Baptize
After a major shift in its vocal setup, Atreyu move toward more open melodies and larger choruses on Baptize.
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Track List
- Strange Powers of Prophecy
- Baptize
- Save Us
- Underrated
- Broken Again
- Weed
- Dead Weight
- Catastrophe
- Fucked Up
- Sabotage Me
- Untouchable (feat. Jacoby Shaddix)
- No Matter What
- Oblivion (feat. Matt Heafy)
- Stay
- Warrior (feat. Travis Barker)
Liner Notes
Baptize is Atreyu's eighth album, a transitional work that greatly widened metalcore's weight and arena-scale hooks under a new vocal setup. After founding member and vocalist Alex Varkatzas left in 2020, Brandon Saller — who had handled the clean parts — moved to lead vocals, bassist Porter McKnight took over screams, and Kyle Rosa joined on drums. It is a powerful fresh start, the first made under this new lineup. The advance track "Save Us," released in October 2020, was the band's first music after Varkatzas's departure.
The lead single "Save Us" and "Warrior" and "Underrated" are signature songs combining aggressive riffs with melodic choruses. "Warrior" features Blink-182's Travis Barker, "Untouchable" Papa Roach's Jacoby Shaddix, and "Oblivion" Trivium's Matt Heafy. The producer is John Feldmann. Saller's soaring singing drives the whole record — an accomplished work showing a band with over twenty years of history powerfully opening a new chapter.