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A Death-Grip on Yesterday

album by Atreyu

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ2541244 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Death-Grip on Yesterday is the third studio album by American metalcore band Atreyu. It was released on March 28, 2006, through Victory Records. It debuted at number 9 on the Billboard 200.

The album was released with a Victory Records DVD featuring the making of the album and promotional videos by Victory Records artists.

An instrumental version of the album, as well as The Curse, was released on iTunes on January 9, 2007.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “A Death-Grip on Yesterday” is album by Atreyu. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Death-Grip, Yesterday and album, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2006. For this dossier, Death-Grip, Yesterday and album is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Atreyu” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2541244. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 2007.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “A Death-Grip on Yesterday”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow A Death-Grip on Yesterday primary sources, A Death-Grip on Yesterday archive and Death-Grip research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “A Death-Grip on Yesterday” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.