Gold-certified melodic metalcore outfit Atreyu will conclude their series of releases this year with the December 08th arrival of their new studio album, “The Beautiful Dark Of Life“. That set will compile the material from the trilogy of EPs they’ve released this year (“The Hope Of A Spark“, “The Moment You Find Your Flame” & “A Torch In The Dark“) with the inclusion of an additional three tracks: “Insomnia“, “Dancing With My Demons” & “The Beautiful Dark Of Life“.
Vocalist Brandon Saller commented:
“‘The Beautiful Dark Of Life‘ is the journey we are all on. It is the journey we have taken the audience on through the three EPs: the highs, lows, and lessons of life. And much like living through them, you don’t gain a full understanding of what it all means without the whole picture. This album is that picture.”
Saller also elaborated on the inspiration behind the title:
“I was walking with my young daughter one day when we went under a bridge. She pointed at something and said, ‘Daddy, what’s that?’ I told her, ‘That’s a shadow, honey.’ And she turned to me and said, ‘Shadows are the beautiful dark of life.’”
Vocalist/bassist Porter McKnight added
“We wanted each EP to have its own space to exist, for every song to find its audience and connect with people in its own right. But then when those songs are later collected together in the shape of the album, it will be an ‘A-ha!’ moment where we hope people will rediscover them in a new light, and find something in them all over again.”
“These songs are the culmination of our entire artistic endeavors. 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.”
“The Beautiful Dark Of Life” track listing:
01 – “Drowning”
02 – “Insomnia”
03 – “Capital F”
04 – “God/Devil”
05 – “Watch Me Burn”
06 – “Good Enough”
07 – “Dancing With My Demons”
08 – “Gone”
09 – “I Don’t Wanna Die”
10 – “Immortal”
11 – “(i)”
12 – “Death Or Glory” (feat. Sierra Deaton)
13 – “Forevermore”
14 – “Come Down”
15 – “The Beautiful Dark Of Life”
Pre-orders are available now through atreyu.lnk.to/TheBeautifulDarkofLife. The group’s current touring plans will have them out across Europe and the UK before the year’s end:
11/12 Dublin, IRE – Academy
11/13 Belfast, IRE – Limelight
11/15 Glasgow, UK – Garage
11/16 Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
11/18 Wolverhampton, UK – KK’S Steel Mill
11/19 Manchester, UK – Club Academy
11/20 Bristol, UK – Thekla
11/22 London, UK – Electric Ballroom
11/23 Brighton, UK – Chalk
11/25 Berlin, GER – Hole 44
11/26 Prague, CZE – Rock Cafe
11/27 Vienna, AUT – Szene
11/28 Munich, GER – Backstage Halle
11/29 Zurich, SWI – Dynamo
12/01 Madrid, SPA – Mon Live
12/02 Barcelona, SPA – Apolo 2
12/04 Paris, FRA – Backstage BTM
12/05 Munster, GER – Skaters Palace
12/06 Antwerp, BEL – Zappa
12/07 Utrecht, NET – Tivoli
12/09 Cologne, GER – Kantine
12/10 Hamburg, GER – Knus
12/11 Copenhagen, DEN – Pumpehuset
12/12 Oslo, NOR – John Dee
12/13 Stockholm, SWE – Klubben
