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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August Burns Red chronology | ||||
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Singles from Guardians Sessions | ||||
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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.
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] |
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 |