Those feelings of impending doom are nothing new to Architects – unbeknownst to listeners, who weren’t informed of his long-running battle with cancer until his passing, Tom wrote of mortality throughout last record ‘All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us’. The album’s title track, itself a doomy, string-laced cut of metallic brutality, sees Dan follow that thread to its most self-flagellating end, Carter roaring of a hell that awaits us all. Instead, they’ve harnessed the fire and brimstone of grief’s most violent throes, fashioning it into their finest album to date.ĭan took up the mantle of lyricist following his brother’s passing, turning his feelings upon the passing of his twin brother into ruminations on both personal tragedy and the unifying certainty of mortality.
Few would have begrudged them for succumbing to that weight, and sinking into mire and misery. It’s a triumph, then, that Dan Searle – Tom’s twin brother and the band’s drummer – vocalist Sam Carter, and bassist Ali Dean have returned in explosive fashion. The first release since the tragic, sudden and widely publicised death of guitarist and primary songwriter Tom Searle, before a second of the record is played out, it’s weighed down by expectation. ‘Holy Hell’, the band’s eighth studio album, comes lumbered with expectation. Grief in the public eye, then, is a contradiction – how are you meant to process something so personal, when a thousand-and-one eyes are on your every move? Brighton metalcore group Architects know this better than most. Impossible to predict or plan for, the often sudden, jarring nature of death is something we all have to contend with, but are rarely given the tools to do so until the moment it arrives.
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