ARCHITECTS – Holy Hell (National Album Day 2025) – LP – ‘Bloody Mary’ Colour Vinyl [OCT 18]

LP – Limited NAD 2025 Edition ‘Bloody Mary’ Colour Vinyl.

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.”

Architects really are the best British metal band of their generation” – KERRANG!.

Tracklist:

SIDE A
A1 Death Is Not Defeat
A2 Hereafter
A3 Mortal After All
A4 Holy Hell
A5 Damnation

SIDE B
B1 Royal Beggars
B2 Modern Misery
B3 Dying To Heal
B4 The Seventh Circle
B5 Doomsday
B6 A Wasted Hymn