ARCHITECTS: All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us CD

2016 was the year Architects stopped being a band and became a reckoning. All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us arrived six months after guitarist Tom Searle was diagnosed with cancer, and every second of it sounds like a band staring down something unbeatable and deciding to be louder than it.

This is the record that shifted the axis for UK metalcore, the moment Brighton's finest ditched every last safety net and went full apocalyptic. Dan Searle's drums hit like structural collapse. Sam Carter sounds like he's preaching from inside a burning building. Tracks like Holy Ghost and Nihilist carry the kind of weight that makes you sit with the liner notes in silence after the first spin. If you've been sleeping on Architects, this is where you wake up.

CD, jewel case pressing. Originally released 2016 on Epitaph Records. Metalcore, progressive metal, UK.

Fans of: Bring Me The Horizon (pre-pop era), Counterparts, While She Sleeps.