UK metal band Architects is currently on their headlining tour with Stick to Your Guns and Counterparts.
After selling out the basement of Detroit’s St. Andrews Hall last spring only to have the show move upstairs to the main hall, and still sell out, their return to the venue was highly anticipated.
The band successfully released their sixth full-length album All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us in May 2016. Unfortunately, guitarist and songwriter Tom Searle passed away that fall due to cancer.
Since then, the band has only released one single, “Doomsday” in the fall of 2017.
Counterparts opened the show. The Ontario hardcore punk band released their fifth full-length album You’re Not You Anymore in the fall of 2017 through Pure Noise Records (Four Year Strong, Knocked Loose, Senses Fail).
The band opened their set with the single “Bouquet” off that album. Other songs off You’re Not You Anymore included “A Memory Misread” and “No Servant of Mine”.
Next up was Stick To Your Guns, a hardcore band from Southern California that’s known for mixing political tones into their music. They opened with “Married to the Noise”, a track off of their most recent album True View.
Sticking true to their politically themed music, vocalist Jesse Barnett gave an heartfelt speech midway through the bands set in regards to the country’s current state. Towards the end, he said;
“I don’t have any answers really. I don’t really have any other conclusions. But what I do have an what I’m willing to have is patience. I’m willing to try to fucking communicate with each other because all we’re trying to do right now is talk over one another. We’re not going to reach any sort of peaceful conclusion if we keep trying to do that shit. We’ve got to learn how to meet in the middle here. We’ve got to try to come up with a better scenario for each other. You might not care and you might just want to drink yourself alone until your six feet deep and that’s cool too. It’s your life, you live it how you want to live it. But for those of us who want to try and do something responsible, for those of us who want to try and do something good, with the small amount of life that we have on this planet, it’s you that I’m talking to. Let’s try to do something together.”
Afterwords, the emotion driven crowd erupted into a pit for the remainder of the set. The band closed with “Against Them All”.
The anticipation grew as the intro tracks for Architects kicked in. Finally, the strobes went crazy and the band took the stage. Vocalist Sam Carter immediately broke into “A Match Made in Heaven”.
The energy this band brings to the stage is insane. Down time was practically non existent. The set included many songs from their 2014 album Lost Forever // Lost Together. “Gravedigger”, “Dead Man Talking” and “Naysayer” drove the crowd wild.
Architects included fan favorite “These Colors Don’t Run” off of Daybreaker, and it seemed as if every fan was screaming the words back to Carter. After “Doomsday”, the band came back out for a two song encore of “Nihilist” and “Gone with the Wind”.
Architects will continue on the tour across North America through mid March. All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us is available for streaming and purchase through all major distributors.
Check out the full gallery of photos from the show below!
