Why do you think you want us to all stay the same? I think people forget that the band is our band. Everything else is a massive war: environment, what you eat, government, race. Music is the last shared thing. I can write a fucking breakdown in my sleep. But I want to challenge myself. Do you know how hard it is to write a hook, or nail a fucking chorus?
For All Points East, was it important to put a day together that really reflects this type of thinking? People are gonna love it. But live, people get the energy.
Do you think this will open the gates a bit for newer bands to head higher up festival bills? And what kind of moment are you going to create? Think about The Prodigy being on the cover of Kerrang! Get your tickets now. Wargasm in The K!
Architects are doing a livestream from Abbey Road Studios. Code Orange release crushing new single Out For Blood.
It was quite haunting because they have this set with lights on the empty seats as well. When it would go fully pitch-black and the lights would come up on the seats, it was weird — but it was really cool. Those circumstances did mean, however, that they were able to remotely secure some special guests for the album, including Royal Blood , Parkway Drive and Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil. When do you need this?
After the target amount had been reached for the film Architects posted a song clip of a new song, "Black Blood", online. The band's split from Century Media was after their contract expired and due to "a daily occurrence" of falling out.
They then joined Epitaph records roster for both an opportunity to break the American market and because of an admiration for bands on their roster like Every Time I Die and Converge. When Sam Carter joined the band to replace Matt Johnson, drummer Dan Searle had commented that the lyrics Carter wrote drew from more personal experience than those of his predecessor.
The lyrics of Hollow Crown focus on a number of themes, with some songs dealing with everyday life like sitting in a car with friends or angst against girls, while some other songs, particularly "Early Grave", "Follow the Water" and "In Elegance", were written about Carter's growing dependence on cannabis and him "struggling against his own instincts and self-destructive obsessions".
Two songs featured on Hollow Crown — "Dead March" and "Left with the Last Minute" — feature "call and response-type" lyrics about a stalker and their victim's response to being stalked, respectively.
For the lyrics of Daybreaker, Carter and Tom Searle collaborated on writing, focusing on what they believed to be "bigger picture" themes, such as the critique of negative aspects of religion and society.
On 16 April , after the album was fully recorded, it was announced that Tim Hillier-Brook would be leaving the band to pursue other projects. Josh Middleton, the frontman of British metal band Sylosis became a touring guitarist until the band decided on a new fifth member.
Daybreaker received a mixed reception from critics. Negative critics stated the album's songs were "catchy and occasionally compelling" but "identical and formulaic".
The band promoted the Daybreaker album though a collection of 75 shows in 25 countries over 4 continents, including: Southeast Asia, Australia, North America and Europe , called the Daybreaker Almost World Tour.
Strongly influenced by bands such as The Dillinger Escape Plan, the sound of their first three albums was coarse, chaotic, and rhythmically complex. In , Architects went in a more melodic post-hardcore direction with The Here and Now, alienating some of their fanbase. The following year, they returned towards their original style with Daybreaker, establishing a balance of melody and technical harshness while introducing more politicised lyrics.
The album was seen as going in a more commercial direction from the rest of the band's work. Upon its release the album was well received by critics. We started writing technical music when we were 16 and have spent the years since slowly moving away from it, it feels like different people wrote those songs. In February , Architects announced the departure of bassist Alex Dean, due to family commitments.
On 3 July it was announced that Dean had rejoined the band. When Dean commented on the short 5-month split from the band he said "I'm very happy to be able to say that I'm back, being able to stay at home for the past few months have given my family and I the opportunity to adjust to what happened last year and I know it's done us all a lot of good.
Architects was a main support alongside Parkway Drive and supported them in two continents. On 28 April Matt Nicholls broke his arm whilst playing football with members of Bring Me the Horizon, Parkway Drive and Architects, and instead of cancelling the tour Architects' drummer Dan Searle filled in as the drummer, this meant that Bring Me the Horizon's setlist was halved in length.
This European tour lasted until late August. On 4 December , Architects released a new single entitled "Devil's Island". The song was for an at the time unnamed follow up album to The Here and Now. The single was announced in early November, a month before its actual release. As an iTunes bonus b-side song "Untitled" was added into the single download. In addition to its announcement it was streamed on the band's Facebook page.
Both the song and the music video that accompanied the release talk about and deal with the England riots, with the music video featuring clips of the riots. The single itself was well received by critics for its return to the mathcore style of their third album, Hollow Crown. Nattrass of Bring the noise UK said that "the Track is sweeping and melodic in parts, whilst bursting with high tempo and visceral raw energy in others. Architects have made various stylistic transitions and evolutions throughout their career, with Sam Carter stating in a interview that each album should sound distinct.
I admired that level of creativity, that even though they were a massive band, they still wanted to push the envelope. It sort of overtakes my life really, how much I love that band! My dad always spoke really highly of him, but I think it might have gone over my head at a young age, some of it's quite intricate and quite out there, and also how subtle some of his messages are.
The Beatles were obsessed with him as well. The whole way through that era he looks so cool, just the man. I'll just buy a hat and put some dried flowers in it! It still feels current now - hearing about the police going in and arresting the wrong black guy.
I think it's one of my favourite songs because you can hear how pissed off he is the whole way through it. As the song goes on you start hearing him really dig in on the guitar and it's amazing.
You see the footage of people leaving venues where they're like 'Boo! He was shit', and if only they knew now how stupid they looked.
I love the stuff that we were doing before, and I still think we're a really good heavy band, but it's something about not feeling like you have to stick in the same lane. It wasn't just down to the songs; it was the completely changing look.
That's what I love about this new record, it feels like a whole new era for the band, but it's a whole vibe shift. He had a love for it, he still loves it and he doesn't know what else he should do with his life. Again, just four mates in a room, getting pissed up and writing songs is so incredible and everyone knows this song.
It's crazy. Where is it in their brain that goes, 'Oh yeah, I'm just gonna reinvent a genre. This is metal, enjoy it. I think I actually realised how good they were when we played a show at Graspop festival, and Ozzy was headlining it. This was maybe eight or nine years ago; seeing how much it meant to people and seeing him, how old he was and he was still smashing it.
That made me want to really go in on Ozzy and Sabbath because, as I say, you can take that song for granted.
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