TRIVIUM Frontman: 'We Want To Reach As Many New People As Possible'

August 25, 2006

In England, TRIVIUM are genuine rock stars, reports Revolver magazine (web site). They've played the main stage at the Download festival (with only KORN and METALLICA following them) and will open for IRON MAIDEN on their upcoming stadium tour. But in the U.S., they've still got something to prove, which may explain why they've worked so hard to make sure their upcoming album, "The Crusade", is something no one can deny. "We've stepped it up in every department — playing, songwriting, lyrics," says frontman Matt Heafy. "We want to reach as many new people as possible."

Their most diverse disc yet, "The Crusade" is blazing and thrashy, but it also features a track Heafy describes as a "cross between SKID ROW and MÖTLEY CRÜE" and one that's a "DEF LEPPARD vs. Southern rock kind of thing." And it boasts plenty of technical complexity. "It's pure pyrotechnic craziness," Heafy says. "[Guitarist] Corey [Beaulieu] has 20 solos, I have 19, our bass player Paolo [Gregoletto] has four. So many bands recently have been afraid to play leads, so we tried to make up for them by bringing that back in a big way."

"The Crusade" track listing:

01. Ignition
02. Detonation
03. Entrance of the Conflagration
04. Anthem (We are the Fire) (audio)
05. Unrepentant
06. And Sadness Will Sear
07. Becoming the Dragon
08. To The Rats
09. This World Can't Tear Us Apart
10. Tread the Floods
11. Contempt Breeds Contamination
12. The Rising
13. The Crusade

"The Crusade" is scheduled for release on October 10 via Roadrunner Records.

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