- 2025-02-27
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MUSIC
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Architects Releases New Song “Brain Dead” featuring House of Protection
British metalcore band Architects, consisting of Dan Searle (drums), Alex Dean (bass), Sam Carter (vocals) and Adam Christianson (guitar), will release their upcoming eleventh studio album “The Sky, the Earth & All Between” this Friday (February 28th) via Epitaph.
From the album. the band released the sixth and final pre-release single called “Brain Dead” on February 26, 2025.
This time, the band teamed up with American rock band House of Protection on the track.
Additionally, the band worked with former Bring Me The Horizon's member Jordan Fish, who produced and co-wrote the song.
The accompanying music video was directed by Architects, House of Protection and Kevin Garcia, who filmed it in Los Angeles.
The band drummer Dan Searle told Apple Music about the song, “This is a collaboration with House of Protection, and I feel like this is probably the most fun song on the record. It was definitely written in that spirit. I had this idea for a song called 'Brain Dead' for a while, and it suited this hardcore punk aesthetic that we delved into on this song. I was thinking about modern life and the way we anaesthetize ourselves, whether it's through phone addiction or alcohol or weed or brainwashing ourselves with news media or whatever. So many of us are unconsciously just giving up our lives, and we kind of yearn to be numbed and not have to feel too much. Would we rather just be dumb and ignorant? There's a part of me that would. So, it's a tongue-in-cheek hardcore anthem for stupidity.”- Lead singer Sam Carter told Wall Of Sound about collaboration with House of Protection, “We've known them for so long. Steevis was in The Chariot and he's been in so many cool bands. So for him to find a home with House... was unbelievable. I remember [he] moshed so hard to Early Grave on Warped Tour once that he broke somebody's arm. So he's been a life long Architects mosher. We love that band so much.”
House of Protection's Aric Improta added, “I think one of the coolest things about Architects is they had heard some of our material early, like before it had come out, and they asked us before anything came out. And for them to be on board like that was fucking awesome.” -
The new album comprises 12 songs, featuring guest appearances from House of Protection and Amira Elfeky.
It is their first album in three years since the 2022 album “The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit”.
The band drummer Dan Searle told Kerrang! about the album in an interview last week, “We opened lots of doors over the last couple records. That was the whole thing – that we were going to cover a lot of new ground and shake off the labels of what people thought the band was supposed to be. On this record, we liked the idea of surprise. You want the album to take you to places you're not necessarily expecting it to go. You don't want to watch the movie and know how it's going to end from the very beginning, you want there to be twists. We've very purposefully done complete U-turns and done very jarring changes in style, because it catches you by surprise.” - source : Apple Music
