TRIVIUM Frontman MATT HEAFY To Release Japanese-Themed IBARAKI Black Metal Album Featuring IHSAHN And NERGAL Next Year
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Trivium's Matt Heafy recently guested on The Jasta Show, hosted by Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta, and during the interview Heafy revealed the status of his long-planned collaboration with Emperor frontman Ihsahn. Check out the interview here.
Heafy: "During this (lockdown) I was able to finally finish my black metal record with Ihsahn from Emperor. He's been producing and co-writing that with me for about 11 years, and it finally comes out in the middle of next year, which should be fun.
It used to be called Mrityu, which I got from Ashtanga yoga, it means the concept of life and death, same thing as the ouroboros, same thing as the Japanese Enso, the idea that life and death are always symbiotic with each other. I didn't really know what to write about lyrically, and I was talking to Ihsahn because I've always loved Scandinavian mythology, Norse mythology, and Swedish mythology, I wish I could write about Thor and Jörmungandr, I love these stories. He's like, 'Yeah, but Matt, those have been done a lot, and you have your own rich history to tap into with your Japanese side...' And then a lightbulb went off, I was like. 'I need to just write about that.' I started writing all the lyrics about Japanese stories because that's something that hasn't really happened.
There isn't really a band that writes about Japanese folklore or the Shinto gods and goddesses and fictitious stories of Japanese history. So I changed the band name to Ibaraki, which is actually Trivium's mascot - an easter egg in there - and the entire project is Japanese-themed. The art, the lyrics, I'm actually singing in Japanese, Ishahn's on the record, Nergal's on the record."
Trivium - Matt Heafy (vocals, guitar), Corey Beaulieu (guitar), Paolo Gregoletto (bass), and Alex Bent (drums) - have announced that they will release their tenth album, titled In The Court Of The Dragon, on October 8 via longtime label Roadrunner Records. The record was produced and mixed by Josh Wilbur and recorded in autumn 2020 at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida.
(Source: www.blabbermouth.net)
