ATREYU release the final installment of their three-part EP series ‘A Torch In the Dark’ EP is out now via Spinefarm
The tracks will feature on ‘The Beautiful Dark of Life’ album
- out in December
UK & European Headline Tour kicks off this month
Atreyu have today released the final installment of their three-part EP series. ‘A Torch In The Dark’ EP paves the way for the band’s ‘The Beautiful Dark of Life’ album, which will be out in December via Spinefarm.
The EP features a new love song ‘Forevermore’, for which the band have released a music video. All five members channeled their individual emotions into the lyrics, which coalesce into one unified voice. Frontman Brandon Saller labels the track, “The most vulnerable, tender moment this band has ever had.”
The ‘A Torch In The Dark’ EP continues the journey started by ‘The Hope of a Spark’ EP and furthered with ‘The Moment You Find Your Flame’ EP, and leads into Atreyu’s forthcoming album ‘The Beautiful Dark of Life’. The record is the culmination of all three EP releases, which represent pieces of a puzzle, collectively amounting to something far greater.
‘A Torch In The Dark’ is about self-discovery, finding your purpose and confidence, and your future again. A victory through the shadows and conquering the darkness – for now.
The previously-released opener ‘(i)’ – it’s anthemic chorus beseeching ‘Tell me who the fuck have I been / After all this time / It’s a lie’ – finds Saller wrestling with deep-rooted questions of identity, born from an inability to remember his childhood. “Many people remember these moments and experiences that shaped who they are in very formative years,” he says. “But for me, that period of my life is one big void. There are things about me as a person and things I do to this day that I don’t like, but I don’t understand why.”
‘Death Or Glory’ seeks the strength to fight another day when ‘I don’t recognize who I’ve become / A burning sun’, eventually finding it in the knowledge that ‘I don’t fear the death of my story‘. And ‘Come Down’ closes this collection with a gang-vocal bridge speaking to the universality of its themes when it playfully asks ‘Have we all have we all lost our minds?’.
‘A Torch In the Dark’ tracklist:
1. (i)
2. Death Or Glory
3. Forevermore
4. Come Down
UK & EUROPEAN HEADLINE TOUR DATES:
NOVEMBER
12 – Dublin, Academy
13 – Belfast, Limelight 2
15 – Glasgow, Garage
16 – Nottingham, Rock City *upgraded*
18 – Wolverhampton, KK’s Steel Mill
19 – Manchester, Academy 2 *sold out*
20 – Bristol, SWX *upgraded*
22 – London, Electric Ballroom
23 – Brighton, Chalk
25 – Berlin, Hole 44
26 – Prague, Rock Café
27 – Vienna, Szene
28 – Munich, Backstage Werk *upgraded*
29 – Zurich, Dynamo
DECEMBER
01 – Madrid, Mon Live
02 – Barcelona, Apolo 2
04 – Paris, Backstage Btm
05 – Munster, Skaters Palace
06 – Antwerp, Zappa
07 – Utrecht, Tivoli
09 – Cologne, Kantine
10 – Hamburg, Knust *sold out*
11 – Copenhagen, Pumpehuset
12 – Oslo, John Dee
13 – Stockholm, Klubben
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ATREYU ushered in a new movement in heavy music. Their music seamlessly intertwines with formative experiences for a diverse legion of dedicated listeners, many of whom started their own bands. They've broken into the Top 10 in the Billboard 200 more than once; two of their albums, ‘The Curse’ and ‘Lead Sails Paper Anchor’, are certified gold with two million albums sold worldwide and an encompassing 600 million streams. Their most recent album, ‘Baptize’ has clocked 65 million streams alongside a Top 10 at rock radio hit with ‘Warrior’ featuring Travis Barker.
Where once the band was heralded as the early innovators of the nascent metalcore scene, their place in heavy music’s diverse and boundary-breaking scene has never felt more relevant, with inspirations of pop-punk, hardcore, thrash, ‘80s rock, and more melding into a unique and varied sound that has never felt more relevant than in today’s increasingly genreless world.
With a 20-year career and eight acclaimed albums in the rear-view mirror, ATREYU in 2023 are focused only on the present and the future, and a mission to continue shaping and defining the rock and metal scene, just as they have always done since their emergence from Huntington Beach in Southern California.
Together, frontman Brandon Saller, guitarists Dan Jacobs and Travis Miguel, bassist Porter McKnight and drummer Kyle Rosa are one of the most respected names and potent forces in heavy music, and their live show is one of the most heralded on the touring circuit.
