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Trivium
Trivium
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Origin	Florida, United States of America
Years active	2000 – present
Members	Matt Heafy; Corey Beaulieu; Paolo Gregoletto; Travis Smith

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Trivium is a Metalcore band from Orlando, Florida. They formed in 2000 after the band's original singer saw Heafy perform The Offspring's "Self-Esteem" with a drummer at his high school talent show. Ascendancy, their debut with Roadrunner Records, peaked at #151 on the US Billboard 200 and at #4 on the US Top Heatseekers charts.

Biography

The band members chose the name Trivium, which is Latin for the intersection between the three schools of learning: grammar, rhetoric and logic, because they liked the way it implied an open-mindedness to different styles, and summed up their musical aesthetic. After a couple of gigs at parties, the original singer quit the band and Heafy took the wheel. For the next two years, the band honed its sound, and in 2002 Heafy won the Best Metal Guitarist Award at the Orlando Metal Awards. Trivium headed into the studio in the beginning of 2003 to record their first high-quality demo disc. From this, German label Lifeforce signed Trivium and sent the band into the studio to record Ember to Inferno.

After going through various lineups, the band finally found guitarist Corey Beaulieu, a dedicated death metal buff who brought a new influence to the band's sound. Landing a bassist was even more difficult. Numerous players came and went before Paolo Gregoletto was brought in just in time for the tour with Machine Head. Feeling so strongly about the group, their music and their dedication to their craft, Paolo left another group to be a part of Trivium. Trivium signed to Roadrunner Records after good sales of their debut and began writing songs for their new album.

By July 2004, Trivium had 80 percent of the material for Ascendancy written and fine-tuned. Then in September, the band headed into Audiohammer and Morrisound Studios. They then embarked on several tours with Machine Head, Iced Earth, Killswitch Engage, Fear Factory. "What's cool about a tour is every night's a party," Heafy says. "It's not always because everyone's drinking, but people are getting along well and hanging out. The energy from the crowds is amazing." Staging themselves as one of the up-and-coming metal bands of todays rock world Trivium were finally set to release their newest album.

In the year 2005 Trivium released their second album Ascendancy on their new record label Roadrunner Records. The album was released March 22. At this time Trivium was on the Roadrage 2005 US tour, featuring bands such as The Agony Scene, Still Remains and 3 Inches of Blood. Since then the band has been on a constant tour run.

Through summer the band hit the UK for Roadrage 2005 UK with Still Remains and 3 Inches of Blood for 13 dates. This tour heightened their popularity in the UK considerably during that tour building up a presitgious reputation with Kerrang! and Metal Hammer magazines. Trivium also performed Download Festival 2005 in the UK, where they were opened on the Main Stage. Despite the early 10 AM start Trivium played a set, setting themselves as the Band of the Weekend. Kerrang! hailed their show as 'The best band of the weekend by a long mile.'

In the end of July and into August Trivium was on the road with Ozzfest 2005 playing second stage along side bands like As I lay Dying, Arch Enemy, Soilwork, and Rob Zombie. Such a lineup did not strike a chord with the Ozzfest fans, who'd have rather seen such bands play Main Stage.

After Ozzfest the band headed back over to the UK for a headlining tour with All That Remains. From there they headed over to Japan with Arch Enemy. This was Matt's first time back in Japan since he was born. Their visit to Japan immeadiately boosted their far east fan base and blazed Trivium's name through the world for the first time.

After this, the band headed back to the United States and Canada for a main support tour with Children of Bodom and Amon Amarth. On this event Trivium experienced a less-than-friendly welcome by Children of Bodom fans, which was widely criticised by Trivium's ever-growing fan base.

Trivium did their cover of Master Of Puppets for the Kerrang! Remastered 20th anniversary tribute to Metallica's album Master Of Puppets, also appearing on that album doing tributes are Machine Head, Mendeed, Bullet For My Valentine, Fightstar, Chimaira, Mastodon, and Funeral For A Friend. This was released exclusively with the issue of Kerrang! magazine, released on April 5th 2006.

The band has finished recording their new album "The Crusade" which is set for an October 2006 release. The four began writing and recording in April 2006, just after their 2006 Headlining tour "The Crusade III: Ascend Above the Ashes" tour with God Forbid, Bloodsimple and Mendeed. The band played on the main stage of the Download Festival in Donnington, UK in June 2006, beneath only Korn and Metallica.

Trivium will also be touring with Iron Maiden on Iron Maiden's European leg of 2006 world tour. The dates of which Trivium will appear are from the 12th of November to the 23rd of December.

On 04/28/2006, Trivium announced a North American re-release of their hit album Ascendancy, which includes four bonus tracks, one of which is their cover of the Metallica song "Master of Puppets". It also contains reworked art, and a DVD featuring all existing music videos, as well as some concert footage.

The band have revealed that on their new album, they will be using fewer harsh vocals and sing in a way usually seen in thrash metal bands such as Metallica. They recently performed a new song, "Detonation," at many European festivals.

At the Metal Hammer Golden God Awards 2006, Trivium won 'The Best Live Band', Travis Smith won 'The Best Drummer', and Matt won the title of 'Golden God'. Matt and Corey were also entered into 'The Best Shredder' catergory, but Synyster Gates from Avenged Sevenfold walked away with that title.

Band members

Current members

Matt Heafy- Vocals, guitars (2000-)
Corey Beaulieu - Guitar, backing vocals (2003-)
Paolo Gregoletto - Bass, backing vocals (2004-)
Travis Smith - Drums (2000-)

Past members

Brent Young - Guitar (1999-2001), bass (2001-2004)
Brad Lewter - Vocals (1999)
Jarred Bonaparte - Bass (1999)
Erxhan - Guitar (1999)

Discography

Videos

"Like Light to the Flies"
"Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr"
"A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation"
"Dying in Your Arms"
"Rain"
"Anthem (We Are The Fire)" [1]
"Entrance Of The Conflagration" [2]

External links

Fansites

Album Cover	Date of Release	Title	Label	US Billboard Peak	US sales
	2003	Trivium (EP)	Self-Financed
File:Embertoinferno.jpg	October 14, 2003	Ember to Inferno	Lifeforce Records
File:TriviumAscendancy.jpg	March 15, 2005	Ascendancy	Roadrunner Records	151	140,000+
File:TriviumTheCrusade.jpg	October 10, 2006	The Crusade	Roadrunner Records

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   years_active      = [[2000]] &ndash; present |
   origin            = [[Florida]], [[United States of America]] |
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+  music_genre       = [[Metal]]|
   record_label      = [[Roadrunner Records]] |
   current_members   = [[Matt Heafy]]<br />[[Corey Beaulieu (Trivium)|Corey Beaulieu]]<br />[[Paolo Gregoletto]]<br />[[Travis Smith (musician)|Travis Smith]] |}}