Trivium announce new album ‘Crown In The Grave’

TRIVIUM have announced a brand new album!

The American metal heavyweights have announced their eleventh studio album, Crown In The Grave, which is scheduled for release on November 20th via Roadrunner Records. The new record follows 2021’s In The Court Of The Dragon and marks the band’s first album to feature drummer Alex Rüdinger as a full-time member.

Speaking about the new album, bassist Paolo Gregoletto says, “Crown In The Grave is our eleventh record, and when you get this far into a career, it’s easy to rest on what you’ve already done, or to reinvent yourself just for the sake of it. With this record, we wanted to find the space between those two things: Take everything we’ve learned and everything that makes TRIVIUM what it is, but present it in ways we hadn’t before.

We also wanted the record to exist within its own world. That began with the title track, inspired by Akira Kurosawa‘s Throne Of Blood, and led us deeper into Japanese horror and cinema from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. That influence grew into this darker, ghostly atmosphere that became a set of guardrails for the music, lyrics, artwork, and overall identity of the record.

We built our studio so we could give ourselves the time and space to figure out exactly what an eleventh TRIVIUM record should be, and Crown In The Grave is the answer we arrived at. It honors where we’ve been without living in the past, and pushes into new territory without abandoning what makes us TRIVIUM. I think when you hear it, it’ll somehow feel both new and like a return.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have also unveiled the album’s title track, Crown In The Grave, alongside an official music video inspired by Japanese Noh theatre and the films of Akira Kurosawa. The new song is the second single to be released from the upcoming album, following on from Dead Inside Of Me.

Watch the official music video for Crown In The Grave here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List:

1. Jorōgumo
2. Crown In The Grave
3. Dead Inside Of Me
4. The Terror
5. The Haunting Never Ends
6. Lie Of It All
7. Blackout The Dawn
8. Paradise Of Sinners
9. Death Throes
10. The Agony
11. Devour Your Dreams
12. Serpent In The Flame

Crown In The Grave is set for release on November 20th via Roadrunner Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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