There’s a certain weight behind Trivium’s latest song “Struck Dead”, and it hits hard.
At first, it feels fierce and relentless; however, under the intensity lies something deeply personal. Here, the band returns to its roots, facing past wounds while forming fresh ground.
The Descent Behind the Music
Trivium began in Orlando, Florida, back in 1999. Since then, they’ve evolved their style, blending metalcore with thrash, but also pushing their own boundaries with progressive layers and melodies.
The new EP, Struck Dead, comes after they revisited Ascendancy by playing it in full alongside Bullet For My Valentine playing The Poison, yet the Poisoned Ascendancy Tour faced rough patches and turned into somewhat of a poisoned chalice.
After Bullet exited, Trivium were suddenly left in limbo, over a year’s worth of touring plans out the window, and the irritation showed, but playing Ascendancy in full became far more than a nostalgia exercise for Trivium; it re-invigorated the band as Corey Beaulieu explained to us:
The new stuff definitely has the spirit of Ascendancy, but also a lot of what we do now, blended in. So I think playing and focusing on Ascendancy definitely carried over into the writing of trying to capture that intensity and energy of what that record was.
When we played the new stuff to some friends, they were just like, “Oh shit”. This has got some pretty intense stuff that, definitely, the first song coming out definitely is, I guess the closest comparison I could make would be to the song “Rain”. Just right in your face, fast and very aggressive.
Speaking to NME, Matt Heafy added:
With Struck Dead, it was almost like we took a time machine back 20 years, and we were in the headspace of ‘Ascendancy’ again, except this time we had all the experience that we needed to have to create something that was almost a direct lineage of that album 20 years on.
Revisiting the album put the band back in touch with the raw intensity that first defined them. Matt Heafy’s delivery lives in this space; his vocals move from sorrowful tune to raw breakdown. Lines like “I fanned the flames, and now they’re fed” and “I must descend again” frame errors as personal choices, while echoing themes seen earlier on Ascendancy.
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Trivium Struck Dead Lyrics In Full
Understanding What Struck Dead Really Means
The meaning of Trivium’s “Struck Dead” seems to capture memory as a burden at times, though also a direction-finder; influenced not only by inner struggles but also by outer setbacks, broken goals, or pressure from outside.
By returning to where they began and navigating fresh chaos, the band transforms adversity into insight. While painful moments stick more easily, those experiences steer the band through the difficult moments they choose not to avoid.
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