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DARK SECRETS: 2 | Vintage Vibes

The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Trivium, Babymetal and AFI are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Hear Trivium return with Ascendancy-coded new single Bury Me With My Screams

The Florida metal mavens headline Bloodstock festival on Friday and will release a new EP, Struck Dead, on October 31

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“Every time you post a snippet or a clip or some kind of teaser, it makes people more mad”: Trivium to release much-hyped new song in early August

Guitarist Corey Beaulieu says the track has the “spirit” of the band’s 2005 breakthrough album, Ascendancy

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Matt Tuck names the song that “encapsulates what Bullet For My Valentine is”: “It’s heavy, it’s melodic, it’s anthemic, it’s intricate”

And no, it’s not a track from The Poison

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"This line-up represents the present and future of heavy music." Trivium announce Ascend Above The Ashes tour with Jinjer and Heriot in support

Trivium will kick off their North American tour on Halloween

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8 things we learned at Download Festival 2025

From Spiritbox and President to Cradle Of Filth, Anaal Nathrakh and erm, The Vengaboys, these are the bands that ruled and defined Download Festival 2025

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"If you were there, you’ll probably be talking about it for years to come." Orbit Culture might have just given Download a taste of metal's next major breakout band

Orbit Culture follow in the footsteps of Trivium and Five Finger Death Punch at Download festival

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“That’s the take that we use in the film. That was first time. Dude, it was amazing”: Steve's Lava Chicken, Jack Black’s shortest-ever UK Top 40 hit from the Minecraft Movie, took just 34 seconds to record

A new Apple Music video goes behind the scenes on Black’s musical contribution to the surprise hit of the year

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Watch Trivium cover Steve’s Lava Chicken from the Minecraft Movie, because memes have ruined everyone’s brains

The greatest use of a seven-string guitar in metal history

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Who had Trivium's road crew saving a litter of kittens from a diesel generator on their 2025 metal bingo card?

Watch heartwarming moment Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine roadies join firefighters to rescue kitties

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Bullet For My Valentine quit Trivium co-headline tour to focus on 'next chapter', including new album

Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine are speaking out after the latter band announced their early departure from their co-headline tour.

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"The time is right for us to divert our full attention towards the next chapter of Bullet For My Valentine." Matt Tuck explains why the Poisoned Ascendancy tour is ending and Matt Heafy urges everyone to calm down

Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium take to social media to clear up any misunderstandings

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Trivium slam Bullet For My Valentine as Matt Tuck pulls plug on co-headline tour early

Trivium have claimed their co-headline tour with Bullet For My Valentine was axed early because frontman Matt Tuck no longer wishes to do the tour

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“No respect for us or our crew”: Trivium allege the Poisoned Ascendancy “world tour” is ending early due to co-headliners Bullet For My Valentine

Trivium allege the Poisoned Ascendancy “world tour” is ending early due to co-headliners Bullet For My Valentine

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“It’s like a Downton Abbey murder mystery!” Watch Trivium react to a music video so bad they didn’t release it for 20 years

Trivium made two versions of the video for Dying In Your Arms – the first try was so dreadful that it’s only now seeing the light of day

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“Once James Hetfield said he liked the album, that was it. He said that it kicked his ass”: How Machine Head’s The Blackening became their own Master Of Puppets

The Blackening remains Machine Head’s masterpiece

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Bloodstock festival announces one-day Winter Gathering event headlined by doom legends Candlemass

Venom Inc., Hellripper and others will also populate the bill in Wolverhampton this December

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"People characterised both of our bands as being arrogant and cocky." How Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium helped revitalise metal in 2005

How Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine ushered in metal's next generation

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Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine promised “the metal tour of 2025” – and The Poisoned Ascendancy may well have delivered

Playing their classic 2005 albums at the O2 in London, the metalcore icons indulge everyone’s nostalgia while proving themselves as arena headliners

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"No one else is making contemporary heavy metal on their level." Every Trivium album ranked from worst to best

Rating the storied career of one of modern metal's most important bands as they head out on tour to celebrate 20 years of Ascendancy

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Trivium and Bullet for My Valentine review – glorious exchange of skull-crushing riffs and deafening roars

The veteran rockers turn back the clock on the dual anniversary of their breakthrough albums, with the south Wales band playing a conquering heroes’ return

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“This song is nuts! It’s a very violent, angry call for being a champion of all who deserve it”: Matt Heafy on the classic Trivium song inspired by Muse

How a sci-fi obsessed British rock group influenced a key track on Trivium’s breakthrough Ascendancy album

Guitar World

"I remember coming to the studio and the producer just had his head in his hands and he was like, ‘Oh no, no, no!’" Why Matt Heafy had to delete and re-record all the guitar parts on a Trivium classic

Turns out a guitar that's even slightly out-of-tune can ruin a whole record...

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Feel old yet? These classic metal albums turn 20 in 2025

Trivium’s Ascendancy, Bullet For My Valentine’s The Poison and Avenged Sevenfold’s City Of Evil are 20 years old now, and your knees aren’t what they used to be

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Trivium 'deleted everything' and started again after Ascendancy session took bad turn

Trivium frontman Matt Heafy has recalled how the band "deleted everything" and had to re-record their breakthrough album.

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