Eclectic British deathcore band Architects is currently tearing it up on the Agents of Chaos tour with Beneath the Massacre, Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Stray From the Path, Abacabb and others. Like their peers, Architects fuse aspects of technical metal, death metal, hardcore and metalcore, but Architects don't cling to the hooky chorus, two-chord breakdown formula of moe deathcore. Instead, the band seeks new ways to destroy, overlapping caustic screams over hazy guitar textures, interweaving mathematical meters through pummeling hardcore.
We gotta admit, we're not too jazzed by a lot of deathcore videos, but we're pretty stoked to present the Online debut of "Always," the first clip from Architects' second album, Ruin. The video will debut on-air on this week's "Headbangers Ball." Click "more" to read a description of the song and video by vocalist Sam Carter, watch the clip and stream a bunch of songs from Ruin.
The track "Always" is one of the most personal songs on Ruin from a lyrical standpoint. It's a song about false idols, and being really let down and feeling unappreciated. The song was inspired by a situation I was living through at one time that I now prefer to leave unspoken -- everything is there in the lyrics for people to interpret as they want to.
It was one of the first songs we wrote for the Ruin album, and it survived a whole load of quality control cuts where newer songs bit the dust. There was just something special about the way the track built up constant tension through loads of mood changes before finally exploding into the epic groove section at the end (which is us doing a breakdown, Architects-style). It's jarring but atmospheric and sounds huge live! That end part was inspired by Meshuggah and Opeth, but we definitely added our own flavor; it's one of our collective favorite moments on the whole album.
The video shoot was pretty straightforward. We just decided to go for quite a colorful look instead of the more typical black t-shirts uniform! It was really the story that excited us about the video, though. We thought it up as a prequel to the "Buried At Sea" video, where the central character wakes up plagued by a mysterious key that he just can't get rid of until he finds his way to an ominous lighthouse. In "Always," we see the person behind the events of the "Buried" video, the architect of that situation. if you will. He, too, is searching for a missing piece to his plans, and he finds it in an unexpected spot. We had a lot of fun seeing that story through. Hopefully people will spot all the links between the two videos and the part that our band identity kinda plays in all of it.
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