A new EP from Trivium awaits in the wings, with the Floridian metal band expecting to roll out some new music from it in the next few weeks. The fact that the band are sitting on a batch of songs hasn’t exactly been kept secret, as bassist/vocalist Paolo Gregoletto teased several months ago that he was eager to share a new song from the band.
In a recently conducted interview with Primordial Radio, guitarist Corey Beaulieu revealed there are plans to debut a new track around the band’s performance at this year’s ‘Bloodstock Open Air‘, which is held annually at Catton Hall in Walton-on-Trent. This year’s edition will run from August 07th to 10th. Beaulieu said of that:
“Well, I guess to protect me if I say something I’m not supposed to… Basically, it’s gonna drop before… I can’t remember the exact day, but it’s supposed to come out before we play Bloodstock, ’cause we’re gonna play it at Bloodstock. So, I guess that would be anywhere the first week of August. So within that timeframe.
We’ve been hinting at this song online with clips and everything for a while, so people know it’s coming. They just don’t know exactly when. But it’s gonna be before we start this tour, so the first week of August, in that timeframe, it’s gonna drop, I believe. We’ve been filming some content and stuff to promote it, leading up to it, so there’s gonna be a lot more ramping up to totally piss everyone off, ’cause they’d been just waiting for new music. So every time you post a snippet or a clip or some kind of teaser, it makes people more mad. So it’s gonna ramp up, ’cause they just want the song.”
When asked if the band’s time spent revisiting and rehearsing for “Ascendancy” for its 20th anniversary touring this year bled into the writing sessions for these new songs, Beaulieu replied:
“…The new stuff definitely has kind of the spirit of ‘Ascendancy‘, but also a lot of kind of what we do now kind of blended in. So I think just focusing on playing ‘Ascendancy‘ definitely carried over into the writing of just trying to, I guess, capture that intensity and energy of what that record was. And when we played the stuff to some friends and stuff like that, they were just, like, ‘Oh, shit.’ This has got some pretty intense stuff. The first song coming out definitely is a very — I guess maybe the closest comparison might be ‘Rain‘, in a sense of just something right in your face, fast, very aggressive. So, it’s definitely gonna be cool.”
