Guardians Sessions

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Guardians Sessions
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ReleasedApril 16, 2021
StudioThink Loud Studios, York, Pennsylvania
Seventh Wave Studio, Palmyra, Pennsylvania
Genre Metalcore
Length27:36
Label Fearless
Producer
  • Carson Slovak
  • Grant McFarland
August Burns Red chronology
Guardians
(2020)
Guardians Sessions
(2021)
Death Below
(2023)
Singles from Guardians Sessions
  1. "Chop Suey!"
    Released: December 15, 2020
  2. "Standing in the Storm"
    Released: January 19, 2021
  3. "Extinct by Instinct (Reprise)"
    Released: February 9, 2021
  4. "Westworld"
    Released: March 9, 2021
  5. "Icarus"
    Released: March 23, 2021
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Distorted Sound7/10 [1]
Kerrang! 4/5 [2]

Guardians Sessions is an 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.

Contents

Background

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. [3]

The first single released was a cover of the System of a Down song "Chop Suey!" on December 15, 2020. [4] On January 19, 2021, the band released the single "Standing in the Storm" along with the song's animated music video. [5] 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. [6] On March 9, the band released a cover of the theme song for the TV series Westworld , which the band started writing in 2018. [7] 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. [8]

Track listing

All tracks are written by August Burns Red, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
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)Djawadi5:28
5."Paramount (Reprise)" 5:10
6."Extinct by Instinct (Reprise)" 5:02

Personnel

August Burns Red
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