Trivium’s Matt Heafy Is Getting His Entire Body Tattooed: See His Progress

TRIVIUM‘s Matt Heafy has up to date his followers on his quest to get his total physique tattooed.

The 35-year-old Orlando, Florida-based musician, who received his first tattoo in 2005, has revealed that his full bodysuit is near completion — he is already inked his again, legs, arms and buttocks.

Earlier right this moment, Heafy took to his Instagram to share a photograph of his progress, and he included the next message: “Bodysuit progress:

“Left arm: Yoshitoshi – Watanabe no Tsuna v Ibaraki Doji at Rashomon by @kahlil_rintye

“Proper arm: Utamaro – Ascending Dragon by @brianbruno (forearm) + @kahlil_rintye (higher arm)

“Again: Yoshitoshi – Susanoo v Yamato no Orochi by @kahlil_rintye

“Proper decrease leg: Kuniyoshi – Minamoto no Tametomo Rescued by Tengu (Wanizame solely thus far) by @davidbruehl

“Left decrease leg: Kunitsuna – Sato Masakiyo Looking the Magic Two-Tailed Tiger (tiger solely thus far) by @davidbruehl

“Pondering the entrance piece. Concepts welcome!”

A couple of years in the past, Heafy informed Tattoo.com in an interview that the music trade has “positively made tattoos a extra acceptable factor in standard tradition. I feel that earlier than music grew to become an ‘trade,’ it was the traditional Japanese who influenced tattoos by turning them into an artwork type,” he defined. “Sadly, now it looks as if Japan is regressing to being towards tattoos. However with the remainder of the world, I feel it is humorous due to all of the stereotypes about tattoos type of work. For example, when you see an individual who seems to be like they’re in a band and so they’re lined in tattoos, likelihood is they’re in all probability in a band. I feel it is an important factor that tattoos enable bands to specific themselves — and on this sense, the music trade would not have the identical limitations that different industries have. I additionally suppose that music is one other means folks can specific themselves and who they’re as an individual.”

Heafy additionally mentioned a few of his particular tattoos, saying: “My proper arm was my first piece. It is Brian Bruno‘s illustration of an early Japanese piece by Kitagawa Utamaro. It was known as ‘Ascending Dragon’. That was when our album ‘Ascendancy’ was about to return out; it felt like the celebrities aligned. Kitagawa Utamaro was recognized extra for his items of Geishas; I had by no means actually seen him do a dragon piece. After doing years of analysis on a picket triptych of the dragon, I had Brian do that piece. I believed he can be the perfect American tattoo artist to do Japanese tattooing. From there, Kahlil [Rintye] moved into Brian‘s spot (Kahlil was additionally skilled in Japanese tattooing). He ended up doing my second tattoo, which is on my left arm. It’s an interpretation of an previous piece in Japanese storytelling performed by Yoshitoshi. It is of a samurai named Watanabe no Tsuna preventing Ibaraki no Doji at Rashomon gate. I imagine that piece was created within the 1700s or 1800s, so I had Kahlil mainly duplicate it on my left arm. Then I’ve my wedding ceremony band tattooed on my left hand, and that is a Japanese ‘Ensō,’ which is an existentialist image based mostly on the philosophies of perfection, imperfection, completion, and incompletion.”

Heafy was born in Iwakuni, Japan to a Japanese mom and an American father. His father, previously a member of america Marine Corps, is half Irish and half German. After wrapping up his enlistment at Camp Pendleton, Heafy‘s father settled his household in Orlando, Florida, the place Matt‘s budding love of music started to flourish.