One Night Stand: Trivium
» Big Day Out 2007 - Princes Park South, VIC - January 28, 2007
For those who don’t know, metal power house Trivium are currently on their media tour to promote their up coming album Shogun, playing one headlining show in Sydney and includes roughly two days of interviews and TV appearances. Bassist Palao Gregoletto took time out of the bands busy schedule to chat about the new album and the reason behind the Trivium/Australia one night stand.
The reason for this one off and unexpected show was simply; “We don’t have a new album yet so we didn’t want to come out of the gate and start play a shit load of new stuff and do a full tour in support of nothing. We’re kind of in limbo right now, in between albums, so we’re going to do a full one next year and I’m sure we’ll be back more than once.”
This is great news for anyone who has recently jumped on the Trivium bandwagon or missed there last few shows in Australia and Palao explains to me that even though they’ve only been here twice before, the night before’s show was relatively easy.“Last night was a very comfortable set. Surprisingly I think we all had a very, very good show, sometimes one person might be having some trouble with gear and stuff but everything went smooth and it was very natural and it felt good playing a headlining show down here again.”
Demoing new tracks off the album, Trivium have been opening with Kirisute Gomen, and for a tour that has been based around nothing the response has been outstanding. “It’s been great, we’ve only done new stuff in Japan and Australia but it was great and fit right into the set. Anytime you play new stuff, especially ones that aren’t online yet or heard, it doesn’t settle down, people don’t know how to react, you don’t know what’s coming next, you just want to watch. The new songs that have been online, kids know the parts, you can tell they’ve been listening a lot.”
After three albums many fans may be wondering what’s left in the band and I was interested to find out if the fast fingered guitarists had any plans on pushing the boundaries of playing skills but this doesn’t seem to be the case, and I started to learn that this band was really starting to settle into what they wanted to become.
“When we write we write from the heart…when we wrote this album we wanted to define what Trivium is...I think we really nailed exactly what we were going for which is to define our sound. We just wanted to push ourselves to write the best songs. We’re not a band that’s all technical and we’re not a band that’s all melodic. It’s a good mix in there. We do what the song calls for and I think the main thing is that each of us stay on top of our instrument and make sure that we can play good and do what the song calls for. Personally when I write riffs, I kind of just go with it, I don’t say I want to write a fast part here, I don’t want to just do this. What would sound good next? Not, we need to have this because we’re this. It’s not very regimented like that for me or when we get into rehearsal either, we kind of just go with the flow.”
Anyone who has listened to the demos on myspace will agree that Shogun is shaping up to be an impressive album that ties in nicely with the brutal sounds of The Crusade and more melodic toning of Ascendancy. “I can’t wait for people to hear it mixed, its way fucking better. The rough tracks are cool and stuff but you can really hear everything with the mix, it’s good.”
Shogun will be available everywhere from September 30.
