7.0
Avg Score
5
Opinions
#30,514
All Time
6
Tracks
“Architects have spent a long time in the darkness. The Brighton metallers’ last three albums, ‘Lost Together // Lost Forever’ (2015), ‘All Our Gods’ Have Abandoned Us’ (2017) and ‘Holy Hell’ (2019), cemented them as scene leaders, the best UK metal band of a generation. But they were also a trilogy of bleak and visceral brutality that attempted to come to terms with the cancer diagnosis of guitari”
“For album nine Architects make an uncompromising move filled with exploration”
“Climate crisis rock hasn’t exactly taken off in recent years. Mainstream music’s reliance on easily digestible emotional journeying grates awkwardly against the catharsis-vacuum that is the Earth’s current trajectory. Those who have tackled the topic have often taken circuitous routes – delegating to experts (the 1975 enlisted Greta Thunberg); shockingly reimagining the process as a triumph of mal”
