I'm going to be completely forward with you on this one, I'm really not a fan and everything the band said this album was going to be, it isn't so far.
Alright, so a while back The PRP published some comments from guitarist J.B. Brubaker about the August Burns Red upcoming album, Rescue and Restore. In no particular order, they are:
I don’t want to tell people there is a world-music influence on this album, but there are certainly more ‘Internal Cannon‘-esque interludes across the album. I think a good word for it would be diversity in general with these songs; we’ve been more ambitious with what we’ve put in the music this time ’round.
Metalcore is not an interesting genre at this point. It’s very repetitive and predictable; I want more than breakdowns and pop choruses these days.
Obviously I love this music or I wouldn’t be playing it, but I’m not 18 anymore and we’ve got to progress. And while we’re not trying to reinvent our sound with the new record, we’re definitely trying to broaden the spectrum of what is possible in this music. I feel like we have to.
With all that being said, why the living hell would you make this the lead single off the record? He makes all the claims about how great and diverse the record is going to be, and that he's over the metalcore and is totally older now and more mature… and then proceeds to put out a damn metalcore song with breakdowns and zero world influence. Sure, it might be different than what's going to be on the record by a long shot, but why put out the worst foot first?
