August Burns Red news

August Burns Red are taking their live show to Europe, South America and Philadelphia this summer

August Burns Red are taking their live show to Europe, South America and Philadelphia this summer

Riot Fest will return to Philadelphia as a three-day event

Riot Fest will return to Philadelphia as a three-day event

Photos of August Burns Red at Summit Music Hall in Denver, Colorado

Metal acts August Burns Red and Bless the Fall are playing shows in Auckland and Wellington this April with support from Saving Grace and A Plea for Purging.

The boys in August Burns Red were overjoyed to be playing at the Music Farm. The boys were so nice, happy, and smiling so much it seemed as if Tim Tebow was fronting Lamb of God.

The creation myth of August Burns Red is charmingly pastoral. The founding members, then high school buddies, got together on drummer Matt Greiner's family farmland in exurban Lancaster, Pennsylvania. But the sound they came up with was the opposite of mellow — in fact, maybe all that open ...

Music Farm Charleston (South Carolina) 17/01/2012

Looking at the relatively clean-cut members of August Burns Red, you wouldn't assume they were one of a top-selling metal band. Listening to the band's super-distorted guitar tones, break-neck drum beats, and howling vocals on their latest album Leveler , you wouldn't think they were dedicated, positive-minded Christians.

J.B. Brubaker has grown uneasy with metalcore, the musical genre he has been mining with his bandmates in August Burns Red since 2003. Metalcore, which combines hardcore and heavy metal, is loud and aggressive, marked by a fierce guitar attack and lyrics that are screamed, not sung. It is a sound Br...