History Music / Trivium

Trivium are a [[GenreBusting Sub-Genre Busting]] Metal band originating from Florida. Considering where they come from, however, they have surprisingly little DeathMetal influence.[[note]]This largely depends on the record, though. While most of their albums only have a few trace elements of the genre aside from common thrash tropes, ''Ember to Inferno'', ''Shogun'', and ''In the Court of the Dragon'' have noticeable overt influences from it, and Matt is a fan of the genre and has a close relationship with the scene as a whole, evidenced through much of his session and production work. He was also in a death metal band himself (Capharnaum).[[/note]]

Trivium are a [[GenreBusting Sub-Genre Busting]] Metal band originating from Florida. Considering where they come from, however, they have surprisingly little DeathMetal influence.

* VocalEvolution: Matt's clean singing has changed quite a bit overtime. They were originally slightly whinier (for lack of a better description) and pop-punk esque on their first two albums. On ''The Crusade'' he had a half-sung-half-shouted rasp similar to James Hetfield's singing voice, which returned on ''Shogun'' along with the o

* LighterAndSofter: ''Vengeance Falls'' cuts down on the HarshVocals and features several songs with a more HardRock sound. ''Silence in the Snow'' goes even further, consisting solely of clean singing and eliminating all metalcore influences in favor of a classic HeavyMetal sound.

** ''Vengeance Falls'' goes back to a sound somewhere between ''Ascendancy'' and ''The Crusade'' and throws in a whole lot of modern rock elements.

* TeenGenius: Matt Heafy was in his mid-teens when he joined the band and was also playing shows with Mindscar here and there around the same time, was only 17 when he tracked and released ''Ember to Inferno'', and was 18 when he tracked ''Ascendancy'' (and turned 19 shortly before it was released), while Paolo was days away from turning 19 when he tracked ''Ascendancy'' and didn't turn 20 until well into its touring cycle. Alex Bent was also extremely young when he got his start, as he was playing in the Modesto Junior College Jazz Band at fifteen, joined Hatriot at sixteen, and was barely out of high school when he joined Arkaik in 2011.

* MetalScream: Matt Heafy has a very recognizable Type 1 that is a very hoarse roar. He is also capable of Type 2s, but has so far only used them in Capharnaum and on the ''Shogun'' bonus track "Upon the Shores".

Lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist and main songwriter Matt Heafy (arguably the FaceOfTheBand) joined in 1999, after impressing then vocalist Brad Lewter with a cover of the Offspring's "Self Esteem" at a high school talent show. The name Trivium had been decided before he arrived. No one in the band really knows its meaning (other than the literal Trivium of Studies) but they've kept it due to [[RuleofCool Rule of Cool]], and Matt later went on record to say that it was something of an allusion to their mix of thrash metal, melodic death metal, and pop-punk.[[note]]"Trivium" means something like "crossroad" or "intersection" in Latin[[/note]].

** "Kirisute Gomen". The title originally meant "Authorization to cut and leave," meaning that Samurai had the right to strike down a member of the lower class who was compromising the Samurai's honor. A more literal translation often provided in modern times is "I apoligize in advance for striking you down."

* SpiritualSuccessor: They were positioned as one of these to Music/{{Metallica}} back around ''The Crusade'' due to their turn towards a more ThrashMetal-inspired sound, but they largely abandoned that approach with ''Shogun'' due to their displeasure with how ''The Crusade'' turned out. On an internal basis, ''In the Court of the Dragon'' is something of this to ''Shogun'', with a similarly ProgressiveMetal-inspired approach.

* BadassBaritone: Matt pulls this trope off nicely.

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While it can still be considered a NewSoundAlbum in its own right, it's best to imagine 2008's ''Shogun'' as taking everything from ''The Crusade'' and cranking it UpToEleven. (Considering what could be said to be the simplicity of concept in ''Ascendancy'' then SerialEscalation). The songs were longer, faster, and more technical, all of which could be said about the guitar solos as well; screaming was re-incorporated; the 7-strings were used on at least half of the songs; and even the 8-minute instrumental album closer [[EpicRocking "The Crusade"]] from the previous album was taken to its logical extreme on ''Shogun'' with ''its'' title track, an 11-minute song (with vocals) that's even more progressive than "The Crusade" (though not as technically difficult to perform, which is part of the reason "The Crusade" was an instrumental to begin with, according to WordOfGod).

* {{Harmony}}: This happens on guitars a lot. "But it's metal!", You say. No. They do it [[UpToEleven more than Iron frikkin' Maiden]].

!!In the Tropes of the Dragon: