Trivium’s Matt Heafy Throws Some Shade on the Bullet For My Valentine Tour: “We Wanted To Play Shows And Someone Else Didn’t”

Earlier this year, one of the more interesting world tours on the docket was surprisingly cut short when Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine‘s ‘The Poison Ascendancy World Tour’ came to a grinding halt. It was a triumphant celebration of some key albums that already had a number of dates in the books with plans to still bring the show to other parts of the world when it got the axe back in May.

At the time, the bands released statements, but the general concensus coming from the Trivium camp was that Bullet for My Valentine vocalist and guitarist Matt Tuck was to blame. At the time, Trivium bassist and vocalist Paolo Gregoletto told fans in a livestream that Tuck “didn’t want to do it, after we had planned it, after stuff was already in the works.” In all fairness, Bullet For My Valentine’s alleged reason for the tour’s end was explained in a statement that suggested the band wanted to “divert our full attention towards the next chapter of Bullet For Valentine.”

Remember, ‘The Poisoned Ascendancy’ was billed to be a 20th anniversary celebration for both Bullet for My Valentine’s The Poison and Trivium’s Ascendancy that was supposed to hit Europe and the U.K., North America, Latin America, Japan, and Australia. They only ever played shows in U.K./Europe and North America.

Now, in a recent interview with Fox40 (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), Heafy gave a little more insight into what happened at the end of that world tour.

“Everyone is kind of wondering, ‘Hey, this [‘The Poisoned Ascendancy’] was supposed to be a world tour. You and that other band [Bullet For My Valentine] said this is gonna be a world tour from January through December.’ Well, we did — we flew over to the U.K. to do a press conference [with Bullet For My Valentine], promising a world tour from January through December. And you know the old saying ‘it takes two to tango’ — well, our dance partner dropped off after three months of touring, and we’re, like, ‘We wanna keep playing.’ We’ve had people say, ‘Hey, what was the drama with this story?’ It’s just we wanted to play shows and someone else didn’t. So we’re gonna keep playing shows. That’s why you’re gonna see us at [the] Aftershock [festival in early October in Sacramento, California]. That’s why we’ve got this Trivium, Jinjer, Heriot tour. We’ve got an EP [‘Struck Dead’] coming out [in October]. We’re already writing record eleven at the same time. So there’s no stopping us, man. It’s incredible. So this new tour is a pivot. It’s not the ‘Ascendancy’ tour; it’s the ‘Struck Dead’ tour. So we’re playing greatest hits of everything we’ve ever done, plus the new EP.”

So there you have it. Further confirmation that when it came to the end of what should have been a killer world tour, it all ended up being Bullet For My Valentine’s fault.

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