Paolo Gregoletto - Trivium (17/09/2014)
Floridan metalcore quartet Trivium played Soundwave Festival back in February/March and are now returning to the country for the second time this year in November. This time they're bringing along their good friends, Swedish metal giants In Flames.
Bass guitarist Paolo Gregoletto spoke to The 59th Sound about the upcoming tour. “[I'm] very, very excited. It's great to be coming back so soon after Soundwave. I'm hoping that people that saw us there will come back and check us out as a headliner. Seeing all the feedback online people seem excited about it so that's a good sign.”
He also talked about how they came to join forces with In Flames for the tour. “A couple of months ago we were talking about coming back down there and there were a few different tour ideas and that was one of them, us and In Flames pairing up. We've known those guys for a long, long time and we've done a lot of tours together so for us it was kind of a no brainer. Our fan bases definitely have a lot of crossover. I'm glad we could make it happen.”
Vengeance Falls, Trivium's sixth studio album, was released last year. Paolo spoke about the recording process for it and working with Disturbed's David Draiman who produced the album. “It kinda blew us away that he [David] would wanna work with us. David, being a vocalist and being in a band kinda knew a lot of the things we were going through and he could give us a lot of insight on that. We gave him In Waves [the band's fifth album] and he was super stoked with what we were doing. We'd talked back and forth over the years and when we decided to work with him he said get all your material together but don't over demo it yourself. We worked with him for two or three weeks in pre-production and built the songs from there. One thing we learned early on and it's something we'll keep with us from now on is having the vocals and the lyrics be a part of the writing early on. It seems like such a no-brainer thing but for metal you get so caught up in things like the riffs and the music rather than what are the lyrics and the message and how is it going to be sung it made us experiment a little bit more with the delivery. It made things a lot easier to know what the vocal ideas are.”
The band cover Misfits' songs Skulls and We Are 138 as bonus tracks on the new album. “We covered them and we did a different thing, we covered R.E.M.'s Losing My Religion but I don't know if that came out on the Australian version or not. The goal for the cover songs this time were different. David had suggested it was time for a new cover song and he suggested we do something that lyrically could fit with the record and musically wouldn't be far off so we could turn it into something Trivium would do. So that was how we did the R.E.M. song but the Misfits one [was because] we'd dropped an original song that we weren't sold on doing so we needed another song to fit the amount of songs we needed to do. We'd be planning on doing a Misfits songs for years but one Misfits song goes maybe a minute or a minute and a half so we decided to do a medley to make it a three or four minute song. Skulls was a unanimous thing and I think Matt brought up We Are 138 and we kinda just lived with that for a day or two and worked out how we would Trivium-ify it [laughs] and that was kinda how it went about. It was a pretty quick thing. I think I prefer the Misfits one the most. It's kinda fun to get outside the normal process of writing and create stuff. It's a nice stress release because you're just going for it and having fun.”
When writing songs for a new album Paolo had this to say about what influences himself and the band. “You have to just immerse yourself in a lot of music. I could listen to Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden all day every single day and that's something I use for inspiration but if you only listen to the same things then you're maybe not gonna hear that one new thing that will turn a light on in your head. Maybe it's not what you're listening to but something that makes you think differently. We're always trying to discover new things. That could be new bands or old bands that we never really dug into the catalogue of. That's why I love Spotify. It's all there and I can just dive into it. I'm always on the lookout for new bands, of any kind of genre to help me write a new idea for Trivium or even just lyric or vocal ideas I can pass onto Matt [Heafy, vocals and guitars].”
Finally, Paolo spoke about the plans for the band after the forthcoming Australian tour. “After Australia I think it's gonna be the last tour for Vengeance Falls. We were gonna do something early next year but I don't think that's happening now so I'm assuming if we're cutting off at Australia it's going to pretty much be take the holidays off and then get right into the next record. I think the general vibe is we may as well get to work on it sooner rather than later. I would definitely prefer that. I don't think I could sit around for another three or four months because I'd probably end up writing three or four more albums anyway so it's better to just start working on it. That's kind of the tentative plan as of now.”
Matt Barton
TRIVIUM w/ IN FLAMES
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Bass guitarist Paolo Gregoletto spoke to The 59th Sound about the upcoming tour. “[I'm] very, very excited. It's great to be coming back so soon after Soundwave. I'm hoping that people that saw us there will come back and check us out as a headliner. Seeing all the feedback online people seem excited about it so that's a good sign.”
He also talked about how they came to join forces with In Flames for the tour. “A couple of months ago we were talking about coming back down there and there were a few different tour ideas and that was one of them, us and In Flames pairing up. We've known those guys for a long, long time and we've done a lot of tours together so for us it was kind of a no brainer. Our fan bases definitely have a lot of crossover. I'm glad we could make it happen.”
Vengeance Falls, Trivium's sixth studio album, was released last year. Paolo spoke about the recording process for it and working with Disturbed's David Draiman who produced the album. “It kinda blew us away that he [David] would wanna work with us. David, being a vocalist and being in a band kinda knew a lot of the things we were going through and he could give us a lot of insight on that. We gave him In Waves [the band's fifth album] and he was super stoked with what we were doing. We'd talked back and forth over the years and when we decided to work with him he said get all your material together but don't over demo it yourself. We worked with him for two or three weeks in pre-production and built the songs from there. One thing we learned early on and it's something we'll keep with us from now on is having the vocals and the lyrics be a part of the writing early on. It seems like such a no-brainer thing but for metal you get so caught up in things like the riffs and the music rather than what are the lyrics and the message and how is it going to be sung it made us experiment a little bit more with the delivery. It made things a lot easier to know what the vocal ideas are.”
The band cover Misfits' songs Skulls and We Are 138 as bonus tracks on the new album. “We covered them and we did a different thing, we covered R.E.M.'s Losing My Religion but I don't know if that came out on the Australian version or not. The goal for the cover songs this time were different. David had suggested it was time for a new cover song and he suggested we do something that lyrically could fit with the record and musically wouldn't be far off so we could turn it into something Trivium would do. So that was how we did the R.E.M. song but the Misfits one [was because] we'd dropped an original song that we weren't sold on doing so we needed another song to fit the amount of songs we needed to do. We'd be planning on doing a Misfits songs for years but one Misfits song goes maybe a minute or a minute and a half so we decided to do a medley to make it a three or four minute song. Skulls was a unanimous thing and I think Matt brought up We Are 138 and we kinda just lived with that for a day or two and worked out how we would Trivium-ify it [laughs] and that was kinda how it went about. It was a pretty quick thing. I think I prefer the Misfits one the most. It's kinda fun to get outside the normal process of writing and create stuff. It's a nice stress release because you're just going for it and having fun.”
When writing songs for a new album Paolo had this to say about what influences himself and the band. “You have to just immerse yourself in a lot of music. I could listen to Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden all day every single day and that's something I use for inspiration but if you only listen to the same things then you're maybe not gonna hear that one new thing that will turn a light on in your head. Maybe it's not what you're listening to but something that makes you think differently. We're always trying to discover new things. That could be new bands or old bands that we never really dug into the catalogue of. That's why I love Spotify. It's all there and I can just dive into it. I'm always on the lookout for new bands, of any kind of genre to help me write a new idea for Trivium or even just lyric or vocal ideas I can pass onto Matt [Heafy, vocals and guitars].”
Finally, Paolo spoke about the plans for the band after the forthcoming Australian tour. “After Australia I think it's gonna be the last tour for Vengeance Falls. We were gonna do something early next year but I don't think that's happening now so I'm assuming if we're cutting off at Australia it's going to pretty much be take the holidays off and then get right into the next record. I think the general vibe is we may as well get to work on it sooner rather than later. I would definitely prefer that. I don't think I could sit around for another three or four months because I'd probably end up writing three or four more albums anyway so it's better to just start working on it. That's kind of the tentative plan as of now.”
Matt Barton
TRIVIUM w/ IN FLAMES
TICKETS ON SALE THURSDAY 18 SEPTEMBER, 9AM
WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER - BRISBANE, THE TIVOLI – 18+
www.ticketmaster.com.au
FRIDAY 21 NOVEMBER - SYDNEY, UNSW ROUNDHOUSE – Lic A/A
www.ticketek.com.au
SUNDAY 23 NOVEMBER - MELBOURNE, 170 RUSSELL – 18+
www.oztix.com.au / www.170russell.com
TUESDAY 25 NOVEMBER - ADELAIDE, HQ – 18+
www.oztix.com.au