![]() ![]() It’s angering, sobering and, at times, deeply moving. At 15 tracks and an hour in length, it’s the band’s boldest vision yet. It asks questions about “the biggest issues we face as a civilisation”, and “holds a mirror up” to examine our role and responsibility in finding the answers. It is, in in equal measure, the band’s most ambitious, cinematic, challenging, conflicted work. ![]() The album to which he refers – for the first time, in a world-exclusive reveal to Kerrang! – is For Those That Wish To Exist Architects’ ninth record, and the embodiment of this very desperation. I go back to that word: this new album is a lot of desperate feelings about what we can do, and why nothing is happening.” We’re marching towards the edge of a cliff, and there’s such an apathy about it. ![]() ![]() The world is dying, it’s our fault and no-one cares. You think about the things that are standing in her way of a long and prosperous life. You start to think about the world that they are going to inherit. But, when you have a child, you start seeing the world through their eyes. Nothing really mattered, and certainly not broader global issues. “Holy Hell was about seeing the world through the lens of grief, which was kind of nihilistic. The Dan Searle who is enjoying settling into his new life in Devon with his wife and young daughter, who cheerily opens our call with a joke about the recent football results, who laughs as he apologises for the noise of his neighbour’s ‘enthusiastic’ playing of Call Of Duty, and is both warm and open in the face of sometimes difficult, often personal questions. On the surface, it seems to belie the Dan Searle we speak to today. And then Holy Hell was about me dealing with the pain of that.” On All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, he was sure that he was going to die. “On Lost Forever // Lost Together Tom was diagnosed with cancer. Holy Hell, Dan told this writer prior to that last record’s release, was about “the way we process pain, cope with it, and live with it.” Though they were never plotted in such a way – how could they possibly? – it came to represent something of a closing chapter in “a trilogy that was centred on Tom’s journey,” Dan reflects. “Pain”, of course, came to define not only the band’s 2018 album, Holy Hell, but the wider shadow over Architects, following the desperately sad loss of their founder and leader – and Dan’s twin brother – Tom Searle in 2016. ![]()
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