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August Burns Red: Delivering the sentence at #1

Two-time Grammy nominated metalcore band August Burns Red recently released their latest album Guardians on Fearless Records. The album went straight to the top at #1 on the Billboard top 100 Hard Music chart, the Rock Albums chart, and the Vinyl Albums chart. They also claimed #3 on Top Current Album and #4 on Digital Album sales.
The band was recently scheduled to go on tour with Killswitch Engage which had to be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and to be rescheduled at a later date. ABR is also scheduled to play some festivals later this year in Budapest, Ysselsetyn, and Birmingham, AL. No announcements have been made regarding those festival dates.

Recently the band found themselves appearing on one of the collectible covers of the Revolver Magazine spring 2020 issue. Inside the magazine vocalist Jake Luhrs digs deep on his past struggles, the importance of mental health, his nonprofit Heartsupport, and more. That issue can be found on shop.revolvermag.com

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