MATT HEAFY

2020 WAS SET to be a banner year for Trivium. After releasing one of the albums of their career in What The Dead Men Say, they were preparing to tour the world and continue the significant upswing in momentum they’d activated on 2017’s The Sin And The Sentence. COVID-19 may have had other plans, but it hasn’t stopped frontman Matt Heafy from keeping busy, not least of all being metal’s single biggest Twitch superstar. We collated some of his most golden nuggets of wisdom, covering everything from being a walking dartboard for metal haters, to how a certain Avenged Sevenfold singer helped give him a new lease of life to, yes, that Tiger King cover.

I NEVER PLANNED TO BE A SINGER

“I didn’t want to be a singer, but Travis [Smith, former drummer] said, ‘No, you’re going to be the singer.’ I was 13,