Trivium Releases Two Elder Scrolls Online-Inspired Tracks

The Elder Scrolls online game sequence has lengthy been identified and cherished for its excellent soundtracks. Most just lately, composer Brad Derrick scored the music for the Elder Scrolls On-line and all of its expansions and updates. However the world of Tamriel is about to get a brand new sound, with heavy metallic band Trivium becoming a member of the occasion.

Trivium lead singer, guitarist, and fashionable Twitch streamer Matt Heafy launched two new songs at this time in collaboration with the Zenimax On-line Studios (ZOS) workforce: one from Trivium the band and one from Heafy himself. We sat down with Heafy, Derrick, and ZOS Studio Director Matt Firor to find out how this all took place.

One of many songs is Heafy’s tackle a bard track (and a e-book) present in ESO known as Attain Witch Chant. A slow-building and in the end heavy rendition with a mix of each hovering and screaming vocals, Heafy’s model brings the fierce Trivium type to a Tamriel bard track basic.

The opposite new track, The Phalanx, can be included on Trivium’s upcoming album, Within the Courtroom of the Dragon. A 7-minute assault of metallic with killer riffs and loopy time signatures, The Phalanx was initially written for the band’s fourth studio album, however was by no means completed. 

“That track was initially written for our fourth report, however couldn’t determine the best way to end the center,” Heafy mentioned. As for Attain Witch Chant, he famous that it already sounded prefer it might be heavy metallic, so he simply remodeled it into the ESO-inspired metallic tune that it grew to become. The video for the track even consists of ESO gameplay.

Heafy himself is a self-described hardcore gamer and streamer, so bringing collectively Elder Scrolls and his music simply made sense. “Once I heard, ‘ESO needs to work with you’, I believed that sounds unbelievable!” 

For ZOS Studio Director Matt Firor, Elder Scrolls and Trivium was an ideal match. 

“All of us begin from Tolkien, with themes that department out from that, darkish and light-weight, “he mentioned. “We inform tales visually, Trivium channels it into kick ass music. We wished to achieve out to them, not simply because they’re a terrific band, however thematically comparable.”

“We thought it could be nice in the event that they did their very own spin on a bard track,” Firor continued. “So Matt took this track (Attain Witch Chant), which already sounds prefer it might be the intro to a heavy metallic track, and made it the intro to a heavy metallic track. We’re actually joyful we are able to convey this sort of content material and funky vibes to ESO.”

For his half, composer Brad Derrick sees himself as a bridge between being a sport developer and a musician. So when the chance got here as much as work with Heafy, he knew it was a terrific match. 

“We gave Matt a handful of bard songs to select from and we mentioned, ‘Give us your most metallic track,’” Derrick mentioned. “The metallic DNA is already there (in Elder Scrolls music), so Matt discovered that and blew it open.”

Heafy, a self-described fan of all issues Elder Scrolls, has been a gamer lengthy earlier than changing into a metalhead. 

“Video games have been an enormous a part of my life,” Heafy mentioned. “I began enjoying video games at 4 and joined Trivium after I was 13. I’ve by no means been shy about saying that certainly one of my objectives in life was to get into soundtracking video games.”

With Heafy and Trivium now contributing to the sounds of Tamriel, the Elder Scrolls On-line won’t ever be the identical. Each Attain Witch Chant and The Phalanx can be found now.