The group is together for twenty years this year and what better way to celebrate than hitting the road for a European Tour. Resurrection Fest is the last stop on a tour that’s lasted for around six weeks now, starting on June 7th at Rock im Ring in Nuremberg and ending at this show in Northern Spain.
The Grammy-nominated band are still touring off the embers of 2017’s well-received ‘The Sin and the Sentence’ which we’re going to hear plenty of tonight we hope. As a way of goading the crowd, frontman Matt Heafy lets everyone know that the previous show (in Lisbon) had the best crowd of the tour. Predictably booing ensues and Matt challenges the crowd “Well if you want to be the best you need to give us more!”
Challenge Accepted.
The performance was non-stop, no breathing room, no respite between the tracks. It was a metal blitzkrieg, shock and awe starting with the title track off 2017’s ‘The Sin and the Sentence’ and the excellent drum sound of Beyond Oblivion from the same record. They are lightspeed songs, easy to enjoy for metal fans of any creed.
Older songs Like Light to the Flies and Down from the Sky are sandwiched in with newer material like Sever the Hand off their most recent album. It’s a cracking setlist and one they’ve used most of this tour which is no bad thing because by the last show we get to listen to a perfectly polished sound!
They close out the set with Pull Harder on the Strings from ‘Ascendancy’ and In Waves from the record of the same name. This felt like a band wanting to give their everything to the last show of the tour and they really did make it a memorable one. Trivium set the bar high for Arch Enemy and Slipknot to follow them. They may not have had the theatrics or pyrotechnics but what they did have was a wall of pure rock fury.
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To see TRIVIUM live has been something I have wanted to do for many years. I love hearing them on album, and I am very much looking forward to see what they can do with their music live.
TRIVIUM enter the Helviti stage at 14:00 CET on Friday, which is my first “must see” band of day 2 at Copenhell.
It is really cool to see that singer Matt Heafy instantly shows great energy and tries to get the crowd going, and he succeeds in waking up the (maybe a bit hungover) metalheads who have shown up to see TRIVIUM this early afternoon.
It doesn’t take long until the first moshpit appears when guitarist and singer Corey Beaulieu starts to scream and the band encourage the crowd to spin.
Even though I saw some great bands yesterday, I feel that TRIVIUM will probably be one of my highlists this year. The rough sound from the band and Coreys’ screams combined with Matts’ great voice has always been appealing to me, but that they could perform so well live was something I wasn’t prepared for. I am happily surprised!
The way TRIVIUM interact with the crowd is amazing to see and hear. Matt Heafy says with a smile that the best festival crowd they have seen this summer was at Download in the UK, and when he is met with boo’s from the crowd he says that the Copenhell crowd needs to prove they are better, and this is when I see something rarely seen; Four (almost five) moshpits appear in the crowd, and one even appears by the far right side of the stage where I am standing, and I catch myself smiling from ear to ear.
Matt also gets the thousands of people watching to get down on their knees, and getting them (us) to jump up at the same time and I feel I just need to film what’s going on, as it is totally amazing how the band has the crowd almost hypnotized and totally into their show. I LOVE THIS!
No matter what I will hear and see during this festival, watching TRIVIUM live is something I will never forget. The music, the energy, the crowd! I am a happy camper at this moment, and I hope that TRIVIUM agreee that the COPENHELL crowd ARE the best in Europe!
I know at least that I cannot wait to see TRIVIUM live again, and for our readers I can strongly recommend you catch them live if you get the chance. It’s an experience you will never forget.
In Waves – or Row, Row, Row your boat…
]]>The last acts have now been added to this year’s COPENHELL poster
TRIVIUM, TESSERACT, UADA, VLTIMAS and CABAL will deliver a fistful of quality metal in a hard punch in the face, rounding off this year’s line-up with a handful of really heavy metal bands playing everything from progressive djent to old school death metal.
Through the last two decades, TRIVIUM has reached for the stars with their hyper-efficient and popular metalcore.
The band visited COPENHELL in 2012 and again in 2016, where they laid waste to the audience with their catchy headbanger metal and infectious performance.
We look forward to meeting the heavy boys from Florida yet again for another musical tour de force!
The British band TESSERACT plays progressive metal and is one of the pioneers of the popular djent sub-genre.
Their music is a tornado of advanced rhythmical and melodic techniques carried by Daniel Tompkins’ formidable, explosive voice.
Here is a band that is not afraid of experimenting with genres and reinvent themselves constantly, and the COPENHELL audience can expect a concert full of musical surprises.
UADA appeared like a bolt from the blue with their convincing debut album ”Devoid of Light” in 2016.
The quartet quickly established themselves as one of this decade’s most important new black metal bands, and they have darkened the skies ever since with their pitch-black, melodic approach to the genre.
With a running start and lots of evolution in their sound already, they are ready to throw one hell of a party for all the black metal enthusiasts!
When you use the term ”super group”, you have to make sure that it is a fitting term – and that is indeef the case with VLTIMAS!
A brutal trio consisting of David Vincent from legendary Morbid Angel, Cryptosy drummer Flo Mounier and Mayhem guitarist Rune Eriksen have created an entirely new metal symbiosis with this incredibly heavy music project.
All fans of classic death metal can start looking forward to this experience!
The Danish band CABAL is this year’s ”Tak Rock!” band at COPENHELL.
Their sinister sound lands somewhere between blackened deathcore and hardcore with massive breakdown, spitting and raging vocals and a thick, permeating atmosphere of pure evil. This young band is already playing in the big leagues and showing huge potential.
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