Following Architects sporadically, due to oversaturated genre, what happened is that Ruin and Daybreaker brought me more pleasure than Lost Forever\Lost Together. Not only that those albums became one of my most loved ones, but I also generated high expectations before the release of All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us. I am confident that this record is going to end up in top 3 on most year-end lists.
What Tom Searle conceptualized and what Sam Carter sang has made my pre-summer time so enjoyable that I wished I had a car to drive in the direction of nowhere. There is nothing more beautiful than driving around and listening about the despicable world we have created. Ok, it’s not really like that, but All Gods Have Abandoned Us describes the world we constructed. Carter says that it’s not as much as Gods have abandoned us as much as it is that we told them to leave us alone. I mean, that’s what happened when you glorify Kim Kardashian more than Dalai Lama.
A Match Made In Heaven instantly became one of the best tracks of their career (tied with These Colors Don’t Run), and it showcased that no matter how saturated metalcore scene is, you can always recognize Architects. I was scared that they are going to interject a lot of electronic elements, but Nihilist is a proof that they don’t want to compromise. Deathwish summarizes the message of the album:
We’ve reached the point of no return
Maybe we just want the world bum
In Downfall, they elaborate on the zeitgeist:
They want all for one and none for all
I want to be there to witness the downfall
It is hard to believe that they are not living through what they are singing when you hear lines like:
I met the devil and God and couldn’t tell them apart
God bless the Godforsaken
We Will arm them to the teeth
To fight the war on peace
The bravest moment of their career is the song titled Memento Mori, an 8-minute epic track that incorporates everything that I love about this band. The intro, the silent-piano part and strong riffs make me want to go with them to the end of the world. The mysticism does not obstruct the aggression and apocalypse Architects bring along.
This is what I want to hear from metalcore in 2016. Thanks, Architects.
