Architects

Epitaph artists Architects are from Brighton in the U.K. In November 2018, the band stared grief in the face on the album "Holy Hell" after losing a brother, band mate and best friend in Tom Searle, the group’s founding guitarist who two years prior passed away following a private three-year battle with cancer. The album forged such a deep connection with fans new and old as to see the quintet – vocalist Sam Carter, drummer Dan Searle, bassist Ali Dean and guitarists Josh Middleton and Adam Christianson – headline arenas the world over, and move in excess of 200,000 equivalent album units. 

Now a few years removed from that journey, Architects have applied that same soul-searching introspection to their new LP  "For Those That Wish To Exist." The band’s ninth studio record tackles the biggest questions facing the future of our planet with their grandest, most ambitious work to date. “The album is its own beast,” said Carter. “It’s a piece of art that is there to allow people to take what they want from it. It’s a big question mark. There’s some big questions being asked in it, and I think the answer to each is different depending on your own circumstances."

Written across the past 24 months – shaped by experiences both professional and personal, including Searle’s changing outlook as a new father – and recorded at a multitude of locations throughout 2020, the LP includes guest spots from Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall, Royal Blood’s Mike Kerr and Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil.

The first single from the LP "Animals" went Top 5 at Rock and included an awesome orchestral version recorded at the Abbey Road studios in London. Now the UK Rockers are back with the haunting new single "Dead Butterflies." As for the LP title "For Those That Wish To Exist" Carter proclaims, “For me, the album title is speaking to the people who are ready to drag themselves through the shit, and help drag other people through it too, in order to fight the good fight."

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