Architects - The Sky, The Earth & All Between (February 28, 2025) Album

Tracklist:

1. Elegy
2. Whiplash
3. Blackhole
4. Everything Ends
5. Brain Dead (feat. House of Protection)
6. Evil Eyes
7. Landmines
8. Judgement Day (feat. Amira Elfeky)
9. Broken Mirror
10. Curse
11. Seeing Red
12. Chandelier

 

Here for the HoP feature

 

Let’s goooooooooo

Jordan Fish all over this one.

 

definitely like Whiplash more on first listen than the other 2 by a lot

 

Architects tell us about ‘Whiplash’ and new album ‘The Sky, The Earth & All Between’: “If we're not going to fulfil our potential now, when are we?”

Curious to see how that goes. I did hear shades of their 2014-2018 signature sound on Curse, even if the riff in the verse was a bit buried under layers of production.

 

Fuck this bunch of transphobic arseholes. As you were.

 

why does it feel like all their albums release in February haha

 

feel like I missed something - was it something the guitarist tweeted or retweeted

 

It was yeah, the fact he's still in the band means lines have been drawn as far as I'm concerned!

 

Wow a jackhammer Meshuggah heavy bit and a pop metalcore chorus...haven't heard that a thousand times before. Colossally bored of these bands.

At least it leans more on the heavy side. Dig the Gordon Ramsay sample.

 

Dude is a genius. if the spectrum for this record is cursed and whiplash, I can’t wait to see what was in the middle.

 

Uh what? More info please?

 

if i'm not mistaken one of their members was caught liking alpha male/transphobic vids on his twitter before likes were made private. he addressed it by calling it an accident and sam had a whole speech on stage about acceptance and the band being a safe space but that's as far as it's been acknowledged. i feel kinda icky about the whole situation tbh.

 

When I try to wrap my head around this, I remember they're friends, had just lost another guitarist and just got off their biggest headlining tour and, lastly, biggest opportunity of their career by supporting Metallica. That's a lot at stake for a band 20 years into their career. Cis people who are direcly not affected by transphobic rhetoric protect each others, and just like I assume every trans person I can speak from my own experience, even more when there's money involved. I sound jaded as fuck but even without this context, I still wasn't expecting them to kick him out because I've seen it all before at a much lower scale. I think of local LGBTQIA+ associations where cis queer folks, who should know better, fuck up and react in similar ways when called out, so for me... the bar was on the floor.

It sucks because for a band that has shown left leaning, kinda progressive values, it was the moment to show an example as they could've done much more about it. Adam pulled a childish coward move by labelling it all as an accident and Sam only addressing the tweets in a vague manner on stage, meaning most of the audience not clued in to their social media presence probably took it as a generic "we love you" banter, felt weird as well. It's lame that Adam couldn't even come up with a similar sentiment on his own, or write something that shows he takes ownership of his actions. Without knowing if and how much they gave him shit for it behind the scenes and if he intends on challenging his views, it makes me think he doesn't care, may not change at all and that he's just going to get better at hiding them instead. That's the worst case scenario, but I really want to cling to the hope that's not what's going to happen. Anyway, it's a predictable move for cis people collectively branding themselves as allies.

Actions speak louder than words, so the band donating to Mermaids or another UK trans association that's out there on top of a better statement would've been a better path imo. If you guys are familiar with Slayyyter, when her blatantly racist tweets from her teenage days popped up during the BLM protests, she posted two apologies. I can't find both anymore but I think people had gripes with the first so she came back with another one, days later, that read as more apologetic and followed it up with a call to action (donating to marginalized charities etc.). I always think of hers as one of the most sincere and effective I've seen, compared to what I usually see from the probably often PR crafted statements in the Accountability threads on here.

Personally the saddest thing I think is I'm just so jaded and the bar is so low that it doesn't even move me anymore, which says probably more about me. I chose not to drop them, and I try to rationalize that by wanting to expect the best from people instead of falling into misanthropy like I have in the past. I don't blame anyone if they're done with the band since because that's exactly what I've done with other acts. You can call me a hypocrite, I'm self aware about it, but if anyone has been in a similar place I wonder if others also grapple with that inconsistency.

 

even if you are sticking with this band there's a layer of inauthenticity to them now that just makes it all a bit sickly. they just do not represent what they used to, in any sense. it's tough.

 

Yeah I get that, their preachiness rings hollow from now on