IT ALREADY IS TOO LATE, ATREYU; YOU’VE DESTROYED IT ALL
Monday, September 14th, 2009 at 2:30pm by Axl Rosenberg
So. Atreyu have a new album, Congregation of the Damned, coming out October 27, and the band has made it perfectly clear that they intend for said album to be a return to form after the lackluster results of their sell-out arena rock effort, Lead Sails and a Who Gives a Fuck? Now they’ve debuted a new song, “Stop! Before It’s Too Late and We’ve Destroyed it All,” on their MySpace. Are we convinced that the Atreyu of yore are about to make a return? Can any band that’s not Faith No More get away with having a exclamation point in a song title? Do we even care?
Well, one thing in the band’s favor: there’s a bare minimum of auto-tune here, which is to say, someone seems to have told drummer/co-”vocalist” (I use that term loosely) Brandon Saller to keep his fucking mouth shut. And besides the somewhat slicker production, the song does sound more or less like it could have been on The Curse.
But, um, who gives a shit, really? While Atreyu were off playing with themselves, writing power ballads and semi-rap songs and ruining FNM classics, their peers have all moved on by either a) going through some kind of musical evolution, b) breaking up, or c) resigning themselves to playing incredibly small venues until the inevitable Metalcore Nostalgia Tour of 2015. If Lead Sails alienated a large portion of Atreyu’s fan base, I’m not convinced that now releasing The Curse 2009 will really lure anyone back. It already seems like A Deathgrip on Yesterday was a million years ago; Hot Topic kids have short memory spans, and have probably moved onto Whitechapel or whatever by now.
Of course, I could be wrong. The band’s upcoming tour with Hollywood Undead could put Atreyu in front of exactly the kind of future McDonald’s employees that they need to make Damned a big seller. But I don’t know anyone who’s excited about Damned, and I don’t think this song will do much to change anyone’s mind.
-AR
That movie looks badass. How come I’ve never heard of it?
oh and Atreyu sucks.
I would so nail Estelle Getty. MMMMMMMMMMhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmm. tasty.
Atreyu was semi ok on their first album, but since then it has been all trash !
To answer the question, I care. Because The Curse and Suicide Notes are two of my favorite albums ever.
That being said, this song is better than anything they’ve released since then, but it still is missing what they had before. My guess is that something would be passion.
Or talent.
Hey OH! you are correct sir
Intro guitar isnt bad, the rest is…well maybe because Im not 15 anymore, but its meh. The vocalist sounds like Marilyn Manson when he does that low talking shit *quivers* I think unless kids are still into this shit, they have no hope….
Im not ashamed to say I was a casual fan of these guys(huge emphasis on WAS.) But HOLY SHIT did they fuck up things up badly. I mean BADLY. Hollywood Undead? Thats their comeback plan? Hollywood Undead?!?!?! Really?
EMPHASIS ON WAS….Just wanted to make sure everyone saw that………………………….HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD? Bahaha
Fuck Whitechapel
Best Post EVER
I’ve never been a huge Atreyu fan but I did like Suicide Notes And Butterfly Kisses and The Curse. Not great albums but really solid. This sounds like something from one of those albums. Though the song isn’t exactly, “HOLY SHIT! THIS IS AMAZING!” i’m kind of interested to hear the rest of the album to see if it’s worth checking out.
Atreyu has always sucked
Atreyu Sucks. FNM owns. End of story
Maybe I’ve completely shitty tastes, maybe I’m a douche, but I do like “Lead Sails etc.”. That’s a pop album with rock elements and I like it for what it is, the album that reveals the real identity of the band: it is way better than a lot of albums from bands that try very hard to follow the scene. “Lead Sails etc.” came out, to me, as an original album and it was a good change of direction for a band that, since that moment, was nothing but another hardcore band in the multitude. Now they want to go back to the roots (the rotten roots I’d say), almost repudiating “Lead Sails etc.”… I say fuck them! The new song is garbage, just an attempt to rejoin the beloved hardcore scene.
Maybe I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time but Atreyu came out when I was in high school and sunk their teeth into me. I love Suicide Notes and the Curse but everything else is lackluster. I’ve since moved on to more respectable tastes but I will still give them a shot even though I actually crapped my pants and vomitted simultaneously when I heard Lead Sails.
Dude I gotta see that fucking movie…
…unless Atreyu is anywhere on the soundtrack…
I’m pretty sure that movie came out before any members of Atreyu were even born
Ouch. Cold cut on Whitechapel. For a fairly talented deathmetal/deathcore band, I’d hardly even mention their name anywhere near an Atreyu article.
But it is true that metal scene kids have moved onto deathcore now….which sucks because there are some pretty good bands in the genre. Those douchers ruin the shows with their plugs and rainbow colored death shirts.
that song is ten times better than anything on that pile of shit of an album they last released
I think Lead Sails was a good album. Not good Atreyu. But I don’t really like ‘em anyway.
MetalSucks, the only way I want to see Atreyu mentioned on this site is when the header is ‘Shitstain on the Universe’. Thanks for your prompt attention to this matter.
They fucking ruined Epic.
If they’re still on victory their chances are slim to none…
The singer has more luck going wit the whole William Hurt/Chris Gaines thing he tried a year or so ago.
I still care. I want them to blow my mind again like they did on their first three albums.
FUCK YOU Atreyu is the greatest band ever and this album is shaping up to their best yet!
Crackhead
fuck you douche bag
atreyu is the shit
FNM susks massive dick
they wiped the floor with FNM with their Epic cover
just because u have no musical taste
doesnt give u any right to trash a band
Whatever happened to respectfully disagreeing?
respectfully disagreeing gets people know where
people who respectfully disagree are called pussies or wimps for doing so
I respectful disagree with how you spelled “NO.” Dumbass.
He has Atreyu in his name. So obviously, he’s not very smart.
haha Lord Bling, you’re so funny, you just don’t know good music
and I hatefully disagree with your use of the word “respectful” Urban Outdoorsman
Wait he has A7x in his name….
Leave the mentally retarded child alone people..
go dude atreyu rules
ok for 1
I’m no child
what music do you like then Histomen?
I love how almost everyone on here who said they like previous Atreyu albums apologized for it. If you like something then who fucking cares what other people think? I used to think saying fuck you to everyone else and doing it your own way was a big part of metal.
Unfortunately, the more I read on here and other sites it has become all too apparent that a lot of the metal crowd is no different than 15 year old girls.
Wah wah wah i don’t want to go to this deathcore show because “scene kids” will be there and they ruin it.
I can’t believe (insert band name) is wearing Affliction t-shirts (i’ve seen this one so many times). Why the fuck would you care what clothing another dude wears? That’s borderline homo in my opinion and distracts from what really matters THE MUSIC.
So you don’t like Atreyu, Thrice, Avenged Sevenfold any other borderline “True” metal band, that’s fine. Let’s be honest though, it is crystal clear that a lot of you are influenced in these decisions by other people talking shit on said bands and wanting to follow what’s “Metal”.
Do I think the new Atreyu song is great? No. However, I listened to the song as a whole without thinking about lead sails, what kind of people go to there shows or what outfits they will be wearing.
Well said.
Troll.
I’ve never seen a website more fail than this one.
The person who owns this place must be a fatass hip-hop/rap/pop-tarded… I can’t think up of an insult for this. Someone who listens to genre’s like those and has the vagina to say that metal sucks obviously and clearly has no musical taste.
Atreyu is the fucking shit. They’re a great band, one that I will follow and defend.
(Though, I highly doubt this insignificant but highly truthful comment will have no impact on the retarded, cunt-licking, dick-sucking, fatass son of a bitch that runs this horrible excuse for a website.)
Before I press submit, I must say, that “Stop or my Mom will Shoot” looks fucking awesome.
Fail isn’t an adjective asshole.
What the Fuck are you talking about? Fucking dumbass.
Wow. Just, wow.
So much can be said of this moron, but it’s just too easy so I’ll leave it alone.
Atreyu has and always will fucking suck.
You started off good but your over use of adjectives at the end just made me think you were a dumb-ass.
Before I press submit, I must say, that i liked Atreyus first 2 albums…..
That is all
retardation triumphs over reason once again!
haha seriously though, I wasn’t the one who wrote that comment, my friend Tyler who thinks anything and everything from Atreyu is a godsend did.
i like the band and all, but i’m not gonna be a complete douche and over-adjectivally insult a site just cause they don’t like a band that I do…
sorry to anyone that retardly written first comment displeased/pissed off.
i do have to agree with my friend though, that movie looks very awesome.
Goddammit. I love Atreyu and am a huge fan (really, I am. If you click my link and see my picture it’s me wearing an Atreyu shirt and I’ve had that same picture representing my online self for 3 years), but seriously, I can see why people hate fans of this band and talk shit on them. Just because one guy who (and with my judgments being based solely on this site is one of two really cool dudes) happens to have an opinion, Atreyu fans think they can come in and claim that the entire site is shit while belittling the man himself. And for what? Having a fucking opinion that’s different that yours? Jesus Christ dude. Have an open fuckin’ mind for 5 minutes. Shit.
Atreyu started strong with their first three albums, and so they had one that was different that a lot of people thought was shit. So they might be trying to come back to what they were before. What’s wrong with that? Maybe they realized that Lead Sails was a mistake and are just trying to get back to what they had before. And who cares that they have an exclamation point in their song title? There’s probably only a hundred other things that you could complain about.
wow. i would like to first thank the internet for making spineless, anonymous shit-talking possible. and second, i would like all of you to know that none of you matter. i will be going to see Atreyu and Hollywood Undead in concert, I will obtain a copy (most likely by means of a torrent program because bands make their money from concerts, not record sales) of Congregation of the Damned, and I will enjoy it without a second thought of what anyone else thinks, or possibly musters us the balls to say (TO MINE OR ANYONE’S FUCKING FACE) about it.
ATREYU RULES!
Atreyu is an awesome band. Those who say otherwise are apparently not capable of comprehending skill when they hear it. Atreyu mixes hardcore and softcore very well and although their last album was less than perfect, this one seems to be promising. Alex’s voice is just sick and I can’t wait for the screaming of the curse to come back again.
All you haters go F yourselves. True fans could care less what you have to say about it.
Go listen to Cannibal Corpse or some other grotesquely untalented pack of garbage eating shitheads while you dream of “cumming blood” on your grandmother.