“This is going to be our last tour for a long time,” Trivium singer/guitarist Matt Heafy tells Cambridge on the first date of the band’s Wizards And Goblins UK shows. It’s not an announcement that’ll stun you if you’ve been paying attention to the heavy metal gossip sites recently. And you know what: this band bloody well deserve some time off.
Since the pandemic, Trivium have been operating at hyperspeed. Their 2020 album, What The Dead Men Say, came out a month after the world was forced into lockdown, and the Floridians responded by immediately re-entering creative mode, releasing follow-up In The Court Of The Dragon the very next year. When restrictions eased, they suddenly had two years of cancelled tours to make up for and two records to promote, with tonight marking show 196 since Dragon came out just 22 months ago.
