It’s been well documented that Trivium faced a considerable backlash following their breakthrough in 2005, with frontman Matt Heafy explaining that UK press in particular overhyped the band to such a degree on their Ascendency cycle that they were then hated by many of their peers (indeed, even Kerrang! touted the Floridians as ‘the hottest metal band of the century’ on a magazine cover at the time). And in a new chat with Machine Head’s Robb Flynn on the frontman’s No Fuckin’ Regrets podcast, Matt details how Trivium had become a “press band” in the UK for the “only time and place in our band’s history”, with this unique situation leading to “every band in the world” essentially thinking, “Screw these...
