AUGUST BURNS RED: Entire New Album To be Streamed

Lancaster, PA quintet AUGUST BURNS RED will have its new album, "Messengers", streamed exclusively at DecoyMusic.com starting at 12:00 a.m. CST on June 18 and wrapping up on June 21 at 11:59 p.m. CST.

Due on June 19 via Solid State Records, "Messengers" is described in a press release as "more than just a collection of 11 raging metal songs that ravage the ears of their listeners with technical skill and immense passion. The record is, in fact, not only a musical collaboration, but also a lyrical one, where every member of the band contributed to the lyrical content with their own thoughts, ideas and messages. Hence the record’s intriguing title."

Commented guitarist JB Brubaker: "We all contributed to the lyrics on this one whereas on 'Thrill Seeker' our singer did all the writing. We all offered different ideas. Each of us wrote a set of lyrics and we'd pick a song we thought they'd fit with. It was a collaboration rather than one person."

AUGUST BURNS RED, who formed in March of 2003, began this writing process almost immediately after finishing their debut, "Thrill Seeker", at the end of 2005, collecting ideas to follow up that disc with something even bigger. The five members of AUGUST BURNS RED spent almost the entire year and half they were touring in support of "Thrill Seeker" penning the songs that landed on "Messengers", eventually entering the studio in February 2007 in Nashville with Tue Madsen (THE HAUNTED, HIMSA, DARK TRANQUILLITY, EXTOL),with whom the fivesome co-produced the album. The group spent the month refining the tracks into the aggressive, pounding songs you hear on the finished album.

"I think we wanted to continue with what our style is — stay in our niche — but expand upon it," Brubaker says of the album. "It's two years after our last record so we're obviously going to be better at our instruments and more mature as songwriters. So to me it's a natural progression from our album before."