TRIVIUM Frontman Says Touring Is 'Not As Glamorous As Everyone Thinks'

TRIVIUM frontman Matt Heafy recently spoke to Northern Ireland's News Letter about the group's meteoric rise to their current status one of the hottest heavy metal bands around.

"You're in close quarters with everyone all the time," Heafy said about the touring lifestyle. "It's not as glamorous as everyone thinks but it's worth it to do what you do. I had a pretty good idea that it would be like this."

While there is the thrill of playing to packed arenas where everyone knows the words to all of your songs, the rock-star lifestyle does have its down side.

"If you want privacy, and you're trying to walk around to shop or go to the toilet, you have a bunch of people chasing after you," Matt said.

"It's not a bad thing because they're supporting your band and you do owe them the time of day.

"But if you're looking for complete privacy, if you're in a bad mood or something, and people come up to you smiling because it's you, it is difficult to turn off your bad mood."

TRIVIUM are still young enough on paper to be considered immature.

But Matt is surprisingly adult in his outlook and, while he may be dismissive of growing older, he has evolved as an artist.

"Being 20 is the same as being 19, it's just there's no teen in the number anymore. I was on the road, nothing really special happened, didn't really get anything for my birthday. It was another day, another show."

It's a sign of a band who are focused, and more concerned with achievements rather than the material rewards that go with them: "We're on a career path; the goal from the beginning has been to become the biggest band in the world, and we're working for it every day." With their nods to the great bands of metal's golden era, which was some two decades ago, do TRIVIUM wish they had been around then rather than the present day?

"I think bands in the 1980s were much bigger, especially metal bands," Matt said.

"It's building up again in the present day but it did look, back in the '80s that, if you were doing the right type of thing, you were tremendous.

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