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"Silence In The Snow", the new JonPaul Douglass-directed video from Florida metallers TRIVIUM, can be seen below. The song is the title track of the band's new album, which will be released on October 2 via Roadrunner Records. The CD was helmed by producer Michael "Elvis" Baskette, who previously worked with ALTER BRIDGE and SLASH, and was mixed by Josh Wilbur (LAMB OF GOD, ALL THAT REMAINS, GOJIRA, MEGADETH).

Said TRIVIUM guitarist/vocalist Matt Heafy: "For those of you wondering, this song was written for [2008's] 'Shogun', and is basically almost the same as it was, so 'Shogun' fans rejoice; didn't like 'Shogun'? You may not dig this. But know that since I was 12, I wanted to be a great singer I screamed, because I couldn't sing. I am proud and excited to finally be able to do what I love the way I love."

He continued: "Don't love it? Our old stuff still exists. Love it? Awesome. I love both sides of you all regardless.

"Screaming is easy. Singing is hard. I've always been a fan of what's harder. If you love the old stuff — listen to the old stuff, it's still there and we still play it live."

Heafy added: "We always want to evolve and make what we want to make. You can't say many other bands can say that. They do what they think people want or are told to; we do what we want every time.

"I was and am only capable of the scream you heard on most our albums. I needed to spread my wings. You should know I am a massive fan of the underground and appreciate their craft. Shrieks wouldn't work in TRIVIUM."

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Florida metallers TRIVIUM will release their new album, "Silence In The Snow", on October 2 via Roadrunner. The follow-up to 2013's "Vengeance Falls" was produced by Michael "Elvis" Baskette (SLASH, ALTER BRIDGE, THE AMITY AFFLICTION) and was mixed by Josh Wilbur (GOJIRA, LAMB OF GOD). The album is further heralded by its first official music video; the sweeping "Silence In The Snow", which can be seen below.

Long known as one of modern metal’s most potent live acts, TRIVIUM will celebrate "Silence In The Snow" with an epic worldwide schedule highlighted by the upcoming 2015 HardDrive Live Tour. The dates — which see TRIVIUM co-headlining alongside TREMONTI — get underway September 9 at Fort Lauderdale, Florida's Culture Room and then continue through mid-October. The band will then head straight to San Bernardino, California for an October 24 main-stage performance at the upcoming Knotfest, headlined and curated by TRIVIUM's labelmates SLIPKNOT.

In the meantime, the Orlando, Florida-based band will spend the remaining summer lighting up Europe, including headline appearances at such hard rock and metal festivals as the U.K.'s Bloodstock, Belgium's Alcatraz, Germany's Summer Breeze, and France's Motocultor.

TRIVIUM's seventh studio album, "Silence In The Snow" stands as a long gestating creative milestone for the acclaimed band. The collection had its genesis moment back in 2007 and was directly influenced by the time TRIVIUM spent touring alongside the legendary HEAVEN & HELL that year. Ultimately, it would take eight years before they felt equipped to tackle the challenging work of weaving their classic influences into a modern record. Fueled by the inspiration of true classic metal — spanning BLACK SABBATH and RAINBOW, IRON MAIDEN and JUDAS PRIEST, PANTERA and SLAYER, MEGADETH and METALLICA — TRIVIUM challenged themselves to attain similar levels of greatness, taking on vocal coaches and guitar lessons to further their creative evolution. The result is extraordinary, bridging the history of hard rock and metal while simultaneously powering it forward into the future on tracks like the epic "Blind Leading The Blind" and the upcoming first single "Until The World Goes Cold".

"Silence In The Snow" track listing:

01. Snøfall
02. Silence In The Snow
03. Blind Leading The Blind
04. Dead And Gone
05. The Ghost That's Haunting You
06. Pull Me From The Void
07. Until The World Goes Cold
08. Rise Above The Tides
09. The Thing That's Killing Me
10. Beneath The Sun
11. Breathe In The Flames

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"Screaming isn't the thing that defines heaviness," Beaulieu explained. "We've done screaming on every record and we don't want to write the same thing over and over again. On 'In Waves', there were songs that were all screaming — which we'd never done before — and some that were all singing. We can go to different extremes."

He continued: "Heavy metal started with BLACK SABBATH and it took what, like, 15 or 20 years before anyone introduced what became screaming — with VENOM or something? So in the '70s, you had all these tough, dark riffs with great vocalists: [Rob] Halford, [Bruce] Dickinson, [Ian] Gillan, [Ronnie James] Dio. They had these larger-than-life, amazing voices, and that's the fuckin' basis of what heavy metal grew from. The great thing about metal is people are always trying to expand the boundaries."

Corey added: "Every sub-genre — death metal, black metal, power metal, traditional metal, speed metal — has 'metal' in it. Whether it's CANNIBAL CORPSE or JUDAS PRIEST, it all falls under the metal family tree. If fans are missing the screaming, we have six other records with screaming in them. We still do it live, so it's not like we changed the old songs. "

Beaulieu stressed, however, that while "Silence In The Snow" sees TRIVIUM doing classic metal, it still sounds undeniably like TRIVIUM.

"We've had death metal-inspired stuff, whereas this record was inspired by the classics," he said. "We're all IRON MAIDEN fans, and we love the hooks and energy of that era, so we wanted to explore why that stuff hits so hard."

He continued: "When I think 'heavy,' it's not all about tuning down and screaming gutturally. That's one type of heavy. IRON MAIDEN's 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' — that, to me, is heavy. The vocals are emotional, the lyrical content is deep and it's heavy in an epic way rather than just weighing a tonne. It makes the hair stand up on my arms."

Corey went on to say: "This record still has a very metallic edge with the riffing and stuff, but we really wanted to make the hooks instantaneous. You hear 'Silence In The Snow' and you can sing along by the second chorus. It's infectious. With 'Shogun', it took people four or five years to go: 'Yeah, that's one of your classic records.' When it came out, it was just: 'Yeah, whatever.' It's fuckin' marinated over time. People talk highly of it but it took a while. With this record, people have picked up on the songs a lot quicker. We've really made sure every note and lyric fits perfectly. It was meticulous."

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