NEWS: Atria declare themselves “Antiheroes”?

Mixed and mastered by Jon Howard (Threat Signal, Imonolith) and with pre-orders available over at bandcamp, 18th August will see the arrival of “Ground Zero”, a sophomore EP from Canadian Metalcore merchants Atria. It follows their 2018 debut “New World Nightmare” while introducing a new line up of Jerad Sterling (Tortured Saint) on drums, Brody King on lead guitar, and bassist Joe Mullen to join founding members vocalist Tom Emmans (Odium, Deathpoint, Choices, Scaithe) and guitarist Tim Ross. That news of course has the obligatory music video for a first single attached in “Antiheroes” filmed by Joe Lyko of Dark Moon Productions.

Tom Emmans comments: “We’ve definitely gotten more aggressive, we always wanted to blend a lot of melody and anthemic chorus’ with brutality. I feel like the fans will agree that on this new one, we’ve gotten much better at doing that. Lyrically, there’s a lot of anger towards not only myself but the world we live in. I try to be hopeful, but I also try to dig into what’s making me angry. It’s therapeutic and cathartic, but it’s really hard. It comes from a real place and it’s not always fun. We hope when fans hear “Ground Zero” from beginning to end, they feel as if they are being exorcised. from the frustration of life.”

“In 2022, I had seen the world completely fall apart, I had seen division, I had seen lies and hatred coming from both sides of the political spectrum. I wondered to myself how can all these people in one world be so divided? It was enough for any of us to question humanity, government, religion, and ourselves. This is the anthem that came out of it.”