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ISSUE 1610 MAR <strong>12</strong>, <strong>2016</strong> The moment Sam realised his mic stand contained gelatine SILENT SCREAM BRIT METAL’S HEAVIEST SONS, ARCHITECTS, HAVE FINISHED THEIR HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED SEVENTH ALBUM. AND, AS VOCALIST SAM CARTER AND GUITARIST TOM SEARLE TELL US, IT’S A BLEAK LISTEN… HOW DID this happen? Shrouded in secrecy for the best part of six months, Brighton metalcore unit Architects have emerged with noisome new album All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us. A selection of tracks that punch hard and swing heavy, they’ve somehow returned with even more heft than their last, <strong>Kerrang</strong>!’s Album Of 2014, Lost Forever // Lost Together. Kicking off with new single A Match Made In Heaven this spring, the full-length follows on May 27. It is, reckons frontman Sam Carter, “the proudest” they’ve ever been of a record. While songwriter/guitarist Tom Searle says the recording was “a battle between our urge to be as heavy as hell and to experiment”. But, as <strong>Kerrang</strong>! discovers in this exclusive interview with both, there’s a bleak worldview taking shape beyond the acerbic thrash and throatshredding vocals… SO, GUYS, WHEN DID YOU START WORKING ON THE RECORD? SAM CARTER (VOCALS): “Tom and Dan [Searle, drummer] are always writing – they’ve already started writing for the next record. We went into the studio in November, but we were working for four months before that. That’s when I started going over to Tom’s to do vocal demos. That really helped because every record I did before, I’d go, ³(SR´X[SVV]-´PP½KYVIMXSYXSRXLIHE]´0MOI0MP Wayne. That doesn’t really work. It proved to be quite stressful for everyone else.” THE ALBUM TITLE AND THE LYRICS ARE BLEAK. WHAT’S THE THINKING BEHIND THAT MOOD? TOM SEARLE (GUITAR): “I think this is something I need to prepare myself for, because everyone is WE]MRKLS[FPIEOMXMW-HSR´XXLMROMXẂEVI¾IGXMSR on any personal misery, it’s just an observation of the way things are. There are days like today, when the sky is blue, but we do live in a world of smoke and mirrors where we don’t like to investigate the darker side of life, which is undeniable.” DO YOU FEEL WE’RE LIVING IN DARK TIMES? TOM: “Yeah, for me the title was inspired by the fact that we’ve got it so wrong now. Not only did we abandon our Gods, but they’ve abandoned us. We indulge in all the wrong things. We can’t look after our own health, nevermind the health of our own planet. It doesn’t matter whether you’re looking at politics, or the environment, or the health of the race. We have a chronic depression of sorts. We don’t understand why we’re here. We’ve abandoned all the tools our ancestors gave us to understand the sense of just being alive.” WHAT’S IT LIKE SINGING THOSE LYRICS, SAM? SAM: “I think it’s us as a band – we have those same views. If it ever came down to it and we were singing stuff that I didn’t agree with or back 100 per cent, I wouldn’t be able to sing it with any conviction. There would be no real point in that. We’re all very much pulling in the same direction. I don’t think it’s a scary thing for us to feel like that, I think realising All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us cover art
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