Rock band Architects to preview new album at Birmingham show
Brighton five-piece Architects will preview their new album All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us when they headline the O2 Institute in Birmingham on November 11.
They began work on the record 12 months ago.
Frontman Sam Carter, bassist Ali Dean, guitarists Adam Christianson and Tom Searle, plus the latter's twin brother drummer, Dan – boarded a plane bound for Sweden, and a return to Gothenburg's Studio Fredman: home to the production team Fredrik Nordstrom and Henrik Udd.
It was they who would previously helped realise the band's last album, Lost Forever, Lost Together, and it was they who would once again be entrusted to help translate the tracks penned by principal songwriter Tom Searle into reality.
Musically, 'All Our Gods…' is the work of a special band 'leaving everything we had in the studio', as vocalist Carter explains, his vocal dexterity embodying a record that pairs uncompromising heaviness and with a melodic heartbeat in a manner so poorly accomplished by many of their peers.
It is the heaviest and darkest work to which the band have ever put their name, both on and below its surface. It challenges and progresses a genre long thought to have stagnated, and embraces its inspirations at a time when many rock and metal bands seek to hide them in search of mainstream acceptance.
