August Burns Red have posted a special video message to UK fans ahead of their UK tour alongside The Devil Wears Prada and Whitechapel. What nice boys they are!
Leveler, which sold around 29,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 11 on The Billboard 200 chart. Leveler was released on June 21. 2011 via Solid State Records. The effort was made available in both regular and deluxe editions — a first for the band.
For Leveler, August Burns Red re-teamed with producer Jason Suecof, the man behind the board on the band’s previous CD, 2009′s Constellations, which landed at No. 24 on The Billboard 200 and sold more than 90,000 copies. The result is an album that pushes the band’s sonic boundaries in every direction, yet emerges as an unquestionably heavier album than its predecessor.
“Putting out a fourth record is a little scary because we obviously have our sound figured out at this point, but we don’t want to put out a record that just sounds like a redux of our previous albums,” explains JB Brubaker. “Our tastes are always evolving as musicians and we’ve been motivated to progress as a band and push ABR in different directions, while maintaining the characteristics that made us the band we are in the first place.”
While August Burns Red has never succumbed to the artistic trends in metal album covers, Leveler represents an even larger departure than fans have seen on the band’s previous albums. The artwork, created by artist Jordan Crane, brings a striking comic book flair that the band wanted the artwork to encompass.
Upcoming Shows:
US:
Aug 31 The Fillmore, Silver Spring, MD
Sep 01 Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, RI
Sep 02 The Chance, Poughkeepsie, NY
Sep 03 Lost Horizon, Syracuse, NY
Sep 04 The Town Ballroom, Buffalo, NY
Sep 05 Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH
Sep 06 Orbit Room, Grand Rapids, MI
Sep 07 London Music Hall, London, Canada
Sep 08 Parc de l’ilot Fleurie, Quebec City, Canada
Sep 10 Altar Bar, Pittsburgh, PA
Sep 11 Altar Bar, Pittsburgh, PA
Sep 12 The Castle Theatre, Bloomington, IL
Sep 13 The Rave, Milwaukee, WI
Sep 14 People’s Court, Des Moines, IA
Sep 15 Riot Fest Chicago, IL
Sep 16 Sokol Auditorium, Omaha, NE
Sep 17 Summit Music Hall, Denver, CO
Sep 19 Senator Theatre, Chico, CA
Sep 20 Knitting Factory, Reno, NV
Sep 21 The Dome, Bakersfield, CA
Sep 22 House of Blues, Anaheim, CA
Sep 23 Marquee Theatre, Tempe, AZ
Sep 24 Top Deck, Farmington, NM
Sep 26 Dos Amigos, Odessa, TX
Sep 27 Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa, OK
Sep 28 Remington’s Downtown, Springfield, MO
Sep 29 Pop’s, East St Louis, IL
Sep 30 Expo Five, Louisville, KY
Oct 02 The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC T
Oct 03 Valarium, Knoxville, TN
Oct 04 Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh, NC
Oct 05 Norva, Norfolk, VA
Oct 06 Paramount Theater, Huntington, NY
Europe:
Oct 18 Rock City, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Oct 19 Garage, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Oct 20 Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Oct 21 HMV Ritz, Manchester, United Kingdom
Oct 22 Academy 1, Bristol, United Kingdom
Oct 23 Electric Ballroom, London, United Kingdom
Oct 26 Luxor, Cologne, Germany
Oct 27 Effenaar, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Oct 28 AB, Brussels, Belgium
Oct 30 Markethalle, Hamburg, Germany
Oct 31 Skaters Palace, Munster, Germany
Nov 01 Voxhall, Aarhus, Denmark
Nov 02 Brewhouse, Goteborg, Sweden
Nov 03 Fabrikken, Oslo, Norway
Nov 05 Klubben, Stockholm, Sweden
Nov 06 KB, Malmö, Sweden
Nov 07 Pumpehuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
Nov 08 C Club, Berlin, Germany
Nov 09 Suedbahnhof, Chemnitz, Germany
Nov 10 Progresja, Warsaw, Poland
Nov 11 Fabryka, Krakow, Poland
Nov 13 Batschkapp, Frankfurt, Germany
Nov 14 Backstage Halle, Munich, Germany
Nov 15 Arena, Vienna, Austria
Nov 16 Komplex, Zurich, Switzerland
Nov 17 Tunnel Club, Milan, Italy
Nov 18 Substage, Karlsruhe, Germany
Nov 19 Le Bataclan, Paris, France
South America:
Dec 01 Music Hall, Curitiba, Brazil
Dec 02 Carioca Club, São Paulo, Brazil
Dec 04 Teatro Vorterix, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dec 05 Club 334, Santiago, Chile
Dec 07 Teatro Metro Bogota, Bogota, Colombia
Dec 09 Circo Volador, Mexico City, Mexico
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