Architects: "It’s without question the best Architects record"

Architects’ ‘Lost Forever//Lost Together’ was the sound of a band coming back swinging. Elevating them to new heights, the record broke into the Top 20 of the Official Albums Chart, and saw them headline, and then sell out, London’s Roundhouse. For their comeback to the comeback, “A lot of people were maybe expecting us to go a little bit softer. We just really wanted to do the opposite of that,” explains vocalist Sam Carter. “We know we’re good at being a heavy band and we want to continue being heavy.” There was a desire to experiment, to mix things up but Architects wanted to see what they could do with weight “instead of going more melodic.” The result is ‘All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us’. Crushing, brutal, visceral - you get the idea. “It’s a pretty heavy record, lyrically and musically, and it was definitely a conscious effort to make something as heavy as possible.” Recorded over seven weeks at the close of last year, ‘All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us’, was “a lot of hard work. Trying to create something that could top ‘Lost Forever…’ was always going to be a challenge and we knew that going into it. We just pushed each other and we were all pulling in the same direction. It’s without question for me, the best Architects record and one we’re all the most proud of.” More than just sonically heavy, Architects’ seventh album is their most confrontational. It sets their audiences up for realisations of mortality and global responsibility as the band look up. “We live in this really sad world at the moment where humans think we’re the greatest thing that’s happened to the planet when really, we’re essentially a cancer on the Earth. We really are just wrecking the place with no thought for future generations or for the animals on this world,” explains Sam. “With climate change, it’s almost getting to the point where even if we started doing things now, it’ll be too late to start making these changes.”