“Doomsday” by Architects

"Doomsday" first surfaced as a standalone Architects single in September 2017 and later took its place on Holy Hell, the English metalcore band's eighth album, in November 2018. It was the first new music they'd recorded since losing Tom Searle, their original lead guitarist and chief songwriter, and it was partly his: Tom had begun it during the sessions for All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, and after he died on August 20, 2016, his brother Dan, the band's drummer, finished the lyrics, calling the job of completing it for him a massive responsibility.

It's grief turned into a battering ram. The band produced it themselves, with extra production from Bring Me the Horizon keyboardist Jordan Fish, and it reached 17 on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart.

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