August Burns Red- Death Below (march 24th 2023) • Page 2

New song kicks hard and I like that their sound is constant. If it’s not broken don’t fix it.

 

in this genre you expect the instrumentals to get better though

esp if theyre absolutely just churning out albums

 

Reckoning (feat. Spencer Chamberlain) Will be out on the 22nd

 

this record is good - it's probably my favorite since Leveler

but I've enjoyed all their records to varying degrees

 

They were excellent in Raleigh last week. No signs of slowing down since I last saw them in 2016 - if anything, they were even better. People seem to knock these guys for lack of innovation, but that's just another way to say consistency.

 

Reckoning is interesting. its almost 8 minutes long spencers part is decent imo

 

Consistent as always! Saw them last week in ATL and they crushed it, best ive seen them in while.

 

This song is 8 minutes long? Just hit play, we'll see if it earns that runtime.

EDIT: 5 minutes in, not what I expected from a Spencer feature.

EDIT 2: Yeah that was fine. I didn't feel bored by it so I guess that's good.

 

something i think is interesting is how another band that always plays the same song like miss may i can fall off horrifically but abr is pretty consistently in the same career area if that makes sense.

 

drip drip

 

Some of it blends together and I'm not sold on all the clean vocal sections but this is probably the most I've enjoyed an album since Rescue & Restore. I haven't revisited their discography so I don't know how accurate I am but this is proggier than I remember them being in a while, which may explain why I like this more than I expected. The Cleansing, Revival, and the closer are highlights and the Gojira inspired riffing in Dark Divide caught my attention as well.

 

yupp, it certainly sounds like an abr album. about all i can say

 

they should like replace their guitarists

 

damn, not a deadbolt cover.

i like this like i like all abr albums. it's sound and as advertised. you know exactly what you're getting, and it's pretty good at delivering that.

 

It’s ABR - ABR rules so thusly this record rules

 

I wish I could quantify what makes me like some ABR records and not others when they more or less all sound the same. This one is doing it for me for whatever reason lol. It’s a little riff salad in places — The Cleansing, 8 minutes, really? But Revival into Sevink into Dark Divide is some top shelf metalcore

 

Revival, Sevink, Dark Divide, and Deadbolt make for a pretty solid run.

Not sure if it tops Guardians just yet.

 

ABR just decided to write a Gojira riff in Dark Divide and it honestly rules. I think this is a breath or fresh air for them. I like the mix, hearing the bass so prominently when things slow down is pretty nice.

 

confession, I’ve never listened to this band



until now. what the fuck this album is ridiculously good. they sound like darkest hour and the black dahlia murder had a progressive child. right up my alley. the first listen really floored me. the cleansing, ancestry, backfire, dark divide, deadbolt, and reckoning all had me head banging furiously

 

You owe it to yourself to give Constellations and Guardians a spin! Nearly all their albums are great but those are my favorites over the years.

 

Messengers is solid.

This is one of the very few bands of the genre that's consistent.

 

Hard for me to say without nostalgia tinted glasses, but I think Constellations is their best, and holds up better than anything else.

my personal favorite is probably Messengers because that china cymbal blew my mind as a 16 year old.

 

They are professionally recording the Pittsburg show

 

Live release of the 20 year tour coming at some point