Matt Heafy Offers Track-By-Track Breakdown Of Trivium's 'In Waves' For Alternative Press

New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ RoadRunner Records) Trivium's new album In Waves comes out tomorrow, and frontman Matt Heafy sat down with Alternative Press to go through the album track by track. (Note: the deluxe edition includes five songs not discussed here.)

About "Inception of the End," he says, "'Inception' has been around since the Slipknot support tour Trivium did. The main verse riff was originally a pre-chorus lodged into a rather tech-y, thrash-y song. When I showed the song to everyone, eyes lit up on the part that eventually became the verse of the track. 'Inception' has gone through maybe 5 to 10 or so changes in structure, lyrics and delivery combined. It has definitely turned into something very familiar Trivium, but with a whole new flair."

He describes "Of All These Yesterdays" as "the hardest song on the album to arrange and record vocals to. Musically, we had the parts down from the very beginning, but with a song like this, variations in structure are endless. So it was quite the challenge to find the final structure. Five to ten revisions of structure, and two-and-a-half complete re-records of the vocals make this song clock in with the most hours of work put in. It's one of the most significant songs on the album."

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In Waves will be in stores tomorrow in two versions: the standard CD, with 13 tracks, and the deluxe CD/DVD edition, which features 18 tracks as well as a DVD containing a documentary, the video for "In Waves," and footage of the band performing eight songs, new and old, in a Florida warehouse. There are a variety of special packages available from the band's store, too, though, so make sure you check those out.