Trivium Winter 2012 Tour With In Flames

While there's no place like home, Trivium certainly aren't content with hanging their hats right now. They prefer to live on the road, bringing their brand of forward-thinking metal to the masses on a near-constant basis. The band just wrapped back-to-back U.S. tours. First, they served as a featured attraction on the Rock Star Energy Drink Mayhem Fest, which marked their second stint on the quintessential summer fest. They followed that run up by supporting their labelmates in Dream Theater.

Trivium will succeed both of those high-profile treks by spending the winter touring with In Flames, hitting theaters and ballrooms for a five-week run.

"Trivium can't wait to get out again on the road with In Flames. They are one of our all time favorite bands and together we plan on giving our best shows to the fans," singer/guitarist Matt Heafy said excitedly about the forthcoming trek.

The tour launches Jan. 12 in Milwaukee and runs through Feb. 21, circling back through the Midwest to Chicago. The tour will hit major cities over the course of several weeks, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston, Denver, New York and more. The full itinerary of dates is below.

Trivium recently debuted the video for "Built to Fall" from their critically acclaimed new album In Waves. You can watch it here.

Billboard called In Waves “the musical homecoming that the metal band's fans have been waiting for,” while Revolver asserted that the album “will keep diehard Trivium fans happy." ARTISTdirect.com described the album as “forward-thinking,” as well.

Trivium + In Flames North American Tour DatesJan-12 Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
Jan-13 Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
Jan-14 Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live
Jan-15 Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
Jan-17 Ybor City, FL @ The Ritz Ybor
Jan-18 Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage
Jan-20 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Ballroom
Jan-21 Austin, TX @ Emo's East
Jan-22 Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
Jan-24 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Jan-25 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA @ Burton Cummings
Jan-27 Edmonton, AB, CANADA @ Edmonton Events Centre
Jan-28 Calgary, AB, CANADA @ MacEwan Hall Ballroom
Jan-31 Vancouver, BC, CANADA @ Commodore Ballroom
Feb-01 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre
Feb-02 Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory Concert House
Feb-03 Seattle, WA Showbox SoDo
Feb-04 Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory Concert House
Feb-06 San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
Feb-07 Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern Theatre
Feb-08 Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee
Feb-09 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
Feb-10 Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall
Feb-11 Kansas City, MO @ The Beaumont Club
Feb-13 Cleveland, OH @ House Of Blues - Cleveland
Feb-14 Toronto, ON, CANADA @ Sound Academy
Feb-15 Montreal, QC, CANADA @ Metropolis
Feb-17 Worcester , MA @ The Palladium
Feb-18 New York, NY @ Best Buy Theater
Feb-19 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
Feb-21 Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues
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Trivium IN WAVES Debuts at No. 13 on Billboard, Band Embarked on "Release Week" Tour in Three Countries

Trivium's latest album In Waves had landed at #13 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, moving over 22,000 copies its first week in stores. The band also occupied the #1 slot on both Hard Music charts. The album also charted in Japan #6; in Germany at #8; in Australia at #9; and in the UK at #17, illustrating the global reception of In Waves.

The band capped off an intense week by embarking on a special, "release day" tour which took them to three countries on two different continents in the span of a few days. It was an chaotic schedule that saw Trivium playing to over 100,000 fans along the way.

Here's a release week recap:

Trivium, who have been spending their summer on the Rock Star Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, which was their second appearance on the tour, flew to Germany in the middle of the tour to perform at Wacken Open Air on Friday, August 5^th, which was the German release day for In Waves. The Wacken performance was filmed and webcast worldwide in real time with the festival. Their performance was then re-broadcast on German national TV this past Friday. Wacken was a landmark show in Trivium’s career, as it was the foursome's biggest show to date, with over 80,000 in attendance for their main stage performance.

On Saturday, August 6^th, the band flew to England for their UK release show. They celebrated by supporting Iron Maiden at the o2 Arena, on the final date of Maiden's current world tour. Over 18,000 metalheads turned out for this sold-out spectacle.

While barely catching their breath, the band then hopped a flight back to the US, to resume their dates on the Mayhem fest, playing their domestic release date show on the main stage at The Zoo Amphitheater in Oklahoma City, OK.

Frontman Matt Heafy said, "Trivium want to thank our amazing fans around the globe both old and new for their support of our latest project In Waves. We’re blown away by the worldwide fan reaction and without you none of this is possible. It’s great to see metal make it into the global album charts where some say metal music doesn’t belong but this says it’s alive and well.”

Heafy continued, "We also want to thank all of the crazy fans who came to see us on our release day show odyssey. It's rare that a band gets to play more than one (if even one) show on the day of their album release date, but we did three! We played to an incredible crowd in Germany at Wacken Open Air with Judas Priest for the German release; then a show in England the next night with Iron Maiden for the UK release; and then two nights later a main stage show in Oklahoma City, OK with the Mayhem Festival for the US release. Through all the travel and about nine hours of sleep in total, it was completely worth it to spread the word of In Waves and live and breathe the music with our fans."

Mayhem wrapped over the weekend and the band, which was recently profiled in Billboard, which celebrated Trivium for their "evolving its sound. will resume touring again next month, supporting labelmates in Dream Theater in North America. Later this year, they will tour across Europe with In Flames, including headlining the UK Metal Hammer Defenders of the Faith Tour.

The album also received a 4-star review in Q, which proclaimed In Waves to be “blunt, focused and inventive, it’s as near to classic metal as Trivium have been.” It received another 4-star rating from Kerrang!, which said “ …In Waves takes elements from each previous Trivium era and welds them together into one glorious whole. This is not the sound of a band treading water that it could have been, but rather that of a now veteran act distilling the essence of everything they excel at into a single devastating attack.”

Watch footage of Trivium at Wacken by going here.

ALL SHALL PERISH: New Song From Upcoming Release Posted Online!

Oakland, California extreme metallers ALL SHALL PERISH have posted  the brand new track "Divine Illusion" to their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/AllShallPerish). Like/share the band on Facebook in order to hear it! The song comes from their yet-to-be-named upcoming album due out in the Summer to coincide with their appearance at this year’s ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL TOUR.

Commented the band: "This is just a small taste of what is coming with the new record. We definitely brought back the brutality with this one and the breakdowns are gonna leave panties wet and asses sore... and you begging for more!"

ALL SHALL PERISH recently wrapped up their fourth album and follow up to their 2008 release Awaken the Dreamers. The record was completed right before the band hit the road for their current tour with KATAKLYSM, DECREPIT BIRTH, CONDUCTING FOR THE GRAVE and ABYSMAL DAWN.

ALL SHALL PERISH have been added to this years installment of the ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYEM FESTIVAL! ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL, the heralded hard rock and metal event of the summer, is swiftly becoming the heavy music fans’ summertime rite of passage. The 4th annual summertime juggernaut announces the 2011 line-up with DISTURBED, GODSMACK and MEGADETH,  joined by MACHINE HEAD, IN FLAMES, TRIVIUM, ALL SHALL PERISH and many more of today’s most electrifying artists. The tour will make a 26 date trek across the country beginning on July 9th at the San Manuel Amphitheater in San Bernardino, California. Tune in to www.rockstarmayhemfest.com and www.livenation.com for up-to-date ticketing information and show dates.

ALL SHALL PERISH recently parted ways with original drummer Matt Kuykendall. The group stated at the time, "It's always tough to part ways with a long-time member and friend, but it was absolutely necessary in order to maintain forward progress." A four-minute video message introducing new drummer Adam Pierce can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuPW0B_1K5w.

The new album will also mark the recording debut of guitar virtuoso Francesco Artusato from Treviso, Italy. Examples of his playing may be found here http://www.myspace.com/francescoartusatomusic

Awaken The Dreamers, the third full-length album from Oakland, California-based extreme metallers ALL SHALL PERISH, sold just under 5,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to enter The Billboard 200 chart at position No. 126. The follow-up to "The Price of Existence" was recorded once again at Castle Ultimate Studios in Oakland with producer Zack Ohren (LIGHT THIS CITY, DECREPIT BIRTH).

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