch Engage, and Fear Factory. "What's cool about a tour is every night's a party," Heafy says. "It's not always because everyone's drinking, but people are getting along well and hanging out. The energy from the crowds is amazing." Staging themselves as one of the up-and-coming metal bands of today's rock world, Trivium were finally set to release their newest album.

In the year 2005 Trivium released their second album Ascendancy on their new record label Roadrunner Records. The album was released March 22. At this time Trivium was on the Roadrage 2005 US tour, featuring bands such as The Agony Scene, Still Remains and 3 Inches of Blood. Since then the band has been on a constant tour run.

Through summer the band hit the UK for Roadrage 2005 UK with Still Remains and 3 Inches of Blood for 13 dates. This tour heightened their popularity in the UK considerably during that tour building up a good reputation with Kerrang! and Metal Hammer magazines. Trivium also performed Download Festival 2005 in the UK, where they were opened on the Main Stage. Despite the early 10 AM start Trivium played a set, setting themselves as the Band of the Weekend. Kerrang! hailed their show as 'The best band of the weekend by a long mile.'

In the end of July and into August Trivium was on the road with Ozzfest 2005 playing second stage along side bands like As I lay Dying, Arch Enemy, Killswitch Engage, and Rob Zombie.

After Ozzfest the band headed back over to the UK for a headlining tour with All That Remains. From there they headed over to Japan with Arch Enemy. This was Matt's first time back in Japan since he was born. Their visit to Japan immediately boosted their far east fan base and blazed Trivium's name through the world for the first time.

After this, the band headed back to the United States and Canada for a main support tour with Children of Bodom and Amon Amarth.

In the start of 2006, the band did the main support for the Swedish band In Flames, in North America.

Trivium did their cover of Master Of Puppets for the Kerrang! Remastered 20th anniversary tribute to Metallica's album Master Of Puppets, this is the first time when Heafy showed his new style of singing. Also appearing on that album doing tributes are Machine Head, Mendeed, Bullet For My Valentine, Fightstar, Chimaira, Mastodon, and Funeral for a Friend. This was released exclusively with the issue of Kerrang! magazine, released on April 5th 2006.

The band has finished recording their new album "The Crusade" which was released on October 10th 2006. The four began writing and recording in April 2006, just after their 2006 Headlining tour "The Crusade III: Ascend Above the Ashes" tour with God Forbid, Bloodsimple and Mendeed. The band played on the main stage of the Download Festival in Donnington, UK in June 2006, beneath only Korn and Metallica.

Trivium also toured with Iron Maiden on Iron Maiden's European leg of their 2006 world tour. The dates of which Trivium appeared were from the 12th of November to the 23rd of December. During this short tour of the UK, Kerrang! 105.2 arranged one day in which Trivium was the headline band - 13th December - this was a gig where money couldn't buy tickets, instead you had to win a competition on Kerrang. It took place at the Barfly in Birmingham.

On 04/28/2006, Trivium announced a North American re-release of their hit album Ascendancy, which includes four bonus tracks, one of which is their cover of the Metallica song "Master of Puppets". It also contains reworked art, and a DVD featuring all existing music videos.

Trivium's latest album The Crusade was released in the UK on October 9th 2006. It sold over 60,000 copies on its first day of release, making it a Silver album. It was placed at #1 in the UK Rock Charts and debuted in the UK album charts at #7 . It debuted on the U.S. Billboard charts at #25. An interesting fact about The Crusade sees Matt and Corey using seven string guitars as well on a number of songs which include the tracks "This World Can't Tear Us Apart", "And Sadness Will Sear", "Becoming The Dragon", "Contempt Breeds Contamination" and the title track of the album "The Crusade".. The album is a departure from their previous sound: Heafy has abandoned his harsh metalcore scream in favor of a more melodic style of singing, and the band's style has been described as a return to the classic thrash sounds of bands such as Metallica, Testament, and Megadeth.

Trivium will be touring in 2007 .

Band members

Current members

Past members

  • Brent Young - Bass (2001-2004)
  • Brad Lewter - Vocals (2000)
  • Jarred Bonaparte - Bass (2000)
  • Matt Schuler - Guitar (2000)
  • Justin Hunt - Guitar (2003)

Discography

Studio Albums

Album Cover Date of Release Title Label US Billboard Peak UK Chart Peak US sales UK sales
2003 Trivium (EP) Self-Financed - - - -
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October 14, 2003 Ember to Inferno Lifeforce Records - - - -
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March 15, 2005 Ascendancy Roadrunner Records 151 78 145,000+ 100,000+ (Gold)
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October 10, 2006 The Crusade Roadrunner Records 25 7 200,000+ 60,000+ (Silver)

Singles

Year Title Chart Positions Album
U.S. Hot 100 U.S. Modern Rock U.S. Mainstream Rock UK Singles Chart UK Rock Singles
2005 "Like Light to the Flies" - - - - - Ascendancy
2005 "Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr" - - - - - Ascendancy
2005 "A Gunshot To The Head of Trepidation" - - - - - Ascendancy
2005 "Dying In Your Arms" - - - - - Ascendancy
2006 "Entrance of the Conflagration" - - - - - The Crusade
2006 "Anthem (We Are the Fire)" - 89 - 40 1 The Crusade
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Cover songs
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