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TRIVIUM's Matt Heafy Talks About His Project With EMPEROR's Ihsahn

It'll be "sort of like Darkthrone, early Dimmu Borgir, early Emperor."

It'll be "sort of like Darkthrone, early Dimmu Borgir, early Emperor."

Back in 2012 Trivium frontman and guitarist Matt Heafy revealed to us that he has a side project called Myritu that involves Emperor frontman and guitarist Ihsahn. The project has remained relatively quiet since, though Heafy revealed in a recent interview that the project is slowly moving along in an interview with Blabbermouth.

"Myritu was initially intended to be a black metal band that I was never going to tell anybody I was in. I was going to make the music, and it was going to be pretty true to the '90s second wave-style-black metal — sort of like Darkthrone, early Dimmu Borgir, early Emperor. But while Myritu has its roots in black metal, it's become something so much more. It's not just black metal — it's anything I've ever wanted to try. Ihsahn from Emperor will be producing it, and he's co-written several songs with me. We'll also be recording it in Notodden, Norway, where all the Emperor records were done. It's just a matter of when. Ihsahn is incredibly busy and so is Trivium. But he and I stay in contact and we pass things back and forth. And we have quite a few songs written and quite a few demos. It's going to be a dream come true when it happens."

It sounds like this is pretty much the equivalent of that project featuring members of Cannibal Corpse and Killswitch Engage– we'll be waiting for a little while to hear any music, but there's an extremely good chance it'll totally be worth the wait.

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