August Burns Red: clearly in a mood to celebrate
THIS IS A celebratory year for August Burns Red. This month, the Pennsylvanian outfit reach their 20th anniversary as one of the most vibrant and ferocious bands in the world of metalcore. They’re never ones to shy away from adding plenty of different flavours to their music, but they always retain that crushing foundation of gilt-edged riffs and pit-inciting breakdowns. Alongside this, their studio album output has reached double figures with Death Below – the first via their new home of Sharptone Records, and an album that proves to be demanding and rewarding in equal measure.