Matt Heafy just lately revealed that the Ozzfest crew requested Trivium to egg Iron Maiden throughout the 2005 pageant, as tensions ran excessive between the Osbournes and Bruce Dickinson over his criticism of their actuality present.
The singer famous paying $30,000 to affix the Ozzfest invoice in a chat with Steel Hammer and recalled, “Some days we had been opening at 9 within the morning, however I bear in mind on the final Iron Maiden day, the tour was going to proceed however we had been requested by a number of the Ozzfest crew, ‘Hey, do you wish to egg Iron Maiden?’ It was like, ‘Why the hell would we do this?’”
Trivium rejected the supply and as a substitute confirmed their help for Iron Maiden by sporting their t-shirts on stage and overlaying ‘The Trooper’ throughout their performances. This led to a heated response from the Ozzfest crew.
“We acquired bullied by the Ozzfest crew; they’d drive their golf carts proper as much as our faces, shoot grime at us,” Heafy shared. “Paolo [Gregoletto] virtually acquired arrested at one of many reveals. It was a wierd time; we paid $30,000 to get bullied like we had been in highschool!”
The stress towards Trivium appeared to proceed for years. Heafy mentioned that the band was solely ‘just lately’ given a conditional supply to return to the pageant, which may make a comeback from its hiatus since 2018. “We had been really advised just lately, if we apologized, we’d be allowed to do the tour once more sometime,” the singer mentioned.
Trivium is now set to co-headline the ‘The Poisoned Ascendancy’ world tour with Bullet For My Valentine in 2025. The tour will have fun the twentieth anniversary of Trivium’s ‘Ascendancy’ and Bullet For My Valentine’s ‘The Poison.’
