







One of the most hotly anticipated albums of 2018, Architects will release their new full-length Holy Hell, on November 9th on Epitaph Records. They also issued a new single and a music video which was directed by Jeb Hardwick. for ‘Hereafter’. Watch it below. The band also announced a headline tour of Europe and the UK, with tickets going on sale later this week!

Dan Searle commented:

“In those first months after Tom’s death, I didn’t deal with it at all and I felt so unhappy and anxious,” Dan explains. “I’d ignored it and just tried to cope. But I knew that at some point, I had to learn from it.”

Vocalist Sam Carter commented:

“It’s at times like that you ask yourself, ‘What is left? As a group of friends, we had to find something.”

Dan added:

“Ultimately, there were two choices. Feel sorry for yourself and believe the world to be a horrible place and let it defeat you. Or let it inspire us to live the life that Tom would have wanted us to live. I was very worried about people taking away a despondent message from the album. I felt a level of responsibility to provide a light at the end of the tunnel for people who are going through terrible experiences.”

“For me, broadly speaking Holy Hell is about pain: the way we process it, cope with it, and live with it. There is value in pain. It’s where we learn, it’s where we grow.”

Holy Hell track list:

Death Is Not Defeat

Hereafter

Mortal After All

Holy Hell

Damnation

Royal Beggars

Modern Misery

Dying To Heal

The Seventh Circle

Doomsday

A Wasted Hymn

Architects have also announced their biggest-ever European/UK tour, taking place in January and February 2019. The band will be playing several arenas, including Wembley SSE Arena in London, Lotto Arena in Antwerp, Mitsubishi-Electric-Halle in Dusseldorf, as well as the biggest venues they’ve played in Europe so far. Before this tour, they be heading to Russia and Ukraine for three shows in December this year. Please see below for the full list of dates. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, September 14 at 9:00am UK / 10:00am CET.

04 Dec 2018 – St. Petersburg, A2 (RU)

06 Dec 2018 – Moscow, Adrenaline Stadium (RU)

08 Dec 2018 – Kiev, Stereoplaza (UKR)

06 Jan: Stockholm, Fryshuset Arenan (SE)

08 Jan: Copenhagen, Vega (DK)

10 Jan: Dusseldorf, Mitsubishi-Electric-Halle (DE)

11 Jan: Antwerp, Lotto Arena (BE)

12 Jan: Amsterdam, AFAS Live (NL)

14 Jan: Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse (UK)

17 Jan: Glasgow, O2 Academy (UK)

18 Jan: Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena (UK)

19 Jan: London, The SSE Arena Wembley (UK)

21 Jan: Luxembourg, Luxexpo (LUX)

22 Jan: Lyon, Transbordeur (FR)

24 Jan: Barcelona, Razzmatazz (ES)

25 Jan: Bilbao, Santana 27 (ES)

27 Jan: Paris, Olympia (FR)

28 Jan: Zurich, Halle 622 (CH)

29 Jan: Vienna, Gasometer (AT)

30 Jan: Milan, Alcatraz (IT) Italy

31 Jan: Prague, Forum Karlin (CZ)

01 Feb: Warsaw, Stodola (PO)

02 Feb: Leipzig, Haus Auensee (DE)

03 Feb: Offenbach, Stadthalle (DE)

05 Feb: Berlin, Verti Music Hall (DE)

06 Feb: Munich, Zenith (DE)

08 Feb: Hamburg, Sporthalle (DE)

Album pre-orders, including physical bundles featuring vinyl and various merchandise, as well as digital pre-orders offering instant downloads of “Hereafter” are available here.

Architects is Sam Carter (vocals), Adam Christianson (guitar), Ali Dean (bass), Josh Middleton (guitar) and Dan Searle (drums).