ATREYU: New Audio Interview Available

April 26, 2008

ATREYU guitarists Dan Jacobs and Travis Miguel were interviewed earlier in the month by the Steve Rock on the Seattle station KISW 99.9 FM. Listen to the six-minute audio file at this location.

ATREYU released an expanded special edition of its latest album, "Lead Sails Paper Anchor", on April 22 in the CDVU-plus format. The package comes with extra content that is accessed through the Web when the disc is placed in a computer. Bonus features include a new track called "The Squeeze", covers of FAITH NO MORE's "Epic" and the DESCENDENTS' "Clean Sheets", plus 10 exclusive videos featuring three live performances, five individual band profile pieces, two behind-the-scenes clips shot on tour and a guitar lesson from axeman Dan Jacobs.

Singer Alex Varkatzas told The Pulse of Radio where the three new songs in the set came from. "Well, the covers were part of like a separate session that we did right after we did 'Lead Sails'," he said. "'The Squeeze' was just something new we wanted. If we were gonna do a re-release, we wanted to actually have value to it, you know what I mean, and the CDVU is awesome and gave it a lot, but we thought a new song would be really cool too, so we wrote a new jam. It's pretty heavy, it's pretty thrashy, it's good."

The set also features eco-friendly packaging and a 50-page, printable, digital booklet that includes more than 50 exclusive photos and song lyrics.

The five profile videos follow Varkatzas as he travels to Thailand to learn Brazilian ju-jitsu, drummer Brandon Saller talking about his new toy company, guitarist Dan Jacobs discussing his new Rokk clothing line, guitarist Travis Miguel practicing a strange ritual involving cheeseburgers and bassist Marc McKnight going to his favorite comic book store.

ATREYU recently finished up the Taste of Chaos tour with AVENGED SEVENFOLD and will headline the second stage of LINKIN PARK's Projekt Revolution tour this summer.

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