Trivium // Struck Dead // EP Review

Trivium are back, baby! With a three-track teaser to whet the appetite this Halloween 2025, ‘Struck Dead’ is a short and sweet EP that reminds you of everything we love about Trivium.

The EP allowed the guys to flex their musical muscles at the newly built Hangar Studios in Orlando, Florida. No Mickey Mouse shizzle here, this is a place where the guys can get their heads down and create the kind of magic that Minnie could only dream of. With that in mind, they have made a tasty three-track EP that will rip the flesh off your face with its frenetic pace, slashing riffage, and blistering guitar work—the signature sounds of this killer band.

The EP’s opener ‘Bury Me With My Screams’ sums up all of the above in one track, it’s a sonic attack on the senses, from start to finish it is a pummelling experience that fuses so many elements of classic and modern metal together in little over five minutes that it will leave you breathless and begging for more! The thrashy goodness, the speed of the attack and then the glorious time changes and filthy breakdowns that come towards the end ensure that by the end of this beauty, your best stank face is required.

The EP’s title track, ‘Struck Dead (Pain Is Easier To Remember) harks back to their influences and has classic vibes all over it, but with that Trivium goodness sprinkled throughout, the groovey rhythm and chugging backbone lay down a thick layer of hefty metal to get your teeth into before the solo tears at your soul. It’s a banger of a track that delivers in spades. The crescendo towards the track’s conclusion is just a thing of beauty, driving home that gritty powerhouse sound that Trivium have made their own.

Alas, all good things come to an end, and this EP is way too short for comfort. The EP’s closer wraps up with an acoustic intro, leading you to expect a chilled, measured ending to this taster. Eh, no. The track bursts into life and resumes with its frenetic pace, delivering another gnarly, breath-taking banger that changes direction sonically so many times I felt like I needed an exorcism by the end of it. How these guys put this shizzle together in the studio, I’ll never know. I guess my brain just isn’t wired that way. Maybe that’s why Matthew K. Heafy is a music genius, and I am just a mere mortal? Who knew?

Anywho, this EP is just what the doctor ordered: topical cream and a three-track banger from Trivium.

Struck Dead lands this Friday —this Halloween. Let’s go old school: dust off those ghetto blasters, slap that tape in, and crank it up to 11! With Trivium on repeat, I guarantee you’ll go home with all the candy!

Trivium – ‘Struck Dead’ is out this Friday, Oct 31st, courtesy of Roadrunner Records.

EP Artwork @boykong

TRIVIUM – Struck Dead EP – Track Listing:

1 – Bury Me With My Screams

2 – Struck Dead (Pain Is Easier To Remember)

3 – Six Walls Surround Me

TRIVIUM will embark on The Ascend Above the Ashes trek that kicks off 31st October in Myrtle Beach, SC and runs though 14th December, with an epic hometown show in Orlando, FL. Special guests are Jinjer and Heriot.

USA:

Sat 20th Sep — Louisville, KY — Louder Than Life (festival date)

Sat 4th Oct — Sacramento, CA — Aftershock (festival date)

Fri 31st Oct — Myrtle Beach, SC — House of Blues

Sat 1st Nov — VA Beach, VA — The Dome

Sun 2nd Nov — Montclair, NJ — The Wellmont Theater

Tues4th Nov — London, ON — Centennial Hall

Thu6th Nov — Québec, QC — Videotron Centre

Fri 7th Nov — Wallingford, CT — Toyota Oakdale Theatre

Sat 8th Nov — Portland, ME — Cross Insurance Arena

Mon 10th Nov — Warren, OH — Packard Music Hall

Tue 11th Nov — Buffalo, NY — Buffalo River Works

Wed 12th Nov — Lancaster, PA — Freedom Hall

Fri 14th Nov — Gary, IN — Hard Rock Live Northern Indiana

Sat 15th Nov — Milwaukee, WI — The Eagles Ballroom

Sun 16th Nov — Cincinnati, OH — The Andrew J Brady Music Center

Tue 18th Nov — Indianapolis, IN — The Egyptian Room at Old National Centre

Wed 19th Nov — Waukee, IA — Vibrant Music Hall

Thu 20th Nov — Minneapolis, MN — Uptown Theater*

Sat 22nd Nov — Winnipeg, MB — Burton Cummings Theatre

Mon 24th Nov — Edmonton, AB — Midway Music Hall

Tue 25th Nov — Calgary, AB — Grey Eagle Events Centre

Wed 26th Nov — Missoula, MT — The Wilma

Fri 28th Nov — Spokane, WA — The Podium

Sat 29th Nov — Garden City, ID — Revolution Concert House

Mon 1st Dec — Salt Lake City, UT — The Union Event Center*

Wed 3rd Dec — Riverside, CA — Riverside Municipal Auditorium

Fri 5th Dec — Albuquerque, NM — Revel

Sat 6th Dec — Oklahoma City, OK — The Criterion

Sun 7th Dec — Fayetteville, AR — JJ’s Live

Tue 9th Dec — Springfield, MO — Shrine Mosque

Wed 10th Dec — Kansas City, MO — Uptown Theater

Fri 12th Dec — New Orleans, LA — The Fillmore New Orleans

Sat 13th Dec — Dothan, AL — The Plant

Sun 14th Dec — Orlando, FL — Hard Rock Live

*NO JINJER

Tickets are on sale now at: https://www.trivium.org/tour.

ABOUT TRIVIUM:

TRIVIUM’s critically acclaimed tenth album In The Court Of The Dragon arrived in 2021. The band and album were praised by and featured in mainstream outlets like The New York Times, NPR, Forbes, Billboard, TechCrunch, and Kotaku, as well as Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, Rock Sound, Guitar World, Revolver, Alternative Press, and more. They released the now-canonical album Ascendancy in 2005. It was recognized as Kerrang!’s “Album of the Year,” achieved a gold certification in the UK, and eclipsed sales of 500,000 worldwide. Metal Hammer placed it in the Top 15 of “The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of the 21st Century.” It ignited a string of six consecutive Top 25 debuts on the Billboard Top 200 and five straight Top 3 debuts on the Top Hard Rock Albums Chart, culminating on 2017’s benchmark The Sin And The Sentence. That album elevated the group’s total stream tally past a quarter-of-a-billion.

Additionally, “Betrayer” received a GRAMMY® Award nomination in the category of “Best Metal Performance.” Unanimous acclaim followed from Decibel, Loudwire, Ultimate Guitar, MetalSucks, and Metal Hammer, who dubbed them, “quite simply one of the best bands in modern metal.” 2020 brought LP What The Dead Men Say. The album was produced by TRIVIUM and Josh Wilbur and debuted at #35 on the Billboard Top 200; at #2 on the Top Current Albums Chart, and at #3 on both the Hard Rock Albums Chart and Top Rock Albums Chart. They have performed alongside Metallica, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and many others, and graced the main stages of Download, Bloodstock, KNOTFEST, and beyond.

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