| Guardians Sessions | |
| Type: | EP |
| Artist: | August Burns Red |
| Cover: | Guardians_Sessions_EP.jpg |
| Released: | April 16, 2021 |
| Studio: | Think Loud Studios, York, Pennsylvania Seventh Wave Studio, Palmyra, Pennsylvania |
| Genre: | Metalcore |
| Length: | 27:36 |
| Label: | Fearless |
| Producer: |
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| Prev Title: | Guardians |
| Prev Year: | 2020 |
| Next Title: | Death Below |
| Next Year: | 2023 |
Guardians Sessions is an EP by American metalcore band August Burns Red. It was released on April 16, 2021 through Fearless Records. The EP consists of b-sides from the recording sessions of the band's previous album, Guardians, along with two re-imagined versions of songs from the album and two covers.
Starting in late 2020, August Burns Red began to release a series of singles that were recorded during sessions for their previous studio album, Guardians.[1]
The first single released was a cover of the System of a Down song "Chop Suey!" on December 15, 2020.[2] On January 19, 2021, the band released the single "Standing in the Storm" along with the song's animated music video.[3] The following month, August Burns Red released an instrumental re-recording of the Guardians song "Extinct by Instinct", titled "Extinct by Instinct (Reprise)", on February 9.[4] On March 9, the band released a cover of the theme song for the TV series Westworld, which the band started writing in 2018.[5] A couple of weeks later, the single "Icarus" was released along with the announcement of a new EP, Guardians Sessions; "Icarus" features clean vocals provided by bassist Dustin Davidson.[6]