Classic Rock

Matt Heafy

When it comes to Trivium frontman Matt Heafy, the operative word is ‘fast’. We could refer you to the Florida metallers’ rampant work-rate since 2003, and the 10-album streak that makes their peers look positively sluggish. We could clock the breakneck guitar solos that light up songs such as A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation, which put shred standards like Eruption in the shade. Then, of course, there’s the frontman’s warp-speed interview manner, which trolley-dashes from this year’s pummelling new album, In The, on to Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Japanese mythology and more. Over to him.

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