August Burns Red's brand of metalcore, favoring melody and positivity over atonal angst, hasn't changed much, but Guardians delivers 11 good-to-great reasons why that formula has worked for so long.
TRACK LISTING:
1. The Narrative
2. Bones
3. Paramount
4. Defender
5. Lighthouse
6. Dismembered Memory
7. Ties That Bind
8. Bloodletter
9. Extinct By Instinct
10. Empty Heaven
11. Three Fountains