ARCHITECTS have unveiled the brand new video for the single ‘Gravedigger’, taken from the new album, Lost Forever // Lost Together, out now via UNFD. Click below to watch.
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Architects also joined acts like Of Mice And Men and Bury Tomorrow for Radio 1 Rocks Week, performing live on the Zane Lowe show on Monday, click here to listen.
After writing demos on their successful run on Warped Tour 2013, Architects (whose lineup includes chief songwriter Tom Searle on guitars, keyboards, his twin brother Dan on drums, Sam Carter on lead vocals, and Alex Dean on bass) took to Studio Fredman in the Swedish city of Gothenburg in the middle of the sunlight-starved winter. Working with producers Fredrik Nordström and Henrik Udd.
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.”
“Given the path Architects have had to tread, this is nothing short of a genuine triumph.” 8/10 Metal Hammer
“’Lost Forever // Lost Together’ has all of the definite potential to be one of the best albums of the year. This is going to be the year of Architects.” Kill Your Stereo
“With this album, Architects reach into your chest like an Indiana Jones villain, tear out your still-beating heart and make you stare at it for 11 tracks of maximum brutality.” The Music
“Complex and brutal album that belies metalcore’s stagnation” The Guardian (4/5)
“Lost Forever, Lost Together’ is the sound of Architects finding and unleashing the buried treasure they’ve been searching for.” – Rock Sound (9/10)
“Architects are a true national treasure and they continually pump out some of the most engaging, challenging and outright gnarly metal around” Metal Hammer? (8/10)
“Architects finally find themselves” – Kerrang! (4/5)
Lost Forever // Lost Together is out now via UNFD
02. Naysayer
03. Broken Cross
04. The Devil Is Near
05. Dead Man Talking
06. Red Hypergiant
07. C.A.N.C.E.R
08. Colony Collapse
09. Castles In The Air
10. Youth Is Wasted On The Young
11. The Distant Blue
