ARCHITECTS: Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit CD

Brighton's Architects have spent the last decade making metalcore for people who read the news and feel appropriately terrible about it, and Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit is the record where they leaned hardest into the industrial and electronic textures that were always lurking underneath the breakdowns.

Released in 2022, this is a band at a crossroads and not pretending otherwise, guitars that hit like structural collapse, Dan Searle's production choices pulling the sound toward something colder and more mechanical without losing the emotional gut-punch that built their following. If you came in through Holy Hell or Lost Forever, this one rewards patience. If you're already deep into alternative metal and industrial-adjacent heaviness, you know exactly what this is. Sam Carter's vocal range does the heavy lifting emotionally while everything around him sounds like a server farm on fire.

Format: CD. Genre: Alternative Metal, Industrial Metal. Origin: United Kingdom.

Fans of: Spiritbox, Bring Me the Horizon, Northlane, While She Sleeps, Bad Omens.