RadioMetal.com recently caught up with TRIVIUM frontman Matt Heafy to discuss the band's new album, In Waves. An excerpt is available below:

Radio Metal: In most of the interviews promoting these albums, the band remained vague when it came to the meaning of the title and of the lyrics. Is this because there isn’t one specific meaning, or is it just because you want to keep that meaning for yourself?

Heafy: "For me, I remember back to when I was a kid, and when I was into a song, it would mean something to me, and later on, I would hear or I would read an interview from that artist and find out the song means something completely different, and it completely killed the meaning for me. And I think with all great art, things should be able to be appreciated from within, without being told what you’re supposed to think or how you’re supposed to feel, but allowing people to create their own emotions themselves. I’ve had some people tell me they think the music is very dark and negative whereas some people tell me they think it’s very positive. So that’s the kind of thing that I want to keep going, I want people to be able to have their own idea. And one of my big inspirations for this record artistically and even motivationally is David Lynch, the film maker. His big thing is that he never explains what any of his movies are supposed to mean, or what you’re supposed to take from it. He just allows people to create their own imagination and their own imagery of what they believe that it is. So I wanted to go in line with that."

Radio Metal: Since In Waves is more than just a music album, being a complete form of art, with the visual and the lyrical aspect to it as well, do you plan to go even further in the future and explore other forms of art?

Heafy: "Definitely. The next video we’re about to shoot is going to be for 'Built To Fall', and it’s going to be the next part of the In Waves videos. If you’re to picture the saga as being ten parts long, the first video you saw for In Waves was part four, 'Built to Fall' will be part five, so obviously, we’re going to jump all around the place, and take it in different directions. And I’ve looked at metal, and I’ve seen that metal has stuck with the same look and the same form and the same feel for the last 30 years, and we want to take it in a new direction for our band and do something completely different. I’m very much influenced by visual art, I’m influenced more so by visual art than auditory art, that’s really what inspires me. So hopefully someday I can take that up to the next level."

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As previously reported, Heafy and bassist Paolo Gregoletto are featured in the clip below discussing their new album, In Waves, which was thre years in the making:

In Waves is due out on August 8th in Europe, and the 9th in North America via Roadrunner Records. The tracklisting is as follows:

'Capsizing The Sea'

'In Waves'

'Inception Of The End'

'Watch The World Burn'

'Dusk Dismantled'

'Black'

'Built To Fall'

'Caustic Are The Ties That Bind'

'A Skyline's Severance'

'Forsake Not The Dream'

'Chaos Reigns'

'Of All These Yesterdays'

'Leaving This World Behind'

A two-disc special edition will also be available. It features five bonus tracks, plus a DVD with a 40-minute, behind-the-scenes documentary, as well as an exclusive concert filmed in a warehouse located in Orlando, Florida, which is the band's stomping grounds. This concert features the first performances of tracks from In Waves, along with Trivium classics.

Special Edition tracklisting:

'Capsizing The Sea'

'In Waves'

'Inception Of The End'

'Dusk Dismantled'

'Watch The World Burn'

'Black'

'A Skyline's Severance'

'Ensnare The Sun' *

'Built To Fall'

'Caustic Are The Ties That Bind'

'Forsake Not The Dream'

'Drowning In Slow Motion' *

'A Grey So Dark' *

'Chaos Reigns'

'Of All These Yesterdays'

'Leaving This World Behind'

'Shattering The Skies Above' *

'Slave New World' *

*Bonus tracks

Bonus DVD includes:

- In Waves (Live)
- In Waves (Documentary)
- 'In Waves' Music Video

New Trivium tracks 'Dusk Dismantled' and 'Inception Of The End', are streaming on YouTube clip below: