Trivium-vokalisti Matt Heafyn toissavuotiset ääniongelmat saivat yhtyeen pelkäämään tulevaisuuttaan
Yhdysvaltalaisen metallia soittavan Triviumin basisti Paolo Gregoletto kertoo Artisan Newsille yhtyeen pelänneen tulevaisuuttaan vokalisti Matt Heafyn kärsittyä ääniongelmista 2014. Yhtye joutui perumaan keikkojaan, kun Heafy menetti äänensä konsertin lopussa. Tauon jälkeen hän joutui opettelemaan laulutekniikoita uudelleen, eikä viime vuonna julkaistulla ”Silence In The Snow” -nimisellä levyllä kuulla lainkaan yhtyeelle ominaista huutolaulua. Gregoletto kertoo:
”Matt had a big scare a couple of years ago when we had to cancel a few shows.”
”We thought maybe he hurt his voice. Thankfully, it was kind of just overuse. We played a show at, like, ten o’clock the night before and then we were playing at twelve o’clock in the afternoon the next day. And Matt’s voice was toast, and we had to cancel. And he had to re-learn a lot of techniques.”
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”Honestly, the one big thing with [’Silence In The Snow’] is we didn’t have the screaming. But that was always a question: Is Matt’s screaming gonna come back? And if we don’t get Matt screaming again on the old stuff, do we wanna make a record that features it so prominently that we’re gonna have problems pulling this off live? So that was kind of a question in the back of our minds. It wasn’t the only thing that made us have this record have just the heavy singing, but that was definitely… I mean, at least in my mind, I’m, like, ’This could change our band forever, if he can’t do that stuff.’ Because then Corey [Beaulieu, guitar] is gonna have to really… He’s already picking up so much of the slack with Matt not being able to scream. And there was a technique [Matt] learned, but it was gonna take time, and there was no guarantee that he was gonna get it. And now, within the last three [or] four months, it finally clicked, and Matt is able to do pretty much 99 percent of the stuff he was doing before. And now that kind of presents us with the opportunity of going forward with the record. Now we don’t have to worry as much about it. If we wanna put screams in songs, it’s not, like, ’Well, Matt’s not gonna be able to do it.’ It would suck to have it and then can’t do it live. Now we can do it again. But at the time, it was definitely a question.”
Yhtye oli epävarma vanhojen kappaleiden livenä esittämisestä, kun Heafy joutui opettelemaan uusia tekniikoita säästääkseen ääntään:
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”A lot of the old stuff with the screaming, you need two people to really pull off a lot of the call-and-response. And there was a point where Corey was doing like the majority… It sucked for the setlist, because we couldn’t… If we put too much stuff in there, it was just like… Matt’s not the lead singer at that point; then it’s mainly Corey doing a lot of screams and Matt jumping in here and there for some singing.”
”I was definitely a little worried at the time. You have all these songs that people wanna see, and it’s frustrating not to be able to do it, and it’s not Matt’s fault, because he had to just learn this new technique, ’cause the doctors were, like, ’If you keep doing this, you’re gonna have a problem. It’s not repairable, and then you’re done.’ And then you can’t hold that against Matt for being in that position. We were doing what we were doing, and you have to make that change. And to do it with a new record coming up, it was definitely a little bit stressful.”
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