Architects

Architects came roaring out of Brighton in 2004, a metalcore band built by twin brothers Dan and Tom Searle, Dan behind the drums and Tom on guitar and synths and, as it turned out, writing most of the songs. They took their early cues from the Dillinger Escape Plan, and the first three albums are a glorious pile-up of lurching rhythms and jagged, snarling edges. Sam Carter took over the microphone in 2007.

The Here and Now in 2011 swerved toward melodic post-hardcore and cost them some of the faithful, so Daybreaker a year later swung back, bolting hooks onto the brutality and sharpening the politics in the lyrics. Lost Forever // Lost Together in 2014 was the one that made them, and they have called Epitaph home since 2013.

Then came the blow. Soon after All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us arrived in 2016, Tom Searle died after three years with skin cancer, leaving Dan as the last founder standing. "Doomsday", the song Tom had been working on at the end, came out in September 2017 as Josh Middleton stepped in on lead guitar, and it anchored Holy Hell in 2018. For Those That Wish to Exist, in 2021, finally took them to the top of the UK Albums Chart, and "Animals" is its calling card on rock radio. The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit and The Sky, the Earth & All Between have kept them grinding forward, with Carter, Dan Searle and guitarist Adam Christianson still at the core.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.