Triviumin kitaristi kertoo yhtyeen päätöksestä nauhoittaa tuleva albumi faneilta salassa

Yhdysvaltalainen metalliyhtye Trivium julkaisee uuden ”Silence In The Snow” -nimisen albuminsa lokakuun 2. päivä RoadRunner Recordsin kautta. Yhtyeen kitaristi Corey Beaulieu on antanut yhtyeen tulevan albumin tiimoilta haastattelun Bloodstock Open Airissa Jägermeisterille, jossa kitaristi on kommentoinut niin yhtyeen päätöstä nauhoittaa albumi salassa faneiltaan kuin myös yhtyeen tulevan albumin musiikillista suuntausta. Voit lukea Coreyn mietteitä bändin tulevasta albumista tästä:

”Going into it, we pretty much talked about just going silent, not talking about it. Pretty much, over the years, just seeing all these other bands, and just everyone that just has gotten so sucked in to social media and Instagram, and just constantly tweeting every dumb thing on their mind, or every little thing they’re doing, and posting pictures of shit, or bands that are just posting pictures, like, ’In the studio working on the best thing we’ve ever done.’ And that’s not exciting to me. It just kind of seems like spewing a bunch of bullshit just to get people to pay attention. And it also kind of… When you’re constantly just posting little stupid things that really don’t matter, it kind of dullens [sic] the effect of when something matters comes out. If you just keep tagging people on, dropping little breadcrumbs to make ’em follow, the end result doesn’t seem as exciting to me. So we decided to not say anything, not post anything, not even say we were making a record. We just made the record, and we were, like, ’No one’s gonna hear anything about what we’re doing until something’s coming out.’ So that’s what we did. And a lot of people didn’t know anything. Like, we put the video [for the ’Silence In The Snow’ title track] out there, and [people were] absolutely blindsided. And it seems to be work, because the new video we put out just kind of surprised people. It got tons of traffic. It’s already over half a million views since it came out just over a week ago. So it was kind of like we went away and we didn’t constantly badger people, so when we did come back, people weren’t fed up with constantly hearing, ’Ah, I’m making a peanut butter sandwich. I’m gonna write some riffs later.’ I have a personal life, and it’s, like, I don’t need to tell everybody what I’m doing to get people to pat me on the back or talk about me. So I kind of stopped using all that stuff; I only use it, really, to promote something that the band does. I kind of got sucked into it for a little while, where I used it a lot, and then I just kind of got sick of how people were so… It’s like talking about what you’re doing on Twitter is, like, the most important thing you can do. And it’s just, like, no one really gives a shit.”

Keskusteltaessa yhtyeen musiikillisista vaikutteista tulevalle albumille Corey kertoili seuraavaa:

”The inspiration for the record was from our listening to our favorite bands and our heroes and just kind of seeing, like, what made those records so special in the history of music, and how were those records constructed, vibe-wise or song styles… really analyzing why [IRON MAIDEN’s] ’The Number Of The Beast’ is, like, one of the best records ever, or [DIO’s] ’Holy Diver’, or RAINBOW. We used that as our inspiration, because we felt like metal bands really don’t make records like that anymore, unless you’re bands from that era; you just don’t have the uniqueness in the sound and the songs. Everyone uses the same fucking drum samples and this or that, and they mix everything the same way; there’s no dynamics, ’cause they master it so loud that when you turn it up, it hurts. And we just kind of used it as… What everyone does now for metal, or the way they make metal, it was kind of, like, [let’s] not do that — let’s do the exact opposite and make a record that breathes and has dynamics and has the variety in songs, from your short, straight-to-the-point song to something that has a little bit more elaboration in it. So it’s pretty much, from since we started, all the practice and hours of playing and writing songs. It’s kind of, like, ten years of creation and touring and everyting, and developing our skills, has brought us to being able to make this record. This record is something we wouldn’t, vocally or musically, have been able to do at any other point in our career, and have been able to… the end result be what it is. So it’s kind of a culmination of our career of things we did well, things we tried that maybe didn’t do well. It’s like the learning process to get to the point. It’s got the feel of classic metal, but also it sounds very modern and has… it’s very identifiable to who we are. So I think it’s definitely… We put out the one song [so far], but it’s definitely a record from… The amount of people that we’ve played it to, it’s a record that’s kind of like start to finish — every song’s needed to create the whole piece, ’cause each song brings its own vibe and character to the overall record… We came up with the whole concept and the whole endgame of what we wanted the record to be, and we didn’t waver from that idea and wrote what the record needed. And we had some extra songs, but we were, like, ’Those aren’t it,’ so we dropped it, ’cause we wanted to have each song represent a different part of the record. And that was also the point of listening to all those other records. Each song has its purpose, and it’s not just like filler or this or that. You have the dark, fucked-up-lyric-type song that’s just really one way, and then you have another song that’s very uplifting and triumphant that’s the other direction. And then you have the slower, darker, ballady song. But everything fits together really well; it’s the perfect cohesion of music. So we can’t wait for it to actually come out, so everyone can hear the full vision of what we were looking to create, not just make ten songs and put it out there. We had a bigger goal in mind with making the record than just… To us, the last record was kind of that; it was just, like, ’just write a bunch of songs we think sound cool and work on that.’ And this one had a lot more… There was a lot more planning and vision with what we wanted it to achieve.”