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‘To say there’s no future is counterproductive’: metal megastars Architects on grief, climate and hope for humanity

Consumed by anger and still mourning a brother and bandmate, the British quartet have written their masterpiece. They explain how they’re fighting self-loathing and trying to age responsibly

Photograph: David Wolff/Patrick/Redferns/Getty ImagesTo continue the football analogy, they benefited from the loan of a player who was out of contract: Jordan Fish, the producer-keyboardist who had turned Bring Me the Horizon from metalcore darlings into mainstream phenomenon, but had recently left the band. The band were “much more cut-throat” now, Searle says, constantly asking: “Is this really good enough?” The result is a skip‑free album – any track, aside from the outrageously hardcore Brain Dead, could be a single – on which they angrily castigate themselves, online discourse and even their fans. One new song, Seeing Red, sarcastically confronts those critical fans (“I’ll never grow tired of your great advice”), but Searle admits that the band’s frustrations “come from a place of total weakness and insecurity”.

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