"Open the window," he says abruptly Atreyu frontman Alex Varkatzas, interrupting the drummer / singer Brandon Saller. "No, open the window, you realize what's around here?" Saller
rises, departs from the back of the curtain and the Atreyu tour bus, parked in a parking lot of the PNC Bank Arts Arena in New Jersey, you can see the roof of another tour bus about three feet distance, a few trees and a sky of pale blue.
"Exactly, you know what I mean, no?" Varkatzas presses provocatively: "I pass the three summer months in a parking lot somewhere.
is this range of emotions: loneliness, alienation, homesickness, all familiar to those things has never been a member of a band that travels the world on tour, things that evoke the title of the new Atreyu album, Lead Sail Paper Anchor .
"Anyone who knows what this life you try to stay away from things and people you love, your family," Saller says.
"I'm not a big fan of life on the road" Varkatzas follows: "I like to go on stage, go around with friends, but the question is: I like being away from home and sleeping in a bus every night? Obviously, the positives outweigh the negatives and all the interviews put emphasis on the negative, so they stand out. "
And this brings us to another hot topic on the front man: namely, his aversion to interviews, or at least his fear that his words may backfire, as if trying to sell a story or sell off his band.
Before adding anything important to say is that Atreyu are in place and guys are not as whining as it seems to be these early stages
... Today we are sitting in the bus tour of Atreyu, the hottest day of their tour in support of Korn, which makes a stop in New Jersey.
Brandon Saller, a lover of painting and dogs ("before you give me one I do not care about them, now I've become a fanatic") and soon to be married in November, is in good spirits and friendly as usual while Alex Varkatzas, a gym, or moon is in good or really calmed down for a year now. In the past he had won a reputation as a difficult person to interview: for sure is reserved and sarcastic, but today, after breaking the ice, turns out to be talkative and helpful.
"I'm sorry, but your job is not to inflate stories?" Varkatzas responds when asked why he did this belief. "If you wrote the letter all my statements, it would be a bit 'boring because I'm a quiet guy who does not say anything controversial unless they provoke me
. Complicated stories sell, selling problems. Nobody cares relax people! " has not entirely wrong, because anyone who writes something about Atreyu will realize that they are normal people who happened to have become a famous rock band, beyond the alleged stories on alcoholism Alex, the end of the stormy relationship with the Victory, or the insults that they often receive from other hardcore band for leaving the scene, this is only a pittance when compared with other bands and basically they do good shows and have been able to return attention to the Eighties thanks to the success of cover of You Give Love A Bad Name .
"In the 80's for the last time the world has really taken seriously rock, although it was only to go on stage and have fun, but basically, if I get off the stage and do not feel satisfied, who the fuck am I doing ? ADJUDGED Varkatzas.
The new album, in fact, brings back many steps in the 80's style and collaborations with Josh Todd of Buckcherry Blow on track and, for the first time, the band was committed on political issues as in the song Can 't Happen Here , revealing a strong disagreement about the war in Iraq.
"I do not think that Bush is making the right decisions and I would say it quietly. Especially since, anywhere in the world, if the police can freely come to your house and searched and just send them to fuck off. Every empire is destined to fall and every empire is crap because of greed and because they go beyond their limits in the decisions, "says Varkatzas.
How does it feel to make such statements for the first time?
"I find her a good feeling, but at the same time frustrating. My position of dissent turns into a song, but if you can open your eyes and ears of someone, then I'm happy." Regardless
from the explanations dealing with them, it is always a sense of relaxation and a genuine anti-stardom in Atreyu: "Yes, it makes me anxious to do the interviews, Alex admits with a sigh, and you can tell by my sighs. I am very happy that people listen to what I have to say in interviews, but my opinion has no more than that of the person that the law or that the writer's interview. ... People from the rock - see?? I was going to say rock star ... I'm getting an asshole! People from the people in this huge power band and we are degrees, really, but listen to me, I woke up this morning and the first thought that flashed me was that I had to do shit, just as an ordinary person! "
Introducing Atreyu, ordinary people until the end.
Makes a Video Atreyu-Becoming The Bull
On July 16 the band transferred to Universal Studios in Los Angeles to shoot the video for Becoming The Bull with director Kevin Kerslake (Rise Against, Papa Roach), causing a minor earthquake as the fans were involved in the cast of the video.
Brandon explains what is involved in Video: "is basically a video made by these guys that can run at full speed, but it is unclear to what, presumably by the bull, and get where we are playing. It's all based on the speed and impact that must have served and are spun for 12 hours to do everything, then something very tiring.
"The curious thing is that these studios have the guided tour which we went when we were small and sometimes we were told that in some areas, access was denied because they were filming ... well, that day we were there to occupy the whole. .
"That day we had about 200 guys on the set and wanted it to be plucked what is the true energy of the band to accompany even the most of the new album."
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