Architects, recently dubbed “Best British Live Band” by Kerrang!, announced that their eighth studio album, Holy Hell, is on the way.
The record marks the band’s first release since the untimely passing of Tom Searle, Architect’s founding guitarist, principal songwriter and twin brother to drummer Dan.
“In those first months after Tom’s death, I didn’t deal with it at all and I felt so unhappy and anxious,” Dan said in a release. “I’d ignored it and just tried to cope. But I knew that at some point, I had to learn from it.”
“It’s at times like that you ask yourself, ‘What is left?’” vocalist Sam Carter said. “As a group of friends, we had to find something.”
“Ultimately, there were two choices,” Dan continued. “Feel sorry for yourself, and believe the world to be a horrible place and let it defeat you. Or let it inspire us to live the life that Tom would have wanted us to live. I was very worried about people taking away a despondent message from the album. I felt a level of responsibility to provide a light at the end of the tunnel for people who are going through terrible experiences. For me, broadly speaking Holy Hell is about pain: the way we process it, cope with it, and live with it,” Dan offers. “There is value in pain. It’s where we learn, it’s where we grow.”
Architects shared the first track, ‘Hereafter,’ from Holy Hell. You can watch the Jeb Hardwick-directed video for it above. The band also confirmed details of a headlining run through the UK. More information can be found here.
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