During a recent interview with Rock Sound, Trivium frontman Matt Heafy discussed the band’s upcoming album. According to him, the effort is “arguably [their] greatest album of all time.”
Heafy said the following:
“We have [Alex Rüdinger] now on drums, who we tried to get 10 years ago, and we couldn’t get him 10 years ago. And for those 10 years, he told us that he wondered and regretted every day not being in the band. And we wondered what that was supposed to be, and now we finally have him. We’re sitting on arguably our greatest album of all time. It’s not out yet. We’re still mixing it. So I think this is a new chapter.”
He also discussed the band’s “Struck Dead” EP:
“Yeah, we originally started the ‘Struck Dead’ EP with the intent of it being part of a full record, and as plans kept shifting, things kept changing and we found ourselves evolving and growing very quickly once again, because I feel like there’s different stages of growth in life. Just like with children — they have these different brain leaps where all of a sudden they’re starting to use new words, new skills, trying new things out. I feel like as a band, we’re hitting that. And we felt inspired and started writing new material.
I remember the first day that we jammed with Rudi, we flew him in to Florida and said, ‘Okay, welcome. This is day one. You’re gonna write new music with us.’ And so from the day one where he showed up expecting to play our set for the tour coming up, he had to write new music with us, and it really blossomed from there.
When everyone sees us live [at the 2026 Download festival], they’ll see what’s happened. They’ll see this growth. They’ll see where only since we were… We played here [in the U.K.] last August [at the Bloodstock Open Air festival]. It’s a completely different Trivium now. Better than ever in every single facet of the way, and this new music is incredible. This new music, I can’t wait for the world to hear it.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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