Trivium vocalist/guitarist Matt Heafy has released a new song for his Ibaraki project. The song is called “Rōnin”. It features guest vocals from Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, and input from Emperor‘s Ihsahn.
Heafy offered the following on the track:
“A rōnin is a masterless warrior. The final two full compositions on Rashōmon see a significant shift musically. The album as a whole — with the exception of the intro and outro — is actually presented in chronological order of earliest written to latter-most. The actual guitar and bass tracks are a time-capsule of sorts in that their parts — on the final album — is actually from the year they were tracked.”
One can begin to see the shifts as the years went on for the writing of the album. ‘Kagutsuchi‘/’Ibaraki-doji‘ being written and tracked in 2010/2011, all the way up to ‘Rōnin‘/’Susanoo No Mikoto‘ being written and tracked in 2016/2017.”
Heafy clarified Gerard Way and Ihsahn‘s involvement in the track, offering:
FYI. Gerard did all the screams on this song. Ihsahn is on the solo. Ihsahn’s family on the “whoa oh’s”. Yours truly on singing. Alex Bent on drums.
— Matthew kiichichaos Heafy (@matthewkheafy) March 25, 2022
