HOLLYWOOD RECORDS WASTES NO TIME RIPPING OFF ATREYU’S FANS
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 at 11:39am by Axl Rosenberg[kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/8eVy_LCi3Zo" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
Didn’t the new Atreyu album come out, like, yesterday? I mean, it’s bad enough when Roadrunner puts out an “expanded” version of an album twelve to eighteen months after that album’s original release*, but Hollywood Records will release a new edition of Lead Sails, Paper Anchor on March 18 – just about six months after the album first hit shelves. Hyper-articulate front man Alex Varkatzas explained in an interview:
“We just really want to, you know, write a really cool song as part of the expanded edition of the CD, and we’re gonna do some cool, like, DVD view segments, whatever that means, and enhance up the CD, stuff like that.”
“Whatever that means?” Is he serious? What the fuck does he think it means? And don’t even get me started on his casual admission that this new song wasn’t part of the original recording sessions for the album; I guess too many people have already heard the iTunes-only massacre of Faith No More’s “Epic” to include it on this new edition (And if you think that’s bad, watch the above video of Varkatzas trying to sing his way through “Ex’s and Oh’s,” usually one of Atreyu’s better songs, on Jimmy Kimmel a couple of years back. No wonder the fucker is so reliant on auto-tune in the studio).
Oh, well. I guess you can’t blame Hollywood for trying to yank as much cash out of the band’s hardcore fans’ wallets as possible: after the rest of the world found out the album was a dud artistically, the the thing turned into a dud financially.
-AR
*I’m waiting on my special edition of United Abominations with a re-recording of “Holy Wars” as a duet between Mustaine and Matt Heafy, dudes. Get on that.
Hollywood Records ripped their fans off by releasing the album in the first place.
Maybe Atreyu should release a special edition of a cd that isn’t an audible donkey punch…and one that they can perform live…
To put it more bluntly, everything after The Curse (with the exception of like 2 songs) sucks
What the fuck happened to Atreyu, I mean did the guys in Papa Roach do a “Kansas Shuffle” and switch bodies with them or something? Guess who will be selling the most shirts at Hot Topic this Christmas.
well i’m one of the 5 people in the world that actually liked the new album. i thought it was a vast inprovement on their old material…if only they could get their “singer” to learn how to sing…with a guy so much more talented on the drums i don’t see him being essential to the band in anyway. i mean, what are they keeping him for? his deep, insightful lyrical wizardry?
anyway, i still won’t be buying any atreyu merchandise anytime soon. they still seem to much of metalcore wave riders to have much respect for. oh well.
I didn’t hear anything wrong with that performance… seemed pretty decent to me. Singing live is always different from the studio. I thought they both sang pretty well.
How many copies have they sold of Lead Sails? Did they even break 100,000?
Everything by this band is fucking terrible so if you bought any of their albums in the first place you’re an idiot.
I’d have to agree with Ross, why would you even give them the ounce of credibility by talking about them on this site? They are as relevant to heavy music as hanah Montana (and are produced by the same guy!!)
Yes there’s a difference between studio and live. But there is also a difference between being on pitch and in key than totally off. But I know from experience that there are times when the monitor system is fried and you can’t hear anything and you just guess at pitch. So I’m more inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Atreyu is a good band. I really cannot understand why you guys hate on them so much. For whatever reason Atreyu has became the scapegoat of so many of your jokes here. The best part is that they know. Just listen to the song ‘Blow’ and if you can’t rock out to the cowbell than fuck off I guess
Atreyu is a pussy ass glam band for 12 year old girls about to hit puberty and buy all their clothes at Hot Topic. C’mon dude, these guys are singing about heartbroken vampires and shit with “zomg br00tal breakdownz” , get the fuck over it. Atreyu SUCKS.
ROSS IS SO RIGHT ATREYU IS FUCKING POOP SHIT