Triviumin Corey Beaulieu: ”Siirtyminen takaisin raskaampaan soundiin oli luonnollista”

Floridalaisen metalliyhtye Triviumin kitaristi Corey Beaulieu on antanut hiljattain haastattelun Peck´s Metal Picksille, jossa häneltä on kysytty, miltä yhtyeestä tuntui siirtyä takaisin raskaampaan soundiin tuoreella”The Sin And The Sentence” -albumilla edellisen hieman kevyemmän ”Silence in The Snow” -albumin jälkeen. Beaulieun mukaan ratkaisu tuntui yhtyeestä luonnolliselta bändin kitaristi-laulaja Matt Heafyn saatua äänihuulensa kuntoon ja opeteltua uuden tekniikan huutamista varten:

”Matt [Heafy, vocals/guitar] was able to scream again after learning a new technique. After getting Alex [Bent] playing drums and having that element where there were no limitations on what we can play, and after touring and playing a lot of the old stuff, it just felt like it was what we wanted to do. We wanted to play some heavy stuff, but also have the aggression and stuff that we’ve done in the past and also have all the big, melodic stuff. It’s using everything that makes up our sound and utilizing it all on the same record.”

Kysyttäessä, oliko outoa, että yhtye siirtyi takaisin raskaampaan soundiin edellisen ”Silence in The Snow” -albumin jäljiltä, kertoi Beaulieu seuraavaa:

”No, it was very natural. When writing, that stuff came out easy. Nothing is really ever forced. At the time of making a record, you go with what feels right and what’s inspiring you. As I said, we just wanted to play some heavy stuff and play some aggressive stuff. We kind of felt the fans, obviously, from all the past records, not having screaming on the previous record, we just knew that’s an element of our sound that people really like what we do, kind of having the meshing of aggression and melody all smashed together. We’ve, over the years, experimented with what we can do with our sound and utilized everything that we’ve learned on every record and tried to make a cohesive record that utilizes every aspect of our sound from having stuff that’s really aggressive, then some songs, having more focus on some of the melodic elements. Then songs, obviously, that have a marriage of both. It’s very natural for us to write like that because that’s just the music we play and write very easily. We just wanted to write, obviously, just make a record that I think would really sum up everything that we’ve done until this point.”