Trivium are back with another single and video from last year's The Sin and the Sentence, this time for the album's midpoint track "The Wretchedness Inside." The band kept it simple with the clip, choosing to focus solely on a smoke-filled stage show that showcases the members and their shredding abilities. Stylized slow-motion segments and sweaty hair flips highlight the djenty breakdowns of the song and frontman Matt Heafy's soaring solos, keeping the attention on the band rather than a narrative.
Heafy told Metal Hammer about the track, "It's about being addicted to a bad situation, knowing it and not being willing to get out of it, but recognising it. Abusive relationships, abusive friendships, toxic addiction, something like that. When you pop out and have a moment of clarity and a moment of consciousness, and you're like, 'Why am I in this, this is terrible for me, I need to get out', and you just hop back in. It's the idea of Stockholm syndrome, something like that, in a song."
Trivium's The Sin and the Sentence is available now on the band's official site via Roadrunner Records. Catch the band on one of these dates when they kick off another North American leg of their current tour alongside Swedish metallers Avatar and California metalcore outfit Light the Torch on October 3rd.
