Description
Architects, the Brighton-based outfit Kerrang recently awards the title of "Best
British Live Band" and The Guardian said feature "gloriously crafted anthems
of defiance," return with their eighth album, Holy Hell, out now via Epitaph
Records
Holy Hell marks the band's first release since the untimely passing of Tom Searle,
Architect's founding guitarist, principal songwriter and twin brother to drummer Dan.
"In those first months after Tom's death, I didn't deal with it at all and I felt so unhappy and anxious," Dan explains. "I'd ignored it and just tried to cope. But I knew that at some point, I had to learn from it."
"It's at times like that you ask yourself, 'What is left?'" adds vocalist Sam Carter. "As a group of friends, we had to find something."
"Ultimately, there were two choices," Dan says. "Feel sorry for yourself, and believe the world to be a horrible place and let it defeat you. Or let it inspire us to live the life that Tom would have wanted us to live. I was very worried about people taking away a
despondent message from the album. I felt a level of responsibility to provide a light
at the end of the tunnel for people who are going through terrible experiences."
Finding a way forward, the band spent six months from the Fall of 2017 through the
Spring of this year recording what would become the 11-song album, with Dan and
guitar player Josh Middleton handling production. "For me, broadly speaking Holy Hell
is about pain: the way we process it, cope with it, and live with it," Dan offers. "There is
value in pain. It's where we learn, it's where we grow."
Tracklisting:
A1 Death Is Not Defeat 3:45
A2 Hereafter 4:15
A3 Mortal After All 3:39
A4 Holy Hell 4:13
A5 Damnation 4:08
B1 Royal Beggars 4:01
B2 Modern Misery 4:13
B3 Dying To Heal 3:50
B4 The Seventh Circle 1:48
B5 Doomsday 4:08
B6 A Wasted Hymn 4:34
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