#and i am still very partial to his original vocal style despite how clearly unhealthy it was

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Matthew Heafy:

I started singing and screaming in Trivium around the year 2000 or so. When I first joined the already 2 week old local band Trivium, I was just the lead guitar player.

When our original singer left, after fruitless searches for a singer, Travis said to me: “you’re gonna be the singer now.”

For the next 15 or so years, I would sing and scream however I could - trying to discover my style and sound (which I felt quickly showed itself - only I didn’t have the proper technique down). The voice held till 2014 with this “technique” till I finally blew it out.

We discovered it was a combination of incorrect technique and not knowing how to warm up or train or practice. For the next 10 years, I trained under Ron Anderson, unlearning the bad habits and rigorously training 5-7 days a week, 1-4 hours a day to get the proper training.

About 2-3 months ago, under the encouragement of Ashley, Justin my manager, Paolo, Corey, and Alex - I started working back at trying to find a way to make the “old techniques” work sustainably under the training of the “new techniques”.

Well, it worked. After 26 years of singing and screaming, I can confidently say that I can sing and scream better than I ever have. The grit is tougher than the Shogun grit, the screams are more menacing than Ascendancy, the cleans more powerful and with range than ever.

I finally got to unleash quite a bit of it at our Metal And Honey show, and it felt so good.

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