Twenty years ago, two young bands broke through and changed the face of 21st century metal - and this month, they're together on our cover for the first time. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Poison and Ascendancy, we speak to Bullet For My Valentine’s Matt Tuck and Trivium’s Matt Heafy about breaking through in 2005 and the legacy of two of modern metal's most important bands.
Ahead of their imminent co-headline tour, we take the Matts back to the year they brought heavy back. Nu metal was dying, the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal was breaking, and Bullet and Trivium were combining traditional metal with modern production to attention-grabbing effect – even if some of that attention was negative.
