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Perth Now
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Trivium slam Bullet For My Valentine as Matt Tuck pulls plug on co-headline tour early
Trivium's bassist Paolo Gregoletto has accused Bullet For My Valentine frontman Matt Tuck of having "no respect for us or our crew" after he pulled out of their joint tour early. The two bands have played across Europe and North America in celebration of the 20th anniversaries of their 2005 albums 'The Poison' and 'Ascendancy'. They were due to head to Australia and South America after they wrap the North American leg, but according to Trivium, Matt no longer wants to do it. During a TikTok Live, Paolo said: 'Matt Tuck didn't want to do it, after we had planned it, after stuff was already in the works – don't know why. I think it would have been amazing. I think The Poison is a great album. I think the two records pair very well together. And I think it would have been nice to give everyone around the world a chance to see the two together.' In another TikTok, he captioned the clip: 'When you make your first TikTok live and p*** off the other band you are on tour with… #JusticeForSouthAmerica'. One person commented suggested they should have dealt with the situation in private, Gregoletto replied: 'He's the sole decision maker of the band and he has no respect for us or our crew.' Trivium frontman Matt Heafy told Metal Hammer of the joint tour: "For [BFMV frontman Matt Tuck] and I, these records in 2005 changed our lives. But we were only really able to see the impact 10, 15, 20 years later. "A lot of the coolest metal bands that I love these days, I'll talk to them and they'll, say, 'Trivium was my first live band I ever saw'. OR they'll say 'Ascendancy' or 'The Poison' was their first record. That's so cool." Heafy added: "It almost feels like a once in a lifetime experience. A five-year or 10-year anniversary, that's cool. "But we knew we wanted to really hold on to this. 'We've never done anything like it, so let's wait for 20 years.' It's something special for sure."
The Guardian
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Trivium and Bullet for My Valentine review – glorious exchange of skull-crushing riffs and deafening roars
As the final notes of Rain die out, Trivium's Matt Heafy raises both hands towards the rafters in twin devil horns, his tongue all the way out. In most contexts, watching someone spend their 39th birthday doing the same things they did when they were 19 would be a profound bummer, but the opening night of the Florida metallers' co-headline tour with Welsh band Bullet for My Valentine isn't one of them. During back-to-back sets the bands engage in a spirited game of one-upmanship, trading riff after riff and scream after scream during a 20th-anniversary celebration of the records that set them on the road to stardom. Released within months of one another in 2005, Bullet's The Poison and Trivium's Ascendancy offered a reset at the end of nu-metal's reign, fusing thrash, melodeath and galloping NWOBHM while serving up radio-ready hooks that made them crucial gateway texts for a generation of metal-curious kids. Trivium are up first, barrelling out with skull-crushing salvoes and guttural roars before Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr sparks a mass shout-along. During Drowned and Torn Asunder, a winningly naff blow-up version of the demon from Ascendancy's sleeve hanging behind them Eddie-style, Heafy and guitarist Corey Beaulieu lean into duelling solos that feel like wish-fulfilment, a platonic ideal of metal. But while Ascendancy hangs together as the more cohesive record, Bullet's laser-driven performance is studded with individual moments on a different scale. Having emerged from a stacked scene in the south Wales valleys, there is a sense of conquering heroes returning during the monstrous All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me) and 4 Words (To Choke Upon), which are roared back at the band with eye-popping fervour. It's a shame that frontman Matt Tuck's tease of Tears Don't Fall's chorus prior to its riff hitting robs them of another payoff. But it's a minor quibble. When Bullet and Trivium first emerged, a major factor in their success was the fact they played club shows like they were headlining Wembley stadium. The budgets might have increased over the years, but that blend of chutzpah and outsized ambition remains potent.
