Despite beginning their career amid the height of nü-metal’s dominance, Trivium stayed the course, avoiding implementing the then mainstream sounds of that genre into their sound. Bassist/vocalist Paolo Gregoletto has given some potential insight as to why they didn’t attempt to cash in, stating for his part that he wasn’t a fan of much of what the genre had to offer.
Presumably spurred by these differing comments recently made by Asking Alexandria‘s Ben Bruce, Gregoletto took to Twitter today, July 06th to offer his own take on the genre:
Nu metal, as a whole, was a very very bad genre. Once you get past the first layer or two of big bands that survived it gets very grim. Anyone saying otherwise is a sicko.
— Paolo Gregoletto (@TriviumPaolo) July 6, 2023
I think you could take pretty much any other genre of metal down to the local level and still be like yea that’s very good. Hell shit in the local scenes of 1999-2001
— Paolo Gregoletto (@TriviumPaolo) July 6, 2023
