Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium’s Poisoned Ascendancy Tour was meant to be historic for the two iconic bands, but it’s now ended in silence and speculation.
Billed as a massive co-headlining run between Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium, the tour was set to celebrate the 20th anniversaries of their iconic breakthrough records The Poison and Ascendancy. After successful stints across the UK, Europe, and most of North America, fans in Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan were expecting to be next in line to witness the carnage.
Now, they won’t get the chance.
The rest of the tour has reportedly been quietly axed without explanation, and signs of a rift between the two bands are becoming harder to ignore.
Trivium’s Paolo Gregoletto gave fans the first unfiltered look behind the curtain during a recent livestream (via The PRP). When asked why the international leg had been canned, he pointed the finger directly at Bullet for My Valentine’s frontman, Matt Tuck.
“Matt Tuck didn’t want to do it, after we had planned it, after stuff was already in the works – don’t know why,” Gregoletto said. “I think it would have been amazing… the two records pair very well together. It would have been nice to give everyone around the world a chance to see the two together.”
While no formal joint statement has been issued, Trivium’s social media told its own story, referring to the remaining four U.S. shows as the final ones, and calling it the tour’s farewell. Bullet For My Valentine, on the other hand, haven’t publicly acknowledged the cancellation or addressed the status of the international legs.
The bands have also unfollowed each other online, adding fuel to the fire of a split that appears more personal than professional.
The collapse of the tour hits especially hard for Aussie fans, who were all but promised a local leg when Matt Tuck teased it late last year.
“We’re taking it to Europe, and the US. Japan, Australia and Southeast Asia,” Tuck had said. “So it’s going to be really fun and to do it with friends who we’ve known for twenty years, is pretty cool.”
Tuck’s unofficial confirmation came as part of a broader push to hype Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium’s world tour, which was supposed to include massive venues, elaborate production, and a possible onstage collaboration between the two bands.
For now, it seems none of that will materialise outside the U.S.
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