ATREYU’s riffs, hooks, melodies, lyrics, and passion are essential parts of a vibrant subculture's emergence across theaters, clubs, festivals, radio, and playlists. The artistic fearlessness powering landmark albums like 'The Curse and Lead Sails Paper Anchor' is even stronger in 2024. “Becoming the Bull,” one of the two gold singles released in 2007, takes on new life on 'The Pronoia Sessions.'
The songs reimagined on 'The Pronoia Sessions' stretch back to 2004’s 'The Curse' (“Right Side of the Bed”) and 2006’s 'A Death-Grip On Yesterday' (“Ex’s & Ohs,” “The Theft”). Two of their biggest hits, “Warrior” and “Save Us,” are reworked from 2021’s 'Baptize.' And there are new versions of “Gone” and “Drowning” from their most recent release, 2023’s 'The Beautiful Dark of Life.'
In addition to their own songs, ATREYU offers dark takes on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' classic “Mary Jane's Last Dance” and the enduring, Chris Cornell-led Audioslave ballad “Like a Stone.”
“Let’s see how we can take what exits already and turn it on its head. With some of the older stuff, the vocals have a more melodic approach, but with much of the same phrasing,” Saller explains. “We’ve also incorporated more members of the band. Porter sings, like on ‘Ex’s & Ohs.’ On ‘Right Side of the Bed,’ there’s a saxophone solo instead of a guitar solo, and it’s Dan playing the saxophone.”
Unbound by false restrictions about anything sounding "too heavy" or "too pop," ATREYU remains a creative beacon of hope for the people shaken by the suggestion that "rock is dead." They've broken into the Top 10 in the Billboard 200 more than once; two of their albums are certified gold.
ATREYU's unquenchable appetite for creative achievement and pursuit of a shared catharsis on stage drove them to form the band as teenagers around the turn of the millennium. It pushed them beyond their do-it-yourself beginnings to massive festival stages (including two runs on Ozzfest), sold-out headlining tours, movie and game soundtracks, and appearances alongside fellow genre standard-bearers, including Linkin Park, Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, Slipknot, and Bring Me The Horizon.
A bold chapter in the band's never-ending story of determination, 'Baptize' was a definitive work for a new era. Like 2018's 'In Our Wake' (which produced the band’s biggest song of the streaming era, “The Time is Now”), ATREYU recorded 'Baptize' with producer John Feldmann. Guests included Jacoby Shaddix (Papa Roach), Travis Barker (blink-182), and Matt Heafy (Trivium). Songs like “Warrior,” “Catastrophe,” “Save Us,” and “Underrated” are massive, standing confidently in the band’s catalog.
Adeptly combining the sounds of thrash, hardcore punk, and the new wave of Swedish death metal, ATREYU quickly evolved to a place where fans of everything from Linkin Park to Lamb Of God could come to the party. Adventurous, ambitious; ATREYU is best described plainly as a loud rock band.
