Lost Messengers: The Outtakes (CD)

While ""Lost Messengers"" isn't necessarily breaking any ground that ""Messengers"" didn't already break, it does continue to showcase ""August Burns Red"" trademark sound - a brutal leviathan of mathematical chugging and booksmart riffage that eschews the format du jour in favor of artful, uncompromised compositions that exhibit both an astute comprehension of classical methods and a forward-leaning approach to jaw-dropping, neck-breaking throwdown rock - like a rush for the modern, bloody-nosed set.