Megadeth, Lamb of God, Trivium, and In Flames are scheduled to tour from June 12 to November 13 across two North American tour legs. Triviumn bassist Paolo Gregoletto tells MetalSucks that due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, he really wouldn't be surprised if the whole tour gets postponed.
"Obviously, Live Nation is running the show with that thing, so at the end of the day, they're gonna be the final say of what happens. What I think will happen will be — the worst-case scenario is the dates will get moved. But it's one of those things, everything is up in the air of, like, if you move dates, is this really gonna be handled in the time frame that everyone's moving their dates to? So I'm not totally sure. It's really hard to say. 'Cause at the moment, it just seems like things are accelerating here, so I wouldn't be surprised if things have to get moved. We're just kind of taking it as it comes. It's out of our hands."
"It's just a crazy experience, because the entire music industry which, up until recently, has been, like, oh, it's been boom years. And just overnight, literally, the door has been slammed, and we're all just kind of sitting here, like, 'What are we gonna do?'"
Paolo also discussed how much of a hit Trivium would be taking financially if the tour doesn't happen. He points out that thankfully the band doesn't print their merch until closer to the dates, so they're not sitting on a bunch of stuff right now.
"Merch-wise, I think they don't really print that stuff until a lot closer to it, so we're not sitting on a bunch of merch — thankfully. Most of it's just been what we're doing for the album release, that kind of stuff. We did start to get production made, like designed, for the tour, so I think we're still going through with that, but in terms of actually physically getting it made and getting that, I'm sure we're just gonna kind of play it by ear. We don't wanna get something made and then the tour gets moved to way off into the future. If anything, a decision will probably have to get made probably in the next couple of weeks, I would imagine, with that."
