LOS ANGELES, CA
– ATREYU’s Lead Sails Paper
Anchor rocketed onto Billboard’s
Top 200 this week at No. 8, and Billboard’s Rock and Hard Rock Album
charts at No. 1, making it the highest-charting album of the band’s
career. The debut is also significant in that Atreyu distinguish themselves as
one among a very short list of hard rock acts to have debuted in the Top 10
this year.

 

News of the album’s explosive
arrival follows a flurry of headline-making moves for Atreyu, who were recently
named as a headliner on one of the biggest tours of the new year: “Rockstar
Taste of Chaos Tour.” That announcement comes on the heels of the Family
Values Tour, which saw Atreyu play third on the bill and share stages
alongside Korn and
Evanescence. Atreyu will launch a headlining tour on September 9th at the Big
Easy in Boise, ID
with openers Haste The Day, It Dies Today and So They Say.

Lead Sails Paper Anchor has been drawing rave reviews from media
outlets around the world, including Metal
Hammer, who called the disc “a truly landmark album.” Kerrang! gave the record 4 K’s and Blender gave it 3 = stars and called it “metal
that takes you to a magical bygone era.” Revolver
awarded the album 4 stars and praised it for flowing “beautifully
through the speakers” and for being “a coffin-tight collection of
singles.”

 

Among those singles is propulsive lead track “Becoming The Bull,” which is featured in
EA Sports mega-popular new Madden ‘08 video
game. The band and director Kevin Kerslake (Green Day, Nirvana, Smashing
Pumpkins) shot a video for the song, which was recently added at MTV2.

 

Atreyu recorded Lead Sails Paper
Anchor this past spring with producer John Feldmann (The Used,
Good Charlotte). The album was
mixed by Andy Wallace (Nirvana, Slipknot, Linkin Park).

Don’t miss your chance to catch
Atreyu live and hear them perform songs from new album Lead Sails Paper Anchor. Headlining dates are as follows:

 

 

DATE  CITY   VENUE




Sept. 9


Boise, ID


Big Easy Concert House




Sept. 10


Spokane, WA


Big Easy Concert Hall




Sept. 12


Fargo, ND


The Venue @ Playmakers




Sept. 14


Milwaukee, WI


The Eagles Club




Sept. 15


Grand
Rapids,
MI


Orbit Room




Sept. 16


Cleveland, OH


House of Blues




Sept. 18


Cincinnati, OH


Bogarts




Sept. 19


Buffalo, NY


The Town Ballroom




Sept. 21


Reading, PA


The Silo




Sept. 22


Richmond, VA


Canal Club




Sept. 23


Winston-Salem, NC


Ziggys




Sept. 24


Charlotte, NC


Tremont Music Hall




Sept. 25


North
Myrtle Beach, SC


House of Blues




Sept. 27


Orlando, FL


House of Blues




Sept. 28


Jacksonville, FL


Plush




Sept. 29


Nashville, TN


Rocketown




Sept. 30


New
Orleans,
LA


House of Blues




Oct. 2


Odessa, TX


Dos Amigos




Oct. 3


El
Paso,
TX


Club 101




Oct. 4


Tucson, AZ


Rialto Theatre




Oct. 6


Pomona, CA


Glass House












Dates, venues and other bands on the “Rockstar Taste of Chaos”
2008 tour will be released soon.