Guardians Sessions
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| Released | April 16, 2021 | |||
| Studio | Think Loud Studios, York, Pennsylvania Seventh Wave Studio, Palmyra, Pennsylvania | |||
| Genre | Metalcore | |||
| Length | 27:36 | |||
| Label | Fearless | |||
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Guardians Sessions is the sixth EP by American metalcore band August Burns Red. It was released on April 16, 2021 through Fearless Records. The EP consists of b-sides from the recording sessions of the band's previous album, Guardians, along with two re-imagined versions of songs from the album and two covers.
Background and promotion
[edit | edit source]Starting in late 2020, August Burns Red began to release a series of singles that were recorded during sessions for their previous studio album, Guardians.[1]
The first single released was a cover of the System of a Down song "Chop Suey!" on December 15, 2020.[2] On January 19, 2021, the band released the single "Standing in the Storm" along with the song's animated music video.[3] The following month, August Burns Red released an instrumental re-recording of the Guardians song "Extinct by Instinct", titled "Extinct by Instinct (Reprise)", on February 9.[4] On March 9, the band released a cover of the theme song for the TV series Westworld, which the band started writing in 2018.[5] A couple of weeks later, the single "Icarus" was released along with the announcement of a new EP, Guardians Sessions; "Icarus" features clean vocals provided by bassist Dustin Davidson.[6]
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| Source | Rating |
| Distorted Sound | 7/10[7] |
| Kerrang! | 4/5[8] |
Track listing
[edit | edit source]All tracks are written by August Burns Red, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Standing in the Storm" | 4:32 | |
| 2. | "Icarus" | 3:44 | |
| 3. | "Chop Suey!" (System of a Down cover) | Serj Tankian, Daron Malakian | 3:38 |
| 4. | "Westworld" (Ramin Djawadi cover) | Djawadi | 5:28 |
| 5. | "Paramount (Reprise)" | 5:10 | |
| 6. | "Extinct by Instinct (Reprise)" | 5:02 | |
| Total length: | 27:36 | ||
Personnel
[edit | edit source]- August Burns Red
- Jake Luhrs – lead vocals
- JB Brubaker – lead guitar
- Brent Rambler – rhythm guitar
- Dustin Davidson – bass, backing vocals, additional guitars, clean vocals on track 2
- Matt Greiner – drums, piano
- Additional personnel
- Carson Slovak – production, recording, mixing
- Grant McFarland – production, recording, mixing
- Troy Glessner – mastering
- Florian Mihr – design
- Levi Seitz – lacquer cut
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