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Lead vocalist Matt Heafy tells WatchMojo more about the band's origins and how pop music from the likes of Kelly Clarkson can influence a band like theirs.
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Trivium Band Lead Vocalist Matt Heafy Interview Host: Known for complicated risks and distinct vocals this metal band also produces meaningful lyrics. Hi, I’m Rebecca Braden and welcome to watchmojo.com our host Eric got the chance to chat with lead vocalist Matt from Trivium Eric: We always like to start with a brief introduction of what the band is about or how it came together. Matt Heafy: I was asked to try out for this band called Trivium that has been existing for about 2 weeks before I joined. Started playing with the band in 1999 when I was about 12 13 years old we kept on making demos and touring around just Florida never really outside of the country or outside the state even got start on life force records on 2003, got start the road record in 2004, started touring in April 2004 and have been in tour ever since. Eric: If you had to introduce the band style to people who have never heard you what would you say and I mean feel free to apply to some genres or not. Matt Heafy: there are so many genres nowadays and even when I was when I was a kid before tripping outside I used to get obsessed with genres and I would call everything every specific names it’s, it’s almost naming species of plants nowadays with how ridiculous genres are getting. The further how goes with our band is the same metal because we draw from the different sub-genres of it of itself but it was to respect to that but I mean we’re not definitely a country band or a rap band or punk band or hard core band but it’s a metal band at the root. Eric: You’ve been quoted in the past as saying that your influences range from Slayer to Iron Maiden those we can we can hear that you’ve also mentioned in some interviews that Beatles or even like Kelly Clarkson so— Matt Heafy: Yeah. Eric: Would you want to tell us how that applies to summary. Matt Heafy: Yeah Kelly not so much these days I was I was listening to her during the Crusade Sessions no that it sounds like it at all well maybe unlike the two of the songs. All good music is good music no matter what it is. No matter what style it is if you like it then it’s okay if you’re like black metal or a death metal kid and you like pop it’s okay. I mean sure your friends might think nothing is cool but it’s okay. When I started off like I was in the black metal at 15-16 I basically only liked it if was the most obscure band that no one could pronounce or say or knew where is it from or it was the most evil satanic band you can find but nowadays it’s all about the song. Eric: You know on you tube a lot of fans and people just screaming around making mash ups and stuffs like that how do you feel that stuff like that in the internet culture and general effects your career bands careers? Matt Heafy: I like to think that stuff helps you know because people just check on their friend stuff maybe will listen to it hey what’s this I remember that that Parry thing that pull hard I think a lot of people in our band I thought that thing was hilarious I love that oh what’s so ironic about is that really doesn’t like our band apparently but we love that thing like we got fans who like actually like make the boat rudder thing and like hold it up like a sing and shit. Eric: You want tell us kind of where your head was at when you guys wrote Shogun? Matt Heafy: it went amazing I mean we wanted something to tide in everything we’ve done that had parts of everything we’ve done it was a kind of record that we need to make so when the sun as he came out it definitely established our band as that sound and we have a strict fan base. Crusade was such a drastic departure that consciously made up the exact opposite of the tendency and then I think Shogun brought everyone back together. We need to just nail what our sound is because the last few records they’ll sound like us but stylistically it’s a little different here and there from time to time and we want this next one to be tribute and sound making it up that song as possible and whether you like metal or not with you get metal or not you can get this record. We also want to be multilingual because we spend a lot of the time hitting not speaking English countries where English is the main is the main language we wanted to be lyrically something that anyone could hold on to anyone who could understand or at least get the essence of the song in their minds, they can sing along and have a good time with it so our next record is gonna be the best thing we’ve ever done for sure. Eric: thanks a lot for meeting with us. Matt Heafy: Appreciate it.
