News: August Burns Red Release First Single Off Upcoming Album

This week has already been a rather busy one for new music, and if it were just about any other band, I’d say a metalcore track would have a hard time keeping up against new music from the likes of Brand New and Pianos Become the Teeth, but this isn’t just any metalcore band. This is August Burns Red. Though they do have quite the act to follow after previous album, Rescue & Restore, which was nothing short of ground breaking.

While this new album is more of an aggressive, straightforward metalcore track, lacking some of the depth and dynamics of Rescue & Restore, it is certainly not without it’s merits. It is, of course, a brutally heavy track, written by one of the top names in the genre, so it certainly isn’t going to disappoint. But I’m hoping the rest of the album fills some of those niches created by their previous effort, and they keep the innovation coming.

Check out the lyric video for “The Wake” after the jump, and let us know what you think.

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