We didn't throw the baby out of the bathwater, we just stripped back what we were allowing ourselves to do.ĬARTER The same with so much of life, I think your overall mood when you go into the record depends what you take from it as well. And to be honest, the way we're talking about this, you people are going to expect it to be a ska record. What you are allowed to do and what you're not allowed to do … I think when we were writing it, it was more about asking ourselves whether we liked what we were writing, rather than what other people would think.
SEARLE When you're a band for a decent amount of time, the sound of your band is to some degree governed by the rules you self-imposed. Whether it be having French horns on a song - and actually having French horns properly recorded - or writing with that sort of stuff in mind and knowing that we would be able to do it.
WHAT ABOUT THIS RECORD FELT THE MOST OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE?ĬARTER Everything feels a lot grander than before and it feels a lot bigger and it feels like we were in a position to do the ideas justice. Video of Architects - " Doomsday" (Live at Alexandra Palace) Whereas with this album, it just felt time to spread our wings a little bit and challenge ourselves and take it somewhere new. And it wasn't the time for us to change the script. And just get that general feeling of excitement that you're doing something that you haven't done before.ĭAN SEARLE I think Holy Hell would've been a very different record if Tom had still been here, and it was more in the same vein as the previous two records because we felt like we needed to consolidate and readjust as a band without Tom. So every now and then it's nice to move the ball to feel a little bit out of your comfort zone. So after a while it's like football: if you take the same free kick enough times, more often than not, you know that it's going to go in. SAM CARTER It felt like it would be real easy to carry on where we were going because the last three before this were in a similar sort of vein. WAS THERE ANYTHING YOU KNEW YOU WANTED TO DO GOING INTO THIS RECORD, EITHER LYRICALLY OR MUSICALLY? While Searle was listening to Kendrick Lamar's 2015 jazz-rap masterpiece To Pimp a Butterfly - a stark pivot from the gangsta rap of his previous work - he began to question why that type of experimentation doesn't really exist in the world of metalcore. "There were definitely points when we were writing some things where it was like, 'Well, this moment in this song is gonna really piss some people off,'" Searle says matter-of-factly.Īfter releasing Holy Hell, their first without Searle's late brother Tom and the final entry in a trilogy of records that boosted their sound from rabid mosh-pit fodder to stadium-tier metal anthems, Architects felt like they had solved that puzzle and they were ready to try something different. It's the most ambitious album they've ever made, and although it felt incredibly liberating for them as creators, they know that it's going to be a challenging listen for some metalcore purists. Compared to their already grandiose 2018 album Holy Hell, everything on Architects' new album is even bigger - the melodies, the sheer breadth of the arrangements, and the scope of its concept, which navigates the push-pull of hope and nihilism in a world that's falling apart. The 15-song, hour-long album weaves a sprawling tapestry of French horns, strings, synths, and alien-like vocal processors into their signature breed of stadium-sized metalcore. This is how we pay our bills and feed our families, so there's a lot of risk involved." Because it's almost harder when the band is more established and, if we're being totally transparent, this is our way of making a living. "People will call me a snowflake and all sorts of things for that, but it's a scary thing to do these days, to take a chance. "I feel discouraged from taking creative risks because I find the prospect of being at the wrong end of an internet onslaught difficult," says drummer Dan Searle during a Zoom call with vocalist Sam Carter and Revolver. At this point, Architects are lifers with one of the most passionate fan bases in the scene, but they'd be lying if they said they weren't nervous to release their ninth record, For Those That Wish to Exist. The English metalcore quartet have been through a lot - but they've managed to secure longevity in a genre where young acts have historically burned bright and fast. In that time, they've put out eight albums, endured numerous lineup changes, and sadly lost their founding guitarist Tom Searle to cancer in 2016.
Order yours before they're gone!Īrchitects have been a band for over 15 years. Revolver has teamed with Architects on an exclusive "Blue Dream Splash" 2LP variant of their new album, For Those That Wish to Exist, limited to 500 worldwide.
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