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Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Trivium Frontman Accidentally Asks Fans to Hold Up Sex Toys at Concert: Watch
The post Trivium Frontman Accidentally Asks Fans to Hold Up Sex Toys at Concert: Watch appeared first on Consequence. Trivium frontman Matt Heafy had an amusing slip of the tongue at one of his band's recent concerts, essentially asking the audience to hold up sex toys during the show. The verbal slip came during Trivium's Boston show at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway on Friday night (May 2nd), when Heafy told the crowd, 'Literally light us up with your cellphone lights, your flashlights, your lighters, your fleshlights … fleshlights? [laughter], I meant flashlights!' With the crowd laughing, as well, Heafy added, 'I hope someone recorded that.' Get Trivium Tickets Here Someone indeed recorded it, and Heafy posted the video on his X/Twitter account the next day (watch below), writing (with tongue firmly planted in cheek), 'I'd like to formally apologize for what I said last night on stage. I can and will do better.' For those not in the know, a fleshlight is … ah, just look it up. Trivium are currently in the midst of a co-headlining North American tour with Bullet for My Valentine. The outing runs through a May 18th show in Raleigh, North Carolina, with tickets to the upcoming dates available here. See Matt Heafy's X/Twitter post featuring video of the hilarious incident along with his commentary below. Popular Posts Beyoncé Hit with Cease and Desist Letter Over Video of Her Picking Up Sphere Bruno Mars Adds New Dates to His Eternal Las Vegas Residency at Park MGM Jack Black's Minecraft Song "Steve's Lava Chicken" Sets Billboard Record for Shortest Hot 100 Hit Ghost Become First Hard Rock Act to Go No. 1 on Billboard in Four Years DEVO Set to Kick Off 2025 North American Tour Lady Gaga Plays Biggest Show of Career for 2 Million People at Copacabana Beach Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
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.
