Trivium’s Matt Heafy: I Don’t Think Of Life Like A Musician, I Think Of It Like An Athlete

On the morning of June 11 2005, Matt Heafy stepped out of his tour bus and into the uniform grey of the British summer. Two nights earlier, his band, Trivium, had appeared onstage at the Melkweg Oude Zaal club in Amsterdam; after this the touring party spent 48-hours travelling to a racetrack in the Leicestershire countryside for the occasion of that year’s Download Festival. Rising and shining, Matt was hungover, and he smelled. Trivium were fast emerging as the most talked-about metal act of the season. Believing the hype, the event’s organisers offered to upgrade the band’s first appearance at the festival from a slot on its distant shores to a berth on the main stage, albeit at 11am. What Matt describes as “a whole bunch of 18- and 19-year olds on a bus with endless amounts of boo...

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