Architects are from Brighton and not Bristol, by the way.
As for the song I reckon it has a bit too much of a modern BMTH-style twist for my liking. The main riff is undeniably fun though.

Kinda boring. The BMTH comparisons are fair. Every metalcore band just wanna be on Octane Radio I swear to god

interesting. finally seems like a sound change.. towards the r&b synthesque stuff KOG is doing now

I mean, I'm glad they changes the formula for once. But I'm still not happy. Gonna give the album a fair shot though

It was time for a change. Stoked to see where they go from here.

boring & sadly disappointing, still looking forward to the album though

Lmao this sucks so bad

Goddamn this track is so bad. Wtf architects?

Wow from stale metalcore to BMTH worship, so impressive

JUST ACTIN LIKE WE'RE ANIMALS

man, I love Nickelback

When BMTH is leading the way, something is very wrong with that genre.

great song! btw bmth is da shit hahahaha

I’m not picky, song slaps.

This is Architects doing modern bmth better than them. But that’s not something to brag about

This is most certainly not better than bmth lol... this shit is straight butt rock bruh

Bruh this is like their best song since Early Grave lol

i will say, while i like the idea of architects experimenting more, they were so good at the sound they had on the past 2 or 3 records (which had gotten stale tbh). the lyrics on this one remind me of maroon five tho lmao

I hate how popular metal and whatever genres, have basically become lady gaga but with electric guitars.

yea this sux

Decent song. Also, they did change their sound once already on The Here And Now back in the day, which everyone hated.

This is certainly a better attempt at softening their sound than The Here and Now was, but I'm still not a fan.

"I hate how popular metal and whatever genres, have basically become lady gaga but with electric guitars."

lady gaga >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> metal

^ no

oh boy, how great it feels to hear some new ideas from Architects, and not some recycled blegh-chugs

really wish architects hadn't shared

buttrock

Honestly not as exciting as some of their other recent stuff but goddamn that riff!

Band was in desperate need of new ideas and they delivered. Stoked to see where they go from here!

@TheMrAlexK

Lol. Apparently you haven’t heard any of their new singles

Ashamed to admit I actually kinda like this. Hated it at first, but I dunno this might be BMTHcore done correctly.

Nooooo Jay : (

Kind of disappointed in this. The previous three albums really slap, and this change in direction is concerning...

Sorry Veks. Reverting to my butt rock ways I guess haha

Really enjoying this track, nice progression from the last album

i mean the bleghs are nice and all but this is not a bad song, just yeah, bmth worship, and though i do not like much of the new bmth, Sam's voice does indeed improve the formula, so theres that.

i think if the lyrics were just better... i'd be about it. tho, daybreaker is probably my favorite because it was way more post hardcoe i guess/jammed and grooved a little more/less chugg blegh chugg like everything beyond that became

i still wish they would go back to the math-y sound of Ruin

also, the Bon Iver cover in Daybreaker is dope as fuck

Fuck, I really enjoyed Holy Hell. This takes me back to the early 2000s, and not in a good way.

Man, you gotta fix the article title.

Architects share WHAT? Can't handle the suspense.

Refreshing in the sense that the last two albums were just LF//LT continued and they needed a change really badly. I enjoyed this song itself but yeah hard agree with the BMTH comparison, it's the first place my brain went when I heard the song. Interested to see where this album goes.

ｓｈａｒｅ　ｉｆ　ｙｏｕ　ａｇｒｅｅ

"Architects share"

Honestly if you aren't going to make a shitty pun with your news article title you better at least be this blatantly lazy about it. Respect.

Well that was fucking boring. They've packed it right in, haven't they?

lmao bruh sounds like Chester Bennington on this

OK i haven't listened to any new Architects in a LONG time but

L O L

WHAT the fuck.

band's trajectory is becoming new Hedley in the next 3 years

"lmao bruh sounds like Chester Bennington on this"

THANK you, I remember last year-ish a bunch of people were side-eyeing me in the Holy Hell thread for saying the vocals sound like Bennington

Sounds they are in denial and sounds like he really wants to sell out the whole way

This is the best selling out I’ve heard in this style to be fair.

it really does sound like linkin park lmao.
i swear i recall reppin' this band in like 2011 or 2012, kinda embarassing tbh.

They used to be cool. First three records are jams.

Just listened to one of their older songs, now I get why everyone so upset haha

Hopefully this is nothing like the album..

"band's trajectory is becoming new Hedley in the next 3 years"

It's Hedy.

not really a song that is entertaining or grabbing. basically they just rewrote one of their songs and watered it down a lot.

Why does this sound like Three Days Grace

RIPitects

From Doomsday to this in 3 years? what the fuck

what is this title?

Look, it's fine. It's very BMTH. Would rather this than All Our Gods again. Tbh I think Ruin is hugely underrated. Album fucks.

title is as lazy as the drums on this song. i dig it

Title is less lazy than the song
Band was one of the best at ‘mathcore’ or whatever stupid title you want to give what Nightmares and Ruin was. Then they refined their sound to be more hardcore and were one of the best at that too.
Now I don’t really like the new sound based off that track but at least he’d be able to actually sing it live unlike BMTH etc.
Disappointed but they couldn’t just keep repeating the same sound again

Listen to Animals and then Alpha Omega back to back.

Lol. I can't even.


'Rather this than all our gods again'

So you'd rather have uninspired garbage over a great album? Even the lyrics are offensively lazy here.

Just listened to this (anyone know how to get those 4 mins back?), was really hoping to not have to slam this band any more than I had before. Shame.

"OK i haven't listened to any new Architects in a LONG time but
L O L
WHAT the fuck."

Thank you Pots for being the voice of sanity and reason.

new album is 15 tracks long and features parkway drive, royal blood and biffy clyro so yea we're in for a dad metal treat

God, this is extremely bland. Definitely BMTH vibes. I don't know why but everyone is trying to sound like them nowadays. On the other side, who would've really expected architects to go full prog mode after the loss of their primary songwriter. Commercially it makes sense for them to do the dad synth metal thing

They finally changed it up, but it's not good lol. This just doesn't go anywhere, doesn't have the energy, doesn't have their signature vibe, but doesn't replace it with anything interesting either.

it just sounds like bmth worship, it just sounds like that's the spirit but with a really boring metalcore edge, the track is just shit, why has so many awesome modern metalcore bands went arena core

They look like complete marty's in that video too. Good job guys great effort

I enjoyed "all our gods..." but this is so linkin park it's scary...

i didnt realize but its probably the result of losing tom as the songwriter.

still, barf.. that synth is so annoying and cornball

"Architects is committed to quality. Everything they release is immaculate and well thought out. In an age of throw away singles and forgettable streaming music, Architects keeps giving us timeless music that holds up year after year. Thank you. 🙏"

LMAO

oof

Watch this album turn into The Here and Now Part II ;D

BMTH comparisons are fair, not sure what they were going for. List of guests on the album suggests that they're going for a different style, possibly similar to this single.

Song is okay, not what we've grown used to expect from them and not exactly mind blowing but definitely refreshing. Hoping for a mixed bag of heavier tracks and mellower stuff like this.

Should be fun

I'm not a native speaker, but it should be For Those WHO Wish To Exist, right?!

@veks, saw that comment on YT too *eye roll*

starts off ok kinda tails off

also did sam get fat lol

These guys are going the same way Northlane did on their latest album

This is on track for far far worse than Northlane. This is more like Erase Me territory.

True, it's in the middle. I don't mind this song though

February 26th release date smh... Hate when bands announce an album months in advance.

It's ok, I don't think it'll be a mindblowing release that needs to be heard asap. If I was still playing the leaks game I might listen to it as soon as it leaked but as a law abiding Spotify user I can wait until Feb.

4 months? Jesus.
Yea, I'll listen to it, when it drops. And maybe even more than once.

This is the most anticipated release of 2021. How am I supposed to wait till then?

^ lmaoo

& yes sam been chunkin up for years but he tries to hide it lol

Black leather is the trick

bloc you might need to direct your material at Sam now instead of Aaron

"im way into leather"

It seems Sam doesn't share his nuggets.

What band has even found success copying That's the Spirit? Architects last album already got songs with 20-30 million plays on Spotify. Can't imagine how this is gonna increase their fanbase substantially if at all.

Soon we can rank the best BMTH copycats
Bullet For My Valentine didn't do well with this path. Oh well, they're BFMV and they rarely didn't suck before anyway ...

and honestly comparisons to BMTH don't even mean much anymore, they've been all over the place sound wise

can we just go back to calling it moving mainstream?

This is fucking horrible.

Oof...

"I'm not a native speaker, but it should be For Those WHO Wish To Exist, right?!"

Really wish you didn't bring this up cause now its bothering me so badly lol.

"For Those Whomst'd've Wished To Exist"

I had a meal with these cats like last year maybe year before. Didnt even know how big they had become I was with a friend. They paid for my meal and where cool as fk. So I pass up on slagging off their music for ever more. Im a slut I know but hey....

Whomst'd've'ly'yaint'nt'ed'ies's'y'es*

Nice people make bad music too!

This site somehow has more alts than ever.

That's cool af Deez. You had no idea who they were? Can't imagine having a meal with any band, let alone these dudes.

Guessing Sam ordered the Big Mac deal

^ lmao

why is 99% of metalcore just so fucking terrible

"they finally wrote a 2nd song"

My brother emailed me the link with that caption and I laughed pretty hard cause in the last six years it's totally true.

And yea Sam's vegan diet is catching up to him.

And having just listened to this I can confirm this is fucking terrible.

How to make crap successful core in 2020:

- use a monotone strong beat or bass line dun dun dun dun.

- have some woman use her monotone voice to say something like "we are ready to take over your minds, please fasten your seat belts"

- have the singer scream/sing something dumb like "we're all just looooosing our miiinnddss". Again and again for 3 minutes.

- add some crowd woahs in behind.

There you're done.

you forgot the cheesy synth line

Lmaooo Veks that is too perfect.

Don't forget generic lyrics like "we fight for what's right"

Fatsam and Jetsam

This reminded me heavily of BMTH with a slight industrial twist. I'd argue that Architects are executing the Sempiternal era sound even better then than BMTH did. I feel Architects managed to change up their sound and also struck a pretty great balance of heavy and catchy. Good job Architects.

Idk, Simpeternal was very well executed. This on the other hand doesn't do anything for me

^ agreed. Hearing Can you feel my heart's intro synth i knew sempiternal would be really interesting and atmospheric. def one of my top my fall 2012 releases

this? i'll give it one spin probably lol. not into the maroon 5 lyrics man

Lol this thread is gold

- have some woman use her monotone voice to say something like "we are ready to take over your minds, please fasten your seat belts"

~mantra~

^

you forgot the cheesy synth line[2]

Veks just gave us all the formula. We should start a core band and reap the benefits I guarantee a bunch of tasteless niggas would eat up whatever we put out if we just stuck to that formula.

This was bland as fuck lol

'That's cool af Deez. You had no idea who they were? Can't imagine having a meal with any band, let alone these dudes.'

I remember them from when they were just starting out, saw them a few time on all dayers or hxc show. Never really knew anything about them since apart from they were popular. I was meeting a friend I hadnt seen in a few years while i was in Germany for he weekend and he had also arranged to hook up with them after their show I think. Hes been mates with tehm for years maybe was tour manager also at some point. Was only outside when a few kids rocked up for autographs and pics and stuff I thought 'Whoah I didnt know they were that big' Had a look when I got home to see they were absolutely huge!

'Guessing Sam ordered the Big Mac deal'
Same was actually sat opposite me REAL nice dude. It was kind of a veggie/vegan place with insane deserts and fking MASSIVE tower burgers. Most of them were veggie/Vegan it looked like. It did also sell meat for people with far less morals, like me though. No guilt.

"Veks just gave us all the formula. We should start a core band and reap the benefits I guarantee a bunch of tasteless niggas would eat up whatever we put out if we just stuck to that formula."

Some synchronized stage antics might make us standout?

yeah. Idk bout the rest of you guys but Ima wear a mask on stage too.

We need to find 9 guys, and also I have this neat idea for a song called Psychosocial

I swear you can get a deal with Epitaph if you use that formula.

"yeah. Idk bout the rest of you guys but Ima wear a mask on stage too."

Social distancing at 60 feet.

This band is a joke

These pussies would be vegan

^ lmao. old school internet. love it

fr tho, need a 10th hype man/triangle player (a la horse the band) to fill out that BMTH cover band?

What ever happened to finger cymbals

Is there still a spot left?

We can always make spots whether it be a backup singer, a backup dancer, or even a little green bush for the stage decor

That chorus is cringe af.

As usual BMTH just released a new single and was ten thousand times better than Architects, as has been the case for the better part of a decade.

nope

Sorry bruh them's the fax

girls that like this song "I love death metal!"

Hate it , but I guess good for them for trying something different 🤷

Genuinely shocked ghostb1rd doesn't love this song

Ghostbonerd

Hmm.

I hate how Sam says "it never rains but it pours"

Ghost buddy, 10000x0 is still 0.

[2]

Both new bmth and architects are gonna be hard 1s tbfh

You're just a hater Pika.
Can i join you?

I expect them to have 2.5 potential tbh

Not a hater, first three Architects albums rule.

And I like Sempiternal and parts of Suicide Season. The rest though... fuck

Yeah that's the truth though. These guys were actually really interesting back then.
It did hit me the other day when someone said it was probably a result of losing Tom as a songwriter.

double post

For Those Whomst'd've Wished to Exist

I don't think it was necessarily Tom's loss. They have Josh, who is a really great guitarist, yet somehow holy hell was a generic riff fest. And this song continues that pattern. I think they are just trying to appeal to a wider audience, bmth style - as someone has already said.

Yeah also probably that. But i thought these guys had struck a good balance between an acceptable sound that was popular and not beeing too crappy. I mean you can argue that being generic is bad but I'd take that over this any day.

Oh and i don't know enough about Josh to comment on this, but a good guitarist doesn't necessarily make a good songwriter. You can comment on that more i guess.

I think this song is fire and I don't know what you are all smoking.

And I loved Holy Hell too.

Maybe I'm just the weirdo?

Yeah you know what its actually not that bad

this music video is very well shot NGL

To me it is not that the song is offensively bad. I'm just more amazed how much it is not good though

"They have Josh, who is a really great guitarist, yet somehow holy hell was a generic riff fest."

Shit I forget Josh is in this band now, is he still? Dude's a big fish in a water droplet for sure. It's exactly like Andy James in 5FDP lol

Yeah the Josh thing is weird. Even though I dig this song, I'm surprised he is able to relinquish musical control and put up with playing significantly more simplistic music full time. The instrumentation in this is geared more towards big beefy production rather than being inherently interesting.

It's gotta be a money thing no doubt. He's making way bigger bucks with this band than he ever could with Sylosis

This sounds like a b side form One-x

The Three Days Grace album? That's way better than this shit.

sylosis sucked ass anyway lol

usually stan for these guys because hometown legends etc. but this is shit

Conclusion of an Age was ace and I stand by it.

I remember jamming the shit outta that album and This Age of Silence by Anterior.

lol dude same, so much so I used to get them confused with each other. Not sure what happened to Anterior.

Their second album sucked compared to the debut and then they never did anything else.

I remember them getting big mad online when they posted a Facebook update about the second album coming out in x number of months and me posting a reply on their Facebook post asking where it was when that date came and went and them deleting my comment haha

Really digging this.

--Conclusion of an Age was ace and I stand by it.--

this.

Josh must have the bluest balls ever in this band, especially in it's current incarnation

Since Hollow Crown they've been generic shit, def worse than sylosis

Also sylosis discography goes like this: monolith > edge of the earth > conclusion of an age> dormant heart> new one that I didn't know existed until a minute ago

Main riff slays, stoked to hear a sound change from them. Song isnt as generic as everyone is making it seem lmao

Conclusion of an age is overrated as fuck and nowhere near sylosis's best, agreed.

*Trump "wrong" gif*

Edge of the Earth is also fantastic from what I remember although haven't listened in forever.

^All their albums slap

Listened to this song again this morning and it's growing on me

WE'RE JUST A BUNCH OF FUCHING ANIMALS

Bloodhound gang already wrote that one

Sweat Pika, sweat Pika
Sex is a Texas drought

Also I am impressed he was able to pronounce "fuck" correctly in this

If he had actually said fuching this would be an acceptable song.

"why is 99% of metalcore just so fucking terrible"

Because wimps on this board whose lives revolve around "OmG cOuNtErPaRtS" keep supporting it. These twerps keep supporting horrible music, so why would they change anything?

Metalcore stopped being good after 2008.

They are just human trash right man? Fucking losers omg.

5.0 classic
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals

5.0
Carly Rae Jepsen
Kendrick Lamar

I think you're on the wrong board buddy

i think YOU'RE on the wrong board buddy

I'm not your buddy, guy.

You're a cigarette.

I wish I had a board buddy

someone should go to jail for this

I think you're on the wrong bloc buddy

Wimpy twerps on the internet! !

Bit mean, calling bmth and architects fans that

"Because wimps on this board whose lives revolve around "OmG cOuNtErPaRtS" keep supporting it. These twerps keep supporting horrible music, so why would they change anything?"

Lol, the 300 active users on this site don't have quite that much pull.

300? 70 tops bro

70 is pushing it

We are Sputnik 47

"Because wimps on this board whose lives revolve around "OmG cOuNtErPaRtS" keep supporting it. These twerps keep supporting horrible music, so why would they change anything?"

Retard. Said it once and I'll say it again, I never knew a Misery Signals fan could be so annoying and wrong.

Let's be real, most Counterparts is just straight up boring

Disagree ahrd, but you're entitled to that opinion Sleddy

Tbf I've met two people irl who liked counterparts and they were both cucks I mean what are the chances

Wtf Jay if ur gonna call someone a retard at least do it with conviction

Then they have strayed from the path of righteousness

At least I didn't go full Aiwaz and openly call people bundles of sticks.

rollercoaster ride of a post

Anyone want to take a guess how many active users (not to be confused with sexually active users) there would be on this site?

I've always been shocked by how small and intimate this site is considering...actually I have no idea if this place is popular... I've got a few friends into music who haven't heard of it, and the one guy who has said it makes him feel like he teleported back to 2006...I was thinking bruh wait till you check RYM you'll think you've teleported back to the fucking stone age

I like being intimate with you guys.

All the plebs have gone to bitchfork because nobody wanted their simp opinions anywhere else

Thank God.

Simps belong in the Instagram comments sections and OnlyFans.

And pitchfork, yes

Man I hate Instagram and YouTube comment sections of music.

No matter how shitty a song is, it's always like: "Woah this is the best song I have heard in a long time. You guys are killing it, nobody does it like you. I am glad you changed directions and if people don't like it, that just means they were never a real fan to begin with."

What a surprise lol, a lot of people have shit taste. But yeah, ya hit the nail on the head. I hardly go to those kinds of places anymore cause I don't want to get holes in my brain

That opening riff had me double checking i wanst on a Rammstein video,,,/

More like Counterfarts AMIRITE guys???

daaaaaamn :0

I dont hold back dude I have a dark sense of humour

more like countern-

well people complain when artists change direction as much as they do when they don't

also do bands play the exact same style for more than one or two albums? That's got to be boring as fuck

"also do bands play the exact same style for more than one or two albums?"

Yeah it's called metal

should I bring the quote back?

I complain when band start doing shitty songs.

We're just a bunch of shitting animals.

If a band makes shit music people will complain

We're just a bunch of shitting animals. [2]

god tier comment

Reminds me of all those shitting hippo videos I used to laugh at as a kid

The golden days

Actually I think I watched a few last month

"300? 70 tops bro"

Aggressively optimistic, you know me.

I recall back in the day when you were on the homepage but not signed in you could see the total number of users registered and then number of active users on the site

I thought it used to do that on the forums too, but looks like it's just users on the forums now. Maybe I'm remembering wrong.

Only time I ever visit the forums is to change my avatar

I used to like reading the banned users thread.

That was the best.

Complete manginas in here who don't like Counterparts. Smarten up

Been a while since I heard that insult.

Should be littleweinerdon on account of being a counterparts fan

Figure it out

Just did

Should be Lord(e)Pans on account of being a pansy HEH

should be JayBender on account of...

alright you get the picture

I was expecting GayEnder or something honestly lol

that's powerful

What a missed opportunity

Let's leave it at GayBender and call it a day

Counterparts are a bit overrated.

Also if I ever need an alt um gonna make it Lo)))rd(e)Pans

not if I register it first

It's already gone.

Goddammit

Gonna have to settle for Lo))rd(e)Pans.

That just wont do

Owned.

"Let's leave it at GayBender and call it a day"

Double negative, therefore he is straight

Lord(e)ofChamberPo)))ts is a good one

"Let's leave it at GayBender and call it a day"

Let's not. Double negative, therefore I'm straight [2]

I will be proud if Lord(e)Pa)))ns becomes a thing though. Looks like it already has

lol also because of "pots & pans"

Double negative, therefore he is straight

"lol also because of "pots & pans""

lmao yes bloc, thats the joke

"Lord(e)ofChamberPo)))ts is a good one"

Id like this one better if it didn't make me feel associated with the user Chambered

"lmao yes bloc, thats the joke" [2]

😂

can't believe I paused Bill Evans for this

"lmao yes bloc, thats the joke" [3]

😂😂😂

Honestly thought I was coming up with something new, I swear

Can we get this going again? It was fun.

Funnest thread in a while agreed

we're all just aminals - sam cartur, 2020

Sorry I'm late to the party. Moar like Lord(.)Poots amirite

I'm still laughing at MalicexMagnum being butt hurt people like Counterparts. Its not our fault you don't like bad music too. mehtulcoar4lyfe

Imogen Poots is attractive so let's not call him that.

lol just found out her middle name is literally gay so there's that.

Think she was in Vivarium? Man that movie sucked

Lord Gay Poots

Gaylord Poots

Damn I really like that

"Imogen Poots is attractive so let's not call him that"

I mean she looks like someone whose last name would be "Poots"

"Think she was in Vivarium? Man that movie sucked"
Goddamn was the kid in that movie annoying as shit

"I mean she looks like someone whose last name would be 'Poots'"

I do not know if this is intended as a compliment or a criticism.

Everybody poots

That the song from REM?

imogen heap rules

She totally dropped off the face of the earth.

Damn yeah Gaylord Poots rules

Black Lungs is okay, better than this by a long shot. Still, they're holding back in the riff department. They seem to be following the Parkway Drive route, except less terrible.

Another single? Can't find it on Spotify

https://youtu.be/UnHlqZjsniw

Gotta admit, Sam's cleans sound pretty good here. Not a bad stylistic change for them by any means, the BLEGH was growing tired

New song is incredibly generic, where are the riffs?

what the hell is that vocal production on the chorus? song is just really bland, if they're going to do this pop metal thing they're in desperate need of some catchier songs

Well....fuck. what the fuck is the vocal oroduction on the chorus (2). If they hated the poppish route on the here and now and that record in general....what the hell makes them like this direction?

Black lung is better then animals but thats not amazing

Video not available, but there is a song called Black Lungs by Archers I can watch lol. Is it close enough?

the mumford and sons of metalcore, if you will

Sam can sing so I have no idea why they did whatever the hell that was on the chorus of Black Lung.

new single is so fucking phoned in lmao

Not digging it

its unfortunate, but i am getting a sense their lost guitarist was the one who gave them that unique sound

they've got the dude from Sylosis as their guitarist now and the riffs have not improved at all, they just all sound phoned in.

They got him on a leash for sure

totally idiotic IMO. you should WELCOME him as a songwriter and see what the mixture that comes out is all about. this is not the time for playing sounds safe. it's time to experiment and create a new fucking painting man. not a fucking tool to be programmed to play garbo