August Burns Red Announce 'Season of Surrender' — New Album Out June 5 via Fearless
August Burns Red have announced their new album. Season of Surrender is out June 5 via Fearless Records — the label to which the Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based band recently returned. The announcement comes alongside the release of the first single, "The Nameless," which is streaming now.
The Record
Season of Surrender is eleven tracks. The lineup for the album features guests from The Devil Wears Prada's Mike Hranica, Polaris's Jamie Hails, and Make Them Suffer — a cross-section of metalcore acts that reflects where the genre sits in 2026. These are not random crossovers. These are peers, and their presence suggests a record that is in conversation with where metalcore is going rather than where it has been.
The full tracklist:
Legions (feat. Mike Hranica)
The Nameless
Behemoth
Den Of Thieves
Sonic Salvation (feat. Jamie Hails)
Cerebral Malfunction (feat. Make Them Suffer)
Tear Of The Clouds
Whispers Like Splinters
S.O.S.
New Horizons
Forged By Failure
The Single
"The Nameless" is a mission statement. Bassist Dustin Davidson described it plainly in the press materials: "'The Nameless' is a hard-hitting, heavy bruiser that doesn't let up for one moment. It combines classic ABR elements with dark moody technical rhythms, and fast paced vocals to keep the intensity up for the full three minutes of the track. To me it showcases our roots of where we've come from, and the future path of where we're heading."
Vocalist Jake Luhrs addressed the lyrical content: "'The Nameless' is a song about not wasting your life away for the sake of acceptance and comfortability. Sometimes it takes detaching from what you've been told, or from the beliefs you are no longer aligned with, in order to face your own weaknesses. In doing so you can break free to live a life you are proud of."
That thematic territory — identity, autonomy, breaking from external pressure — is not new ground for metalcore. But ABR has never traded on shock or novelty. Their appeal is structural: the riffs are technically precise without being cold, the arrangements have real dynamic movement, and the vocals are committed without being performative. "The Nameless" delivers all of that in under three minutes.
Where ABR Stands
The context matters. Season of Surrender arrives at a moment when ABR's career milestones are genuinely substantial. Multiple Billboard Top 200 placements. Tours with Bullet for My Valentine, A Day to Remember, and a long list of credible peers. Two Grammy nominations for "Best Metal Performance" — for "Identity" in 2016 and "Invisible Enemy" in 2018. Six hundred million streams accumulated across a catalog that now spans two decades.
They are not a band chasing relevance. They are a band that has maintained consistency across twenty-plus years in one of rock's most volatile genres. Metalcore has gone through multiple identity crises in that time — the post-hardcore wave, the djent wave, the pop-influenced wave, the deathcore crossover. August Burns Red has generally stayed out of the trend cycles and kept doing the thing they do.
The return to Fearless is noteworthy context. The label has had a complicated decade — multiple ownership changes, shifting roster priorities — but it's also home to a number of marquee metalcore acts. ABR coming back there rather than moving to a larger parent or staying independent says something about where they see their lane.
Touring
August Burns Red will hit the road on a co-headline run with The Amity Affliction starting April 10 in Worcester, Massachusetts. That tour was announced earlier and provides a natural live context for the new material heading into the June album release.
Tickets for the ABR and Amity Affliction co-headline tour are available through Ticketmaster. Pre-order Season of Surrender on Amazon.
