Trivium Craft 30 Songs for New Album
TRIVIUM have over 30 songs racked up and ready for their next album. Matt Heafy spoke out about a few things to our buddies at Metal Sucks:
Do you have a ProTools rig on the bus?
I’ve been using Apple Logic which I’m absolutely in love with. What’s amazing about Apple Logic is that you can do synthetic guitars. So I’ve been doing full Trivium songs: drums, guitar, guitar, vocal, and I put piano and bass guitar. It’s purely all digital. I haven’t had to use a real guitar at all. It’s stuff that I write beforehand, and then I transpose on this because it’s easier because I don’t have to bring my guitar in. It sounds real convincing. You pick your guitar tone, what kind of guitar body, what kind of amp, and you do all kinds of different stuff. I love it man. Just the other day on Logic I programmed (I don’t have any classical music training or theory, but I always wanted to make a classical music song) one yesterday on the day off. It was a lot of fun. Logic has these templates where you can pick [for example] an electronic song, or country song, and I picked a classical song and you get all the instruments you need to make a symphony. So I was able to do a full symphonic song.
Might any symphonic stuff make it on the next Trivium record?
Probably an intro and outro. I’m thinking of someday making a side project thing where I do every style of music ever and make fake band names/fake record labels. Like Tomorrow is Monday, my emo band from Orange County I do when I’m 16. My black metal band is Ocular Symfernum which means “the eye of hell”.
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Ok I never post on crap. But damn something needs to be said. Shitty old Trivium working with shitty old Logic. Not the Logic sucks anywhere near as bad as Trivium, but come on use Pro Tools. I have spent significant time with both programs, I’m even a certified Logic user. But for the price($500) plus if you want to use good speakers and an audio interface. Just go buy an Mbox for around $350 and get a full version of Pro Tools LE. Plus Apple rips you off, software(full version) $500, cert test $175 you need 80% to pass, don’t pass pay again. You reward for passing an email so you can print a piece of paper or you can give Apple more money for them to send it framed. Pro Tools: software $300, tests $30 you need 90% to pass, plus one free try for every test. You need to pass 4 tests to get certified, but you get free plug-ins and you get to choose them. Anyway back to Trivium, dumb for using Logic. Completely retarded to write music in it. Watch Trivium use the free Apple loops like many popular R&B artists today. If you need to use Logic to write any kind of metal or rock than you fucking suck. Leave the non talented writing to L.A.. Any credibility they might have had, if any, is gone.
One more thing, ProTools sounds and works better! Plus you don’t need to pay the price of an apple comp.
You miss the point: Trivium will suck either way.
Look, the guys can play their instruments, but this 30 song bullshit is merely just an attempt to make the new album sound like something significant.
And it’s not just Trivium who is guilty of this. Bands do this all the time – “We have 473575 songs written and it’s just a matter of picking which ones…blah blah blah” or “this album is honestly the greatest thing we have ever done” or “we’re going back to our roots on this one man”…if you read too much into this, you’ve lost the game already. Start again.
Oh fuck off assholes Trivum are one of the only real metal bands left
30 songs? That’s 30 songs too many. I want a new Agalloch album.