Architects announce new album ‘Holy Hell’
ARCHITECTS have announced a brand new album!
The new album, titled Holy Hell, is the much-anticipated follow up to 2016’s All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us and is scheduled to be released in November this year.
Holy Hell will be the first album from the band since the untimely passing of Tom Searle, ARCHITECTS‘ founding guitarist, principal songwriter and twin brother to drummer Dan.
Speaking about the record, Dan Searle says, “in those first months after Tom’s death, I didn’t deal with it at all and I felt so unhappy and anxious. I’d ignored it and just tried to cope. But I knew that at some point, I had to learn from it. Ultimately, there were two choices. 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. There is value in pain. It’s where we learn, it’s where we grow.”
Vocalist Sam Carter adds, “it’s at times like that you ask yourself, ‘What is left?’ As a group of friends, we had to find something.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have launched a new music video for first single; titled Hereafter. The new music video was directed by Jeb Hardwick.
Watch the official music video for Hereafter here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming record. Both of which are available to view below:
Track List:
- 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
And that’s not it! Following the release of the new album in November, ARCHITECTS will undergo their biggest ever European and UK tour in January and February next year. Support for the tour comes from BEARTOOTH and POLARIS.
Tour dates are as follows:
4 Dec 2018 – St. Petersburg, A2 (RU)
6 Dec 2018 – Moscow, Adrenaline Stadium (RU)
8 Dec 2018 – Kiev, Stereoplaza (UKR)
6 Jan 2019 – Stockholm, Fryshuset Arenan (SE)
8 Jan 2019 – Copenhagen, Vega (DK)
10 Jan 2019 – Dusseldorf, Mitsubishi-Electric-Halle (DE)
11 Jan 2019 – Antwerp, Lotto Arena (BE)
12 Jan 2019 – Amsterdam, AFAS Live (NL)
14 Jan 2019 – Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse (UK)
17 Jan 2019 – Glasgow, O2 Academy (UK)
18 Jan 2019 – Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena (UK)
19 Jan 2019 – London, The SSE Arena Wembley (UK)
21 Jan 2019 – Luxembourg, Luxexpo (LUX)
22 Jan 2019 – Lyon, Transbordeur (FR)
24 Jan 2019 – Barcelona, Razzmatazz (ES)
25 Jan 2019 – Bilbao, Santana 27 (ES)
27 Jan 2019 – Paris, Olympia (FR)
28 Jan 2019 – Zurich, Halle 622 (CH)
29 Jan 2019 – Vienna, Gasometer (AT)
30 Jan 2019 – Milan, Alcatraz (IT) Italy
31 Jan 2019 – Prague, Forum Karlin (CZ)
1 Feb 2019 – Warsaw, Stodola (PO)
2 Feb 2019 – Leipzig, Haus Auensee (DE)
3 Feb 2019 – Offenbach, Stadthalle (DE)
5 Feb 2019 – Berlin, Verti Music Hall (DE)
6 Feb 2019 – Munich, Zenith (DE)
8 Feb 2019 – Hamburg, Sporthalle (DE)
Holy Hell is set for release on November 9th via Epitaph Records.
For more information on ARCHITECTS like their official page on Facebook.
