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Chloe Trujillo - BLVD Of Eyes 'Celebrating We Are Humans Down Under'

Duane James

Dad. Metal Bogan. Duane's World.

Nov 20, 2025

8 min read

If the name rings a bell, it should.

‍Chloe Trujillo, lead singer of BLVD OF EYES has been very busy this month, traipsing around Australia and New Zealand in support of her husband Rob and son Tye on the recent Metallica/Evanescence/Suicidal Tendencies tour.

But the Trujillo family tour isn’t over, as BLVD OF EYES is about to embark on their maiden Australian Tour this Friday the 21st November. The tour kickstarts at Australia’s most famous dive, the Cherry Bar in Melbourne and continues up the east coast for an 8 show run, including a headlining slot at HEAVYFEST #2 this Sunday that takes place on a boat on Sydney Harbour.

The tour starter coincides with the release of their new 5 track EP, WE ARE HUMANS, and you can check out their debut single 'We Are Human' and the rest of their catalogue on streaming services now.

‍Wall of Sound caught up with Chloe backstage at Metallica’s Sydney gig to talk about the bands history, their new EP, her time hanging out at the Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning celebration and being there for Ozzy Osbourne’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rehearsals. But with an Aussie tour of her own starting this Friday, I’m curious as to what we can expect from a BLVD OF EYES live show

‍“I have no clue. HAHAHA”

She’s just circled Australia with Metallica. Maybe she’s sussed out a few of the venues.

‍“Well, no. I don't know what to expect really. I'm excited because we're going to play five new songs that we've never played live before. We managed to fit in one rehearsal before I left. Then we're going to have one rehearsal. We have a replacement drummer on this tour.”

“We have a guy named Shane that I met for the first time at the Brisbane show. I think he's a friend of Mark's and he played on our first EP when it was just Mark [Dalbeth] and I, because we released two EPs.”

It’s something of a homecoming for the New Zealand born Mark Dalbeth, who made waves in Australia with his band Bellusira before moving to the States where he met Chloe. Now with BLVD OF EYES, they’re going to launch their new EP and tour at Melbourne’s famous Cherry Bar on AC/DC lane.

‍“So I heard that there's some crew people that went to the Cherry Bar before and after the show when they played in Melbourne? So should be cool. I'm just excited. I hope a lot of people are going to show up. I'm excited to play the new songs.

It's a little scary because we only had one rehearsal, and then because I'm on tour right now, I mean not on tour, I'm not performing. But it's always a little challenging to kind of rehearse the songs on my own.

I did rent a studio for two hours so I could sing them out. It was called Stagedoor in Alexandria. Anyways, it was really cool. I got just a small room with a pa, just enough to rehearse, go through the set.”

One of the shows is a headliner set on the second HEAVYFEST outing, a festival that’s taking place on a boat going around Sydney Harbour.

‍“I have no clue what to expect on the boat, and I like it that way. I want to keep it as a surprise.”

Because Chloe isn’t busy enough, she’s also only just released a new solo song, the very doomy ‘As The Sky Is Falling Down'. I was curious as to why she released this separate to BLVD OF EYES and what her thinking was going into that song

‍“The way I met Mark, I always did my solo stuff. I had to switch distributors, so I removed all my catalogue of older songs right now from streaming platforms, and I'm going to re-release with my new distributor now. Just stuff like that. So I always did my own stuff, and that's the way I met Mark. We both did a show during COVID, so it was like a virtual concert at the Troubadour for Global Green. We never met because you couldn't meet anybody. You're just performing in front of that, a camera like this, and there's nobody, it's kind of weird. I performed my solo stuff and then he was playing in band. Then from that show, he sent me a message saying, Hey, would you like to do a song together, collab? I said, sure. So he sent me some riff ideas. I picked a riff idea and I sent him some vocal melody, and that's how we wrote our first songs, and that's how Boulevard started.”

‍“But parallel to that, I've always done my solo stuff. I know it's kind of crazy. Everything's being released at the same time. But the song that just came out, and I have another one coming out called Lies, is going to release December 11th, and then I'll release a full EP early 2026. But these songs I wrote during COVID, so I think that's why the doomy vibe of it, because it was kind of chaos and that's what I talk about in this song. But yeah, so I've had these songs finished for a while and I'm like, okay, I got to release them somehow, and I picked a release date and then all of a sudden it's like, you got to release a new EP for BLVD.. Okay, everything at once. It's all right. Let's do it.”

The new music will cap off a very busy and crazy year, a year that’s seen the Trujillo family make their way to Birmingham in the UK for the Back to the Beginning celebrations in which Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath played their final shows. To all of us, Ozzy was an icon and a hero, but to the Trujillo’s, he was family. Given their unique standing with the Osbourne’s, it makes you wonder what the whole experience was like for Chloe and her family.

‍“I think for all of us, it was just kind of almost surreal for me. I have to share during the show, it was so incredible from top to finish all the bands and ending with Sabbath at the end. Robert always talks about, they start that first chord and then all of a sudden the dark clouds came in, and then I was like, whoa. Totally the vibe. But I had not one second to pee during that show. You don't want to miss anything. And the change of set, it was a rotating stage, so it's like, okay, 10 minutes and then it's a new thing. So you're like, oh, I don't want to miss anything. And it was just incredible. See all these musicians paying tribute to Ozzy and Black Sabbath.”

I did try hitting up Chloe for a favourite moment, other than obviously Sabbath and Ozzy, and Metallica for that matter, but on such an epic occasion filled with huge moments, it’s an impossible ask.

‍“It's all a blur now because I thought everybody did so great. I don't think there was just, I can't even say. I enjoyed, even the days, a couple days before they had rehearsals and sound checks with the different bands and the different musicians even. That was incredible to witness.

I was really amazed how Ozzy just got his full energy and just gave it his all during that show. It was just incredible.

I can't even say. Yeah, I loved it all. Like I said, I didn't have five minutes to go pee. I was doing the pee dance.”

Another moment that Chloe witnessed, which was captured in the new documentary Ozzy: No Escape From Now, was the rehearsal for Ozzy’s Hall of Fame Induction, where in Jelly Roll’s absence, Ozzy, who was unable to perform in the ceremony, started singing from his throne into a microphone being held by Jack Black.

‍"Yeah, I was there too”

Watching that moment on the doco, there was a mix of surprise and joy on everyone’s face as it happened.

‍“Well, yeah, because they didn't know if he could sing. They didn't even know if he could even be there and he made it there. Then even during soundcheck, he started to sing and everybody's like, wow, wow. He sounded incredible.

It's like, yeah, his body was kind of failing a bit, but his voice was still there. It was just magical.

All of that was magical.”

That’s the power of music, and what a gift to be there to witness it all.

Come hang out with Chloe and her band BLVD OF EYES as they embark on their maiden Aussie tour, playing their new EP for the first time ever, right here on Australia soil (and the water in Sydney). Check it out, I’ll catch you on the boat

Interview by Duane James @duanejamestattoo

Catch BLVD OF EYES on tour across Australia - tickets here