We had this solo section that Dustin was trying to write a solo over, but he wasn’t feeling it. “Jason Richardson is one of our buds, and he’s an absolutely insane guitar player. The song talks about one of our band members who had a close loved one attempt suicide, and the struggle that life event was for him.” We love what he did and felt it was really catchy, so we made it the first single. He took this song from a technical, pretty long metal track into more of an anthem. “I had no expectation of this being the lead single when it was written, but then Jesse from Killswitch came in and did this guest vocal with a pretty big chorus, which is something August Burns Red doesn’t do very often. And then there’s this person in the story of the song who rises up and rallies those who have survived into reclaiming the earth and basically conquering this evil.” This song speaks of this unseen evil or force that’s taking over mankind and just destroying us and the planet. I wrote the lyrics, and it was the first thing I wrote during lockdown in the pandemic. I’m extremely biased here because I wrote the song. Our first song is usually a ripper, so it was a big departure for us to have this brooding, more subdued track. I really like this one because, historically, August Burns Red has always come out with a bang.
So, we split the intro off into a separate track. “Originally, this was written in conjunction with Track 2, ‘The Cleansing,’ as one big 10-minute song, which felt like a bit much to start off an album. “But the stars aligned on this record.” Below, he discusses each song. “We’ve wanted to have guests on past records as well, but it just didn’t really work out,” Brubaker explains. So, the album is pretty dark, the artwork is dark, and the mood of the tracks is just darker than what August Burns Red has typically done.” In another atypical move for ABR, Death Below features cameos from members of fellow metalcore bands Killswitch Engage, All That Remains, ERRA, and Underoath. “We wrote it during a dark time-20-when things were not great for most people. With this one, we decided to just write what comes out.” The title Death Below is taken from a lyric in the album’s final track, “Reckoning.” “We felt like that line encompassed the album really well,” he says. “On our last album, I think we wanted to try and write some songs that were a little bit more accessible to a larger audience. “We just wrote what felt good to us as artists,” August Burns Red guitarist JB Brubaker tells Apple Music about the Pennsylvania metalcore band’s 10th album.
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