In a review of its 2005 album The Curse, a critic described Atreyu’s music as being “too goth to be emo, too metal to be punk and too brazenly emotional to be metal.” With the release of the Orange County band’s latest CD, Lead Sails, Paper Anchor the identity crisis appears to be over. According to drummer/vocalist Brandon Saller, Lead Sails represents a bold effort to “sound like ourselves and not like ten other bands” – a goal which it achieves brilliantly. “We’ve come up in a heavier, hardcore scene,” Saller continues, “but we didn’t want to be stuck with that ‘Metalcore / Screamo’ label.”
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