ATREYU Unveil Music Video For ‘Super Hero’ Track Feat. AVENGED SEVENFOLD’s M. Shadows And UNDEROATH’s Aaron Gillespie
April 1st, 2020
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Orange County, California-based metalcore group Atreyu have released a music video for the track ‘Super Hero’. Featuring guest vocals from Avenged Sevenfold frontman M.Shadows and Underoath drummer / singer Aaron Gillespie, the clip can be viewed below.
The band commented: “Our song ‘Super Hero’ was written about what it’s like to be a parent and the vast amount of time, effort, energy, and hard work it takes to be a real-life superhero for your children. The song also has a broader meaning, especially given the current situation the entire world is dealing with. There are many superheroes out there who appear in many forms – namely the first responders, medical personnel, and health care workers who are putting others first as they work to fight COVID-19 and to save lives. We dedicate this song to them.”
Atreyu issued seventh full-length studio album In Our Wake on October 12th, 2018 through Search And Destroy / Spinefarm Records.
Commencing writing sessions, Atreyu posed a question. “What are you going to leave behind?”, asked drummer / co-lead vocalist Brandon Saller. “We named the album In Our Wake because a lot of the concepts address this question. There are lyrics about dealing with your own personal demons and darkness. Some of it is about our children, which his who we live directly in our wake. Others are about the general public and the outpouring of hate and fear – especially in our country. We created something of a concept record without even trying.”
“Everything we do causes a ripple or a wake,” added vocalist Alex Varkatzas. “It can be positive and good, or it can be fucked up and horrible. However, we are the masters of our own destiny. We want to leave something good behind.”
Following a two-year tour cycle for Long Live, Atreyu regrouped in southern California and started sharing track ideas for what would become their seventh LP. In Our Wake reunited Atreyu with producer John Feldmann, who helmed sessions for 2007 outing Lead Sails Paper Anchor.
“Long Live was really heavy and reminiscent of our early material,” continued Brandon Saller. “While we were on the road, fans kept asking to hear more from Lead Sails Paper Anchor. It made us revisit that era of the band. It was a fun, experimental, and explorative time for us, which is so fun. We wanted to give ourselves and the landscape of heavy music a jolt, so we reached out to Feldmann.”
Atreyu recorded in two chunks bookended by Brandon’s touring obligations for Hell Or Highwater. Working out of Feldmann’s Los Angeles studio, they embraced this new approach as the producer still made them “wonderfully uncomfortable and willing to push harder,” according to Alex Varkatzas.
“Every song with the exception of two was fully written in the studio,” said Saller. “We’d split off into groups and crank out two ideas per day. We’d never written a fresh idea from scratch every day. Spontaneity makes things flow so much better though. We also never spread an album out like this either. We laid the foundation with five recordings, sat with them, and finished with a better picture of where we wanted to go.”
The track ‘Super Hero’ features guest vocals from Avenged Sevenfold frontman M.Shadows and Underoath drummer / singer Aaron Gillespie.
A deluxe edition of In Our Wake was released on August 16th, 2019 featuring redesigned artwork and seven additional tracks. The bonus material includes B-sides from recording sessions for both In Our Wake and 2015’s Long Live, along with alternate versions of the title track and ‘The Time Is Now’ from In Our Wake.
“I’m excited for these songs to see the light of day,” said Brandon Saller. “To us, these are songs that we loved, but didn’t find a space within the album as a unit. To further that, we’re excited to have some older material that only saw limited release be fully available for our fans. As for the re-imagined tracks from In Our Wake, this is something brand new to us and it was a really fun moment for us to re-think these songs. They turned into something special that we feel stand on its own.”
“When the topic for the deluxe edition was introduced, my brain instantly exploded with fun avenues and ideas for re-developed imagery,” added bassist Porter McKnight, who created the new packaging and imagery. “I wanted something that flirted with my original ideas for In Our Wake, but took them down a new and darker path. I chose to invoke a classic punk / black metal feel with this one, and even ended up drawing the cover by hand. It’s always an honour and a pleasure to create something for this band.”
The track listing is as follows;
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01. ‘In Our Wake’
02. ‘House Of Gold’
03. ‘The Time Is Now’
04. ‘Nothing Will Ever Change’
05. ‘Blind Deaf & Dumb’
06. ‘Terrified’
07. ‘Safety Pin’
08. ‘Into The Open’
09. ‘Paper Castle’
10. ‘No Control’
11. ‘Anger Left Behind’
12. ‘Super Hero’ (feat. M. Shadows and Aaron Gillespie)
13. ‘In Our Wake (Acoustic Version)’ *
14. ‘The Time Is Now (Alternate Version)’ *
15. ‘Generation’ *
16. ‘Straight To Hell’ *
17. ‘So Others May Live’ *
18. ‘Stronger Than Me’ *
19. ‘When The Day Is Done’ *
* deluxe edition bonus tracks
Atreyu’s line-up is as follows;
Alex Varkatzas (vocals)
‘Big’ Dan Jacobs (guitars)
Travis Miguel (guitars)
Porter McKnight (bass)
Brandon Saller (drums and vocals)
Music videos were filmed for the title track and the songs ‘The Time Is Now’, ‘House Of Gold’ and ‘Generation’. All four clips can also be viewed below
Sixth studio record Long Live was released in September 2015 via the Search And Destroy imprint as part of a joint venture between Raw Power Management and Spinefarm Records.
