def my fav in the album
#Architects - The Sky, the Earth & All Between (New Album out February 28th)
ember spruce
pearl reef
top 3 for me
median nymph
landmines takes the cake for me
green pendant
Finally getting into this. Blackhole, Whiplash, Landmines, and Curse are the ones that stick out to me the most.
The start of Everything Ends gives me BIG Meteora vibes.
median nymph
07/17 Cadott, WI @ Cadott Rockfest (festival date)
07/18 Grand Rapids, MI @ Upheaval Fest (festival date)
07/20 Mansfield, OH @ DWP Inkcarceration (festival date)
07/21 Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte
07/23 Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre
07/24 Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
07/26 Houston, TX @ House Of Blues Houston
07/27 Dallas, TX @ House of Blues Dallas
07/29 Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
07/31 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
08/01 Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues Anaheim
08/02 San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
08/04 Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
08/05 Portland, OR @ McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
08/07 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
08/08 Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
08/11 Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore Minneapolis
08/12 Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
08/14 Toronto, ON @ Great Canadian Toronto
08/15 Laval, QC @ Place Bell
08/16 Boston, MA @ Citizens House of Blues Boston
08/19 Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore
08/21 Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore
08/22 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
woven basalt
architects and erra together is heaven to me. 2 of my all time favorite metalcore bands
real marsh
holy fuck vro im SO broke from buying concets
is is possible this will sell out soon
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holy shit that service fee is insane
$18
mint sleet
real marsh
I’m in the edge
little cave
I am massively late to this album, is it worth listening to?
tame sail
I am massively late to this album, is it worth listening to?
absolutely
shrewd trellis
I am massively late to this album, is it worth listening to?
It's overall better than The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit, but that's about it. It's not a terrible modern metal / radiocore album, but the Architects logo on the album cover is still undeserved.
little cave
Hmm, gotcha
thorny bane
Hmm, gotcha
dont listen to the person above lol, they are being dramatic for no reason
its a good album but it isnt perfect
little cave
Any mathcore stuff? That would be old lol
thorny bane
not that i know of lol
soft karma
pliant sand
We got an Absolutely, it's meh and it's good
Let me add to that with a "It's a super solid modern metalcore album", with all that's great about that but inevitably some of the stylization that may or may not be a detriment. Personally, I enjoy it quite a lot
shrewd trellis
Any mathcore stuff? That would be old lol
They do have a defaultcore song with an AOGHAU/Doomsday jebait riff to be fair that doesn't go anywhere in that direction
real marsh
I am massively late to this album, is it worth listening to?
Generic metalcore at its finest. It’s really really good, but it’s also nothing you haven’t heard before
past temple
after listening to Blackhole, i cant listen to any other songs on the album lol
little cave
The listen has begun
pliant sand
Really curious about your rating in the end
little cave
Okay then, hope I don't disappoint
little cave
I should preface this review by saying that I've never really clicked with Architects outside of a few songs. I've listened to some of their earlier stuff and some of their later stuff and it's all fine. They're a good band, but I feel they repeat a lot. And that mentality holds true for this record.
This album starts off REALLY strong with Elegy, Whiplash, and Blackhole. The consistency amongst these three songs is actually peak. Then everything ends. Literally, since that's the next song, Everything Ends. After that, the album never really manages to regain that peak it had for me. Honestly a similar problem to Spiritbox's Tsunami Sea. Starts off great and powerful with the first two songs, then goes soft and loses me. That's not to say that less heavy = bad. It's just when you have me seriously headbanging for your beginning, and then you go soft out of nowhere with seemingly no proper transition, it's a bit jarring.
Post Everything Ends, there are a few highlights. Brain Dead smacks, Landmines is good, Seeing Red is still catchy as ever. Still, nothing really got me seriously wanting to return to it like that beginning.
I should also say that the production on this album is phenomenal, thanks to Jordan Fish's contributions. However, there's something Jordan Fish-related that I noticed about this album... A lot of it sounds like Bring Me if they never moved on from the sound of Sempiternal and That's the Spirit. I should say that I do enjoy both of those records, the problem is all of the copycats that are still trying to mimic that style years later. Are Architects copycatting? No, I don't believe so. Still, it is something I thought of for Everything Ends and everything following.
Overall, Architects have crafted another okay album. It's fine. At least it doesn't suffer from the split nature of Wage War's Stigmata or the annoyingness of FIR's last record. But it's nothing really groundbreaking, and it's nothing I really feel a strong urge to return to.