American metalcore stalwarts ATREYU proportion “Changing into the Bull” – any other observe from their new choice of 8 reimagined biggest hits and two nostalgic tribute covers ‘The Pronoia Periods’
The virtual unencumber will start streaming on October twenty fifth whilst vinyl and CDs will hit streets on November eighth.
At the new model of “Changing into the Bull,” frontman Brandon Saller feedback: “We attempted to present a brand new solution to this track. As with all of the songs in this album, we needed to respire new existence into each and every facet of this track that to me appears like a desolate tract dawn. Revel in.”
ATREYU is a band with a legacy seamlessly intertwined with formative reviews for a various legion of listeners international. ‘The Pronoia Periods‘ deconstructs, recreates, and reshapes the Orange County, California, band’s liked anthems (and canopy songs) as a haunting and hypnotic new assortment. What started as an acoustic album advanced right into a grand re-imagining of ATREYU classics.
The genesis stretches again to a chain of acoustic performances at particular occasions at the street. “We had the speculation to do a display very similar to Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged as a one-off factor,” explains Saller. “Then we idea, ‘Why no longer spend a while on it within the studio?’ And it constructed from there. ‘How a ways are we able to push this?’ It spawned from there and abruptly changed into this monster.”
He provides: “This album, to us, was once one thing that to begin with got here from the fanatics. All through Covid, we began toying round with doing acoustic performances for the primary time in our profession. For the reason that unencumber of ‘Long past (Reimagined),’ the outpouring of affection and pastime from our fanatics was once overwhelming.
“It were given us considering…what if we didn’t simply make a few of our classics acoustic, what if we took them to a complete new position? We really feel with this album we now have carved out a brand new house for those songs to face on their very own. They’re new entities in our musical panorama.
Making this album introduced us one of these sense of pleasure and creativity. It was once as though the universe passed us this second and it was once intended to occur…therefore, ‘The Pronoia Periods’.”
‘The Pronoia Periods’ Observe Listing:
1) Changing into the Bull (Reimagined)
2) Save Us (Reimagined)
3) Ex’s & Oh’s (Reimagined)
4) Proper Facet of the Mattress (Reimagined)
5) Like A Stone (Audioslave Quilt)
6) Drowning (Reimagined)
7) The Robbery (Reimagined)
8) Long past (Reimagined)
9) Warrior (Reimagined)
10) Mary Jane’s Closing Dance (Tom Petty Quilt)
ATREYU’s riffs, hooks, melodies, lyrics, and keenness are crucial portions of a colourful subculture’s emergence throughout theaters, golf equipment, fairs, radio, and playlists. The inventive fearlessness powering landmark albums like ‘The Curse and Lead Sails Paper Anchor‘ is even more potent in 2024. “Changing into the Bull,” one of the crucial two gold singles launched in 2007, takes on new existence on ‘The Pronoia Periods.’
The songs reimagined on ‘The Pronoia Periods‘ stretch again to 2004’s ‘The Curse'(“Proper Facet of the Mattress”) and 2006’s ‘A Dying-Grip On The day past‘ (“Ex’s & Ohs,” “The Robbery”). Two in their greatest hits, “Warrior” and “Save Us,” are transformed from 2021’s ‘Baptize.’ And there are new variations of “Long past” and “Drowning” from their most up-to-date unencumber, 2023’s ‘The Stunning Darkish of Existence.’
Along with their very own songs, ATREYU gives darkish takes on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers‘ vintage “Mary Jane’s Closing Dance” and the iconic, Chris Cornell-led AUDIOSLAVE ballad “Like a Stone.”
“Let’s see how we will take what exits already and switch it on its head. With one of the vital older stuff, the vocals have a extra melodic way, however with a lot of the similar phraseology,” Saller explains. “We’ve additionally included extra participants of the band. Porter sings, like on ‘Ex’s & Ohs.’ On ‘Proper Facet of the Mattress,’ there’s a saxophone solo as an alternative of a guitar solo, and it’s Dan enjoying the saxophone.”
Unbound through false restrictions about the rest sounding “too heavy” or “too pop,” ATREYU stays an inventive beacon of hope for the folks shaken through the recommendation that “rock is useless.” They’ve damaged into the Most sensible 10 within the Billboard 200 greater than as soon as; two in their albums are qualified gold.
ATREYU‘s unquenchable urge for food for inventive fulfillment and pursuit of a shared catharsis on degree drove them to shape the band as youngsters across the flip of the millennium. It driven them past their selfmade beginnings to giant pageant phases (together with two runs on Ozzfest), sold-out headlining excursions, film and recreation soundtracks, and appearances along fellow style standard-bearers, together with LINKIN PARK, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, DEFTONES, SLIPKNOT and BRING ME THE HORIZON.
A daring bankruptcy within the band’s endless tale of resolution, ‘Baptize‘ was once a definitive paintings for a brand new generation. Like 2018’s ‘In Our Wake‘ (which produced the band’s greatest track of the streaming generation, “The Time is Now”), ATREYU recorded ‘Baptize‘ with manufacturer John Feldmann. Visitors incorporated Jacoby Shaddix (PAPA ROACH), Travis Barker (BLINK-182), and Matt Heafy (TRIVIUM). Songs like “Warrior,” “Disaster,” “Save Us,” and “Underrated” are huge, status with a bit of luck within the band’s catalog.
Breaking with song trade conference, the band’s 9th studio album, ‘The Stunning Darkish of Existence,‘ arrived first as a chain of 3 four-song EPs, in the end gathered all along with 3 extra tracks. The band co-headlined with MEMPHIS MAY FIRE and toured with GODSMACK across the EPs.
Distorted Sound hailed the album as “a healing exploration of the insecurities that plague many people, taking the data of that shared enjoy and wielding it to their very own power.”
Adeptly combining the sounds of thrash, hardcore punk, and the brand new wave of Swedish dying steel, ATREYU temporarily advanced to a spot the place fanatics of the entirety from LINKIN PARK to LAMB OF GOD may just come to the celebration. Adventurous, bold; ATREYU is easiest described it appears that evidently as a noisy rock band.
As one distinguished arduous rock critic noticed early within the band’s profession: “In the event you haven’t found out those guys are aiming for a larger sound through now, you may want to check out cleansing out your ears.”
ATREYU are:
Brandon Saller – lead vocals
Dan Jacobs – guitar
Travis Miguel – guitar
Porter McKnight – bass/vocals
