“Angry Music for Happy People”
August Burns Red (ABR) is probably my favorite band of all time, and yesterday they announced that their album “Rescue and Restore” is being repressed for the first time in celebration of it’s tenth birthday! So I thought I’d share my favorite song off the album. It’s a song about losing someone you love, and something that most people can (unfortunately) relate to.
One of their slogans, as I referenced above, is angry music for happy people. Their singer started a mental health focused gym recently (your life gym), and as a band they recently organized and hosted “Heart Support” festival. I know it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but I hope some of you enjoy it! I’ll post the lyrics in a separate comment if anyone cares to read them.
I got to see Constellations live in its entirety and being able to watch the crowd literally turn into an ocean of violence during “Marianas Trench” will forever be a highlight for me going to a live metal show.
When the rest of the band comes back in after the quiet part in double time has been maybe my single favorite moment in music for the last ten years. It hits so hard.
Dude YES. For me personally, it’s the transition in the end/outro, from the minor scale they played in the opening to the major. The entire tone of the song changes from sad and emotionally difficult, to hopeful and optimistic. R&R is not my favorite ABR album, probably not even top 3, but this is definitely one of the most underrated songs on the album, and easily a top 10 in their catalogue to me.
Lyrics: There is beauty, in tragedy. The heart will stop beating but the end is a new beginning. We’ll soar above the skyline of reality and reach towards a love ever after as we’re grasping onto faith to keep us breathing, a little longer for just one moment, with one another. This night is pulling on my heart’s strings.
These feelings bring tears to my eyes! To see you leave my world, leave my side! Hear the angels sing! As they embrace you with a warm; “Welcome home!” Hear the angels sing!
Tomorrow, the air will be a little colder, but I’ll be sure to breathe for the both of us. And the nights may be a little darker, but I’ll be sure to carry the torch to warm the hearts that never got to feel yours. I can’t hear your voice, but that’s okay 'Cause I can feel you in my heart (x2)
One morning I’ll wake up to you. One morning I’ll hear the angels sing. On that morning we won’t be worried about the weather Nor will we mind where the hands lay on the clock tower.
I’ll be sure to write your name in the sand where the waves can’t wash it away. Until then I’ll walk, until then I’ll breathe in your name! Never surrender the dream you had for this world to love, to forgive to make something out of nothing! I will feel you, I will hear you forever!
August Burns Red has been consistently good for years. Composure still slaps so hard!
I can say this about very few bands, but their Christmas album is awesome haha
Literally my favorite album of all time bar none. The followup Christmas EP was also just as amazing. I actually did a drum cover of Winter Wilderness this past year for a work thing!
