All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
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May 27, 2016 |
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October – December 2015 |
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Epitaph Records (worldwide) UNFD (Australia) New Damage (Canada) |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
46 min 11 s |
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All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us is the seventh studio album by the British metalcore - band Architects . It was released worldwide on May 27, 2016 via Epitaph Records with the exception of Australia and Canada . There the album was released via UNFD and New Damage .
It is the first album that the group recorded with guitarist Adam Christianson, who was touring with the band between 2012 and 2015. In addition, All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us is the last album in collaboration with Tom Searle, who died of cancer on August 20, 2016 .
The album was recorded in Gothenburg , Sweden and is described as the “heaviest and darkest work of the band”. All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us made international chart entries, including in Germany , Austria , the United Kingdom , the United States and Switzerland .
background
In an announcement by the Australian label UNFD , it was said that the group flew to Gothenburg , Sweden in October 2015 to work on their album with Fredrik Nordström and Henrik Udd at Studio Fredman . The previous work Lost Forever // Lost Together was recorded in Studio Fredman . In total, the work on All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us took seven weeks, so production was completed in December of the same year.
In March 2016, Epitaph Records published the first part of the band's studio diary on YouTube , in which the musicians explain the genesis of the album in detail. The group decided to take a similar musical path that they had already suggested on the previous one. For this reason, the musicians decided to work again with Nordström and Udd.
The title of the album goes back to a line from the song Nihilist , which can be found on the album itself. According to singer Sam Carter, this line reflects the dark and crazy place the world is in these days.
Tom Searle's death
The group had to cancel a headlining tour of the United States , which was due to take place between July and August 2016, due to a "family emergency". This turned out to be a euphemistic statement for Tom Searle's cancer, which reached its critical phase during this period. Searle died of cancer in late August . The group announced they would tour Australia and the United Kingdom despite the loss .
Track list
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| 1. | nihilist | 2:51 |
| 2. | Deathwish | 3:52 |
| 3. | Phantom Fear | 4:06 |
| 4th | Downfall | 4:04 |
| 5. | Gone with the Wind | 3:45 |
| 6th | The Empty Hourglass | 4:11 |
| 7th | A match made in heaven | 3:48 |
| 8th. | Gravity | 3:18 |
| 9. | All Love Is Lost | 4:20 |
| 10. | From the wilderness | 3:44 |
| 11. | Memento Mori | 8:12 |
| 12. | Silver Bullet (Deluxe Album) | 3:05 |
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Commercially
In the United States , All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us sold approximately 5,500 times in its first week of sales, allowing the album to enter the national album charts at # 109 . The album also entered the charts in Germany . The album took eighth there. In the United Kingdom the band landed at number 15. In Austria and Switzerland , the chart entered the chart at number 17 and 27. In Australia , the group just missed their first number one album. There All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us took second place in the charts. Further chart listings were found in France , Belgium ( Wallonia and Flanders ) and New Zealand .
Reviews
All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us received consistently positive reviews in the international trade press. On the platform Metacritic , the album received a rating of 82 percent, which means something like universally valuable, based on seven English-language specialist reviews.
Kai Butterweck from the online magazine Laut.de describes that architects could manage to give Metalcore , which is treading on the spot, a new rush of adrenaline. He described the music the group delivers on the album as epic. The album received a 1− on Whiskey-soda.de and was only slightly worse than the previous album Lost Forever // Lost Together , which received the top rating at the time. Eike Cramer from Metal Hammer writes that tracks like The Empty Hourglass , All Love Is Lost and A Match Made in Heaven show borrowings from Bring Me the Horizon . The album is particularly dark in its quiet moments.
Sebastian Wahle from Ox-Fanzine writes that Architects brought their seventh album onto the market at just the right time. He describes the music as a mixture of Death Metal with borrowings from Metalcore and Mathcore . He describes the album as the soundtrack for a revolution. The album also received two positive reviews in Rock Hard .
Individual evidence
- ↑ ARCHITECTS ANNOUNCE BRAND NEW ALBUM ALL OUR GODS HAVE ABANDONED US . March 7, 2016.
- ↑ hmv.com talks to Architects . May 25, 2016.
- ^ Architects announce All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us tour ( en-GB ) April 28, 2016.
- ↑ Architects stream Downfall, announce UK tour ( en-GB ) May 20, 2016.
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
- ↑ Matt Brown: Metalinsider.net : Metal By Numbers 6.8: Told you once, told you thrice
- ^ Metacritic : All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
- ^ Kai Butterweck: Laut.de : Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us criticism
- ↑ Whiskey-soda.de : Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us review ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Eike Cramer: Metal Hammer : Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us criticism
- ↑ Sebastian Wahle: Ox-Fanzine : Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us Review
- ^ Andreas Schiffmann, Marcus Schleutermann: Rock Hard : Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us reviews
