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Trivium Biography

The heavy metal band known as Trivium was established in Orlando, Florida in 2000. Founding members and high school students Matt Heafy, Brad Lewter, and Travis Smith began performing around the central Florida area in local clubs and bars, until the musicians had raised enough funds to support studio sessions to record their demo. 

Trivium’s demo garnered the attention of the German record label Lifeforce, and the band signed with the label in 2004. After some changes to the lineup, the band released Ember to Inferno to moderate success, garnering interest from Roadrunner Records, and Trivium returned to the studio to record Ascendancy, which was released in 2005. The group’s sophomore effort brought them to a slow and steady rise, and paved the way for Trivium’s breakthrough the following year.

The Crusade was released in 2006, and this time the album rose well into the top forty on the mainstream album charts. A supporting tour alongside Metallica and Iron Maiden followed, and since that time Trivium’s unique blend of metalcore, melodic death metal, and groove metal has made the group among the most notable New Wave Heavy Metal groups of the era. The band’s list of influences is long, and includes such iconic bands as Guns N’ Roses, Megadeth, Judas Priest, and Def Leppard, but Trivium has been successful in carving out its own niche in the music world, with an ever-growing fan base.

Since the Crusade, Trivium has released the albums Shogun (2008), In Waves (2011), and Vengeance Falls (2013), finally reaching album sales exceeding one million worldwide. The albums have spawned the hit singles “Anthem (We Are the Fire),” “The Rising,” “In Waves,” “Built to Fall,” “Black,” and “Strife.” Trivium continues to perform and record, with the current lineup of Matt Heafy, Corey Beaulieu, and Paolo Gregoletto.