There's nothing more inspiring to me than a musician talking passionately about the art of music.

Great interview! I also liked that the interviewer just let Matt talk without interrupting too much, too many interviews talk way too much themselves instead of listening.

Epiphone is beyond fortunate to have this guy and Bjorn Gelotte as their artists, who used the same guitars on stage as the one we can buy anywhere. Mad respect for Matt and his way of thinking regarding signature gear.

@GunsnRosesfan2012

8 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Robb Flynn from Machine head

@yordantuzsuzov7717

7 жыл бұрын

..and of course Jeff Waters, who plays extensively his red Epi Annihilator V.

Matt is a great player and really cool person. Trivium puts on a great show.

Mitch Gallagher does a fantastic job interviewing people. He asks great questions and does his homework on every player he sits down with.

Matt is so real. Seriously if there's any musician that people should idolize, it should be him. You can tell he's more than serious about what he does, not because he has a serious personality, but because he loves it and doesn't want to waste it. He's blunt and to the point, but not in a dick kind of way. He's not overconfident and a humble soul.

14:08 love how for Matt this was his downpicking go-to riff to practice, while mine was actually Like light to the flies! Matt is such a legend.

Sweetwater's always got the best guitarist interviews.

These interviews are sooo good.

what a cool guy.

Matt is truly passionate about music, Trivium, and metal.

@MPYarnall

7 жыл бұрын

Metal is music

Thanks for posting this, great interview congrats. Great people right here !

The ascendancy riff!!! Awesome!!!

Best Interview I've Ever Seen Matt Is The Man!

seriously an amazing interview. thank you for asking legitimate questions

I really enjoy seeing big artists with epi custom guitars

@nkjagshenry

9 жыл бұрын

doesnt brendan small use an epiphone explorer?

@GunsnRosesfan2012

8 жыл бұрын

+Probosquadhenry Thunderhorse explorer was a Gibson first.

18:47 I totally thought he was gonna play the last solo in Four Horsemen

to be fair, trivium is not my kind of music i do respect what they do, and matt is a really nice and gentle person, he is really a guy i would like to hang around with and have a good talk about music

@Nightshade1881

8 жыл бұрын

Never got into this band but after hearing him talk so passionately I think I'm gonna give it another chance

@ambrooks5

6 жыл бұрын

emilio olivas I actually like their newer stuff more. It’s al great but I really dig their newer stuff. Great great band

@Feercholain

5 жыл бұрын

@@ambrooks5 Shogun and Ascendancy are both awesome albums!

This is one of the most interesting music interviews I've ever heard. Thanks and kudos to both Matt and Mitch!

finally good to have such a great in detail interview about matt and trivium

The amount of passion and effort that matt puts into being the best he possibly can is insane!

Great interview! I am 9 years late... Trivium is an excellent band!

I really love Matt's outlook on music and how art should be looked at in general. I hope one day to be able to develop my musical talents to that level and see what I can create.

He's really awesome I actually have one of his white snowfall signature Epiphone guitar. Real thing of beauty and a deadly weapon. The riffs on it are quite insane too.

Fantastic interview Mitch. Right out of the top of the pile that one, well done.

I love watching all things Mat Heafy. He seems like such an incredible guy to hang out with.

Funny how emperor and trivium have been some of my favorite musicians for a long time now and little did i know until i saw this that emperor is one of matts favorite bands.

One of the best interviews on youtube! And i am not a huge Trivium fan

@wildbill7

10 жыл бұрын

Speaking as another non-huge fan, I totally agree. What a great interview. Matt seems as cool as they come.

This is a great interview. Interviewer is great, it seems like a genuine fluid conversation instead of awkwardness reading from a list waiting for queues. Also interesting questions, stuff I actually want to know about. Matt is a great too, down to earth dude.

This guy is an excellent interviewer. He asks great questions.

Matt's spot on about their live rigs nowadays. They sound Godlike on stage

@PinchHarmonic69

9 жыл бұрын

They definitely are amazingly tight and consistent, but they've definitely been missing some of the spontaneous epic shit that they've done in the past. Also, their tone is a bit robotic and dry because of the Kempers. They should just go back to some legit organic 5150's with the maxon overdrive.

@DropdaLTDtoB

9 жыл бұрын

Lionhardt369 I don't know who pays for what in the touring industry, but if the need for more storage for gear while travelling (more renting or probably tour support for gear as well) comes with a deduction to Trivium's income, then they would be insane to go back to amps. It is a little robotic i agree, but it suits their style for live purposes.

Discussing the right hand picking and left hand positioning is excellent in this video. And wow, having John P showing him how to do it....man, what a privilege. As always, Mitch, great interview.

Matt is such a cool, level-headed guy. Definitely a good interview.

Great interview and really interesting to hear Matt talk through the technical side of his playing. Cool to see his picking style variations for each technique

I'm not a fan of his band (just not my thing), but I've always had massive respect for Matt. Just seems like a genuinely good dude.

Great interview, Mitch!

His comments on metal being a lifestyle and discipline are spot on.

What an awesome interview. Interviewer let’s Matt talk. But He’s clearly very knowledgeable so it brings new subjects. Super great interview

Great playing! Awesome interview!

the best interview ever, good job

It´s like matt being interviewed by old Corey....

this dude got both feet on the ground, great interview,its awesome he plays his epiphone they are such under rated guitars

im not a trivium fan but at least i respect matt, hes a real guy!

Well done Sweetwater! What a fantastic and quality interview.

Excellent Interview! I know this is from a few years ago, but the new Trivium record is on fire!

Am I the only one who thinks Matt looks like Joseph Gordon Levitts brother?

@BoyAditya

8 жыл бұрын

if you follow his twitter, he always said Joseph Gordon L is his doppelganger LOL

@Nightshade1881

8 жыл бұрын

lol Ive thought the same thing for the last 10 years

@sheancarey106

6 жыл бұрын

Yep

@baradalamasa

5 жыл бұрын

He's like a Japanese version of JGL

@kotymccallister5150

5 жыл бұрын

Whoa

This was a great interview! Thanks for posting it.

that was awesome.. matt is sick wit it and very well spoken.. i wish i could have found loyal musicians with that much dedication.i also love all marshall arts so i'd be down to practice ju jitsu every chance i got..sweetwater rules....metal

Love these interviews.

Excellent interview, I feel like i learn new vocabulary everytime I hear Mitch lol

Rex Ryan interviews Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Nice, very good interview.

Thank you for this awesome interview! Very observant interviewer :-) And very passionate interviewee :-) By the way, Steve Smyth taught me to pick at an angle, like cutting into the string. It gives increased control at higher speed (the string never gets 'trapped') and more even attack instead of duds mixed with aggressive pops.

Surprised to see his signature Epiphone Les Paul Custom doesn't have any binding on the back - One of the few things that sets it apart from Les Paul Standards.

Awesome interview! really enjoyed it! \m/

Matt Heafy is awesome definitely one of the worlds greatest guitarists & singers on earth

This is a perfect interview.

This is fucking awesome -- Matt gets into picking techniques and everything...Even thumb position -- This is so great, thank you for this.

Very cool interview, very insightful.

Great interview. Interviewer asks great questions. Pretty sure he is a guitarplayer himself. Keep it up.

Great interview and interviewer!

Shoutout to the Behemoth shirt! Great interview too, love Trivium

After listening to this amazing interview & hearing Matt echo alot of the same thoughts & feelings regarding the disgrace that is manufactured pop music that I have, I am now a fan of Matt Heafy THE PERSON, and will definitely check out Trivium's music with a fresh ear. I will admit, being an old school metalhead more in the mold of Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, I didn't give his band a fair listen before writing them off as just another cookie-cutter metalcore band... I was wrong & do apologize.

@martingraham8418

6 жыл бұрын

I recently had my Spotify playlist playing and didn't realize that it ended and when it does... it will play similar bands to the ones that are on the playlist. A song came on and I was driving at the time and was kind of just jamming with it not even realizing that it was Trivium. I will say, I never gave them a chance before either. They came out around the time of bands like Bullet for My Valentine and I wrote them off as I was in the midst of getting into tech and death metal. After hearing that song in my car, I went back and listened to Trivium's latest album, and while some of the parts are still not necessarily my thing, I gotta say I enjoyed it more than I thought. I also watched some of Matt's videos on his KZread channel and he is just a stand up guy and a heck of a guitar player.

@tirsahingalls2776

5 жыл бұрын

Try their Shogun, and The Crusade albums. Very good albums for an old school metal dude to ease yourself into Trivium. The Crusade album drops 95% of his iconic scream to a more traditional metal orientation. But of the two Shogun is my favorite due to its fantastic musicianship. The album In Waves is also badass.

Love the Behemoth shirt!!!

Mitch is so observant..thats a skill in itself :)

Awesome interview. You rock Matt! Trivium is the best!!!!

18:48 sounds like the four horsemen solo

Behemoth shirt!

11:29 I was at that mesa show

Damn! He played a Krisiun song! That was a fun little surprise.

5 years late to the party, but great interview!

Matt Heafy Is an awesome Guitarist & Trivium is one Of the Worlds Greatest Bands

woah, the little detail of the thumb, that man is so perceptive, even Matt didn't noticed that

i was wonderin why i love trivium but cant find another metal band where i like the vocals. i guess he answeared that here

so disciplined

Hey we opened for after the burial at Memento Mori's Toni's house o love!!

@shockt9610

9 жыл бұрын

Greetings thanks for the lessons

love you matt

Stock MKH is a black nut. Ivory looks so much nicer!

He has on a Behemoth shirt! Hail!!

What is the black metal group and song he mentioned at 13:40 ?

@se7endreams

9 жыл бұрын

JhnOne Krisiun - Aborticide

Nice Behemoth T

I have this guitar. Solid built axe

Matt is such a beautiful human #nohomo

Super !

He’s got some gr8 posture

Rockin the epiphone nice.

@Croft64

9 жыл бұрын

I think it's really cool. He even uses them live, for most if not all of Trivium's Bloodstock set he used his Epi signatures.

Having mixed extended range guitars, I've found that even a 9-string doesn't necessarily interfere with the bass (certainly not when they're in unison). The tone of the bottom strings comes 99% from harmonics, not the fundamental.

He's such a stud.

Matt is a really cool guy :-)

Why is the nut white on his guitar ? The majority of production models have a black nut ! But I have seen some including mine with a white nut ! I wonder if it depends on the year of manufacture? His Gibson Les Paul Custom that this signature Is modeled from has a white nut .

Yeah that was said well by Matt, other people "like" a certain type of music or genre, but if you are a real metal head then it's like you are a part of something , it's not just a type of music that you like 😂😂😂😂😂you also like doing stuff like wearing black and it never changes .....I'm 45 now and recently realized that I'll never change and I found that strange cause I always thought that as I get older I would grow out of metal and death metal but it just keeps growing

He shreds in the beginning

anyone have a link to a profile of Trivium's rig??

@PinchHarmonic69

9 жыл бұрын

They use a Kemper profiling amp, kinda boring. It's a custom tone done by Colin Richardson. Basically a 5150 running into a Maxon Overdrive pedal. You can find some general stuff about the settings online, like they scoop their mids a bit. The thing about trivium is that all 3 instruments kind of blend together well, but separately they don't sound AS great.

does the signiture guitar have a left handed model

22:38 matt out here quoting testiment

22:15 sounds like Periphery's live show these days.

He was a lead singer of a metal band and was 12?

Anyone know what string gauge matt uses??

@The_JustJoshing

2 жыл бұрын

You can actually see it on his twitch streams. I think if you type !strings in the chat it shows you. He uses Dunlop strings. For 6 strings he uses 10, 14, 18, 30, 40, 52. And then for 7 strings he uses that same set with a 63 for the 7th string.

whats the name of the song in the intro?

@jarrett4154

4 жыл бұрын

it’s “Strife” by Trivium

At 14:21 I wrote the same little lead thing