Trivium

Trivium come out of Orlando, Florida, and they play heavy metal the way it used to be built: thrash riffs going off like nail guns, twin-guitar harmonies, and choruses big enough to hear from the back of an arena. The creative core has held steady for two decades: Matt Heafy on lead vocals and guitar, Corey Beaulieu on guitar since 2003, and Paolo Gregoletto on bass since 2004. The drum stool, on the other hand, has seen a steady procession, from Travis Smith through Nick Augusto, Mat Madiro and Alex Bent to Alex Rüdinger, who arrived in October 2025.

Their debut, Ember to Inferno, was their only album for Lifeforce Records; from 2004 on they've been a Roadrunner band. In Waves in 2011 is where the melodic metalcore of their early years snapped into sharper focus, with a title track that pairs bludgeoning grooves with a stadium-sized hook. Vengeance Falls, Silence in the Snow and The Sin and the Sentence kept pushing, the last of them bringing back the full-throttle aggression on "The Heart from Your Hate", and In the Court of the Dragon, their tenth album, arrived in 2021 with "Feast of Fire". Along the way they've sold more than a million albums and picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance with "Betrayer".

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