A crowdfunding campaign has been launched for the baby of Trivium drummer Alex Bent, with the infant having been hospitalized for over 70 days.
The GoFundMe page was created by Bent’s wife Christina last week, who highlighted the complications she faced 29 weeks into her pregnancy.
The baby girl was delivered via C-section, but has undergone surgery and close monitoring ever since – doctors have discovered adverse challenges like jaundice, anaemia, and an inability to eat. This has resulted in an extended hospital stay, along with therapy, specialist visits, follow-up appointments and more.
“As we are getting closer to discharge, the reality is setting in and hospital bills are beginning to flood the mailbox,” Christina wrote. “We are going to continue to need many specialist visits and outpatient therapies due to her prematurity.”
“I cannot express how hard it was to write this and relive the hardest moments of my life while still going through it,” she said. “Asking for help is not in our nature, but we will do anything for our sweet baby girl.” The campaign spearheaded by Alex Bent and Christina has since exceeded its goal of $30,000, with donations still open for willing contributors.
Last September, Trivium and Bullet for My Valentine announced a North American co-headline tour for 2025.
The ‘Poisoned Ascendancy’ will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Bullet For My Valentine’s debut album ‘The Poisoned, and Trivium’s second record ‘Ascendancy’. Both bands are set to play their respective LP in full, following a joint UK leg early next year.
Speaking to NME in February, BFMV’s Matt Tuck described the upcoming co-headline tour as a “well-deserved victory lap”, and said both bands “deserved” the chance to celebrate their legacies. “We never had the chance to take in what was happening at the time,” he explained.
Tuck continued: “This tour almost didn’t happen because we were so focused on making a new album and touring that. That’s how we’re wired, that’s what we’ve always done. But after talking about it, we realised that if we didn’t take this opportunity, we’d always regret it. 20 years is a long time to be making an impact.
“A 20th anniversary is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, but celebrating that alongside Trivium makes it more special.”
In other news, Trivium frontman Matt Heafy confirmed last summer that the band had no plans to work on new music, and were ready to take a hiatus following a 2023 tour.