August Burns Red - Hero of the Half Truth
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- Taken from the new album 'Phantom Anthem' out now!
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LYRICS:
Carry us from the brink.
Keep us from becoming extinct.
We let you into our worst nightmares, spouting fiction that left us cowered and scared.
Follow the guidelines, and you'll save our lives.
It's sad to see you’re quickly choking on your lies.
You vulture.
You’re choking on your lies.
You vulture.
We see through your disguise.
Wishing we could take it all back.
The beasts in your pack are the worst ones to attack.
We’ll change course and use a different track.
The beasts in your pack are the worst ones to attack.
They will show no mercy.
Abandonment harbors the most resentment.
If truth is the backbone you keep on bending it.
One day it will snap into pieces, so shattered you're never able to mend them.
They are broken.
You are broken.
Heads bowed before us.
The fearless crumble and crawl.
Asking forgiveness from all.
Use the anger, and direct it within.
This could have been prevented.
What was completely divided will come together united under the wings of a movement.
Wishing we could take it all back, change course, and use a different track.
We'll rip and shred every word you said.
We will show no mercy.
4:00 is the chaos you came for people. Destroy everything, leave nothing. Destroy until the song ends.
Luffy Joke Central why am I only permitted to destroy for 1 minute and 3 seconds. I demand more time!
Simply incredible. Nobody tops ABR in this genre.
This song has everything.
Except Counterparts, Norma Jean, Poison the Well, Misery Signals, Converge, Shai Hulud, The Arusha Accord, The Dillinger Escape Plan, etc...
Except Architects and Counterparts
Architects have gone pretty downhill since Hollow Crown, though. First three records are ace, everything else...not so much.
Architects haven't gone downhill lmao. Keep smokin that concrete fam
are you high? lmao their last 3 records are their best ones
Oh, the clean guitars.
Fuck yes. Big R&R vibes when that section kicked in.
The drums mixing are fucking on the spot!!! It makes a huge fucking difference & it makes the whole album so heavy! Damnnn
If truth is the backbone you keep on bending it
Honestly pretty upset this song wasn't their Grammy nomination. Invisible Enemy was a banger, but this song just has so much...more. It just feels so much more complete. Still an amazing album regardless!
Wow, after the amazing soft part ...it took off
One day it will snap into pieces…so shattered you’re never able to mend them 🤯
Good job ABR, thank you for keeping Metalcore alive.
this song and its amazing riffs and grooves are giving me chills. Great job ABR. Keep this amazing stuff up.
4:00 oh my sweet gentle baby Jesus...
top albums of 2017 for me:
1. August Burns Red-Phantom Anthem
2.Thousand Below-The Love You Let Too Close
3. Miss May I-Shadows Inside
4.We Came As Romans-Cold Like War
Cold like War isnt out yet, also have you heard Hikari by Oceans ate Alaska?
2:53 gave me goosebumps!
ABR stay impressing me
WE WILL SHOW NO MERCY
best metalcore album of this year
YESSS NEW ALBUM FRICKIN🤘🤘 I LOVE ABR
It’s funny that people complain it’s the same as old material but if they changed it up they’d still get hate. I swear I see these stupid comments in every comment section.
They did change it and this isn't the same as old albums. Old albums didn't have the gimmicky hipster interludes.
Each album couldn't really be more different from each other. Haters don't know the FACTS
thevoiceoftruth55 they're still more creative than both of us so...
You bitch on every damn ABR youtube vid about the same fucking thing "oh not brutal enough...so lame because it's not 100% rawr. I'm a tough little bitch who needs it ALL edgy." Grow up kid.
branballz I haven't seen to many bad comments. People seem to like this album.
ABR still holds the metalcore king's crown
Mizreo nobody comes close to them in my eyes.
Mizreo hell no
Mizreo Nope, Architects is the best band in metalcore right now
Listen to alive or just breathing by killswitch engage I don't think any metalcore song or album can beat what that album has to offer, but this is good
Ryan Goldberg go listen to Phantom Anthem by August Burns Red just came out tonight... it’s INCREDIBLE
2 more days!!!
this song is so beyond good. the instrumental is even better but i just read the lyrics to it for the first time and holy eff this is so deep. now i have a better idea of what the song is about and it makes sense why i liked it so much even without words 🤯🤯🤯 absolutely incredible.
It just gets better and BETTER. Cannot wait for Friday
Can't wait for this album!
This record is so great. I can't wait to see August Burns Red on their headlining tour for it in January!
Damn this album is amazing
Phantom Anthem is a masterpiece.
Right behind Messengers IMO.
Well done, boys.
Justin Dade Leagues better than Messengers IMO, but I've never been a fan of that album haha
I think Messengers would be a lot better with upgraded quality lol
Messengers is so much of the same instrumentally. Very monotonous. I LOVE THAT ALBUM. But this.. this is in a different league entirely.
Messengers breakdowns were heavy as fuck. I have been waiting for August burns red to release anything as brutal, but they have not yet.
No love for Thrill Seeker guys? It's my favorite.
4:19 probably my favorite moment on the entire album. Fucking SICK!!!
最高過ぎる🔥🔥🔥
phantom anthemは本当に名盤❗️
🎉❤❤Thank you XI!!❤❤🎉
Need a bad ass music video for this song now!
I can't remember the last time i was this stoked for an album to drop.
Holy shit this song is beautiful! Thanks!
Zu deutsch: Heilandzack, der Song ka ebbs!
I always tell myself each time these dudes put out a record that there's no way they could possibly get any better.. And then Phantom Anthem was released!! Epic work boys hope to see you in either Dallas or Denver for my birthday in Febuary.
about goddam time. This is the ABR I know and love....brutally heavy.
Was just about to pre-order when I noticed I already did months ago. Guess it was an instinctive move! ABR's music is just.so.good.
Keep bringing that new metal ABR sounds bad ass.
My fav track so far. This song is a ripper!
Can't wait for this album. This tour is finally going to be the first time I can go :)
yesss i like this one so much more than the other two.
4:00 godamn
gcvpip build up to breakdown of hell
They have transcended the vagaries of metal!
9 more albums Morty, I don't care if it takes 9 more albums, ABR will get that McDonald's Schezuan sauce because they're so fucking good!!! Ahh!
Aaron McGinnis I appreciate this on so many levels.
Yes i love this comment
Aaron McGinnis Fuck yes dude ❤
Ugh, R&M fans are such cringelords
Gag
How in the fuck could this ever be topped? I haven't even heard the entire album and I'm at a loss of words. Outstanding.
October burns spooky
Three great singles back to back? Man, ABR is making a comeback for me. I came in a little before Leveler was released. Picked up Rescue & Restore when it dropped, and it's still in my top 5 favorite metal albums. Found In Far Away Places was good, but it didn't hook me. This album is looking promising though.
pre order it mate. its so much better than you could even imagine.
An impassioned, peripatetic journey through deceit and deception. ABR with undiminished creativity "SHOW no MERCY"!
This Mix Slays
And there's no credit to the mixer in the description (shame on you)
Dude their bassist has steady been getting beefy funky since messengers
Friday can't come soon enough!!!!!!!!
This album fucking shreds
I'm blown away
Dang what an interesting song. It's like several subgenres of metalcore all in one song. I like it a lot!
the jam!!!
You guys never disappoint! Been a fan since high school and I've loved every album. Keep melting faces! \m/ ('0') \m/
I'm late with August, but holy shit. these guys rock hard still in a world that wants soft. thank god there are bands like this still.
4:00 My jaw dropped for the rest of the song.
They never change there sound it’s always the same now even heavier
Straight beef
Best one so far. These guys fucking rip
How about Matt fucking Griener! This dude is a beast and just stepped his level up
. Great album, my fav by this band!
Goddamn...........good job boys
This is dope.
YESSS!!!!!!
God bless you!
It's strange to me how they are christian, yet this song could be easily taken as directed toward christianity. I might just grow to like them even more.
dat breakdown at the end tho
unbefuckinglievable
Metalcore is about to get interesting again with AILD back, and ABR holding the crown.
Veil of Maya is still going strong they were just on tour...I saw them.
ABR almost lost me with that last album.
But this shit here.
I fucking like this shit.
Abr... come to Cleveland please!
WE WILL SHOW NO MERCY!
At least something good in 2017
ABR and AILD \m/
I have a question, is this video hidden or something? I can't see it by searching but can watch it from my liked videos.
ASES I think it is somehow by the channel because they were promoting a website that you had to click to get here
Alright so, can anyone help me with this one? I would like to know why this is considered metalcore?
I just dont understand. I mean, back in my day, something was called metalcore as soon as it had any clean vocals in it. But ABR usually dont.
Just to clearify, im not trying to bash this. I really love ABR and this song is fucking amazing. Like hands down, one of the best i've heard from them thus far. These guys are real musicians.
I was just wondering since i saw similar bands that were also called metalcore despite having any clean vocals.
Wade Wilson I really don't consider ABR metalcore anymore. They're just metal for me. Have been for the last 3 albums, IMO.
So clean vocals actually have very little to do with what the genre is. Metalcore is a blend of hardcore punk and metal influences. The lead guitars switching from sweeping riffs to breakdowns/beatdowns/etc are the signature of metalcore pretty much. There are metalcore bands with all screams, metalcore bands with all cleans, and even metalcore bands with no vocalist at all.
Alright, thanks. Learned something new today.
I've been listening to Metal for 11 years now. And i think most metalcore bands that i came across, had clean vocals. Actually the vast majority of them.
But i honestly think, that it was easier to assign a genre to a band back then than it is today. Since there are so many different mixtures of music styles nowadays. And also many bands claim to have there own individual genre. Which makes it really difficult to differentiate what is what and which is which. But in the end it doenst matter anyways. When you like a band, then you enjoy it, no matter what genre they are.
"The lead guitars switching from sweeping riffs to breakdowns/beatdowns/etc are the signature of metalcore pretty much. "
That's really more the signature of pop metalcore.
Metalcore is really more of a melding of Hardcore's aggression, particularly with regards to drumming and drum patterns, and Metal's more classically-influenced songwriting structure and melodic sensibility.
i truelly think that Djent Breakdowns would be more appropriate for a Bridge than the melodious waffle or clean guitar plucking. just the flavour i prefer - there are loads who rage About this Album so ist all good i suppose. for my personal tastes ist like i enjoy 30 secs then fast Forward 90 secs :-/
I want to make a Heroes of the Half Shell joke. But idk what it would be.
New album????
Just bought the album. This is absolutely lit. Much better than Rescue & Restore imo
Why does it sound like bleed a bit at the starting part?!
Cant fucking listen to 9 songs at the same time
are they still 'christian'?
Check out my review of 'Phantom Anthem' right here !! : stcolorreviews.blogspot.com/2017/10/august-burns-red-phantom-anthem-review.html
Am I alone in hoping that ABR did something even a little bit different with this album?
Jake does clean vocals on songs like Lifeline, Coordinates and Generations
They've released essentially the same record 4 times now, and this is sounding like Constellations V. They play it way, way too safe with their songwriting and draw from the same small bag of songwriting concepts for virtually everything they do, with only a sprinkling of "flavor" to differentiate songs from each other.
@Alon posting your original comment on someone else's as a response doesn't make it more correct.
It's a bit more complex than that in my opinion but it's true that their are simularites from the last 2 albums at least. The soft middle part for example is in every song they've realised already from this album and in the previous ones too, but i wouldn't say this is constellations V, that was far less melodic and more brutal, but that's just my opinion, pls don't hate me for it. If you watch interviews they always say they're trying to expand the metalcore genre which comes back from their last album compared to messengers for example. What they said about this album is that it's more about the techicallity, that each of them grown a lot while writing this album, maybe it won't be such a huge thing musically or structurally but rather if you observe it from a technical point of view.
And your comment responding to that comment doesn't make it wrong.
#MAGA
Whats up with commenting maga on this music video? Does these guys support trump?
Donal trump needs to hear this
Anybody else feel like this is directed towards trump?
Evan Ray so was Blackwood
Evan Ray Yes that’s what I was thinking too.
I think Blackwood was more directed towards certain mega-church preachers
They said in an interview that Blackwood was directed toward a hypocritical rich pastor
Tyler fry Joel Osteen from what I've heard
This is really bland and overly safe. The guitar is great, but everything else is just copy/paste, paint-by-numbers ABR. The breakdowns are lame, the interlude is predictable, the vocals are so over-produced it might as well be a robot screaming. Band needs to stop rushing out new material and take a new approach to their songwriting.
Sure. /s
What a smart, thought-provoking comment. What if I told you that attempted dismissal of a position does not, in fact, dismiss it? Shocking, I know.
jesus man. If you can't hear the genius in this song then maybe this music simply isn't for you. This song and the rest of the album are some of the most masterfully crafted music I have ever heard from a metalcore band. If we are taking the approach that it sounds like their past stuff, you're not wrong. But this album is all of their past stuff, blended together, and made into a super album. This is everything they have ever created into a single album and it is GLORIOUS. If you're looking for another sound or some innovation, go check out bands like The Contortionist or Between The Buried In Me. They have completely switched up their styles. For me, I listen to ABR because I know that they will nail the particular sound I like in metalcore over and over and over again but even better than the last time. They are the most consistently heavy and technical metalcore band out there and I applaud them for sticking to their guns and perfecting what isn't and has never been broken.
The record has leaked, and it's basically the exact same thing as the last 2 records. It's incredibly safe, as if the band as terrified of alienating even a single fan rather than progressing as artists. I like ABR, but since Leveler, they've been far too one-note. And that's not to say that there haven't been great songs or moments in the last few records, but they're rare and fleeting amidst the sea of bland and predictable sameness.
It doesn't detract from the quality, but it also doesn't give you a reason to listen to it, or to re-visit it. It's ABR doing what they've done in every album (apart from Thrill Seeker). The breakdowns aren't heavy. They're supposed to *sound* heavy, but there's nothing heavy about a low, chunky guitar doubling over the bass drum, which is essentially every ABR breakdown ever.
Want to hear a heavy (and vastly superior) breakdown? th-cam.com/video/ljll7rJ6vzM/w-d-xo.htmlm41s . Not only is that breakdown much better, but the song in its entirety is better than ABR's entire catalog.
The first two songs weren't different. The Frost, in particular, had *four* basically identical breakdowns in a song that isn't even 5 minutes long. This style of breakdown is lazy to begin with, but four of them? That's inexcusable for a band as talented as ABR. The guitar tapping that opens the song is wonderful, but it quickly gives way to same-old ABR and the interest and excitement fades away just as quickly.
No, the reason I can't hear the genius in this song is because there isn't any, and *because* this music is for me, I've heard a lot of bands that do it a whole lot better.
If you think this is masterful, you've not experienced a lot of metalcore, or anything other than fast-food metalcore like Asking Alexandria and other bands of their ilk.
This isn't everything they've ever created. There's not even a hint of Thrill Seeker anywhere on this recrod. It's 90% Rescue & Restore and Found In Far Away Places, with bits of Constellations and Leveler.
Already intimately familiar with BTBAM and The Contortionist, and own both of their collective discogs.
ABR hasn't gotten better. Rescue & Restore and Constellations are both great, but Leveler was mediocre at best, apart from a few stand-out tracks, and Found In Far Away Places is just a worse, less varied, and more incongruent and gimmicky version of Rescue & Restore.
They're neither the most consistently heavy, nor technical metalcore band out there by a long shot. Every Time I Die trends a bit more toward the Hardcore end of the spectrum, but are consistently heavier and flat-out better than ABR. The Dillinger Escape Plan plays circles around ABR with regards to technicality. Dig a little deeper into the genre and you'll find that there are far better bands out there.
And that's not to say ABR is bad, or even average. They're a good band, and that's why this release is so frustrating.
The songs we've heard thus far are of TOP quality in all regards. Instrumentally, lyrically and even the song structure is golden. Certainly a contender for metal album of the year. Well done guys.
Agreed
THIS GOES HARD AS FUCK I CANT WAIT FOR FRIDAY
These guys are absolute masters at their craft... my good lord...
Is it Friday yet???
SeasideVultures yes
This is so good, see you January 13th in Minneapolis 🤘
Staight goosebumps 🔥🔥🔥
the breakdown at 4:00 hits different
0:32 - 0:52 is just some good iish, bruh. That second "you vulture" gets me moister than an oyster
facts😂😂
This song has a proper break, one that actually fits the songs energy and theme. Not some stupid random cowboy and yiddish shit. Thank God this album doesn't have that.
Amen
I really wish they would save this for one or two songs. It still kills an otherwise brutal song. The regularity with which they use this technique diminishes any meaning it has imo.
thevoiceoftruth55 but you can always make it better!
No god to thank
holy
Collin F holy cow of nebraska
Dustin's screams at 0:44 ignites my lightsaber...
100% amazing. I can never expect anything less coming from ABR. These dudes are fucking awesome and I'm glad to bless the ears around with ABR music wherever I go.
4:00 till the end is probably my new favorite ABR ender ever, holy fuck.
Kevin Corkran me too, I can't stop watching your cover of it bro. You becoming a tremendous drummer yourself. Keep it up!
Kevin Corkran holy shit