Architects have announced their first Australian headline shows since 2010, playing club shows in Sydney and Melbourne this September as side shows from their massive arena tour supporting The Amity Affliction. Joining them as support are US hardcore band Stray From The Path, and Sydney boysHand Of Mercy.
Architects are no stranger to Australian shores. They supported Parkway Drive (2009) and The Amity Affliction (2012) and were one of the breakthrough acts on Soundwave’s 2010 lineup. In late 2010 they headlined and have since become one of the most sought after touring acts in the heavy music world.
The hard work paid off this year, when their sixth album Lost Forever // Lost Together debuted at #13on the ARIA Charts in March. The album has been a huge hit with Australian audiences, and was voted the #1 album so far this year in Short Fast Loud’s Mid-Year audience poll.
Lost Forever // Lost Together has been one of the most acclaimed heavy records of 2014, and last month it helped the band take out the “Best UK Band” award at the Golden Gods in the UK. Lost Forever // Lost Together has received glowing reviews from publications around the world including Alternative Press, Kerrang, Rock Sound and Blunt Magazine.
Architects will play Melbourne and Sydney on their off days from playing direct support to The Amity Affliction, who sold out Festival Hall and Hordern Pavilion in less than a week on sale. Supporting will be Stray From The Path, who are also playing on the Amity tour, and Sydney band Hand Of Mercy, who are preparing for the release of their forthcoming third album, Resolve.
Tickets to the Architects shows will sell for $25 and will be available on Friday, 11th July at 9am. Tickets to both shows are expected to sell very quickly.
UNFD and 24HUNDRED Present
ARCHITECTS (UK)
with guests
STRAY FROM THE PATH (US)
HAND OF MERCY
TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR $25 + BF FROM 9AM on FRI JULY 11
MON SEP 1 – THE CORNER HOTEL, MELBOURNE 18+
Tickets available from The Corner Hotel box office – cornerhotel.com / 1300 724 867
TUE SEP 2 – OXFORD ARTS FACTORY, SYDNEY 18+
Tickets available from Moshtix – moshtix.com.au
On Lost Forever // Lost Together the band artfully weaves in ambient elements that sometimes verge on gauzy and dreamlike. Take the instrumental ‘Red Hypergiant’ that threads a sample of voiceover from a Carl Sagan film through an oceanic wall of sound, for example, while the album-closing ‘Distant Blue’ starts out as a snarling, lead-heavy epic and then unfolds into spacey ethereality. Fans will notice the band deepen their blend of brutal, thundering metal and melody-spiked hardcore with heavier riffs and intricate arrangements inspired by This Will Destroy You, and even artists unlikely such as Sigur Ros. With lyrical content delving into everything from the Fukushima nuclear disaster to Tom’s recent bout with skin cancer, Lost Forever // Lost Together artfully delivers an emotional charge that’s both devastating and glorious.
As for the album title Architects borrowed a lyric from the track ‘Youth Is Wasted on the Young’.
As Tom Searle poignantly states, “We’re all lost. Everyone’s just trying to find their place, and hopefully we’ll all get there eventually.”
