Messengers is the second album released by metalcore

Metalcore

Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...

 band August Burns Red

August Burns Red

August Burns Red is an American metal band, from Manheim, Pennsylvania. Formed in 2003, the group began their first performances while a majority of the members were attending their senior year of high school, and soon began playing shows around Lancaster, before being signed to CI Records, and...

 through Solid State Records

Solid State Records

Solid State Records is a Christian record label, a division of Tooth & Nail Records. Unlike Tooth & Nail, Solid State signs hardcore and metal bands. Like Tooth & Nail, Solid State is primarily a Christian label. However, they have signed several bands that don't label themselves as Christian,...

, and their first with vocalist Jake Luhrs. It sold 9,000 copies in its first week on sale, and went on to sell over 80,000. A video for the song "Composure" was recorded and was released as a single on September 6, 2007. The second video from this album, for the song "Back Burner", premiered on Myspace Music on August 13, 2008. A vinyl copy of this record was also released with limited press numbers through the band's former label, CI Records

CI Records

CI Records is an independent record label from Lancaster, Pennsylvania owned by Jeremy Weiss. Originally created to distribute the releases of his band, Stand Up, an early 1990s melodic hardcore band, CI expanded releases from bands such as Submachine, Vision, Violent Society, Serpico, and...

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Track listing

B-Sides

Personnel

August Burns Red

• Jake Luhrs − Vocals
• JB Brubaker − Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Brent Rambler − Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Dustin Davidson − Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , Vocals
• Matt Greiner − Drums
  Drum kit
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  , Percussion, Piano
  Piano
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Production

• Produced by Tue Madsen
  Tue Madsen
  Tue Madsen is a Danish music producer and sound engineer, who is well known in metal genre for his work with bands like The Haunted, Mnemic, Hatesphere, Ektomorf, Cataract, Exmortem, and Born from Pain. His first work as a producer was the album Embraced by the Absolute by Autumn Leaves in 1997...
  
   & August Burns Red
  August Burns Red
  August Burns Red is an American metal band, from Manheim, Pennsylvania. Formed in 2003, the group began their first performances while a majority of the members were attending their senior year of high school, and soon began playing shows around Lancaster, before being signed to CI Records, and...
  
  
• Mixed by Tue Madsen
  Tue Madsen
  Tue Madsen is a Danish music producer and sound engineer, who is well known in metal genre for his work with bands like The Haunted, Mnemic, Hatesphere, Ektomorf, Cataract, Exmortem, and Born from Pain. His first work as a producer was the album Embraced by the Absolute by Autumn Leaves in 1997...
  
  
• Mastered by Troy Glessner at Spectre Studio
• Recorded at Rebel Waltz Studio
  Rebel Waltz Recording Co.
  Rebel Waltz Recording Co. is a recording studio based in Franklin, Tennessee run by Ethan Luck and Daniel Spencer . Rebel Waltz Recording Co. started in September 2006...
  
   and Sound Kitchen in Franklin, TN
• Art Direction by Invisible Creature
  Invisible Creature
  Invisible Creature is a graphic design studio based in Seattle. It is run by brothers Don and Ryan Clark, co-founders of Asterik Studios and members of the metalcore band Demon Hunter. The Clark brothers split with Asterik because they wanted to focus their attention on producing work for the music...
  
  
• Design by Ryan Clark
  Ryan Clark (musician)
  Ryan Clark is an American graphic designer and musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Demon Hunter, which he co-founded with his brother, guitarist Don Clark.-Early life and career:...
  
   for Invisible Creature
  Invisible Creature
  Invisible Creature is a graphic design studio based in Seattle. It is run by brothers Don and Ryan Clark, co-founders of Asterik Studios and members of the metalcore band Demon Hunter. The Clark brothers split with Asterik because they wanted to focus their attention on producing work for the music...
  
  
• Cover Photo by Jerad Knudson
• Band Photo by Dave Hill