Since releasing The Sin and The Sentence in 2017, Trivium have been kicking out the jams, issuing b-sides and cover songs. Now, another fresh track has emerged, dubbed "Catastrophist" along with the news of the band's ninth full length album, What the Dead Men Say, which will be out April 24 on Roadrunner Records.
"What the Dead Men Say is everything that is Trivium," explains frontman Matt Heafy. "On this album, one can hear the proper ingredients of past, present, and future Trivium. The Trivium sound is having everything the band does — on one album."
Guitarist Corey Beaulieu added, "We wanted to build on the foundation that we established with the last album. The record has all the elements that are Trivium — along with all of us wanting to keep pushing ourselves creatively. This led to a highly-inspired and fast-paced writing and recording process that really captures the energy of the band."
While it's coming up on three years since Trivium last released an album, Heafy has been a busy dude. The frontman has transitioned into fatherhood as he and his wife welcomed the arrival of twins in late 2018 and has kept immensely busy at home, covering songs online at fans' request.
Heafy also laid down guest vocals on a song with Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta as well as with Denmark's Cabal. Meanwhile, Trivium kept a string of songs coming with covers of Dead Kennedy's "Kill the Poor," Type O Negative's "I Don't Wanna Be Me" and Portuguese pop star Toy's "Coração Não Tem Idade (Vou Beijar)" and originals in "Drowning in the Sound" and a re-recording of the Ember to Inferno cut "Pillars of Serpents."
Some extra Trivium content from the upcoming album can be found on this Mortal Kombat 11 Spawn announcement trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM8MAeKdkP4
Thanks for the tip. Do you happen to know which song is playing in the trailer ?
“IX” and “Scattering The Ashes”
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/mortal-kombat-11s-new-spawn-dlc-trailer-features-t/1100-6474521/
It’s two songs, actually. Going off of regular Trivium album structure, the music playing during the character intro and in the outro is “IX”, and the music playing during the MEAT of the video is “Scattering The Ashes”. It was confirmed to be those two songs by Heathy on his twitter.
(Sorry for the double post mods, meant to post this as a reply to KEVIN.)
Bits of “IX” and “Scattering the Ashes” with the vocals taken out.
Thanx to the both of you for the help. :) Man I love the Catastrophist. Been listening to that one over & over again. Still not sick of it. :)
Album of the year coming our way. Can’t fucking wait!
Really wish this would leak already!
It should leak soon!!! Maybe tomorrow 🤞🏼
Catastrophist is a great track and Amongst the Shadows & the Stones is a headbanger!
Will have to listen to it a couple more times, but i’m not really digging it that much. The 3 songs that are out are literally the best off the album (i loved those).
“The Defiant” sounds straight out off Ascendancy so i guess that will excite some people, but i don’t really care much about that album.
I really liked the breakdown in “Sickness Unto You” and the singing in “The Ones We Leave Behind” is really good and rough. Aside from that the album is pretty forgettable in my opinion.
I’m looking forward to see what you guys think.