On January 26, 2009, Brighton, England spazz-hardcore/metal outfit, Architects, will release their third album Hollow Crown. Look for lots of buzzsaw grind, jittery start-stop guitars, harrowing, soul-cleansing vocals and epileptic beats, along with a stray hook or two

To grease the wheels for the album, Architects have posted a video for "Early Grave," which was directed by Adam Powell, who has worked with the band in the past on clips for "Always" and "Burial at Sea."

"We chose to do the video for 'Early Grave' because it's just about the hardest-hitting song we've ever written," said guitarist Tom Searle in a statement. "It's one of our collective favorite songs on Hollow Crown so it seemed an obvious choice."

The band shot the clip in an aircraft hangar in Surrey that happens to be the shoot location for the program "Top Gear," and while the treatment about a man who wears different masks wasn't created specifically for the song's lyrics, Searle insists it's relevant to the band. "It relates to a lot of the lyrical content of the record, rather than specifically this song," he said.

Click "more" to read the lyrics and watch the video. Read more...

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. Read more...