#For Those That Wish to Exist

[core-bands]

Architects — Dying Is Absolutely Fine.

[metal-stills]

Architects - Animals

Epitaph Records

2020

Director: Dan Searle Producer: Kode Media Director of Photography: Sy Turnbull

Official Video

[nematanthus]

Album Review: For Those That Wish To Exist- Architects

In collaboration with @arfarfblegh

Release Date:

February 26, 2021

Tracklist:

Do You Dream Of Armageddon?

Black Lungs

Giving Blood

Discourse Is Dead

Dead Butterflies

An Ordinary Extinction

Impermanence (feat. Winston McCall of Parkway Drive)

Flight Without Feathers

Little Wonder (feat. Mike Kerr of Royal Blood)

Animals

Libertine

Goliath (feat. Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro)

Demi God

Meteor

Dying Is Absolutely Safe (feat. Liam Kearley of Black Peaks)

Favorite Track:

Black Lungs

Least favorite track:

Giving Blood

Album art opinions:

The album features an astronaut in a white space suit standing in the middle of a church chapel illuminated by the light from some large stained glass windows (only one of which is visible) and some electric lights on sconce-like fixtures. Aside from being a striking image, it illustrates the albums themes of religion and environmentalism. A picture is worth a thousand words, and this cover tells a story in and of itself.

Color: 7/10

Recognizability: 6/10

Vibes: 10/10

Total: 8/10

Music opinions/notes:

I had a very difficult time picking a least favorite for this album. Everything was well done. The instrumentals, the vocals, lyrics, and the overall theme. There was a clear direction for this album, and it was executed beautifully. Stylistically, we've reached the full influence of guitarist Josh Middleton, which means another new style of modern Architects, both continuing on from the base built with Holy Hell but also something refreshing and new.

Mix: 9/10

Lyrics: 8/10

Instruments: 8/10

Vibes: 9/10

Total: 9/10

Total Score: 9/10

[eyesxunclouded]

i must've lost myself in a cloud of dead butterflies

[thesoundshelter]

MY TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2021

Porter Robinson - Nurture

Favorites Songs : Get Your Wish, Something Comforting, Blossom

Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon

Favorites Songs : In The Court Of The Dragon, The Shadow of The Abattoir, The Phalanx

Architects - For Those That Wish to Exist

Favorites Songs : Discourse Is Dead, Little Wonder, Dying Is Absolutely Safe

Tremonti - Marching In Time

Favorites Songs : A World Away, Let That Be Us, Marching in Time

Gojira - Fortitude

Favorites Songs : New Found, Into The Storm, Grind

Mastodon - Hushed and Grim

Favorites Songs : Teardrinker, Had It All, Gigantium

Times of Grace - Songs of Loss and Separation

Favorites Songs : The Burden of Belief, Far From Heavenless, Medusa

Turnstile - Glow On

Favorites Songs : Mystery, Holiday, Alien Love Call

Knocked Loose - A Tear in the Fabric of Life

Favorites Songs : Where Light Divides the Holler, God Knows, Permanent

Serj Tankian - Elasticity

Favorites Songs : Elasticity, Your Mom, Rumi

Takagi Masakatsu - Marginalia IV

Favorites songs : #90, #94, #98

Myles Kennedy - The Ides of March

Favorites songs : A Thousand Words, The Ides of March, Love Rain Down

Indigo la End - 夜行秘密

Favorites songs : 夜風とハヤブサ, チューリップ, 夜漁り

While She Sleeps - Sleeps Society

Favorites songs : ENLIGHTENMENT (?), YOU ARE ALL YOU NEED, NERVOUS

Deafheaven - Infinite Granite

Favorites songs : In Blur, Great Mass of Color, Other Language

Every Time I Die - Radical

Favorites songs : Sly, Thing With Feathers, AWOL

Of Mice & Men - Echo

Favorites songs : Timeless, Fighting Gravity, Echo

Orelsan - Civilisation

Favorites songs : La Quête, Rêve mieux, L'odeur de l'essence

Hugo TSR - Une vie et quelques

Favorites songs : Des voix résonnent, Oubliettes, Les mains devant les yeux

Der Weg einer Freiheit - Noktvrn

Favorites songs : Monument, Am Rande der Dunkelheit, Morgen

[grigori77]

YEEEEEEET that mike, Sam!

This was actually the track that first got me into these guys. I like the earlier stuff, it's feral and savage and FUCKING RAW metal, but the newer stuff is definitely much more my personal speed. And there's no possible denying that for me, this album and their latest are two of THE VERY BEST metalcore records ever made ...

Architects - Animals

[onlyhurtforaminute]

ARCHITECTS-GIVING BLOOD

[drenched-in-sunlight]

very opionated talk underneath the cut

this is what I get for keeping checking out the fandom tag, but oh well 😭

seeing the reasoning behind the “Marika and Godfrey would have been proud of Godrick for the grafting” take is so wild to me like… are we just going to ignore the fact that Nepheli - who is implied to be Godfrey’s descendants, said Godrick’s deeds “taint the very wind” and helped us beat his ass and it’s her who later becomes the rightful Lord of Stormveil ?

+ Roderika, who is thematically a reflection of the girl Marika was pre-Godhood, losing all her companions and being left alone scared shitless and heartbroken in a shack, blaming herself for not being strong enough, brave enough to go die with her friends, all because Godrick is making a mockery of Godfrey’s name and enacting the same tragedy that befell Marika’s people ?

Like, I can sorta see why people refuse to see the Living Jars in the Lands Between as Marika reclaiming a practice that was tainted by the Hornsent deeds, returning it into something done to honor the dead and let them be returned to the Erdtree to continue the cycle of life - death - rebirth (is scattering ashes of the deceased to the sea not a thing in many irl cultures anymore or am I going crazy), cuz if one has certain…views on her, it can be hard to see anything she does in a positive light (actually even if you don’t see it that way, equating jar innards made of dead warriors in a ritual to honour them with living ppl being cut up and forced to meld together as a form of torture is… a choice), but to completely ignore Nepheli and Roderika’s stories and their role in the narrative? 💀

Plus, where in the game is it even stated or implied that Godfrey being a battlefield maniac means he is ok with *read writing on hands* some guy sending his lackeys out to hunt Tarnished (Godfrey’s own warriors) and making them into unwilling extra limbs?

The guy that gives his all to fight the player by himself and compliments us on a battle well fought… will see honour in gaining strength via kidnapping ppl and stealing their strength, instead of fighting your own battles, honing your own skills and getting stronger on your own? Huh?

And even ignoring all that, Kenneth - a mere nobleman, not even demigod or anything, fr called Godrick a “jumped up country bumpkin” who fleed from Leyndell, holed up in Stormveil to hide from Radahn (why are we forgetting this…bro can’t even pass the Godfrey’s no.1 Stan vibe check) and then got beaten up by Malenia?

To add insult to injury, Godwyn’s body lying beneath Stormveil will literally stab anyone coming close to him (which is sth I have an interesting conversation with ppl on twitter about. there’s one person bringing up an interesting interpretation that Godrick probably took off with a relic of Godwyn’s body hoping to graft a piece of the Golden Prince onto himself, but Godwyn body was like “no” and infested the castle ground like a disapproving ghost 😭 but Godwyn is cool with us because he knows we have Marika’s sanction 😊).

Godrick… has no support whatsoever from Marika and Godfrey’s direct descendants, other than maybeeee Morgot who probably was only there to keep an eye on Stormveil - a place of importance to his dad and maybeeee a bit family pity for Godrick, definitely not because he’s proud of the stuffs Godrick is doing (he astral project there to scare us a bit then leave. We gonna kill Godrick? None of his business.).

And there’s also Godefroy who literally got locked up in a gaol… by a Leyndell Knight who later got the highest honour of Erdtree Burial after he passed away - specifically because of his feat in capturing Godefroy. Why are we forgetting Kristoff???

No one in Leyndell likes the Grafted guys, no one in Limgrave likes the Grafted guys, there are numerous items in-game expressing disappointment and sadness at the decline of the Golden Linage…. it’s a real damn no one likes you situation 😭

Then later on, Godrick got replaced by Nepheli.

So who are the ones being proud here ????

I’m not even a Godrick hater, I think he’s a fucked up, but compelling!, conclusion to the linage that Marika has with Godfrey - who is probably one of few people who actually knows what she used to go through.

I could even see the kind of pressure and struggle he must have gone through, humiliation after humiliation, hiding from and losing to Radagon’s children of all guys, carrying a legacy that is too big for him to handle. But to say that Marika and Godfrey would have been proud of him? Or that grafting is somehow a reclamation of the trauma Marika’s people went through and turning it into strength ????? He doesn’t even know that Marika was once not a God, let alone anything about her people’s suffering to reclaim anything ? That’s not his pain to reclaim ???

Someone else already did that. Marika herself. Rakshasa herself. You really do not have to give a man all the flowers for something women (who actually suffered and went through that trauma) already did.

[crunchchute]

Sam and Max if they were cool /j

[core-bands]

'Cause those afraid to die will never truly live.

Architects — Impermanence.

[thekidsarentalright]

so fobcore to be up for two awards they deserve to win, lose both of them, not even show up to the awards show But dress up in silly outfits for their prerecorded performance. would expect nothing less from the band of all time tbh

[showtimepast2500]

i can be reborn as someone meaningful with this reincarnation apple. 🍏

[marzipanandminutiae]

man I wish there were a more nuanced way to talk about dress history’s darker sides without like.

making people feel guilty for thinking the clothes were pretty.

to be clear, I don’t mean this in the Conservative Pundit sense where literally any criticism of white/cis/straight/male privilege and its negative effects on society makes them cry about being Laden With Unfair Guilt(TM). I mean like...I don’t know. this Gotcha attitude I see sometimes that’s like

“think this dress is pretty? well IT CAME FROM A HORRIFIC SYSTEM SO THINK AGAIN, BOZO! BET YOU DON’T LIKE IT SO MUCH NOW HUH???”

obviously we should talk about the horrific systems (many many of them) in the past. if a garment was made from fibers processed by enslaved people, and sewn by teenage seamstresses making a pittance, that needs to be discussed

but I feel as if it would help to contextualize that with like

“who makes the majority of our clothing today? what conditions do they work in? what difficulties prevent us from simply opting out of having our clothes produced this way? who sets trends, and do people outside their social echelon also enjoy those trends?”

so that people get that they should be thinking about the past and how its legacy impacts us today, rather than tearing themselves up for Finding The Early 19th Century Cotton Evening Gown Pretty

there is no unproblematic period to enjoy clothing from, including the one we live in now. and it’s not productive to rip people a new one for Bad Fashion Preferences. to me, it’s the same as claiming that someone supports sweatshop labor because they said a Shein dress was cute once

[saeiken]

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