‘Holy Hell’ ARCHITECTS Are Back with New Album, Song and Tour Dates

Architects return with their eighth album, Holy Hell, on November 9 via Epitaph Records. The band has simultaneously debuted the song and video for “Hereafter”, which was directed by Jeb Hardwick.

Holy Hell marks the band’s first release since the untimely passing of Tom Searle, Architect’s founding guitarist, principal songwriter and twin brother to drummer Dan. “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.”

“It’s at times like that you ask yourself, ‘What is left?’” adds vocalist Sam Carter. “As a group of friends, we had to find something.”
“Ultimately, there were two choices,” Dan says. “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.”

Holy Hell Track Listing:

01. Death Is Not Defeat
02. Hereafter
03. Mortal After All
04. Holy Hell
05. Damnation
06. Royal Beggars
07. Modern Misery
08. Dying To Heal
09. The Seventh Circle
10. Doomsday
11. A Wasted Hymn

Architects have also announced their biggest-ever European/UK tour, taking place in January and February 2019 with support from Beartooth and Polaris

Tour Dates:

12/04 – St. Petersburg – A2
12/06 – Moscow – Adrenaline Stadium
12/08 – Kiev – Stereoplaza
01/06 – Stockholm – Fryshuset Arenan
01/08 – Copenhagen – Vega
01/10 – Dusseldorf – Mitsubishi-Electric-Halle
01/11 – Antwerp – Lotto Arena
01/12 – Amsterdam – AFAS Live
01/14 – Manchester – O2 Victoria Warehouse
01/17 – Glasgow – O2 Academy
01/18 – Cardiff – Motorpoint Arena
01/19 – London – The SSE Arena Wembley
01/21 – Luxembourg – Luxexpo
01/22 – Lyon – Transbordeur
01/24 – Barcelona – Razzmatazz
01/25 – Bilbao – Santana 27
01/27 – Paris – Olympia
01/28 – Zurich – Halle 622
01/29 – Vienna – Gasometer
01/30 – Milan – Alcatraz
01/31 – Prague – Forum Karlin
02/01 – Warsaw – Stodola
02/02 – Leipzig – Haus Auensee
02/03 – Offenbach – Stadthalle
02/05 – Berlin – Verti Music Hall
02/06 – Munich – Zenith
02/08 – Hamburg – Sporthalle

*Photo Credit Ed Mason