Architects - Holy Hell
Architects, the Brighton-based outfit Kerrang recently awards the title of "Best British Live Band" and The Guardian said feature "gloriously crafted anthems of defiance," return with their eighth album, Holy Hell, out now via Epitaph Records
Holy Hell 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 explains. "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?'" adds vocalist Sam Carter. "As a group of friends, we had to find something."
"Ultimately, there were two choices," Dan says. "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."
Finding a way forward, the band spent six months from the Fall of 2017 through the Spring of this year recording what would become the 11-song album, with Dan and guitar player Josh Middleton handling production. "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."
TRACKLISTING
Death Is Not Defeat
Hereafter
Mortal After All
Holy Hell
Damnation
Royal Beggars
Modern Misery
Dying to Heal
The Seventh Circle
Doomsday
A Wasted Hymn
PRODUCT DETAILS
Artist: Architects
Label: Epitaph
Condition: New
Genre: Metal & Noise
Format: Vinyl LP
Cat Number: 276001
Released: 18th October 2025
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