Trivium will soon release a new EP – with a new single next week

Trivium is working on a new EP and plans to release some new songs from it in the coming weeks. Since bassist and singer Paolo Gregoletto hinted a few months ago that he was excited to release a new song from the band, the fact that the group is sitting on a number of tracks hasn’t exactly been kept a secret. Guitarist Corey Beaulieu recently told Primordial Radio that the band is planning to release a new song during their appearance at this year’s “Bloodstock Open Air,” which will take place from August 7th to the 10th at Catton Hall in Walton-on-Trent.

Well, I guess to protect me if I say something I’m not supposed to… Basically, it’s gonna drop before… I can’t remember the exact day, but it’s supposed to come out before we play Bloodstock, ’cause we’re gonna play it at Bloodstock. So, I guess that would be anywhere the first week of August. So within that timeframe. We’ve been hinting at this song online with clips and everything for a while, so people know it’s coming. They just don’t know exactly when. But it’s gonna be before we start this tour, so the first week of August, in that timeframe, it’s gonna drop, I believe. We’ve been filming some content and stuff to promote it, leading up to it, so there’s gonna be a lot more ramping up to totally piss everyone off, ’cause they’d been just waiting for new music. So every time you post a snippet or a clip or some kind of teaser, it makes people more mad. So it’s gonna ramp up, ’cause they just want the song. Corey Beaulieu

He was also questioned about if the band’s time spent reviewing and practicing “Ascendancy” for this year’s 20th anniversary tour had an impact on the composition of these new songs.

The new stuff definitely has kind of the spirit of ‘Ascendancy‘, but also a lot of kind of what we do now kind of blended in. So I think just focusing on playing ‘Ascendancy‘ definitely carried over into the writing of just trying to, I guess, capture that intensity and energy of what that record was. And when we played the stuff to some friends and stuff like that, they were just, like, ‘Oh, shit.’ This has got some pretty intense stuff. The first song coming out definitely is a very — I guess maybe the closest comparison might be ‘Rain‘, in a sense of just something right in your face, fast, very aggressive. So, it’s definitely gonna be cool. Corey Beaulieu