ATREYU has launched the official music video for “Come Down”. The music is taken from the ultimate installment of the band’s three-part EP collection, “A Torch In The Darkish”which was made obtainable on November 3, main into “The Stunning Darkish Of Life” album, out on December 8 by way of Spinefarm.
“A Torch In The Darkish” EP continues the journey set by “The Hope Of A Spark” EP and “The Second You Discover Your Flame” EP, main into “The Stunning Darkish Of Life”which is a fruits of all three representing items of a puzzle, collectively amounting to one thing far larger.
This EP is about self-discovery, discovering your objective and confidence, and your future once more. A victory via the shadows and conquering the darkness — for now.
“Many individuals keep in mind these moments and experiences that formed who they’re in very adolescence,” frontman Brandon Saller says. “However for me, that interval of my life is one huge void. There are issues about me as an individual and issues I do to at the present time that I do not like, however I do not perceive why.”
“We draw energy from one another and provides one another the house and help to be the very best, most inventive individual we might be,” guitarist Dan Jacobs explains. “And collectively, proper now, that makes us the very best band we have ever been.”
“All the things that we have now put out up to now has constructed as much as this second,” concludes Jacobs. “One thing particular is going on with ATREYU proper now. We will really feel the creativity and collaboration when the 5 of us get within the studio. We will really feel the boldness all of us give one another once we stand on stage collectively. And we are able to see it within the viewers once they’re dropping their minds. They’re having pretty much as good a time as we’re ourselves.”
“A Torch Within the Darkish” monitor itemizing:
01. (i)
02. Dying Or Glory
03. Evermore
04. Come Down
In an interview with Rock 100.5 The KATT‘s Cameron Buchholtz performed at this previous September’s Rocklahoma competition in Pryor, Oklahoma, Saller spoke about ATREYU‘s choice to shift their focus away from releasing albums to placing out a collection of EPs.Saller mentioned: “The entire venture as an entire form of tells kind of the identical story in repeat. And we simply needed a option to form of simply have the ability to shine a lightweight on the songs slightly bit extra individually. I really feel like plenty of occasions you place out albums today and also you get three or 4 songs that get any kind of consideration. The remainder of them simply go by the wayside, which sucks while you’re creating artwork and placing the whole lot you may have into artwork.”
He continued: “Every EP goes via the cycles of life, the seasons of life, if you’ll, to inform one huge story on the finish. So it is form of a means that we are able to get slightly bit extra in depth with a form of a narrative and in addition a means that we are able to have our viewers actually have the ability to concentrate on smaller parts of songs at a time.”
Requested if he and his bandmates are seeing that kind of engagement and followers following the story, Brandon mentioned: “Completely. I really feel like, you simply see it, simply when [you look at] the [streaming] numbers, you see every music form of getting slightly bit extra of a limelight and having slightly bit extra of form of a day within the solar. In order that feels good for us.”
Saller beforehand talked about ATREYU‘s choice to launch a collection of EPs this previous July in an interview with the “Brutally Scrumptious” podcast. On the time, he mentioned: “I care much less and fewer concerning the conventional form of strategies of issues and extra about, how will we truly get individuals to have the chance to digest the entire artwork? … You place out an album, put out 12 songs on an album and 4 of ’em get a lightweight shined on them and are within the tens of thousands and thousands of streams and have all this consideration after which the opposite eight are within the tons of of 1000’s, if that — possibly they hit 1,000,000. They’re at midnight and also you spent all this time on these songs.
“We’re not a band that has traditionally put out information with a bunch of filler; it is laborious to get songs previous us,” he defined. “So, for us, it is, like, ‘Oh, effectively, man, it simply did not have alternative to get proven.’
“I am all about various strategies of launch,” Saller added. “I feel that bodily launch actually solely lies in vinyl and funky, like, collectors’ form of stuff today. I do not care about CDs. I could not play a CD if I needed to. I haven’t got a CD [player] in my automotive. I haven’t got a CD participant in my pc. However so far as simply releasing issues, I simply wanna launch issues that make it extra accessible and simple to really devour and digest them. And I feel that that doubtlessly is in singles and EPs. I do not know the whole lot or something. So we’ll see the way it goes.”
ATREYU and MEMPHIS MAY FIRE not too long ago joined forces for the “We Need Your Distress” tour, with CATCH YOUR BREATH and ANOTHER DAY DAWNS as help. ATREYU additionally joined GODSMACK for choose dates earlier than embarking on a run of Canadian reveals with IRON MAIDENbeginning on September 28.
Photograph credit score: Michaela Austin
