Trivium are a metalcore band from Orlando, Flordia with strong Thrash and Death Metal influences. Trivium are currently in the studio recording the follow-up to 2005's highly rated Ascendancy.
Trivium's debut with Roadrunner Records, Ascendancy, scanned a 7,054 on the Nielsen SoundScan charts. The album also debuted at #4 on the US HeatSeeker Charts and #151 on the US Billboard Top 200 Charts.
Trivium formed in 2000 after the band's original singer saw Heafy perform the Offspring's "Self Esteem" with a drummer at his high school talent show. The band members chose the name Trivium, which is Latin for the intersection between the three schools of learning: grammar, rhetoric and logic, because they liked the way it implied an open-mindedness to different styles especially emo, and summed up their musical aesthetic. After a couple of gigs at parties, the original singer quit the band and Heafy took the wheel. For the next two years, the band honed its sound, and in 2002 Heafy won the Best Metal Guitarist Award at the Orlando Metal Awards. Trivium headed into the studio in the beginning of 2003 to record their first high-quality demo disc. From this, German label Lifeforce signed Trivium and sent the band into the studio to record Ember To Inferno.
After going through various lineups, the band finally found guitarist Corey Beaulieu, a dedicated Death Metal buff who brought a new influence to the band's sound. Landing a bassist was even more difficult. Numerous players came and went before Paolo Gregoletto was brought in just in time for the tour with Machine Head. Feeling so strongly about the group, their music and their dedication to their craft, Paolo left another group to be a part of Trivium. Trivium signed to roadrunner Records after good sales of their debut and began writing songs for their new album.