Found In Far Away Places

“The Wake” opens *Found In Far Away Places* with machine-gun drum shots that are mercilessly bolstered by a hail of guitar pyrotechnics and Jake Luhrs’ monsterific growls. It’s an early warning that this passionate metalcore band is pulling out all the stops for their seventh album, including speedy, classic metal guitar solos (“Identity”) and emotional, gut-punching ragers (“Everlasting Ending”). The mighty “Vanguard” closes it all with a hurricane of cinematic heaviness, switching from anxious slow-builds to a punishing sonic onslaught.

On 2013's excellent Rescue & Restore, August Burns Red further expanded their definition of metalcore by making the notoriously atonal and punishing genre a little more hummable, albeit at a speed that would require Herculean murmuring skills.

Not many bands are talented or creative enough to invent a style of riffing so inextricably tied to their sounds that there's no other way t...

August Burns Red - Found in Far Away Places review: August Burns Red continue forging their own path.