Anyone that has any affinity with the UK metal community will no doubt be aware that Architects guitarist Tom Searle passed away over this weekend.


Ordinarily I wouldn't add this kind of entry, enough has been written by more skilled writers and by the people that knew him best, there's little I can add but I would like to say I fucking love that band. Their last few albums have arguably been some of the best music to come out of the UK in bloody years. British metal just lost one of it's best songwriters and most imaginative guitarists. I saw them live a few times, most notably at Koko where they absolutely killed it; you think you've seen heavy music then you see Architects kick into the breakdown from from These colours... I mean, damn.

Do yourself a favour and GO AND LISTEN TO SOME ARCHITECTS. Not sure which? Let me suggest some of my favourites; Alpha Omega, Black Blood, Running from the Sun, Early Grave, Follow the Water, Devil's Island, These Colours Don't Run, Castles in the Air, C.A.N.C.E.R, Always, Even if you Win, you're still a Rat, Hollow Crown, Gone with the Wind...I could keep going frankly.
 

Have you seen the video for The Human Condition from The Facemelter yet?
It's funny how you can be oblivious to things happening on stage sometimes; like your singer throwing a bottle (empty and plastic of course) at your drummer, mid-song!

Don't believe me? See for yourself. It's at around the 1:20 mark, not a bad shot I might add!

We've also added some photos from the night under the LOOK heading, courtesy of Angelique Le Marchand. Click here to check out the rest.



Massive thanks to Peter Junge for his excellent work in both editing and recording the audio and video for the whole set. 
We'll be getting busy editing the rest of it together ourselves so keep your eyes peeled for more videos in the near future.
 

Bloody hell.
Last night we had a great time burning through our set at The Facemelter, a monthly event run by Chaos Theory at The Black Heart in Camden. Thanks to Kunal and his crew for doing such a damn fine job.
Tip o' the cap to the other bands. Step forward Captive and DKH!

Suffice to say, we had a great time and in a few days you'll be able to watch a song or 2 from the set.
High five to Peter Junge for his live production skills.

Last night's setlist was:
- One of the boys // Death knell // The human condition // Everything I want to do is illegal // The inquisition // NOMADISM // The safety word is // To the victor, the spoils