Watch Trivium's Matt Heafy turn Wellerman into a metal sea shanty banger
Trivium frontman Matt Heafy adds metal guitar riffs and blastbeats to Wellerman while on Twitch.
From All Time Low to Nickelback, many of rock's most iconic singles have been turned into sea shanties thanks to TikTok's latest viral craze. But Trivium frontman Matt Heafy has switched things up and turned the original song, Wellerman, into his own metal banger… because of course he has.
The king of the internet used his massive Twitch platform to give Wellerman some classic metal blastbeats and riffs – with Matt even looking pretty proud of himself as he incorporates his own touches within the hugely popular sailor song. Even more impressive is the fact that it's not even the first time he's done it, having shredded along to Sea Shanty 2 from Runescape back in 2019 (see below videos below).
Read this: Trivium’s Matt Heafy: I don’t think of life like a musician, I think of it like an athlete
This Friday, Matt is handing over his vocals and guitars on an original song to Linkin Park man Mike Shinoda to see him produce it live on Twitch.
"I got Matt’s blessing to get weird with the track too," said Mike of the collaboration. "We’re not gonna just make a metal track. We’re not gonna make a Trivium track. If you wanted a Trivium track you could just get a Trivium track. You could go to Matt’s channel and get that. So I’m gonna take his vocal, and even his guitar, and chop them into little tiny bits and run them through a meat grinder and then we’re gonna make a track out of it. I don’t even know what we’re gonna make.
"The track he sent is so… it’s, like, epic! It’s very, like, Matt standing on a mountaintop with a falcon on his wrist who flies away and collects the bones of enemy clans, enemy warriors."
You can watch that on Mike’s Twitch this Friday, February 8, with the session kicking off from 10am PT / 1pm ET.
In the meantime, enjoy this…