BAND: Trivium
INTERVIEWER: Sarah Connolly (SarahC@bandvibe.com)
INTERVIEWEE: Corey Beaulieu of Trivium
DATE OF INTERVIEW: 08.30.07

BAND MEMBERS:
Matthew Kiichi Heafy - Guitars, Vocals
Corey Beaulieu - Guitars, Vocals
Travis Smith - Drums
Paolo Gregoletto - Bass Guitars, Vocals

SARAH C: How did you guys come together as a band?
COREY: Travis and matt played together for a few years then I kind of just meet them at a bar, auditioned that's how I got in then Paul in a year after our bass player left.

SARAH C: How did you come up with the name Trivium?
COREY: Actually, the name came from the first singer of the band and was kicked out but we just kept the name.

SARAH C: How old is everyone?
COREY: I'm 23. Travis is 25.. 24 something like that. Paul and matt are both 21.

SARAH C: Who would you dream line up be with?
COREY: Probably like Metallica, Megadeath, and Iron Maiden. That kind of thing.

SARAH C: If you were stranded on an island what 3 things would you bring with you?
COREY: Guitar, Ipod and food.

SARAH C: What is it like touring with Atreyu?
COREY: It's been cool. Playing on tour in general is fun. The Family Values Tour there's a lot of other bands on that tour but Atreyu we are closer to and hang out with a lot more. So it pretty cool. Its been really fun so hopefully we will be able to play with the again down the road but its been really fun.

SARAH C: What is your favorite song to play live?
COREY: It changes from tour to tour we play the same songs all the time so its always fun playing songs we haven't played in a long time. So I think on this tour we don't play it every show because of our set times they vary from what we are doing. But its been really fun playing a song off our first album called 'Pillars of Serpents". We haven't done for a couple of years so that's been my favorite so far on this tour.

SARAH C: What is you favorite place to play?
COREY: San Diego is pretty sweet but I think my favorite place to tour is Japan and Australia is pretty sweet.

SARAH C: What do you do to pass time while on tour?
COREY: Watch movies play video games or just go hang out with other bands hang out with Atreyu drink stuff like that.

SARAH C: What is your craziest tour story?
COREY: I not really sure what is crazy its all kind of normal to us just stuff to entertain ourselves.

SARAH C: What originally got you into music? Who were your influences growing up?
COREY: The first thing that got me into hard rock would be Guns-N-Roses and then from there just found out about other bands like metallica and just kind of branched off. Guns-N-Roses is where it all started thanks to my parents not liking the cd, I took it.

SARAH C: Were your parents supportive?
COREY: Yah, my parents love to come to the shows. My dad has a Trivium tattoo. Yah they love it!

SARAH C: Why did you decide to go a different way on your new CD, "The Crusade", vocally speaking?
COREY: That's like the vocal styling we always wanted to do. It started out that way Matt started singing at 14, and his voice wasn't that good, so he started screaming to sound ok, and he has been working on his vocals lessons, so when went in to do the album his voice was really strong. So we said, lets do that because that is what we were always trying to get to. We finally got to do it. So we just went with that and wit the next record we just want to progress from there.

SARAH C: How did your last tour go and what do you expect from San Diego?
COREY: Last tour, we were in Europe. Last time we played San Diego was I think the headlining and that was a lot of fun. We have played here a lot of time. So we have started to see familiar faces. It really fun playing here and every time we played here the crowds been really awesome. Sounds of the underground was killer and every time we come the crowds just rock. They love the rock and the weathers nice. Soma is really cool to play also.

SARAH C: Any thing else you want to say to your fans?
COREY: Thanks for coming out to the show and buying the album. After this tour, it will be the last time we play in the states for like a year. Next, we will be working on the new album. So next time, we are playing here we will have a new CD, new stuff to play so it will hopefully be fun. So thank you San Diego.

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