Stuck in yet another friggin’ hurricane…it’s the story of Trivium and the recording of their Roadrunner debut, Ascendancy. For those of you keeping score at home, it is now TWO hurricanes the band has gone through since hitting Morrisound studios in Florida earlier this month. Onward and upward…as told earlier, the drums are done, and they sound wonderful. “Crisp and heavy as hell,” tells the band. They are scheduled to start recording the guitars today, but only time will tell. Hurricane, power outages…you do the maths. “It’s all good,” tells frontman Matt Heafy, “spirits are still high. I mean, we still gotta deliver the most Metal Album we possibly can, don’t we???” Matt Heafy leaves us with a couple last pearls of wisdom on this day: “…goddamn – Ascendancy is going to be monumental. Devastating! ‘I swear by the blood I have shed’…”