It’s not hyperbole to say that Trivium’s new record is the best album they’ve released in a decade. What The Dead Men Say (the follow-up to 2017’s The Sin And The Sentence) sees them embrace their unabashed love for all things metallic, exploring the melodies and extremes in varying forms of heaviness. “We wanted to make sure that we made a strong follow-up to the last record,” bassist and lyricist Paolo Gregoletto tells Kerrang!. “Alex [Bent, new drummer] being in the band has given us a new fire and energy. We wanted to have fun making this record but we wanted it to live up to the last one, and I think a lot of fans thought that was a return to us doing the thing that people love about Trivium – whether it’s heavy or big melodies or riffing...
