In 1999, after Matt Heafy performed a cover version of Metallica’s Leafless Clover, he was invited by Brad Lewter who was the mastermind behind the band, Trivium, to try out as a guitarist. After that, the two went to Travis Smith’s house where the drummer performed a rendition of another Metallica song, For Whom the Bell Tolls. His talent left the other two with no choice but to accept him into the group and the three became founding members of Trivium.
Since forming the heavy metal Orlando group, he has released almost 10 studio albums, an EP and many other singles. More so, he has sold over a million albums worldwide. That said, the group has seen several other members join and leave the group even as it survived for two decades.
Who are the current members of Trivium
1. Matt Heafy
Besides being a founding member of the band, Heafy is its lead guitarist and vocalist. He is also the lead singer of the technical death metal band Capharnaum. The musician was born in Japan in 1986, Matthew Kiichi Heafy, of a Japanese mother and an American father who served in the US Navy.
As a small child, he began learning tenorsaxophone and later guitar when he was 11, but had already developed an interest in pop-punk before he was introduced to heavy metal. Due to his incredible talent, he became the lead singer of the band when he was only 12 years old. As mentioned before, he was first invited by Brad Lewter, who was the band’s lead vocalist as lead guitarist. Within a month, Lewter left the band and Heafy took over. Since then, he has remained a powerful force in the group.
Heafy is the only one in it.
2. Corey Beaulieu
In 2003, Corey Beaulieu joined Trivium as lead guitarist and howling vocalist. Born in 1983 in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, he was influenced in rock by Guns N’ Roses, although it was Metallica that decided him to become a musician.
He started playing guitar at the age of 14 and was invited to join Trivium after the band’s exit. Ember to Inferno in 2003. With that, he joined the band releasing all subsequent Ascendant albums in 2015.
In 2010 Corey performed backing vocals for Taking Dawn and in 2011 he worked with Rebirth To End on his song. The randomization of weakness as a guest voice.
3. Paolo Gregoletto
Much like Corey Beaulieu, Gregoletto was a part of all of the band’s releases from Ascendancy in 2005. He joined Trivium in 2004 as bassist and clean vocals. The musician and composer was born in 1985, Paolo Francesco Gregoletto.
How the bassist joined the band is rather accidental because it was while the band were recording Ascendancy that they realized they needed a bassist and Gregoletto was called in to serve. At first, he had no interest in joining the band, but since he wanted to experience a tour, he decided to join for the album and the tour, and once that was over, he would be released.
As time would tell, he remained even after the tour as a member of the band for which he also writes songs. Besides Trivium, he has also collaborated with Metal Militia, to which he contributed the release of their 2003 album, Perpetual State of Aggression.
4. Alex Bent
Alex Bent is both the youngest and the youngest new member to join the group. He only joined in 2017 ‘s The Sin and the Sentence album as a drummer.
Bent was born in 1993 and has been playing drums since he was little. Professionally, he started in 2005 and has since played in various bands, including Battlecross, with which he released Rise to Power (2015), Brain Drill ( Boundless Obscenity in 2016), and Lord Dragon (Dominion in 2018).
He joined Trivium replacing Paul Wandtke who left the group in early 2017.
Trivium Members – Tours
When on tour, the band sometimes needs extra tomorrows or, as the case may be, vocals. Among these members is Richie Brown who, from 2000 to 2001, joined the band as bassist and vocalist.
In 2003, George Moore joined as a rhythm guitarist while Mike Poggione served as bassist in 2004. During the band’s 2018 North American tour, with Matt Heafy absent due to the birth of his child, Johannes Eckerström and Howard Jones filled in lead vocals as Jared Dines filled in.
Former members
Since its inception in 1999, the group has had a total of 11 members in all at different times. Of this, 7 left the group. The first is Brad Lewter who left before doing anything substantial with the band.
Travis Smith: Also a founding member of the band, Travis remained until 2010 when he officially left the band after his relationship with the band soured over time. He has worked with Trivium since the release of Ruber in 2001 to Shogun in 2008 as drummer.
Jarred Bonaparte: Jared was the band’s guitarist, but he didn’t stay there as long as after its founding in 1999, he left in 2001 to work only on Ruber (2001).
Other former members:
Brent Young was the band’s bassist and guitarist Nick Augusto was its drummer from 2009 until 2014 when he was replaced by Mat Madiro, who remained with the band until 2015. Madiro was replaced by Paul Wandtke, who is stayed with the band from 2015 to had no work with her.
Here are the facts you need to know
1. Even though it’s Matt Heafy who is the main man behind the band, it’s Brad Lewter who was the band’s original vocalist. As pointed out, Heafy was only invited as the band’s guitarist. Only a month after the start of Trivium, there were issues related to creativity and because of this, Lewter left the band.
As we now know, Brad Lewter failed to establish himself as a great musician.
2 Trivium’s music, which has been described as melodic death metal, heavy metal, groove metal and progressive metal, has been greatly influenced by bands such as Flames, Machine Head and Metallica. This is even more true when you consider its orientation of the basket.
3 When it comes to recognition, the group has won several awards over the years. He won album of the year with Ascendancy at Kerrang! Magazine in 2005 as well as Best International Newcomer. More so, he received numerous nominations including a Grammy nomination ahead of the 2019 Best Metal Performance Awards – Betrayer.
Apart from the awards, Trivium also recorded massive sales in the number of its discs. In total, it is stated to have sold one million copies.
4 There was a time when the band nearly collapsed due to issues both within and around it. However, with the departure of Travis Smith who was the band’s drummer and the arrival of Nick Augusto, something new was injected into the band and gave it a new leaf of life. Since surviving the issue, Trivium has appeared even stronger than it was before.
5. The heavy metal band has eight studio albums, two demo albums and one extended play. Besides that, he also has 26 music videos and 32 singles. The band’s demo albums are Péquenaud r (“La Démo Rouge”) and Flavus (“The Yellow Demo”) which were released in 2001 and 2004 respectively. Her debut album was Ember to Inferno (2003) followed by Ascendant in 2005. Her latest work was Sin and Sentence which was released in 2017.
Conclusion
Of the members of Trivium, Former and Present, Matt Heafy is the person who has remained with the group for the longest duration. The second member who has been part of the group for two years is Corey Beaulieu, who has been there since 2003. Then, Paolo Gregoletto has been part of Trivium since 2004, making him one of the oldest members of the group.
Travis Smith is another person who has been with evil for a very long time, he joined in 1999 but in 2009 he decided to quit. Then there’s Nick Augusto who stayed with the band from 2009 to 2014. Although the drummer outlasted Brent Young, who was in the band many years before Nick, he was only part of two albums, while Agusto The part from 2000 to 2004 is part of three albums.
Jarred Bonaparte joined the group from 1999 to 2001, while others like Mat Madiro and Paul Wandtke only worked with the group for barely a year each.