AUGUST BURNS RED will release their fifth album, Rescue & Restore, via Solid State Records on June 25th. This week the band are uploading videos in which the members discuss the making of the album. Clips from Matt Greiner and Dustin Davidson are now available.

Pre-order Rescue & Restore from iTunes now and receive an instant download of the track ‘Spirit Breaker’.

Rescue & Restore tracklisting:

'Provision'

'Treatment'

'Spirit Breaker'

'Count It All As Lost'

'Sincerity'

'Creative Captivity'

'Fault Line'

'Beauty In Tragedy'

'Animals'

'Echoes'

'The First Step'

'Spirit Breaker' lyric video:

'Fault Line' lyric video:

Various album packages can be pre-ordered at this location.

The album, described by guitarist and principal songwriter JB Brubaker as the band’s “most ambitious album yet,” turns a critical eye to the oft-maligned genre of metalcore, leading by example to prove that bands can still find exciting new ways to expand the genre.

“Rescue & Restore is about challenging other bands and ourselves, as well as fans of this music, to want more than whatever happens to be the current buzz,” explains Brubaker. “We’ve done our best with each new album to try to push our sound in new directions and we’d like to see our peers do the same. People need to realize that there’s not much of a difference between a metalcore song that has a couple breakdowns with a repeating chorus and the latest Lady Gaga song. This genre used to be better than that. It can still be better than that.”

Throughout the album, August Burns Red continue to do their part to challenge the conventions of heavy music. Over the course of 11 tracks, the band artfully blend piano, cello, violin, trumpet, various percussive elements and more into their sonic arsenal, taking their music into new aesthetic territory and contorting the boundaries of the genre.

In support of Rescue & Restore, the band will be performing all summer long as a mainstage act on the 2013 Vans Warped Tour, marking their third appearance overall and first since 2011.

With Rescue & Restore, ABR have proven that it is possible to reshape music in a way that challenges listeners, reinvigorates fans and puts art first. But for any fans who fear the band turning their back on the sound that catapulted them to the forefront of a genre, Brubaker advises them not to worry.

“At the end of the day we are still a very heavy band,” he explains. “Rescue & Restore still has plenty of really heavy stuff, techy odd meter riffs, and all the stuff that people have come to expect from us, it just has a lot more surprises along the way.”