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The sixth studio album from Brighton, England-based metalcore outfit Architects UK, Lost Forever, Lost Together is the most sprawling and ambitious, yet tightly controlled album so far in the band’s ten-year career. Making their Epitaph Records debut, Architects UK deepen their blend of brutal, thundering metal and melody-spiked hardcore with heavier riffs and intricate arrangements inspired by artists unlikely as Sigur Ros. With lyrics delving into everything from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, to Architects UK's guitarist/chief songwriter Tom Searle’s recent bout with skin cancer, Lost Forever, Lost Together artfully delivers an emotional charge that’s both devastating and glorious.

For the follow-up to their 2012 album Daybreaker, Architects UK( whose lineup also includes Tom’s twin brother Dan on drums, Sam Carter on lead vocals, and Alex Dean on bass) took to Studio Fredman in the Swedish city of Gothenburg in the middle of the sunlight-starved winter. Working with producers Fredrik Nordström and Henrik Udd (known for their work with Bring Me the Horizon/At The Gates/In Flames and chosen largely because “we’ve always been big fans of how massive their records sound,” according to Sam), Architects UK spent a month living in the studio so that they could record whenever inspiration hit. “There was a little room next door that had bunk beds and a kitchen, but that flooded halfway through,” says Sam. “So then Tom and I just moved into the actual studio and slept on the floor. It was very glamorous, very rock & roll.”

In naming Lost Forever, Lost Together, Architects UK borrowed a lyric from “Youth Is Wasted on the Young,” a blistering but big-hearted meditation on lost youth that turns up toward the end of the album. As former denizens of the UK metal/hardcore underground who released their debut album Nightmares when they were just 17. On choosing the title Tom notes: “We’d just pulled off tour and were all dealing with our own insecurities and anxieties. Everyone is carrying their own baggage but we can take comfort in knowing we’re all in the same boat,” says Tom. “No one knows where they’re going in life or what’s coming next. You don't realise when things are easy until things get tough.” he continues. “We’re all lost. Everyone’s just trying to find their place, and hopefully we’ll all get there eventually.”

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