American heavy metal band Trivium have unfortunately had to postpone their upcoming UK and European tour to early 2023. The tour, which was originally supposed to begin on November 11th in Glasgow, is now scheduled to kick off on the 12th of January 2023. At present, the band is still set to be joined by German extreme metal band Heaven Shall Burn and Malevolence.
Trivium Shogunate of the EU & UK,
We regret to inform you that our upcoming tour with @officialhsb has been postponed until 2023. We are deeply disappointed, but it’s become impossible to proceed as planned. pic.twitter.com/9pBkZrOuNl
— Trivium (@TriviumOfficial) October 22, 2021
According to Kerrang, singer and guitarist Matt Heafy has stated regarding the unfortunate news; “We are deeply disappointed that we have to postpone these dates as we were determined to be one of the first international acts to resume touring across Europe,” explains Paolo Gregoletto. “Unfortunately with the uncertainty of cross border travel and restrictions it’s become impossible for these dates to proceed as planned. We can assure you we were doing everything up until the last minute to figure out a way to do the shows and it wasn’t a decision we made lightly.”.
Regardless, Heafy was hopeful regarding the postponement, saying that the band will “promise to make it worth the wait” and that they have “two new albums’ worth of material we haven’t toured yet”.
Again according to Kerrang, Heafy had many warm sentiments to share regarding their to-be-touring partners Malevolence, stating that they are; “a band that will take over the heavy music world. Paolo introduced me to their music, and I have had it on repeat ever since. Malevolence have created a sound completely and uniquely their own; and it’s monumentally fantastic. Mark my words, they’re gonna take the metal, hardcore, metalcore, and punk worlds over by force. We are excited to have them on our tour.”
In other recent news, Trivium released their tenth studio album In The Court of the Dragon recently, on October 8th. The album has been well-received by both fans and critics, with many well-known music publications such as Metal Injection, Kerrang and Allmusic speaking of it favourably. Numerous metal subgenre labels have been attributed to the album, including thrash metal, progressive metal, heavy metal and metalcore. Hence the name, a lot of the lyrical themes on the album are concerned with fantasy literature and also ancient mythology, which is evidenced in songs such as “Like A Sword Over Damocles”.
In The Court of the Dragon is available on all streaming services, and physical copies of the album are available here.
Listed down below are Trivium’s rescheduled UK tour dates. Tickets can be purchased here.
12/01/2023- O2 Academy- Glasgow
13/01- O2 Academy- Birmingham
14/01- O2 Victoria Warehouse- Manchester
15/01- O2 Academy Brixton- London
