Atreyu Detail UK And Ireland Tour For November 2023
The band said of the tour “We have something truly special in store for everyone and are so excited to see y’all!”
Atreyu will play a tour of the UK and Ireland this coming November, with European dates set to follow.
Following their hugely impactful return to European shores earlier this year as special guests to Bullet For My Valentine, the band cannot wait to return, saying “You asked for it, and we listened! We’re heading back again this year for our first proper UK/EU headlining tour in over a decade. We have something truly special in store for everyone and are so excited to see y’all!”
Pre-sale for Atreyu’s UK and Ireland shows starts tomorrow at 10am UK time, whilst general sale will be available Friday, 10am. Head to the band’s official website for further information.
Meanwhile, Atreyu’s new EP ‘The Hope Of A Spark’ is out now via Spinefarm. The 4-tracks embody everything that the band has come to be, to mean, to represent, marking the beginning of the next chapter in the band’s story, with assorted pieces of an expansive puzzle still taking shape, form, and focus.
Produced by long-time collaborator John Feldmann, the new music explores reflection and rumination on modern life’s pressures, pleasures, and pains, with each track representing a snapshot of deeply personal, lived, and shared experiences.
“The overarching concept is essentially about the seasons of life,” frontman Brandon Saller explains. “Everyone goes through the same things, the ups, and downs of life. The emphasis really is the importance of at least respecting those, and finding the positives and the lessons from even your lowest moments.”
The recent single, “Watch Me Burn” is the EP’s phoenix rising from life’s trial-by-fire, a call to arms to let renewed hope emerge from smoldering embers and ash. “To me, it’s a song about being cleansed by fire,” explains bassist, Porter McKnight. “Whatever it is that’s bringing you down and holding you back, burn it down. Use it, learn from it, move on, and grow. That thing does not deserve you and you don’t deserve it.”
“It’s very relatable to all of us individually,” adds Saller, who leads the track’s anthemic, hooky chorus with a defiant cry of ‘Even when flames grow higher / I’ll be fighting till I’m dead.’ “But it’s also incredibly pertinent to the journey of this band.”
The opening track of the EP “Drowning,” was written as a collective effort from each band member who poured their own experiences, be it familial health problems that guitarist Dan Jacobs was shouldering to Saller’s first encounters with feelings of anxiety or bassist, Porter’s McKnight’s long-running fight with depression. The second track, “God Devil,” laments a loss of identity, self, and faith, a desperate cry for help from a higher power, when our greatest power is one we need to find within, following, “Capital F,” which was inspired by Saller’s observations of the human plight.
“These songs are the culmination of our entire artistic endeavors,” McKnight attests. “It’s everything we’ve learned as humans, everything we’ve ingested as musicians, and everything we’ve experienced in this lifetime. It is Atreyu unleashed.”
“Everything that we have put out to this point has built to this moment,” said Jacobs. “Something special is happening with Atreyu right now. We can feel the creativity and collaboration when the five of us get in the studio. We can feel the confidence we all give each other when we stand onstage together. And we can see it in the audience when they’re losing their minds. They’re having as good a time as we are ourselves.”
“It feels like the world has been catching up with the diversity of influences and sounds that we’ve been putting into Atreyu for some time now,” Saller says. “There are no limitations, no barriers.”
Buy or stream the ‘Hope Of A Spark’ EP.
Atreyu UK and Ireland Dates:
NOVEMBER
12: IRELAND – DUBLIN, ACADEMY
13: N.IRELAND – BELFAST, LIMELIGHT
15: SCOTLAND – GLASGOW, GARAGE
16: ENGLAND – NOTTINGHAM, RESCUE ROOMS
18: ENGLAND – WOLVERHAMPTON, KK’S STEELMILL
19: ENGLAND – MANCHESTER, CLUB ACADEMY
20: ENGLAND – BRISTOL, THEKLA
22: ENGLAND – LONDON, ELECTRIC BALLROOM
23: ENGLAND – BRIGHTON, CHALK
