Metal Anarchy

During an interview with GoetiaMedia, Trivium’s Corey Beaulieu discussed Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine’s plans to celebrate the 20th anniversaries of “Ascendancy” and “The Poison” on “The Poisoned Ascendancy” tour. The guitarist says Trivium are looking forward to “playing those songs and getting that energy from the fans and kind of channeling that into new music.”

Beaulieu said the following when asked if the band are planning any other anniversary celebrations:

“We’ve seen over the years that a lot of bands, doing anniversary tours has been kind of like, I guess, a popular thing to do. Some bands have done it 10 years after a record came out or whatever, and we always just kind of thought that, ‘Hey, if people still care after 20 years, that’ll be like the time to think about doing something’ and whatever. So, especially ‘Ascendancy’ our first big thing that kind of people heard of us, so that kind of made a big impact, so we figured ‘Ascendancy’ was a good record to do it on. Some of our records probably we wouldn’t.

We did a little thing on our last U.K. tour. It was the ‘Shogun’ 15th anniversary and we played a couple of extra songs from it. But ‘Shogun’, I’m sure there’d be a lot of fans that would love for us to play that record from start to finish, but that record is so musically demanding that I don’t know if I could manage wanting to do a whole tour of playing just that record. I’d probably just be mentally exhausted. But, no, it’s cool to do this record ’cause it was so special of a record for us and the fans. We have a lot of records that’ll be turning 20 — ‘The Crusade’ turns 20 the year after, and then ‘Shogun’ and stuff like that — but we’ll be probably back into focusing on new music. But there’ll be some cool stuff for anniversary stuff coming out that people can collect and buy, but probably spending a year of touring for another record is not gonna be something that’s gonna be popping up anytime soon. So this is a kind of our one-time thing for now. I know BULLET, talking to them, I know they’re in the same boat, like, once we get done doing this anniversary run together, they’ve been in the studio. [The plan is to get] some new tunes and stuff out and kind of moving on to the next record. But it’s gonna be exciting. I think playing a record like ‘Ascendancy’ on tour and the energy of the crowd, we’re definitely looking forward to kind of channeling that, playing those songs and getting that energy from the fans and kind of channeling that into new music and hopefully capture some of that intensity from the tour and project that back into a new record that people will be pumped on.”

[via Blabbermouth]