{"id":789561,"date":"2026-02-26T05:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/789561\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T05:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:13:11","slug":"trivium-called-out-by-fans-for-allegedly-editing-alex-bent-out-of-their-newly-released-2025-bloodstock-festival-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/789561\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivium Called Out By Fans For Allegedly Editing Alex Bent Out Of Their Newly-Released 2025 &#8216;Bloodstock Festival&#8217; Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professionally filmed live footage of <strong>Trivium<\/strong>\u2018s August 08th set at the 2025 \u2018<strong>Bloodstock Open Air<\/strong>\u2018 festival in Walton-on-Trent, UK went up online this past Friday, February 20th. Footage of the 17-song set has sent ripples throughout the band\u2019s fan community, though not for the quality of the performance. Instead, comments across the YouTube upload, Reddit fan community and even the band\u2019s socials have decried the apparent intentional lack of any close-up shots on the band\u2019s former drummer <strong>Alex Bent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trivium<\/strong> and <strong>Bent<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprp.com\/2025\/10\/03\/news\/trivium-announce-the-exit-of-drummer-alex-bent\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">parted ways in October of 2025<\/a>, seemingly indicating they were on amicable terms at the time of the split. The below newly shared official footage of that set has <strong>Bent<\/strong> relegated to the background, with the editing seemingly indicating the lack of any tight shots of <strong>Bent<\/strong> was intentional.<\/p>\n<p>A sampling of some comments on the below YouTube upload alone include, \u201cJustice for <strong>Bent<\/strong>\u201c, \u201cThe <strong>Alex Bent<\/strong> erasure is crazy\u201d, \u201cHuge disrespect to <strong>Alex<\/strong> who made this show what it was\u201d, \u201cThey did <strong>Alex<\/strong> so dirty here\u201d and numerous more. Some of those comments have racked up hundreds of likes on their own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Rudinger<\/strong> has since stepped up behind the drum kit for <strong>Trivium<\/strong>, replacing <strong>Bent<\/strong> as the band\u2019s sixth drummer to date.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Professionally filmed live footage of Trivium\u2018s August 08th set at the 2025 \u2018Bloodstock Open Air\u2018 festival in Walton-on-Trent,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3936],"tags":[229745,77,269,62680,16,15],"class_list":["post-789561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-alex-bent","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-trivium","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116135226331136852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}