How will they recover. Academy is gonna be decimated.

I forgot they still existed. Deathgrip was a huuuge deal to me back in the day but these guys haven't done anything noteworthy in a long fucking time.

I like how they have no actual announcements or evidence so they just shit on Alex's dumb comments from a 2018 interview that say Atreyu invented metalcore to fill in this article.

Either way, that dude was always the weak link of the band so eh?

Maybe his liver finally turned to dust

@theacademy

Guess he left the band in his wake

Hmm could be interesting to see what happens if there is new music. Wouldn’t be surprised if someone new replaces him.

Who cares

you cared enough to ask?

Perhaps he felt as if he mastered the genre he played a part in inventing and now he is off to pioneer a new form of metal.

If this were 2007 I'd be crying, but the band hasn't put out anything good in over a decade.

Long Live was a good comeback album, though Atreyu has always been pretty safe as far as metalcore goes. And Varkatzas‘ cleans were never that strong anyway.

Atreyu is about to invent the band break up.

Today, I become the bull.

They haven’t released anything good since Lead Sails so w/e.

its so hard to see when your eyes are rollin

in the back of your head

is this band a one hit wonder? only song from them I know is "Ex's and Ohs" (suprised they let that song onto madden)

Surely the article should read Brandon will take over the screams? He already does the clean vocals

They are best known for Bleeding Mascara. They have a few other decent songs too including Right Side of the Bed, You eclipsed by me, my fork in the road etc

Alex also started doing some cleans on Death Grip on Yesterday, and I assume he continued on through their other stuff.

But yeah, the drummer was still the main clean singer as far as I know, but I kinda lost track of them after Death Grip.

High school me would've been devastated

was never sure which vocalist was which in this band but now that I know this dude did the screams, I think it pretty much seals that they're going to continue the softer alt-rock sound they started on their last album.

debut still slaps hard tbh

Lead Sails was the last decent thing they put out and even then they were losing steam anyway.

Is it just me, or is this also a band with an Aaron-tier heavyweight of a drummer

Wait second, does this mean Varkatzas is gonna give us another I Am War album????

"Is it just me, or is this also a band with an Aaron-tier heavyweight of a drummer"

They do in fact have a chonker drummer

Fuck it I'll die on the hill that Lead Sails and Congregation are underrated

Didn't realize this band even existed post-2004

"Is it just me, or is this also a band with an Aaron-tier heavyweight of a drummer"

*silent planet looks on nervously*

Just imaged Silent Planet and I have two words

https://youtu.be/dZqo4OZ0Pqs

Fat drummers has always been kind of bewildering to me. I always thought it looked like it was pretty much a full body work out

yeah it's strange, every drummer i know is if not fat at least stockily built

Matt Greiner has left the chat.

Alright, this is getting too close to home.

Nothing wrong with a little extra. I packed on some pounds post military when I was working behind a desk. Shit happens. I've since lost it. It's all about limiting carb intake and activity. Hell, I'm 35 and eat like a teenager. 6'1", 175 and I can still run a decent 40 when my knees aren't fucked.

i mean i'm not always slim either, currently 5'10" and 180, but yeah I run a 5k every other day and do simple home workouts in between. the thing is every male drummer i know (female drummers tend to be fine) has not seen a number below 200 on the scale in a decade, although tbf some those motherfuckers are tall

Damn, 5k every other day!? My knees would explode like rotten tomatoes. In my experience, drummers are fat to the point you question how they can keep up, or extremely fit. No middle ground. Fuck it, live your best life man.

"Alright, this is getting too close to home."

lmaoooo took me a sec to get this

Another band I failed to realize was still a thing.

Lmao bloc I've been watching Scott Steiner promos all day and that was too perfect

The Steiner math promo is still the greatest promo of all time

Fuck it I'll die on the hill that Lead Sails and Congregation are underrated [2]

also Steiner promos are brilliance due to their sheer absurdity